Caroline is an experienced researcher and strategist in the not-for-profit and university sectors. She has developed and managed large-scale community engagement and behaviour research and projects in various locations worldwide. Alongside this, she is a writer and publisher of the interdisciplinary magazine SINTEZO.
She holds an international humanitarian law, design and business qualifications from Melbourne University and the Queensland University of Technology. This includes a Masters in International Law (specialising in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights); a Graduate Certificate in Creative Industries (Human Centred Design); a Master of Fine Arts and a Bachelor of Business and Law. In 2011, she received the Outstanding Young Alumnus Award from QUT.Head over to Sintezo at https://sintezo.com.au/
Connect with Caroline at https://www.linkedin.com/in/austincaroline/
Leading Sustainability & Business for Good
Laurent Mas is a Sustainability Consultant, Business Strategist, and Impact Entrepreneur, dedicated to transforming businesses into forces for good. As Co-Founder & Director of 3i Sustainability, he leads a global movement helping businesses, investors, and changemakers integrate sustainability and social responsibility into their core strategy.
A Sustainability Advocate for the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for nearly 10 years, Laurent has actively worked to align businesses with Profit, People, and Planet. In Melbourne, Australia, he founded his first sustainability-focused business, helping SMEs integrate the SDGs into their strategy—proving that sustainability and profitability go hand in hand. For over seven years, Laurent has been a proud B1G1 member, embedding giving and impact into business ecosystems to drive meaningful change.
A proud Australian, Laurent relocated to Geneva, Switzerland, at the end of COVID, continuing his mission to support businesses and leaders in their sustainability transformation and regenerative practices.
Sustainability & Business for Good:
Mental Health & Conscious Leadership:
Beyond sustainability, Laurent is passionate about mental well-being. He integrates mindfulness and leadership development into his work, supporting entrepreneurs and executives in achieving balance and resilience. His initiatives include:
Through 3i Sustainability and his various impact-driven ventures, Laurent helps businesses redefine success—blending sustainability, profitability, and well-being to create a Better You, Better Business, Better World.
Connect with Laurent on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/laurentmas1
Sally Murphy is an expert human resources professional who left the corporate world behind to launch the purpose-led human resources company Purple Playground in 2018.
After spending twenty years working within people and culture roles across a variety of HR disciplines, Sally took the opportunity to build a company that would better support other businesses in their human resources initiatives.
Her vision for Purple Playground is in perfect alignment with her purpose and passion - to prove business leaders with a proactive approach to people and culture. As far as HR agencies are concerned, Purple Playground is deliberately different.
Sally heads up the Human Resources division of the company, and works her magic to:
The Purple Playground team are the antidote to the boring, stuffy, ‘we’d better call HR’ approach and are leading the way in helping purpose-driven business owners re-imagine what people and culture support looks like. They are a certified B Corporation and long term member of B1G1 Business for Good. It’s all part of showing the human side of human resources. To Sally and the team, adding value to clients means being committed to helping them ‘systemise the process and humanise the experience’ throughout every aspect of the full employee lifecycle.
Leanne Butterworth, an Empathy Educator, TEDx speaker and Social Entrepreneur, is dedicated to creating healthier, more connected workforces and communities through accessible Empathy Training. Her personal experience with postnatal mental health challenges led her to recognise the life-changing impact of empathy-based communication. As the founder of Empathy First and a lecturer of social enterprise at QUT, Leanne is actively involved in the startup, mental health, and social enterprise communities. She has presented her empathy work internationally and holds degrees in Applied Science and NonProfit Business. Leanne has received several prestigious scholarships and awards, including the 2023 Women Changing the World People's Choice Social Enterprise Award and the George Alexander Foundation Scholarship. She is also a contributing author in the upcoming anthology Women Making a Difference. Leanne believes empathetic leadership is not a nice-to-have but a business imperative in the modern world. Her passion drives her to create compassionate environments where healthy empathy thrives.
Kristy is the GM and CTO of Allume Energy, an Australian solar technology company that has developed a world-first solution which unlocks rooftop solar for apartments. Allume Energy was founded to ensure it is possible for everyone to access clean technology solutions and be taken on the journey to a liveable future.
