Coffee lucky dip
Helping women and gender diverse people to connect and reconnect
While I don’t drink coffee (I know, what sort of Melburnian am I!?), I do love connecting with people. I love sitting across the table – or screen – from someone new and interesting, with a hot cup of tea in my hands.
Like many things, Covid-19 got in the way of coffee lucky dip. Seeing as my 2025 theme is to ‘reconnect with connecting’, it’s time to re-start it again.
How it started…
In January 2016 I coordinated the first of what would be many ‘coffee lucky dip’ networking opportunities. People let me know if they were interested, I put them in the ‘lucky dip’ and they were matched up with someone to meet.
Over 120 people participated across Australia that first year. I gave them some tips on how to make the most of the catch-up. I asked them to let me know how their meetings went. Read some of the comments, lessons learnt and help offered.
I think I’ve matched hundreds of people – mainly women – through 3-4 coffee lucky dips since 2016. Some even signed up for more than one lucky dip. Friendships were formed. Research was fleshed out. Ideas were exchanged. Opportunities suggested and taken.
“Thanks so much for arranging the coffee lucky dip. You did a great job with the match-making. Llewellyn and I had lots in common but also enough that was different that I found our catch-up thought provoking, informative and rewarding. It was great to have the opportunity to make a connection outside my usual networks. Thanks!”
Register your interest
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Here's how it works...
- Register your interest above
- I put your name into a ‘lucky dip’
- I introduce you to your match via email
- You and your match arrange to meet
- Think about how to make the most of the catch-up
- Catch up for that coffee and a chat
- Let me know how it went!
