{"id":101269,"date":"2025-03-07T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/goldenplains\/?p=101269"},"modified":"2025-03-04T23:39:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T12:39:48","slug":"leading-the-way-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/goldenplains\/women-in-business\/leading-the-way-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading the way"},"content":{"rendered":"

GEORGIA Hinkley was born and bred in Victoria’s Western District on a Camperdown beef and sheep farm.<\/p>\n

Georgia’s father was also the local livestock agent, which included a real estate licence \u2013 providing Georgia with an early general understanding of the property market.<\/p>\n

With her father’s encouragement and a Ballarat Grammar education, Georgia began a double degree at RMIT \u2013 a Bachelor of Science majoring in valuations.<\/p>\n

As a graduate, Georgia worked with the Deague Group, giving her exposure to the hotel and commercial office development market, but realised a sales career was not a personality match for her.<\/p>\n

Leaving Melbourne, she moved to Ocean Grove and continued her study while working full time on rating valuations, which included honing her skills over an 18-month period back in the Western District region.<\/p>\n

A chance meeting at the Warrnambool May races with Preston Rowe Paterson’s (PRP) joint partner Stuart McDonald quickly led to a job offer from principal Gareth Kent, which Georgia accepted.<\/p>\n

Fully qualified by 2014, and with a broad exposure to the full range of valuation skills, Georgia soon found her niche in family law and probate valuations.<\/p>\n

This has since become her area of expertise and she now manages the specialist team for the PRP Geelong, Warrnambool and Mount Gambier offices.<\/p>\n

Her team helps dozens of loyal professional service clients in the legal, accounting and finance sectors.<\/p>\n

Georgia knows what it is like to operate in a male-dominated industry, but has seen substantial change over the past 10 years.<\/p>\n

She is delighted to see many more young women come into the industry and identify valuation as a preferred career option.<\/p>\n

PRP’s national manager of training, diversity and inclusion, Christine Falson, believes talented young women like Georgia have paved the way for others to follow.<\/p>\n

“This is an exciting industry providing a great career path with options to work in office locations all over the country,” she said.<\/p>\n

“PRP is a national firm that is in a growth phase. This opens up all sorts of opportunities to progress within the firm.”<\/p>\n

Geelong principal Gareth Kent confirmed that Georgia was a perfect example of his business, actively sourcing talented young people from the regions they were brought up in \u2013 “local people with local knowledge.”<\/p>\n

Now living in Wallington, Georgia and husband Joe have started a family with Bobby, 6, and Clover, 4, being joined by recent arrival Gigi.<\/p>\n

The flexibility to balance a growing family with a professional career is a key pillar of PRP’s support of the women in the business.<\/p>\n

Across PRP’s 38 offices nationally, 60 per cent of cadets, 33 per cent of total staff and 22 per cent of valuers are female.<\/p>\n

PRP received the Australian Property Institute’s ‘Diversity & Inclusion’ Award in 2022, and Georgia’s performance and professional standards were recognised with Preston Rowe Paterson’s own ‘Woman of the Year’ Award in 2023.<\/p>\n

For more information, visit prp.com.au\/geelong<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GEORGIA Hinkley was born and bred in Victoria’s Western District on a Camperdown beef and sheep farm. Georgia’s father was also the local livestock agent, which included a real estate licence \u2013 providing Georgia with an early general understanding of the property market. With her father’s encouragement and a Ballarat Grammar education, Georgia began a […]<\/p>\n

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