While Kristy is a technology expert, for Kristy the T in CTO stands for team as much as technology. Kristy’s authentic leadership style creates environments that create inclusion of all & inspire courage; crucial to generate the innovation required to solve the most pertinent problems of our time.
Connect with Kristy on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristy-battista-35177819/
Reach out to Allume Energy at https://allumeenergy.com/au/
Dan is the Founder of The Ocelli Group, helping organisations build resilience and commercial opportunity through bespoke Sustainability support networks. This 'Impact-as-a-Service' ecosystem consists of sustainability consultancies, data reporting platforms, and communications agencies, ensuring these teams are consistently realising collaborative advantages.
Dan has worked in Australia and the US for both publicly-traded firms and early-stage startups, across natural resources, technology advisory, and ESG consulting. He sees collaboration as being the key factor in ensuring all companies, industries, and countries seize the opportunities presented as we decarbonise the global economy.
He often reflects on a quote from George Mack: “Networks are unique, because they don’t divide when you share them - they multiply.”
Find Dan at
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-leverington/
https://www.ocelli.group/
In this episode we connect with Tracy Norman and Coralie Nichols from The Ian & Shirley Norman Foundation.
Tracy Norman - Founder & Chair
Tracy Norman is the proud middle daughter of Ian and Shirley Norman. She has a background in small business enterprises with a particular focus on regenerating economies in regional New South Wales. Tracy currently operates a number of businesses, based in the Hunter, in the areas of regenerative agriculture and food and hospitality. The paddock-to-plate experience can be found in her business offerings. Her business interests are underpinned by a degree in Ecological Agriculture. Tracy served on Dungog Shire Council for 9 years from 2012 to 2021, with her service to the community including two and a half years as the Mayor. Tracy was a founding member of the Dungog Arts Foundation and the driving force behind the Dungog Festival, two initiatives that gave her a great sense of pride and joy. Tracy is keen to respond to filling gaps to address social disadvantage and to work in partnership with innovators that change people’s lives.
Coralie Nichols - Chief Executive Officer.
Coralie is a Graduate of the AICD, has completed Harvard Business studies, was a 2017 finalist in the Queensland Telstra Business Women’s Awards, has an undergraduate degree from Wollongong University, a graduate diploma from Sydney University and completed her Master’s Degree in Management at the University of Technology Sydney.Coralie has worked in local government in NSW and Queensland for over 20 years and has held senior executive and general manager roles. She has also worked at the Chief Executive level in the not-for-profit sector in the Northern Territory and NSW. Coralie has lived in major cities and rural and remote communities across Australia. She now lives with her husband and three children near the vineyards of the Hunter Valley.
Connect with the foundation at https://isnfoundation.org.au/
Dr Graziella Thake is the CEO of The Optimisation Hub, a learning hub designed to increase human potential.
With over three decades of diverse experience combined with a history of achievement in forensic corporate and sports psychology, Graziella has a range of credible knowledge and skills in impact delivery projects for social change across education, government departments, mining , health, sport and corporate. Her operational management of complex projects has seen her follow a validated research focus to manage complex delivery projects in simple, real formats. She brings innovation facilitation and sought after professionalism to anything she does as a tangible asset in positive impact leadership. With experience in 24 multinational brands, by reputation she is as a leadership asset, who combines humility, experience, knowledge and a straight forward robust approach to any project and team for lasting long term sustainable performance optimisation. Graziella is both a diversity champion and team enabler and been dubbed “the positive virus creator” having achieved 2 world firsts. She combines all her passions, and professional experience to impact positively, and sustainably to lead outcomes, in a fast, and sustainable manner giving energy time and professionalism to sustainable outcomes. Her leadership is blueprint is her ability to create and extend dynamic impact culture in any team. Connect with Graziella on Linked HERE
The Optimisation Hub website is HERE
Georgina Camp is the Managing Director and Founder, Huber Social.
Founder and Managing Director of Huber Social, Georgina’s team is committed to creating a global society where Wellbeing thrives. Following a 10-year career across international law and the military, Georgina transitioned to Community Development to address social issues at their root cause. Having experienced both ends of the ‘problem solving’ spectrum, Georgina recognised we need to get all parts of the system working together to solve social issues once and for all. Through measuring social impact, Huber Social provides data driven intelligence to facilitate a systems approach, measuring progress overall in terms of wellbeing and identifying priority needs.
