About Ladies Who Long Lunch
Ladies Who Long Lunch events encourage business-women to recognise the importance of self-care and the social impact of spending time with others who inspire, support and re-energise them.
Ladies Who Long Lunch brings women together through events, conversations and opportunities designed to create genuine connection.
What began with the Long Lunch has grown into a community that connects women from different industries, professions, businesses and life experiences. Our events are deliberately welcoming, a little bit fabulous and never too formal, creating space for women to meet people they may never otherwise cross paths with.
At the heart of our Long Lunch events are real conversations. Our Empowerment Panels introduce women with diverse stories, experiences and perspectives, while plenty of time around them is left for lunch, laughter, new introductions and the kind of conversations that continue well after the event has finished.
Today, Ladies Who Long Lunch extends beyond our signature Long Lunch events through projects including The Lunch Mag, the Business Directory, Limelight Ladies and Little Lunch, creating more ways for women to be seen, heard, connected and involved.
And while we take the purpose behind what we do seriously, we firmly believe connection can also come with a great lunch, a glass raised together and plenty of fun along the way.
Meet Kirsty Fields
Founder & Event Director
With more than 25 years of experience in events, marketing and community engagement, Kirsty Fields is the Founder & Event Director of Ladies Who Long Lunch.
Kirsty created Ladies Who Long Lunch with a simple idea at its heart: bringing women together in an environment where meaningful connection could happen naturally, without the expectations of traditional networking.
Through her business Social Ocean, Kirsty works across marketing, events, training, speaking and consultancy, with connection being a common thread throughout much of her work. She is also the founder of The Ocean Network, a free business networking community established in 2017.
As Event Director, Kirsty is the person behind the planning, partnerships, programming and continual evolution of Ladies Who Long Lunch. She also regularly takes to the microphone as an MC and facilitator, bringing her extensive event experience and love of a good conversation to stages and events across Queensland.
For Kirsty, LWLL has never been about women simply attending an event together. It’s about creating the right environment for introductions to happen, stories to be shared and relationships to grow from there.
Meet Jo Stevens
Jo Stevens is the Founder of Quirky Habits and an award winning Personal Coach & Mindfulness Mentor who helps women in business to embrace their quirkiness and step out of their comfort zone.
Jo is passionate about supporting women in small businesses. Her Quirky Habits Program provides amazing resources for women looking to learn more about the difference between healthy quirks and unhealthy habits. With a 3 step Quirky Toolkit, the program provides valuable insights and tools to help women thrive in their businesses. With her uplifting spirit and dedication to helping others, Jo is truly making a difference in the lives of women in business.
Jo is also the coordinator of Common Grounds which a business women’s networking group running once a month in Newstead.
How It All Started
The creation of Ladies Who Long Lunch began during a time when opportunities to connect had become noticeably smaller.
Immediately before the disruption of the COVID years, Kirsty Fields had begun developing an event concept to give women a reason to get out, dress up, share a beautiful lunch and, importantly, spend time connecting with other women.
Across the isolation of this time, Kirsty could see its impact and the negative effects that reduced social connection was having on her business community, herself and the women around her.
That original concept became Ladies Who Long Lunch.
As plans for the first event took shape, Jo Stevens joined Kirsty as co-host, bringing her own personality, energy and sense of fun to the experience they were preparing to deliver.
In March 2022, the inaugural Ladies Who Long Lunch event was held, beginning what would become five years of Long Lunch events co-hosted by Kirsty and Jo. Over those years, Jo became a familiar face of LWLL and was well known for the energy, frivolity and laughter she brought to an afternoon.
Meanwhile, the original Long Lunch concept continued to evolve. New locations, Empowerment Panels, regional events, The Lunch Mag, the Business Directory and new programs created more ways for women to connect and participate in the growing LWLL community.
What started as an idea for one kind of event had become something much bigger.
And, just like the women who have been part of it, Ladies Who Long Lunch continues to evolve.
2022 | Where It All Began
Ladies Who Long Lunch launched in March 2022, bringing Kirsty’s original event concept to life with Jo joining as co-host.
Our signature Long Lunch format took shape, combining fabulous venues and social connection with Empowerment Panels sharing the stories and experiences of women in our community.
2023 | Going Regional
Ladies Who Long Lunch continued to grow in 2023, taking the signature Long Lunch experience beyond Moreton Bay with our first regional event.
Going regional created new opportunities to connect with women in their own communities, while our Long Lunches continued to bring together fabulous venues, meaningful conversations and plenty of fun.
2024 | A Year of Big Experiences
2024 took Ladies Who Long Lunch into new places and new experiences, with a year filled with memorable events and collaborations.
Highlights included joining the Moreton Bay Food + Wine Festival, rolling out the pink carpet for a special movie premiere event and taking the Long Lunch experience across Moreton Bay to beautiful Tangalooma.
2025–2026 | Disruption & Evolution
Cyclone Alfred disrupted 2025, forcing the cancellation of what was set to be our biggest event to date and reminding us that even the best-laid event plans sometimes need to change.
In 2026, LWLL returned to a bigger stage for International Women’s Day with Brisbane Racing Club’s Girls Day Out, while new projects including Limelight Ladies and Little Lunch mark the beginning of our next chapter.
Next Event
The next Ladies Who Long Lunch event is the Summer Sunset Vibes event in West End (Brisbane). It will be at Covent Garden on Friday 6th November 2026.
Early Bird Tickets open for a limited time.
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Venues
Most of our long lunch events are held in various locations around Brisbane and Moreton Bay. If you host lunch functions at your venue and would like your venue to be considered to host one of our future events, get in touch.
Send Us Some Love
We respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Country across our region. We also acknowledge and pay our respects to the Kabi Kabi, Jinibara and Turrbal Traditional Custodians, and their elders past, present and emerging.
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