Roles: Campaign Director (6/2013 to Present)ACF Executive Team and Campaign Director (Acting) (8/2012 to 5/2013)Built a fresh, new culture in the organisation’s largest directorate by promoting shared ownership of ideas and activities, innovation, and new standards that embraced collaboration and cooperation. ✅ Award Winners: Instrumental in ACF winning the 2020 International Culture Transformation and Sustainability Award. With a clear cultural transformational strategy for all to support, people were empowered to voice ideas and concerns; trust was built through respectful, focused collaboration and feedback. ✅ Campaign Regeneration: Designed a clear, agile campaign strategy with an innovation focus that could be replicated. Designed standardised documentation and processes, and recruited and sustained talented teams. ✅ Supporter Engagement: Led mission to expand supporters’ participation in ACF campaigns and programs. Established the ACF’s first Community Organising Program. Capitalising on this initiative proved wise, with 42 community-led groups becoming operational across Australia and formal internal systems and processes supporting the growing volunteer network that now initiates actions and meetings with business and political decision-makers. Supporter numbers grew from 80,000 to 500,000+ in seven years. ✅ Operational Leadership: As Acting Campaign Director, built staff morale and managed campaign implementations that became the catalyst for significant environmental reforms. As Campaign Director provided executive oversight of ACF’s organisational performance across fundraising, finance and operations, human resources, engagement and campaigns during a period of unprecedented organisational growth and financial stability.

Restructured and increased campaign impact across the Healthy Ecosystem Program, while consolidating costs. In parallel, won staff trust and buy-in while establishing new strategic directions to build a strong culture.✅ Lobbied the Federal Government to establish a $1B National Biodiversity Fund, generate one of the world’s largest marine protected areas, secure increased protection for Tasmania’s forests, and ensure water for river systems in the Murray Darling Basin. ★ 2000 billion litres of water were returned to the Murray Darling Basin.✅ Transitioned from a high-profile campaigner, to a manager of a high-performing team of campaigners that delivered substantial environmental outcomes—including the establishment of the largest global network of marine protected areas and the creation of the Tasmanian Forests Agreement to protect 504,000 hectares of internationally significant native forests. ✅ Built a strong business case for the incoming Chief Executive to review ways to improve campaign impact. Several recommendations were adopted, leading to new methods of supporter engagement and enriched internal collaborations for dynamic ideation. ✅ Delivered a $1B national Biodiversity Fund resourced through the federal government’s Clean Energy Act.✅ Helped prepare Australia’s first continental scale connectivity conservation framework through member contributions of the Australian Government’s National Wildlife Corridor’s Advisory Group and Scientific Reference Group. ✅ Pioneered the first program from a national environmental NGO that raised funds, purchased and delivered environmental flows for use in an internationally significant wetland. ✅ Represented ACF at the IUCN World Conservation Congress, in Barcelona, 2010.

Elevating the profile of river health issues where no media team existed, posed a challenge—compounded by entering a career first of working in an advocacy organisation. Generated a strong centre of influence spanning journalists, local community activists, and representatives from scientific, industry and government sectors that offered expert opinion to create engaging media stories. 📌 The profile-raising media strategy showcased Environment Victoria as the go-to organisation for media comment on water and river health. ✅ Water Management Reform: Campaigned for water and river management reforms and capable of driving the industry’s agenda across the state government. Leveraged the value of trusted alliances with scientific experts and civil society organisations and partnered with major law firms who offered pro bono advice on reform proposals. ★ Combined, these efforts led to Victoria’s Water Act being reformed and several Environment Victoria proposals implemented in the new Water Act. ✅ Maintained a strong community volunteer network. Sought out and nurtured relationships with Ministers and senior Victorian public servants, while developing robust groups of community activists who gave rise to additional funding for a staff member to support activists involved in government processes. ★ Volunteers improved environmental outcomes in water management plans.

Leading role in founding Waterkeepers Australia to support a national network of communities protecting local waterways. Waterkeepers was modelled on the United States-based Waterkeeper Alliance. Entered a partnership to establish Waterkeepers Australia with The Myer Foundation and the Australian Conservation Foundation and secured philanthropic support for a national program that established 16 self-sustaining programs across four states. Chaired board meetings, managed brand development, protected trademarks, designed strategies for program planning and processes, raised funds, and developed a community program’s tools and activities. ✅ Negotiated with the Waterkeeper Alliance in the US, and the global network of Waterkeepers via board discussions and toured the US Waterkeeper programs.

Bookmark Biosphere Reserve is one of 12 biosphere reserves in Australia established under UNESCO’s ‘Man and the Biosphere” program. Bookmark covers 9000 square kilometres with 40 different land partners including local, state and federal government as well as landholders. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~Joined the organisation at a turbulent time when community engagement was low and raising its media profile challenging. No media strategies existed and fledgling attempts to promote the organisation’s ambitions and activities had evaporated. Reached out to a local newspaper editor and as the relationship formed and trust was established, commenced writing weekly columns on the beneficial aspects of collaboration between the reserve and local farmers. . ✅ Media Strategy and Funding: Designed and won external funding for Shared Visions—a magazine-style publication distributed for free with the local newspaper—that profiled local community leaders and their work with Bookmark Biosphere Reserve. The local newspaper edition containing Shared Visions sold out, reached 8000 readers throughout the South Australian Riverland, and set the foundation for positive awareness as a community-centred organisation