Roewen Wishart is a leading Australian authority on high-return fundraising strategies of for-purpose organisations, particularly major gifts and capital campaigns. Roewen is a director of Xponential Group. With over 30 years’ fundraising experience, he helps for-purpose organisations raise funds with high-return capital and capacity campaigns, major gifts and gifts in wills programs. Roewen's consulting includes readiness assessments for capital and capacity-building campaigns, fundraising strategy reviews, major gifts campaign development, personalised major gifts skill development for board and staff, and gifts in wills effectiveness reviews. He created and directs the annual Australian Major Gifts Benchmarking Study. This study is the authoritative evidence base on contemporary Australian major gifts fundraising practice and success factors.He has the rare combination of: - hands-on major gifts expertise and extensive work with philanthropists- strategic insight to understand the barriers to effective major gifts and gift in will fundraising, and help clients to remove those barriers - systematic understanding of how to enable growth in the contribution of board members to fundraising Clients describe his consulting as: - bringing deep insights which lead to simple yet effective steps for improvement and growth- providing confidence in how to get excellent major gifts results through excellent relationship-building and understanding of “how to ask”- guiding fundraising strategy development with evidence and attention to each organisation’s specific qualities and constituencies for supportHe was a member of the Fundraising Institute of Australia (FIA) Board and the FIA Code Authority. He is a Board member of Conservation International Australia, and NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust's Public Fund Management Committee. He has been a Board member and volunteer advocate of Diplomacy Training Program, which provides training for human rights activists. He is one of Australia’s internationally Certified Fund Raising Executives (CFRE), and is a Fellow of the Fundraising Institute of Australia.Xponential works for for-purpose organisations in sectors such as social services, health services, medical research, overseas development, environment, Indigenous issues, advocacy, schools and higher education.