Alkira is a longstanding community organisation supporting people with a disability to belong, connect and aspire, and is undergoing a significant evolution.

Leadership Victoria's purpose is to foster leadership in individuals and business, governmenet and civic organisations for progress on complex issues. In my time with LV, we grew more than 500% and fundamentally transformed our organisation and mission. We worked with some of the most established and senior leaders in Australia, as well as supporting emerging leaders from significantly under-resourced backgrounds and demographics to make progress on complex issues.We work with businesses, all levels of government, civic organisations and with individuals. We run leadership development activities, we curate and communicate leadership wisdom, we co-ordinate an outstandingly impactful leadership network and we run Victoria's most intense skilled pro-bono program. We are continually engaged with organisations at an executive, managerial, staff and governance level to deliver tailored activities to help them make progress on complex strategic issues.We are best known for signature Williamson Community Leadership Program, which now forms part of a suite of around 50 distinct and integrated activities every year across Victoria and Australia as a part of a global network. We work with individual organisations, entire sectors, and specific demographics within the community. In 2018 we have a particular focus on women's leadership, multicultural leadership, and civic participation of people with a disability. We foster long-lasting change through long-lasting purposeful relationships, and our communities of practice help bring about enduring progress.Our graduates are significant contributors to Australian public life: many occupy senior leadership positions, and all have a commitment to making a contribution to Australian and global leadership challenges, as well as specific business, government and civic organisations and issues.Our aim is to inspire leaders, create networks, drive change, and be future makers.

I led a team of almost 2000 people through a significant growth process to uphold and progress human rights and social justice, particularly for people with a disability. E W Tipping Foundation (which merged in 2019 to form Aruma):- provides services to people with experience disadvantage, particularly people a disability and to vulnerable children- influences the national social policy agenda- helps inform the community on social issues.The Foundation grew from around 100 staff and 13 locations in 2000, delivering around $2M in services, to almost 2000 staff and more than 90 locations in 2012, and prior to the Aruma merger was delivering more than $55M in vital services to thousands of Australians. Services included residential and in-home respite, contingency housing, personal care and support, therapeutic care for children and young people, rehabilitation, residential care and more. E W Tipping Foundation was a founding member and leading supporter of the Every Australian Counts Campaign for a National Disability Insurance Scheme. The Foundation is a member and contributor to key peak bodies including Victorian Council of Social Service, National Disability Services and the Centre for Excellence in Child & Family Welfare.

Peak body for social service community organisations and social policy in Victoria. Supported the mission of the organisation, undertook a particular focus on rural and regional policy, micro-finance and disability services and policy, organised the 1999 "The State We're In" VCOSS State Conference featuring NZ's David Lange, Vic Premier Jeff Kennett and other high-profile speakers, and was editor of academic peer-reviewed journal "Just Policy".

A Myer Foundation Community Residency placement to study Canadian Social Policy and Social Entrepreneurship in Canada and the USA, with a particular emphasis on comparing children, youth, family and rural/regional policy.

Kilmany Family Care (now part of UnitingCare) is a Child and Family Services agency serving most of Gippsland. Reporting to the CEO I was responsible for business development, fundraising and corporate support. In the time I was there I helped the organisation grow from $853,000 to more than $6M of services, adding many new service types and service locations, including new residential and in-home children's services, new family mediation and counselling services, as well as community development, a micro-finance scheme, and other activities. I also participated in organisational policy development and in wider social policy approaches through the broader UnitingCare network, including as a member of the statewide committee on community services.