Relatable, mindful wisdom for people and companies who dare to be different.
Janey Martino has built multiple organisations to successful exit across the media, martech, fintech and digital health sectors. As well as delivering strong outcomes for shareholders, she focuses on building high-performing teams and individuals, knowing the key to growing successful businesses is growing their people.
Janey’s experience includes founding and exiting Undertow Media (now Bastion Amplify following its sale to the Bastion Group in 2009) and digital platform Shout, which ANZ Bank acquired in 2015, where she subsequently held the role of Head of Social Segment. She was also Director at Melbourne Football Club from 2015–2020.
As a passionate supporter and participant in the Australian start-up ecosystem, Janey is also an investor and advisor to high-profile start-ups including:
— Brandcrush: activation platform acquired by Criteo 2023
— Expert360: HR platform
— Kic: Wellness platform
— Matched: mentoring and coaching platform
— Own Home: helping more people secure home ownership
— Sorted: household services + payments platform
— TRIBE: content + influencer marketplace
— Why Hive: Canva for data
Janey was an early-stage investor and advisor at Unlockd, eventually leading the business as CEO.
She is also Chair and Co-founder of the globally recognised health tech platform Smiling Mind, which delivers online Mindfulness Meditation programs to young people. Smiling Mind is Australia’s #1 mental health app with more than 9 million users of its individual program and the education program utilised in 20 percent of schools nationwide.
She was Portfolio Advisor and on the Investment Committee of Commonwealth Bank’s x15 ventures, assisting the country’s largest bank with its digital innovation strategy via venture development, investment and acquisition from 2020-2022.
In addition, Janey continues to consult to fast growth tech companies from Seed – Series C stage such as Kic, Saint Haven and Linktree.
At the start of 2024, she combined her talent, optimising human capital in companies with her passion for helping individuals reach their maximum potential, launching a coaching business, Kintsugi Way.
Talking Points
Cultivating Balance + Reducing Burnout
In the era of 'busy' with the 2024 Global Wellbeing Report revealing Australia is the most “burnt out” nation in the world, our families, workplaces and broader communities are suffering.Cultivating Balance + Reducing Burnout
Learn what we can we do to start turning this around personally and professionally.
Key takeaways:
-Understanding of how to recognise burnout in yourself and others
-Recommendations on how to create a more balanced workplace culture
-Actionable ways to improve balance and a sense of wellbeing
-An understanding of the different types of rest and rejuvenation we need and why the reduction of multi tasking and downtime is important for high performance
Audiences will walk away understanding how to recognise when more balance is needed, be clear on how to create it for themselves and their teams and appreciate how this change will positively impact productivity and their lives more generally.
Overcoming the Challenge of Paying Attention
There are many reasons people struggle to be mindful and pay attention in today’s fast paced world. However, the constant stream of task requests, notifications, emails, social media updates and messages are major culprits - overwhelming our brains and exacerbating our propensity to multi-task and context switch.Overcoming the Challenge of Paying Attention
Learn about the impact this may be having on individual and company productivity and what positive changes can be made to create a more mindful, productive workplace.
Key Takeaways:
-What is happening in our brain when we context switch, multi task and receive dopamine hits from social media platforms
-How to recognise when team members are in overwhelm, struggling to switch the mind off and/or finding it challenging to focus
-How to set boundaries to enable people to work and mentally thrive
-How to prioritise tasks and ways of working to proactively reduce context switching during the day
-How to be mindful rather than mindless
Audiences will walk away with insights into the why of overwhelm and 'busy' minds and how to transform this new busy, interruptive culture into a more mindful and productive one.
Inspiring Founder's Story
After life and a career with highs and lows, successes and failures, breaks and break ups, Janey Martino has a story or two to share.Inspiring Founder's Story
She has launched and sold businesses, written and published books and raised three amazing humans into adulthood - the one common thread? Through the most challenging times have come the breakthroughs.
This is the inspiration for her current work with Kintsugi Way, paying homage to the ancient Japanese tradition of placing gold in broken pieces of porcelain so they emerge while still imperfect, more beautiful.
Key Takeaways:
-Why it is important to trust your intuition and know who to listen to when (and when that person should be you!)
