Meet Lacey Filipich
Lacey started her entrepreneurial journey with a hair wrap stall at 10 years old. Today, she’s the co-founder and director of two successful education businesses; Money School and Maker Kids Club.
Between hair wraps and start-ups, Lacey graduated as valedictorian from the University of Queensland with an Honours degree in Chemical Engineering. She moved to Australia’s ‘wild west’ to begin her career in mining, rising quickly through the ranks on site. A health scare and her sister’s suicide opened her eyes to the world beyond work, leading her to redesign her life.
Lacey started investing at 19 and now earns a passive income from her assets. She considers herself ‘time rich’: able to choose if, when, where, how, on what and with whom she works. Helping others learn the skills they need to achieve financial independence is how she chooses to spend her time.
Featured speaking topic
The Rise of the Kidpreneur: Why Our Students Will Need an Entrepreneurial Spirit
There’s a lot of noise from experts about major shifts for the future of careers and workplaces for our young people. There’s no doubt critical thinking and complex problem-solving skills will be essential tools for our students’ career success, in fact, the face of the job market is changing so rapidly we’ll all have to think and behave like entrepreneurs. So, how do we prepare our students to succeed in a future where they’ll need to be consistently able to spot problems, find their own opportunities, have sound financial literacy, and, most importantly, be able to take effective action quickly?
We teach them to be entrepreneurs. Now.
We don’t need an education revolution. There are already opportunities to build our students’ entrepreneurial ‘muscles’ within the existing curriculum by incorporating techniques into current subjects. For example, we could utilise Digital Studies for app design and development, Social Studies for mapping out a launch of their own micro-business, incorporate a SharkTank-style pitch assessment instead of written one. The first spark of an entrepreneurial mindset can be inspirited in your Primary School classrooms. In addition, you’ll help solve a problem that’s proving difficult Australia-wide: improving youth financial literacy. After working with over 100 ‘kidpreneurs’, Lacey has found launching a micro-business is the single most effective weapon in her financial education arsenal. Even without entrepreneurial know-how, it can be the same for you.
Recent talks
Women in Technology WA (WiTWA) Keynote | Techtrails at Girrawheen High School
Pitch@Palace Australia 2.0 | Finals Pitch
Money School for Young Adults
TEDxUWA | Why you should think about financial independence and mini-retirements
Downloadable speaker pack coming soon
Client love
“You spoke at my school when I was in Grade 12 in 2016. I went home and told my mum ‘My life changed today’. Two years on, I want to thank you for your words. Now I am in my second year of a Commerce/IT degree with over $15,000 in shares and I am so proud of the investments I have made, not to mention travelling to Europe twice since finishing high school. I love watching my money make its own money. It is so satisfying to watch dividends come in for not working at all. I would not have thought that was possible two years ago. Thank you.”
Phoebe Henderson
Past student, Brisbane Girls Grammar School
Now an investing enthusiast and on the path to financial independence
“Loved the engaging and motivating style.”
Elaine Dowd
Senior Strategy Officer, WA Department of Communities
“Practical, personal and beneficial.”
Pauline Harvey-Short
Dean of School, Brisbane Girls Grammar School
“It’s a joy to host a guest speaker that is 100% spot on the brief, with all the right inspiring messages for the audience, with humour to boot.”
Madeline Hermawan
Outreach Coordinator, Girls in Engineering, University of Western Australia (UWA)
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