Join us at the Gateway Village for our last luncheon for 2024 to celebrate and hear from two incredible leaders John Worsfold and Mathew Wilson .
Thanks to our Sponsors the Local Buying Foundation and Gateway Village
International Men’s Day celebrates worldwide the positive value men bring to the world, their families, and communities. We highlight positive role models and raise awareness of men’s well-being. Our theme for 2024 is “Positive Male Role Models”.
John Worsfold - John Worsfold is a father of 3 adult children and lives in Perth, Western Australia.
He graduated from Curtin University in 1989 with a Bachelor of Pharmacy degree. In 2009 he attended INSEAD Business School to complete an Advanced Management Program and has been coached and mentored by Dr John Edwards for 20 years.
He had an Australian Rules Football (AFL) career spanning over 34 years.
As an 18-year-old he joined the inaugural West Coast Eagles squad where he played 209 games over 12 seasons. He was the Club Champion in 1988, selected in the VFL Team of the Year in 1988 and 1990, and was twice voted as Best Clubman. John was Captain for 8 years including two Premierships.
After retiring from playing he moved into coaching, assisting at the Carlton Football Club for two seasons being appointed as the Senior Coach of the West Coast Eagles. Over the next 12 years the Eagles played in two Grand Finals, winning the premiership in 2006. John was awarded the AFLCA Coach of the Year in 2006 and 2011.
Taking a break from coaching in 2014, John was the Chairman of the AFL Coaches Association for two seasons whilst also sitting on the AFL Laws of the Game committee and the AFL Research Committee.
John joined the Adelaide Football Club midway through 2015 to assist after the tragic death of his friend and their Senior Coach, Phil Walsh. In 2016, John then accepted the Senior Coach role at the Essendon Football Club in the midst of a crisis regarding supplements and the World Anti-Doping Association. He coached Essendon for 5 years qualifying for the finals twice.
He has been the General Manager- People, Culture and Communications at Emeco Group since February 2021.
John was an Ambassador for United Way, WA, for over 10 years, sat on the Board of Trustees for the SAS Resources Trust and has been a director of registered charity On My Feet for the past 10 years.
Mathew Wilson
- Mathew Wilson is a proud local Aboriginal man and the Owner/Managing Director of Wilco Maintenance Solution, a Awards winning Business. Born and raised in Port Hedland, mining has always been second nature to Mathew. After beginning his career in the industry straight out of high school, he has come full circle by establishing his own company in the very town where he grew up and where he is now raising his own family.
Table of 10 are available , bring your team !
