Jenny worked for over 30 years in the higher education and not-for-profit sectors in the UK and Australia, and has been an academic and a social researcher with publications in the areas of labour market, gender and income security. For 10 years she worked in executive management roles at the University of Melbourne with a particular focus on starting up new initiatives and renewing existing areas. She then became a consultant in her own company with expertise in leadership coaching, change management, strategic innovation and stakeholder engagement. Jenny was a former long serving member of the Board of Governance of Prahran Mission, a Ministerial appointee to the Board of NMIT, and a Board member of a Community Bank. She is currently a Trustee of The Ross Trust, a non-executive Director of the Board of Hillview Quarries and for six years until 2022 was a Board member of Philanthropy Australia. She holds Bachelor and Masters degrees in Sociology, has undertaken Executive level leadership programs in Australia and in the US at Harvard University, and is a graduate of the AICD.