Laura Aldington, Simone Gupta and Virginia Hyland on the return of Havas Hustle

Havas Village Australia is bringing back Havas Hustle for its second year, but this year the focus has shifted to on levelling playing field, helping women entrepreneurs and founders.

Led by Havas’ three female CEOs, Virginia Hyland at Havas Media Australia, Laura Aldington at Host/Havas and Simone Gupta at Havas PR (One Green Bean and Red Havas), the team will be providing access to free advice and support through meetings with one of 40 different specialists across the group.

“Last year the Havas Hustle helped over 200 side hustle businesses from within our industry with a wide range of business consulting from our talented team of over 40 specialists,” said Gupta. “This year, the aim is to level the gender playing field by helping women entrepreneurs and founders across any industry. We have also expanded the offering, based on our learnings from last year, with longer video calls for participants, a speaker series and an incubator program for four selected businesses.”