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I am part of the team organising the first Australian Social Innovation Camp. I have worked in the areas of online community engagement for a number of years and with people from all over the world. The projects I have been involved in have taken me to some of the most remote areas of the world where I have been able to learn more about the differences that still exist in our world. I decided to concentrate my working life looking for ways to connect people that want to help others. I am very excited seeing how the interest in social innovations continues growing in Australia and around the world
I have recently entered the formal entrepreneurial space, but have a particular interest in social/environmentally driven business and investment. I am the Knowledge Manager at Engineers Without Borders Australia and seek to share ideas so that we can all evolve our business strategies for better outcomes.
I am also venturing into my own not-for-profit, we are calling ourselves ThinkActLive, and we beleive that the right people, given the right environment, space and resources can and will acheive great things. To do this, we are establishing an 'ideas incubator' where these people can come, share and develop ideas, with the support of local professionals when/if needed. In the co-op at the moment we have engineers, business administrators, pyschologists and entreprenuers.
My long term goal is to operate a professional consultancy service which can encourage change amongst the corporate sector by linking employees natural intrinsic motivation to needs in societies - thus strengthening the business case for corporations to value social and environmental performance with the same consideration given to finances.
I'm very excited to see ASIX and wish the organisation the best of luck - we would love to work with you as much as possible. I would love to stay in touch with everyone here and hear your ideas and will always offer my time for assistance if anyone needs it.
Have a passion for enterprise and creating businesses that sustain… sustain socially… sustain environmentally… sustain financially…
Currently working in financial services with a deep personal interest in First World Micro-Finance, Peer to Peer Lending, and Lending Circles.
Have mentored 100s of New Start Entrepreneurs via the New Enterprise Incentive Scheme (NEIS) at the Eastern Suburbs Business Enterprise Centre.
With a comprehensive background across Private Enterprise, Government, and Not-For-Profit Organisations, I've worked with organisations including the Western Australian Tourism Commission, Australian Opera, and St.George Bank.
My greatest inspiration to work in the context of social enterprise has come from my time working with Steve Lawrence at WorkVentures (the founding partner of initiatives including JobFutures & Social Ventures Australia).
Right now: co-founder and a principal partner at Quantum Compass Coaching - a boutique coaching practice based in Sydney, Australia. Here we maintain a focus on assisting Business owners established in their enterprises for three years or more. We also provide business advisory and coaching for new start or intending entrepreneurs.
Currently studying design in Visual Communications at UTS.
Meggan Grose is the writer and creator of Ms Koori Love, a well known and much loved columnist in the Koori Mail newspaper. For over four years she has been writing about her adventures finding love with an Aboriginal man and giving love advice to people. Her wit and humour is adored by readers of the Koori Mail and visitors to her website. She is now launching an exciting new venture into writing about love and relationships for young Aboriginal people. Visit her site today www.mskoorilove.com.au
Trained as an industrial designer at UTS in the 90s
Bulk of work experience in museum sector as an exhibition designer and then as Design Manager at Australian National Maritime Museum
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Tutor/lecturer in museum design, designing out crime and design for sustainability at Uni SA, UTS and now Raffles College
NSW State Council Member DIA
In his consulting work over the past 18 years, Martin Stewart-Weeks has specialised in strategy, policy analysis, facilitation and market and social research. At Cisco, as Director for IBSG's public sector practice in Asia-Pacific, he works at the senior executive and political level to help shape Internet business solutions and online strategies at both an agency and whole-of-government level. Martin has been a key member of the global team developing a new e-government framework, the ‘connected republic, for Cisco's public sector work. Martin Chairs the Australian Social Innovation Exchange (ASIX)
Director, Centre for Civil Society
Secretary, National Federation of Parents Families and Carers
Passionate about the development of the social innovation landscape in Australia, and with diverse professional experiences ranging from facilitation and public speaking to communications and event management, I am currently Projects Director for Collaborative Consumption in June 2010. Collaborative Consumption describes the big shift from hyper-consumption in the 20th Century to new forms of sharing, bartering, lending, swapping and renting in the 21st Century reinvented by online platforms and social networks. Prior to this, I spent two years as Communications Manager for a national architectural practice, and have also helped the Australian Social Innovation Exchange (ASIX) with communications for its inaugural Social Innovation Camp in March 2010. More recently, I have been collaborating on Gennio.org, a web-based social enterprise generator and marketplace, and she also acts as the Australian connection for MakeSense.org, a social business connecting social entrepreneurs worldwide through the web. I was Managing Director of The Brightest Young Minds Foundation in 2009 and am currently on their Advisory Board. With a Bachelor of Creative Industries (in Creative Writing and Theatre Studies) from Queensland University of Technology (2004), I also completed a Graduate Certificate of Business in Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies from QUT in 2009 and am currently enrolled in a Master of Applied Innovation and Entrepreneurship from The University of Adelaide.
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