Proof of Doing (experience)

  • (2025) Long-term partnership with a local finance and housing business to build social impact brand, communications, community campaigns, supportive community and impact strategy supporting their goals to help people who don’t believe they can buy a home — buy a home.

  • (2025) Conducted research with people who identify as having a disability to understand what information is needed and how it should be presented digitally. This research focused on making sure that people with disability or their carers can plan outdoor experiences through national parks and wildlife resources.

  • (2025) Facilitated community workshops with an energy provider to connect with people from culturally diverse and Indigenous backgrounds. Partnered with an Indigenous foundation to run workshops, bringing the energy provider and community together to discuss affordability and experiences of financial hardship.

  • (2024) Worked with a startup to test, ideate, and prototype innovative digital health technology for funding, developing a strategy from ideation to production, including gathering evidence-based insights to support the proof of concept. (Water Monitor)

  • (2023) Partnered with a crisis family violence and homelessness not-for-profit to lead and teach a small internal team in conducting employee research. The research identified frontline barriers preventing strategy outcomes and turned insights into guiding principles to ensure future strategic decisions aligned with frontline employee needs.

  • (2023) Led a trauma-informed research approach to understand the experiences of court visitors, particularly those with disabilities or historically excluded groups. Conducted contextual research and facilitate ideation workshops to influence the design of future court buildings in line with Universal and inclusive design.

  • (2023) Conducted intercept and contextual research to understand the transport experience for regional residents and visitors and to create a set of personas to be used to inform future transport ticketing decisions and design for rural and regional communities for a government department.

  • (2023) Conducted one-on-one interviews and walk-alongs to observe the transport experience of people with disabilities, identifying barriers and opportunities to improve navigation of the transport and ticketing system, and creating behavioral archetypes for the transport department.

  • (2022) Partnered with a health membership organisation to lead and teach a team in member research, collaborating across departments to improve member experience. Developed, tested, and piloted 6 new products and services as part of an innovation strategy for future implementation into processes, operations, and strategy.

  • (2021) Acted as a Design Facilitator for the Two Leap Program, working with refugee and migrant residents of social housing to co-design innovative solutions that provide resources to the community that they would deliver as their own small local businesses.

  • (2021) Developed a program to train refugee and migrant women to deliver and own their own culturally appropriate health and social education in the community within their cultural and language context.

  • (2021) Developed community-led social initiatives addressing critical needs through participatory design methodologies, involving both community members and stakeholders in creating products and services.

  • (2021) Developed and designed products and services using local economic development models, including social enterprise and social franchising.

  • (2020) Created peer and social learning opportunities to help enterprises build skills, knowledge, and capacity, including planning a national conference for all owners and families to gather annually.

  • (2019) Developed expertise in theory of change and impact measurement, aligning products and services with the Sustainable Development Goals and social determinants of health.

  • (2018) Grew and supported a network of 250 locally-led social enterprises, empowering them to deliver impactful products and services to their communities that delivered products and services to over 80,000 people, mobilising social change across multiple communities.

  • (2017) Researched and piloted a social franchising model, scaling its reach and impact in partnership with the Minter Ellison community team to identify legal barriers for social franchising in Australia.

Professional Development

Narrative-nature based practice

  • (2025) Nurturing and Empowering Community - Earth Heart

  • (2025) Deep Ecology with John Seed, The Work That Reconnects (Joanna Macey)

  • (2025) Level 1 Narrative Practice - Dulwich Centre

  • (2025) Aboriginal Narrative Practice - Dulwich Centre

Business branding and communications

  • (2025) Abstract Logo Design - Adam Lancaster

  • (2025) Brand Strategy - Adam Lancaster

  • (2025) Brand Strategy Bootcamp - Adam Lancaster

  • (2025) Contemporary Communication Design - YuJune Park, Parsons School of Design

  • (2025) Kate Toon SEO Nibbles Course

  • (2025) Photography Posing 101- Lindsay Atler

  • (2025) Moments that Matter - Dan Heath

Cultural leadership and de-colonising practices

  • (2024) Deep Time Walk Facilitator Training Program - Deep Time Walk

  • (2024) The Gathering Indigenous led program for women on country - The Returning

  • (2024) Decolonizing Methodologies - Linda Tuhiwai Smith (Book)

Regenerative practices with land management

  • (2024) Turning Knowledge into Practice field day – Holistic Management (Regenerative Outcomes), Nagambie VIC

  • (2024) Field learning in sustainable farming at Highfield Farm & Woodland, Adelong NSW

Community and land research across regional Australia

  • (2023) Land management and sheep shearing at sustainable farm, Gundagai NSW

  • (2023) Field learning on Syntropic Farming, Valla NSW

  • (2023) Facilitated community workshop: What Makes Junee Special, Junee NSW

  • (2023) Field learning at Brogo Permaculture Gardens (John Champagne), Brogo, NSW

  • (2023) Recorded podcast series with farmers, growers, and artists in regional Australia

Social impact and development

  • (2020) 12 month accelerator program for impact leaders - The Growth Project

  • (2019) Theory of Change - Social Impact Hub RISE Series

  • (2018) Global Social Franchise Global Accelerator Program - The Social Sector Task Force

Healthcare and mental health

  • (2018) Trauma Informed Care - Various Online Sources

  • (2017) Primary Health Care - Charles Darwin University

  • (2017) Communication for Person-Centered Practice - Charles Darwin University

  • (2017) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health - Charles Darwin University

  • (2017) Pathophysiology for Healthcare - Charles Darwin University

  • (2017) Mental Health - Charles Darwin University

  • (2017) Complex Care - Charles Darwin University

  • (2017) Global Health - Charles Darwin University

  • (2016) Certificate IV in Training and Assessment - Plenty Training

  • (2015) Mental Health First Aid - Mental Health First Aid Australia

  • (2013) Certificate IV Science - Swinburne Tafe

Volunteer Work

  • (2025) Volunteered to co-facilitate and support local weaving group where local resident meet to weave and create connections - Mordi-Weaving Group

  • (2023) Volunteered to assist with laundry and build connections with local community members facing hardship and homelessness while they did their washing.- Orange Sky

  • (2021) | Volunteered as Strategic Medical Clinic Advisor for the One Heart Foundation, providing direction and leadership on licensing and setting up the clinic as an independent entity. On the first day, over 200 people attended, and it remains a community-owned clinic today, improving access to critical healthcare services in a rural Kenyan community.

Awards

  • (2024) Best Research Approach Good Design Awards

  • (2021) Finalist for Kenneth Myer Fellowship

  • (2019) Westfield Local Hero

  • (2019) Small Business Championship Awards

  • (2018) Top 100 Women of Influence - Financial Review