Di Fleming

Current work
Di is the Honorary Consul for the Republic of Mauritius in Victoria and the Co-Founder and Director of the Global Curriculum Orbit and the Global Orbit Nexus. At the heart of this business is the advancement of entrepreneurship as a literacy in schools and through youth-based programs where they are mentored to find answers to some of the most urgent problems facing our planet through the creation of commercially viable solutions.

Awards: As the former Principal of Kilvington Girls Grammar (one of the first digital schools in Australia) Di was the first educator to become Telstra Businesswoman of the Year (Vic) and national AusIndustry winner for leadership in digital schooling, integration of industry partnerships including industry standard robotics for girls. Di Fleming has been recognised as a Member of the Order of Australia, AM for her work across global education and Australia Africa relationships.

Previous experience
Di is the former Chair of the Advisory Group on Australia Africa Relations, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the founder, and former CEO of Digital Harbour a major greenfield technology precinct at the Melbourne Docklands and the founding CEO of Lab 3000-the Centre for Excellence in Digital Design (CEDD) at RMIT University. Di is also a former associate professor in education and digital design at the Universities of Melbourne and RMIT respectively.

In 2001 Di Fleming was featured in the Federation Celebration Exhibition Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Lives a chronology of significant women across the previous one hundred years.
Di began her career as an educator and a director of Fleming Flight Services, a most successful small business, enhanced by government investment, of which she and her late husband were recipients. As young entrepreneurs, they were acknowledged for design and innovation in new flight technologies.