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Australian business women are enjoying their time in the sun at this year's Telstra Business Women's awards, which are taking place across the country this spring.
The event, which is currently in its 17th year, celebrates the best and brightest in female talent, as well as commercial acumen.
Originally launched in 1995, the award ceremony continues to grow and it now plays a significant role in terms of both recognising and promoting of the positive impact individuals can have on their workplace and the community at large.
David Thodey, chief executive officer of Telstra Corporation Limited, asserted: "By highlighting these outstanding business women, we hope to enthuse others to reach and exceed their own goals and hope this contributes to encourage greater gender equality in business."
He also said that the telco giant was proud to use its own resources to advance the rights and responsibilities of women in business and hoped that the awards would showcase this commitment.
And while the conference is still in progress, thus far a number of inspiring and innovation women have already received the coveted honours.
This year the winners from South Australia include Kelly Baker-Jamieson, Theressa Hines, Fiona Godfrey and Cathryn Harris, representing the private and community sectors.
Many of the winners are also self-starters running flourishing small businesses across the nation.
For example, Kelly Baker-Jamieson, who won both the Commonwealth Bank Business Owner Award and Marie Claire Young Business Women's Award, is the founder of Edible Bloom.
The working mother of one self-financed and launched her chocolate, cookie and fruit bouquet business in 2005.
The business now has operations in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and New Zealand, as well as the original business store and employs a team of 25 staff.
When asked about her approach to business management Ms Backer-Jamieson said: "I aim to be the kind of manager that I would want to work with – available, approachable and supportive."
Working together was a theme common to many of the award winners, who identified effective collaboration as the key to growing their own successful business or business practice.
Other SA award winners included Theressa Hines, global director for environment, health and safety at Electrolux, took home the Hudson Private and Corporate Sector Award.
The White Pages Community and Government Award went to Fiona Godfrey, principal at St Peter's Collegiate Girls' School, Stonyfell.
Meanwhile, Cathryn Harris, library manager at Mount Gambier, won the Nokia Innovation Award for her role in the local council's $10 million dollar upgrade of the Mount Gambier library.
The series of awards ceremonies will round off on November 18 with a national gala dinner in Melbourne after the winners from each state and territory have been announced.