Elisabeth is a strategist, leader and facilitator working in New Zealand’s creative sector. Her experience includes establishing start-up organisations, designing programmes, devising productions, managing tours, organising festivals, activating projects, developing partnerships, building networks and facilitating change. For ten years, Elisabeth held senior roles at Creative New Zealand (until 2006) and until June 2016, she was Executive Director of The Big Idea Te Aria Nui Trust, a creative/social enterprise which provides a range of services including the online home of New Zealand’s creative sector @ www.thebigidea.co.nz. Elisabeth co-founded The Big Idea in 2000 and led its online development over many years including platform upgrades. While at The Big Idea, Elisabeth established TBI Assist as the revenue generation arm of The Big Idea. A key project was the design and delivery for Te Taumata Toi-a-iwi of ART Venture, a unique, world-leading acceleration programme for creative entrepreneurs working in Auckland.Elisabeth was the inaugural Director: Creative Entrepreneurship in the Faculty of Creative Arts & Industries at the University of Auckland from 2017 to December 2020. In 2019, she was awarded an MNZM for her services to arts management. Her current projects include Hauraki Gulf Watershed, New Zealand Dance Festival Trust/Tempo Te Rerenga o Tere, Tāmaki Makaurau Dance Enquiry and CreaTer - a national alliance of creative arts educators working in the tertiary education sector.Specialties: Strategic leadership; change management; project management; group facilitation; team development; strategic business planning; on-line community development; creative sector strategy & policy development / implementation