Huber Social has successfully measured the wellbeing of people for the last 6 years across more than 10 countries and 150 projects. Georgina holds a Master of Development, Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Arts (Politics and International Relations). Georgina was recognised in the 2019 Australian Financial Review’s top 100 Women of Influence.
find Georgina on linked HERE
Huber Social Website: https://hubersocial.com.au/
Adrian is a passionate business sustainability professional, with more than 22 years of activity in the field. Through his business, the Sustainability Compass, and as a Partner for Corporate Sustainability in Fifth Eagle, both next generation advisory companies, he is focused on guiding organisations towards future proofing their business and maximising the return on their sustainability spend. Prior to this, Adrian worked in energy, operations and technical leadership roles in the heavy industry in Australia and Eastern Europe.
Adrian has a PhD on the topic of corporate sustainability, an MBA from the University of Queensland’s Business School and is a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD). Most recently, he completed business sustainability programs with the business schools of Cambridge, Oxford, Yale and MIT, on topics such as sustainability strategies, circular economy, leading sustainable corporations
and sustainable finance. He is also a Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Certified Professional.
Over the years, he applied this knowledge in the industry for practical outcomes such as: publishing sustainability reports, helping release lower carbon footprint products, developing energy efficiency strategies, enhancing circularity, significantly reducing emissions and fossil fuel consumption, creating and implementing environmental performance improvement plans and so on.
Connect with Adrian
Mail: adrian@sustainabilitycompass.com.au
Web: www.sustainabilitycompass.com.au https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianvaida/
‘Barnes’, as he is known, is responsible for leading Intrepid’s global marketing, CX and digital functions with a focus on embedding a customer-focused culture across the business. Previously chief purpose officer, Leigh is an advocate for the business for good movement and has been instrumental in building Intrepid’s reputation as a purpose-led organisation. Outside of work, Leigh is a keen supporter of Melbourne’s arts and culture scene and a passionate fan of the Aussie Football League (AFL) team, the Geelong Cats.
Leigh's top Intrepid trip is Everest Base Camp Trek, which he credits for changing the way he sees the world.
Learn more about Intrepid at https://www.intrepidtravel.com/
Accountability@intrepidtravel.com
Connect with Leigh via LinkedIn HERE
Jennifer Kim Field is the Chief Sustainability Officer for Henry Schein, Inc., the world’s largest provider of solutions for health care professionals. Jen is responsible for the Company’s global sustainability and environmental, social and governance (ESG) work and integrating ESG into the Company’s strategies and activities. Jen collaborates with the Company’s Board of
Directors, the Sustainability Committee, and key business teams such as Investor Relations, Supply Chain, Finance, Legal, Human Resources, Global Data Organization, and Corporate Communications as well as external partners to execute the global climate roadmap including carbon reduction goals, ensure our progress and performance meet evolving global auditing and regulatory requirements, and attract new investors focused on corporate sustainability. She oversees the Henry Schein Cares team and program focused on advancing wellness, building capacity in the delivery of health care services, and assisting in emergency preparedness and relief to “help health happen” for at-risk and underserved populations globally. Jen brings over 25 years of experience to Henry Schein in the areas of business development, program management, strategic planning, corporate philanthropy and strategic partnerships. Prior to joining Henry Schein, Jen worked at the United Nations Foundation where she led public-private partnerships with Fortune 500 companies in support of the UN. Jen hails from Alabama, where she acquired a taste for grits and fried catfish. She graduated from Bowdoin College and lives on Long Island with her husband and two young children.
Check out Henry Schein at https://henryschein.com.au/
Laurence Marshbaum OAM is the Co-Founder of Community Capital. Community Capital is a social impact asset management firm that aligns investments in Private Markets with community based impact outcomes. Community Capital recently raised the $650M Community Capital Credit Fund which will distribute in excess of $15-20M of grants to early-stage Australian Social Purpose Organisations.
Prior to co-founding Community Capital with Australian financial services firm Barrenjoey, Laurence was a Senior Portfolio Manager at the Australian Retirement Trust ( Sunsuper) overseeing the funds $4bn allocation to Alternative Investments and prior to that held senior roles in Investment firms in London and New York.
