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Startup Each day Finest in Tech Awards 2025: Paz Pisarski named Future Chief of The Yr

By Editorial Board Published October 9, 2025 7 Min Read
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Startup Each day Finest in Tech Awards 2025: Paz Pisarski named Future Chief of The Yr

The Group Collective cofounder and CEO Paz Pisarski admits all of it occurred by chance, nevertheless it’s the most effective accident to ever occur.

On the Startup Each day Finest in Tech Awards 2025, Pisarski was named Future Chief of the Yr, sponsored by Techvisa. The award recognises a person our judges imagine has the potential to be an necessary voice and advocate for the startup sector.

The opposite finalists had been Shilpa Mohan, head of operations at development procurement software program ProcurePro; Poonam Advani, program supervisor at Press Play Ventures, the pre-accelerator for ladies; and Gwen Masonsong, program supervisor on the Techstars Sydney Accelerator.

The all-female finalists led Natasha Prévot, cofounder of Techvisa to declare “The future of leadership is female” earlier than declaring the winner.

Pisarski has turned an concept throughout Melbourne’s lockdowns right into a motion that’s reshaping Australia’s startup ecosystem and the world. 

What began as a 17-person meetup has developed into The Group Collective, now a worldwide viewers of 16,000, amongst 700-plus communities spanning 18 international locations.

Alongside her cofounders, Melia Rayner and Jaala Alex, she created Australia’s first stay cohort coaching program for neighborhood builders as The Group Collective, turning what was as soon as seen as “fluffy” work into recognised strategic experience.

Pisarski has additionally awarded 100+ scholarships to underrepresented founders, notably ladies and people experiencing monetary hardship, funding them herself in an effort to make sure the startup ecosystem displays Australia’s variety.

Constructing a six-figure affect enterprise

From her base in regional Victoria, Pisarski has constructed a six-figure impact-led enterprise, inspiring a brand new era of founders to assume past conventional progress methods, coaching greater than 280 individuals.

These alumni now maintain management roles at Airtree, Startmate, Blackbird Ventures, The Commons, and Canva and after six sold-out cohorts The Group Collective has a waitlist of round 900 individuals, hoping to glean insights from audio system equivalent to Seth Godin, Derek Sivers, and Steph Claire Smith.

Chatting with Startup Each day after profitable the award to the roar of the 200+ plus crowd, Pisarski mentioned she was grateful to everybody who supported the imaginative and prescient for The Group Collective. 

“This actually is a representation of everyone who’s ever backed us, been in a program, been an advisor, and just been in our team,” she mentioned.

“I would love to just make community building the most impactful business strategy for any company. I want someone to hire a community manager as if they were hiring the next sales lead. And if I walked on the street and someone said, ‘Oh, what do you do?’ And I said, ‘Oh, I’m a lawyer’. Like, they understand that. As if I just said, ‘I’m a community manager and I actually deserve a seat at this table and I know that I can deliver great returns, ROI and impact to business’.”

Pisarski confessed that she “accidentally started a business that went viral”.

“We noticed that there were people who were building the startup community, but there wasn’t a place for them to be a member instead of being a manager,” she recollects.

“So we ran a meetup at The Commons in Cremorne. It went viral and we had lots of of individuals signing up. And ultimately I give up my job, registered it as an organization, and right this moment we now have an viewers of over 17,500 individuals and have skilled individuals from Google, Canva and MYOB about easy methods to construct a neighborhood.”

The right way to be chief

So what does this “future” chief assume makes one?

“Cease speaking and pay attention. In the event you’re going to be chief, you don’t make the selections,” Pisarski mentioned.

“You let different individuals have a voice and simply champion them. I believe this complete journey I’ve had as a founder and constructing a neighborhood has simply been about understanding ‘where do I need to serve, who needs help right now, and how can I help them’.”

Whereas Pisarski received the Future Chief of the Yr on the Finest in Tech Awards, it’s clear she’s already there, so we requested what’s the most effective piece of recommendation she’s obtained and what she’d cross on to others.

“I believe the most effective piece of recommendation I’ve ever been given was from one in every of my advisors, Kim McGinnes. She mentioned to me, ‘Paz, it’s important to assume who, not how’, she recollects.

“So as a substitute of considering, how am I going to construct a enterprise? How am I going to construct this neighborhood? How am I going to do every part alone? It’s important to assume, who will help me? Who’s going to be right here, who can I be taught from, and who’s going to hitch the motion? 

“As a result of it’s not about me on the finish of the day, and it’s about doing it collectively.”

The Group Collective cofounder says there’s plenty of horrible recommendation provided and a very powerful factor is to imagine in your self and your imaginative and prescient.

“Lots of people go ‘That’s not going to work. You’re better off staying in the day job. Just don’t bother. You know, it’s not worth it’,” she mentioned.

“I believe you realise that on the finish of the day, I get to stay my life and I need to put my greatest foot ahead, so I’m simply going to strive, and if it doesn’t work, that’s fantastic. To date, so good.”

This text is delivered to you by Startup Each day, with the help of techvisa.

Thanks to our Startup Each day Finest in Tech Awards 2025 companions:

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