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Sacha Burchgart
Founder and Managing Director
Burcheart

Sacha Burchgart is an award-winning financial adviser and founder of Burcheart. She strongly believes that everyone has the opportunity and deserves to experience financial happiness.

Sacha is highly energetic and is actively involved in the financial planning community. Sacha has been on the Affinia Adviser Council since 2015, where she was elected Chair from 2017 – 2021. Sacha won the Affinia Chairman’s award in 2015 and the Affinia Practice of Year in 2016. Sacha was a finalist in the NAB Women in Finance Awards and the AFA Female Excellence in Advice Award 2017 , was awarded the Affinia Chairman’s Award in 2020 and a Finalist for Affinia Adviser of the Year in 2022.

She was FAAA Adviser of the Year in 2023. Sacha is also a community leader and role model actively giving back in her pro bono work with the Cancer Council.

Susan Pearson
Partner and Accredited Specialist in Family Law
Pearson Emerson

Susan is consistently acclaimed as one of the leading family lawyers Australia-wide with over 35 years’ experience in family law. She was one of the first lawyers to be accredited as a family law specialist by the Law Society of New South Wales.

Acting for high profile and high net worth individuals with sensitivity and discretion in complex parenting and property cases – including international financial cases with complex corporate and trust structures, Susan is a highly effective lawyer who provides a commercial, strategic approach to the management of litigation. She is also experienced working as a team with other lawyers, coaches, child and financial specialists who have been trained in Collaborative Practice, to use a less adversarial approach to family law.

Marguerite Picard
Collaborative Lawyer and Wellness Facilitator
MELCA

Marguerite is a collaborative family lawyer, mediator and arbitrator who never goes to court. She works with psychologists and financial planners as part of a team, addressing client’s legal, financial and emotional needs during separation and divorce. Marguerite has been doing this work for more than three decades now, and as a legacy of that, her aim these days is to be a facilitator and peacemaker. In co-founding MELCA, I made a decision to team up with psychologists and financial planners to help separating couples reach agreements, because I think that’s the best way to approach divorce and separation.

Julia Newbould
CEO,  The Stella Network

Julia is an accomplished finance writer, speaker and author, with a strong connection to and interest in the performing arts and fashion.

She is is a former Managing Editor of Money magazine and co-authored The Joy of Money, which won Best Personal Finance and Investment book at the Australian Business Book Awards in 2020. She was a founder of the Stella Network, which was launched in 2013 by BT Financial Group to encourage and champion women in financial services.

An experienced conference host and public speaker, Julia has appeared on the Today Show talking about money. She is a regular theatre reviewer for Theatre Now.

She is a senior communications manager at the FAAA and prior to that she was managing editor at Conexus Financial curating content for events for superannuation chief investment officers, financial advisers and licensees. Julia is currently co-writing a second book in the Joy of Money series.