-How to make friends with your inner critic
-How to say no to allow you to say yes
-How to pick yourself up after a fall
-A friendly reminder that you are not your business or what you 'do'
-How to see your broken bits as gold
Leave inspired by wisdom gleaned from relatable life experiences and actionable ways to connect more deeply with the beauty of your life.
Generational Change in Mental Health
Why don't we spend as much time, money and energy focussing on our mental fitness as we do our physical fitness?Generational Change in Mental Health
Without a healthy mind, a fit body makes little difference.
With 1 in 5 Australians experiencing a mental health illness every year, and now 1 in 7 primary school children, learn how we can shift our focus and turn these statistics around for the benefit of future generations.
Key Takeaways:
-Gain a deeper understanding of The Australian mental health landscape and state of mind of our nation from a wellbeing perspective
-Learn about the benefits of focussing on prevention and how will this positively impact future generations
-Understand the evidence-based preventative mental wellbeing pillars that help people thrive: Living Mindfully, Flexible Thinking, Connection, Purpose and Rest
-Benefit from actionable ways you can embed skills from each of these pillars into your workplaces, families and individual lives
Audiences will leave better understanding how to positively impact their own mental health and those around them in a proactive and preventative way.
They will be inspired by the skills future generations will have if we can start to focus more heavily on prevention and see mental fitness in the same way we view the fitness of our physical body - these are muscles we need to build to grow and flourish!
Video
Janey Martino | Airtree Founder Wellbeing Panel
Being a founder can be incredibly lonely and stressful. For Spark Fest 2022, we're facilitating an open and candid discussion on the mental health side of the founder journey with 2 high-profile founders doing important work in the space. AirTree Partner Jackie Vullinghs chatted with Chris Raine, CEO of Australians for Mental Health, founder and ex-CEO of Hello Sunday Morning, and Jane Martino co-Founder and Chair of Smiling Mind, Australia’s #1 mental health app with more than 7 million users, and Chief of Staff at Linktree. They covered topics including: Chris and Jane's founder experiences: the highs and lows of the journey The strategies and tactics they use to build resilience and to maintain their own wellbeing Tips on how other founders and startup leaders can support the wellbeing of their team and the communityJane Martino: Co Founder at Smiling Mind and Barbie Shero
Barbie Shero, Jane Martino reminds us that we need more girls in Tech and encourages girls to consider a career in the industry!Jane is one of the most inspiring people I have worked with. She is whip-smart strategically and is effective in creative discussions that require left-of-centre thinking. She is an empath ... keep reading Pitcher Partners
Janey spoke to our Club on International Women’s Day and provided a candid, inspiring and relatable overview of her story. In the 30-minute interview, she opened up about her successes and failures in her professional life. She shared her personal framework on how she approaches any obstacles and how she has led teams to positively impact change. Janey’s authentic and open style meant she deeply connected with our people, sharing the ongoing balance of home-and-work and the constant strive to be there for her three sons whilst also forging a path as a tech entrepreneur. The lessons Janey shared provided our team with motivation, but also some practical tools for them to use. It was a pleasure to work with Janey in preparation for the day and we received overwhelmingly positive feedback from our team who attended.
Janey was an absolute delight as speaker and facilitator for our recent Forever Projects ‘Collective Effervescence’ event in Melbourne. Her posture of calm confidence allowed our audience to instantly relax and trust Janey’s words of guidance and leading. She has that rare ability to connect with a gathered group beyond just her words.. using her eyes, facial expressions, and body language to catalyse and maintain strong engagement, while still communicating verbally with clarity and conviction. Our event included a panel which Janey facilitated masterfully. Via the posture described above, she helped panelists feel safe and confident to surface their unique and vulnerable insights. A number of guests commented on how much they appreciated this element of the evening (25% response rate to our post-event survey with 24 hrs, with 100% of people giving a 5-star rating). She also knew the topic and panelists well enough to stay agile during the live conversation, trusting her intuition to go deeper on interesting threads that would add value to the audience. The combination of Janey’s empathy, generosity, and bravery, together with her thorough event preparation and wide-ranging domain knowledge and experience from decades of success in business and life, position her as the dream speaker for any event curator.
