Fiona (Fi) Tschaut Email & Phone Number

Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney

My aim is to craft strategies to drive and scale innovation, entrepreneurship and creativity. I lead a high performing team to provide guidance and entrepreneurial confidence to help evolve transformative ideas into world changing technologies and ventures. I directly oversee programming strategy, thought leadership, technology, rapid prototyping capabilities and a network of makerspaces and fabrication labs.Key achievements: ||| 25000 people have engaged with innovation initiatives ||| 200 workshops designed and delivered to help people develop their creative confidence and build innovation capabilities||| 40 startups incubated ||| 7 collaborative design programs lead with industry and government organisations||| 6 community partnerships evolved taking MCIC innovations to where they are needed most||| 300m2 makerspace expansion from a digital fabrication into fully equipped prototyping lab [3D printing, 3D scanning, laser cutters, CNC mill, 3 axis robot, electronics, wood/metal/shop tools]

Sydney Area, Australia

As Head of Programming my aim is to curate programs and design physical environments that drive innovation and empower creative confidence.||| Curating an innovation capabilities program with over 200 workshops ||| Lead facilitator for TechConnect Global, supporting SMEs in embracing design thinking, digital fabrication and lean startup to accelerate business operations and identify new opportunities||| Hackathons and design sprints (big data, fintech, wearable tech, IoT, water desalination and blockchain)||| Facilitating design thinking initiatives to drive new product, service and system development||| Designing, launching and activating co-working spaces for high potential startups including:||| Leading open innovation initiatives for internal and external clients ||| Mentoring startups ||| Regular keynote speaker on design thinking and lean startup||| Design thinking facilitator||| Catalysing innovation and human-centred design across organisations and industries||| Certified Playing Lean practitioner ||| Blockchain enthusiast

Bondi Beach, Sydney

My work focused on leading, developing and executing a marketing and sponsorship strategy to raise support across multiple channels that included digital marketing, community engagement, corporate partnerships and philanthropy. Key responsibilities included managing project plans to deliver fundraising outcomes and overall responsibilities for brand, communications, PR, production and social media.

Sydney, Australia

The BUiLD program is a social innovation and leadership development program.It is designed to develop the business and social acumen skills of individuals by pushing the boundaries of creative practice, sustainability and design-led social innovation. BUiLD seeks to accelerate the ability of our students, the future leaders to be positive changemakers in the world. Key achievements:- Inspired, engaged and activated over 3,000 students from across all academic disciplines- Designed international projects and developed partnerships in over 20 countries. In F14 this resulted in achieving an international civic footprint of 52,800 hours- Built a valuable network with entrepreneurs, industry, not-for-profits, academia and government in over 20 countries- Developed strategic plans and partnerships which secured $1.1 million FY14 Projects include:- Construction in Developing Communities - Cambodia- Social Innovation at the Bottom of the Pyramid – India- Urban Design and Sustainable Community Development – Indonesia- Health for Wealth: Community Nursing – Thailand- Poverty Alleviation and Microfinance - Vietnam - Change-makers in Africa: Sustainable agribusiness – Uganda- Driven year on year increased engagement with BUiLD by 30%- Increased UTS’s international engagement portfolio from 3.9% FY10 to 12.8% FY14 - Embedded social innovation, sustainability and community development initiatives into the design of academic curriculum - Mentored and accelerated student social enterprise start-ups- Curated and designed a series of keynote speaker series and leadership think tanks- Managed strategic communications

Provision of independent, external strategic advice to the Italian Bilingual School (IBS) on leadership, opportunities and sector challenges.

Milan Area, Italy

Mba, Strategy

International Relations

B/Bus, Accounting And Finance

Pr, Communications And Design

Human Rights Law, Strategic Hrm, International Accounting

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