In 2013 Laurence founded 10×10 Philanthropy following a life-long affiliation with communal involvement and philanthropy, having served on the boards of several not-for-profits in Australia and the UK. 10x10 has grown from Sydney around the world supporting early stage social purposes organisations to connect with donors and networks to help them grow. 10x10 now operates in 6 countries, 13 cities, has supported over 380 Social Purpose Organisations and distributed over $6M over its life.
In June 2022 Laurence received the Order of Australia Medal for Service to Community. Laurence has been a key-note speaker at the Nexus Global Youth Summit at the United Nations in New York, and the Social Good Summit in Australia, and has been featured on several “social impact” podcasts and books. He is an advocate for new models of social impact, venture philanthropy, investing with impact and effective giving.
Connect with 10x10 Philanthropy at https://10x10philanthropy.com/
Willem Overbosch is CEO (Chief Executive Officer) & Co-founder of SDG Align on a mission to make sustainable practices a business habit. Their 2021 Good Design Award Winning Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Insights as a service platform delivers unique perspectives across internal and external supply chain stakeholder perspectives.
Over the past 20 years Willem founded and led multiple businesses in Online publishing and Community SaaS (Software as a Service). In 2018 his book ‘Top trends for business leaders’ (in Dutch 'Top trends voor Ondernemers') was a number 1 bestselling management book in The Netherlands, discussing topics on Digital transformation, Business innovation, Sustainable Development, Society 3.0, Futures Thinking and how to design and drive these concepts into a business strategy.
Willem encourages people to think and go beyond “Business as Usual” and explore the world from a sustainability perspective and with an entrepreneurial mindset. He believes that by aligning our actions with the UN (United Nations) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) we can make a positive impact on people, planet and prosperity and create a positive future for everyone.
As a subject matter expert, Willem has been featured on Dutch National television. He delivered keynotes in conferences like the 2018 UNSSC (United Nations System Staff College) Conference in Geneva, the BDAA (Building Designers Association of Australia) National Conferences in 2022, the SCA (Strata Community Association) National Conference 2022 in Melbourne and many more.
Willem immigrated from The Netherlands to Australia in February 2022 and lives in New Italy, NSW with his wife Milou and their four teenaged kids.
To connect with Willem on LinkedIn HERE
Take the SDG Align Toolkit survey on the SEVENTEENx dashboard HERE
Kristen has been involved with The Funding Network Australia since its inception, first working with co-founder Lisa Cotton on the initial pilot events in 2013 and later serving on the Sydney Leadership Council before becoming CEO in July 2022. Previously Kristen was TFN's General Manager and has been responsible for driving day-to-day operations, developing TFN’s technology roadmap, enhancing TFN’s event delivery model and building strong relationships with clients, partners and supporters. Kristen has extensive experience across marketing, stakeholder engagement and communications in the US and Australia and held leadership positions in both the corporate and non-profit sectors. Kristen is a former Senior Vice President & Partner with Fleishman Hillard in San Francisco, where her clients included Visa, Netflix and Dell, and has held senior marketing and communications roles at Compass Group Australia and Good Guys Inc. She is also a certified leadership coach TFN Website - https://www.thefundingnetwork.com.au/
Find Kristen on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristenmlark/
A senior leader with a career spanning more than 25 years, Carol has built a credible reputation, known for her strong inclusive leadership, operational excellence, track record, innovative problem solving, strong relationships, communication, team building, personal integrity and business ethics. Carol has significant experience in global complex multi-tiered environments. Skilled in Sales and Business Leadership, Sales Coaching and Enablement, Digital Transformation, Customer and Employee Experience, Business and Process Envisioning, Partner Management and Executive Engagement. Carol brings this experience to Akkodis as our VP of Sales and Growth operating across our business.
Carol is a Change Champion, leading and challenging teams to transform traditional models to think bigger with a laser focus on impact, experiences, continuous improvement, and value creation.
A supporter of Women in IT, STEM and a passionate advocate for Responsible Business, Corporate Citizenship, Sustainability and Diversity, Equity, Justice and Inclusion to make a genuine Human and Social Impact.
Carol is a non-executive director for Fortem Australia. Fortem Australia is a not-for-profit organisation that supports the mental health and wellbeing of first responder families – the people who protect and care for Australian communities.
