Y Bloom

Linda Bywater - Director, The Growth Objective

Linda is a Strategy/Marketing/Business Development Executive, working with large multi-national corporations. In other words, Linda helps big businesses figure out what activities they should pursue to best generate better, faster or cheaper products for customers and big profits for the business owners - while also figuring out how they can do this in the most sustainable way to improve the environments and communities in which they operate.

Linda has worked all around the world (for over 13 years in fact!) and considers her travels amongst the greatest adventures of her life. She says that it has helped her  to realise how many different and wonderful approaches and attitudes (cultures) to life there are and how lucky we are to have Australia as our ‘home’.

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Phoebe Tucker - Project Officer, Skills Queensland

As a Project Officer at Skills Queensland, Phoebe works with colleagues to manage projects and programs which build the skills of Queenslanders, ensuring programs are on track to achieve objectives while also providing communications and marketing support.

Phoebe loves working with people and got involved in Y Bloom to become more connected with her community and to meet other like minded women who believe in developing the leadership capacity and confidence of young women, something which Phoebe, as a relatively young woman herself, sees a lot of value in.

Outside of work, Phoebe plays re-bound volleyball with friends, loves reading and getting up to the Whitsundays as much as possible to spend time with her family.

Read more about Phoebe here.

Catherine Raff – Youth Health Nurse

Catherine works in high schools supporting students and delivering health programs and is also a very busy mum.  Outside of work, she loves spending time with her family, friends, partner and kids watching movies, swimming, dancing, taking walks or reading a great book.

An experienced traveller, Catherine also enjoys giving back to her community, meeting new people and values new experiences to enhance her day to day work – a key reason for getting involved in Y Bloom. She really believes in preventative health programs and the way in which programs like Y Bloom encourage girls to have confidence in themselves to become more connected in their community and world, a really important factor in health and wellbeing.

Read more about Catherine here.


Caterina Sestili - Co-Director of Direct Care Australia

As the Founding Director and current Co-Director of Direct Care Australia (DCA), Caterina is responsible for the overall management and development of the operations of DCA.  Caterina has held a senior executive role with DCA for the past 15 years delivering primary and community health care projects in aged care, disability, mental health, child and youth health.

Originally from Adelaide, South Australia, in 2010 Caterina expanded DCA into Queensland and her current focus is on delivering a highly responsive nursing and personal support workforce to Queensland Hospitals, Nursing Homes and the Community.

Caterina's qualifications include a BA (Hons) Politics, a Graduate Certificate in Health Services Management, a Masters in Human Services Management & Policy, Advanced Diploma of Quality Auditing (ISO 9001 Quality & Safety), Certificate IV in Fitness, and a Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment.

Read more about Caterina here.