Connect with Carol via LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/carol-gobby/
Head to Akkodis website HERE
Manisha is the chief strategist and visionary at Centre for Inclusive Design. With a background in strategic marketing, communication, transforming cultures and creativity she is a thought leader in the power of thinking from the edge. Manisha has a unique talent for seeing beyond the horizon to emerging trends, defining them and building powerful communities to bring them in to being. She is the host of the With, Not For podcast and is a fiction author in her spare time. Manisha was a speaker at SEVENTEENx Sydney 2023 , presenting an inspired story and overview of her work at the Centre for Inclusive Design.
You can watch her talk from this event HERE
Connect with Manisha via LinkedIn HERE
Visit website HERE
Matthew Wright-Simon
For all of this millennium – and a bit of the last one – Matthew Wright-Simon has been active in sustainability and regeneration, creative industries, social enterprise, microphilanthropy and leadership development. It’s all part of being a changemaker champion – someone who celebrates the best in people and the great potential we all have to make a positive difference where we work, live and play.
Something that truly celebrates this is Newday Leadership, a unique social enterprise that is devoted to ‘inspired leadership for the greater good’ in the delivery of unique summits and programs. Matthew is co-director, alongside Katrina Webb, Newday’s founder. The annual Newday Summits are truly something special: part wellbeing retreat, part festival and part world-class leadership conference. Their forthcoming Summit on 2 November 2023 in Adelaide is all about Wisdom + Wonder. It’s on track to be another sold-out event (places are capped at 350 people), so get your tickets now! In his work, Matthew supports people to deeply explore problems, articulate engaging stories and to take pragmatic and creative action in their own organisations, communities and networks. This work through Ecocreative and soon with Engage Change includes strategy and mentoring, leadership development, emceeing and facilitation and hundreds of projects, with recent work in ‘community juries’ helping bring new depth to deliberative decision-making and research in Australia’s health sector.
Matthew is the Adelaide Dean of microphilanthropy group, the Awesome Foundation (that has given away over $80,000 in microgrants) and he has recently joined the state’s Impact 100 network. Matthew also volunteers as a board member of SASEC, South Australia’s peak body for social entrepreneurs. In 2019, Matthew was the South Australian winner of the Impact 25 Award from Pro Bono Australia for his role as a ‘changemaker champion’, something he continues to embrace in his work and volunteering today.
Connect with Matthew on LinkedIn or Instagram
Book your tickets to the Newday Leadership Summit: Wisdom + Wonder
Join us at a SEVENTEENx event - see dates at www.seventeensdg.com/tour
Simone Allan is Director and Founder Women’s Resilience Centre and
Director Mondo Search & Mondo Mentor.
Simone’s upbringing was isolating and often filled with tragedy. At
an early age, Simone was always finding part-time jobs and seeking
her own independence and life mentors to support her. (Her family
of choice). Her studies BA (Psychology major) and postgraduate
studies in Human Resources led to a career in sales then founding
of an Executive Search Consultancy, Mondo Search which has
placed over 2800 key Senior leaders in business. One great insight gleaned from interviewing so many leaders was that those who succeeded often had great mentors.
Her background and experience came together with the founding of the Women’s Resilience Centre in 2020. It is her “ True North” bringing together so many initiatives that Simone has championed: Women’s Health, practical job readiness skills, sustainable recovery programs and mentoring.
https://womensresiliencecentre.com.au/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/simoneallan/
Dr Stephen Morse is the Founder and CEO of Unchained Solutions Pty Ltd, a Sydney-based consultancy that equips Australian organisations to comply with the Australian Modern Slavery Act 2018 (Cth). Stephen has over 25 years’ experience in entrepreneurial leadership in the not-for-profit and private sectors, both in Australia and overseas. He’s a seasoned public speaker, thought leader and strategist who brings an engaging and refreshing perspective to the fight against modern slavery and related human rights violations, and its impact on supply chains. Stephen obtained his Doctorate in Human Trafficking Intervention through Fuller Theological Seminary, CA in 2016, and MBA in Entrepreneurship through University of Technology Sydney in 2020. He currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Freedom Business Alliance, the Ethics Committee of the Australasian Supply Chain Institute, and the Communications Working Group of the Commonwealth 8.7 Network.
Connect with Stephen via
LinkedIn HERE
Website HERE
connect at info@unchainedsolutions.com.au
Info about the Modern Slavery Act HERE
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