Visitors to The Greater Collective
Daniel Murray
Social Change Agent at Empathic Consulting
Daniel Murray
× Daniel Murray is a leader focused on making powerful change where it is most needed. As the Head of the IAG Foundation, Daniel is responsible for leading a corporate foundation to engage IAG’s 10,000+ employees in community activity, volunteering and support charitable causes aligned to IAG’s Purpose. Daniel’s previous experience includes leading major strategic initiatives for the largest Financial Services firms in Australia and New Zealand. Daniel has a BSc and a MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management.
Cathy Robinson
CEO at The Observership Program
Cathy Robinson
× Cathy is the CEO of The Observership Program, a position she has held since August 2015. Prior to that she was a Director of LikeMinds Consulting.Cathy has twenty years experience as a senior and chief executive in a number of organisations including the former Australian Film Commission (AFC), the City of Sydney and the Australian Institute of Company Directors. She is a former President of the Sydney Film Festival, was a member of board of the AFC for most of her tenure as its CEO and has served on the boards of a number of organisations including the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Sydney Festival, Communications Law Centre and Observership Program participant, the Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP).
Prof. Stuart Diamond
Negotiations Expert
Professor Stuart Diamond
× One of the world’s foremost experts on negotiation. His negotiation course at top-ranked Wharton Business School has been the most sought-after by MBA students there over the past 20 years.Among the 30,000 people Diamond has taught or advised in 50+ countries, more than 220 are managers and executives from the Fortune 500 companies. Another 25% are of the Global 1000 community. He has trained school children in South Africa, bankers in Dubai, art dealers in Arizona and car dealers in Russia.
Gauri Bhalla
Educator at TEDxSydney
Gauri Bhalla
× As the founder of Curious Collective Gauri is an educator entrepreneur and social innovation driver. She is a practitioner of lean start up and ‘learn by doing’ methodologies. Her passion is to explore and challenge business models, to extract shared value. Gauri started her career as an accountant and marketer in the corporate world with PwC and WorldCom, then found her vocation in education and has worked for Universities such as Cambridge and Stanford and the UTS Business School in Sydney as well as designing and running the Experimentation program for CBA.Gauri is also Faculty at The School of Life, where she teaches "How to Think Like an Entrepreneur". Gauri finds people irresistibly interesting. She understands the power of continuing education to transform and enable individuals and organisations to fulfill their potential.
Steve Mansfield
Google Transformation Lead
Steve Mansfield
× Steve is an experienced Design Thinking practitioner, having worked with many types of organisations from non-profits to federal government via large and small enterprises. Google is Steve’s second Silicon Valley company, where his current remit is to help his customers with their Transformation, Innovation and Change Management Journey. Recently he passed his 9th anniversary, which makes his tenure over 60 years in dog years. Prior to Google he worked for a Valley startup for 2 1/2 years which was acquired by Google in 2006.
Before becoming involved in technology he was a Naval Aviator for the UK’s Fleet Air Arm where he spent many a happy hour chasing ships and submarines and occasionally blowing things up.
When not helping organisations and their staff plot their journey into the future, Steve enjoys family activities and is a keen cyclist. Earlier this year he represented Australia at the World Amateur Cycling Championships. Yes he’s a POM, that's the rules!
Topics Steve will facilitate- Fostering a culture of innovation and creativity
- Problem solving tools that can be used in response to real world challenges
- How to give simple, truthful feedback in-the-moment
Vicky Lay
MD at Artesian
Vicky Lay
× Vicky Lay is a serial entrepreneur who is passionate about business and finding creative ways to help people. At 22, she co-founded zookal.com - a Silicon Valley venture-backed e-learning and textbook rental company that turned over $20M in revenue last year. As their Chief Operations Officer, Vicky successfully scaled the business 10x year on year. Currently she serves as a Managing Director at Artesian Venture Partners (an early-stage venture capital business with offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Singapore, Shanghai, New York and London).
Being a 26-year-old, Asian, female founder turned VC who grew up in the not-so-polished parts of Western Sydney, she is the epitome of what you would call a ‘minority’ among the founder/board member/investor circles and frankly, she'd like to change that.
Richard Wolstenholme
Industry Leader, Google
Richard Wolstenholme
× Richard has a marketing and sales background. He started his career with the L’OREAL Group in the UK before moving to Paris in 1999 to join the International Marketing team, where he helped shape L’OREAL Paris’ product and brand strategy. Before joining Google in 2011, Richard led the international brand development and local marketing operations for Nutrimetics Pty, (Tupperware Brands Corporation), where is his passion for business transformation and leadership development, inspired him to complete an MBA (AGSM, UNSW 2012).At Google, Richard is the Head of Brand Advertising, helping Australia and New Zealand’s largest brand advertisers maximise the potential of the YouTube platform. Prior to this role, Richard led the Automotive team, Media and Classifieds team, where he focused on delivering digital media solutions to help support the digital transformation of those industries.
Duku Fore
UN Deligate
Duku Fore
× Duku Forè has a strong dedication to imbuing inspiration to the greater community and demonstrates this through his enthusiasm he has for community activism. As a result of this Duku has been recognised by and inspired the United Nations, World Bank and Humanitarian Affairs just to name a few. As well as being a special guest speaker alongside the National President of theAustralian Lawyers for Human Rights.
As an awe-inspiring international speaker, Duku is invited and travels to various different
conferences, events and schools to inspire and empower individuals to see different perspectives on life. Starting from a Ugandan refugee camp where he was born to coming to Australia with his family of 10 at the age of 10 in 2007 to representing Australia at the United Nations Headquarters in 2016, Duku has experienced more than most and knows the value of education in furthering one’s self.
Johan du Plessis and Melissa Fuller
Co-Founders AbilityMate
Johan du Plessis and Melissa Fuller
×Johan is a Disability Carer & Social Entrepreneur with a background in Electronic Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. Johan is passionate about innovation in the disability sector. He is leading the AbilityMate team in the areas of business development , strategy and eating cake!
Mel Fuller is an entrepreneur and advocate or a sustainable and ethical future that is informed and encouraged by the principles of the next industrial revolution. A catalysts for a new economy, her focus is on the intersection of design and manufacturing, and how that can create greater equality in society. Mel is motivated by solving global problems and wants to see every person with a disability gain access to the assistive devices they need.
Jess Scully
Curator, Vivid Ideas
Jess Scully
×Jess was the founding director of Vivid Ideas, Australia's largest creative industries event, and has curated creative sector events including Junket, TEDxSydney and Curating Participation. Jess is a founding contributor to the Sydney Culture Network, launching in late 2017. She is a passionate advocate for the knowledge economy, creative and cultural sector, cities and our public realm.
Graeme Fear
Deputy Chairman of Shake It Up
Graeme Fear
× Graeme has a wealth of experience gained from senior management and executive roles over 40 years in the pharmaceutical, FMCG, wine, information, advertising, fashion and distribution sectors including Nicholas (Aspro), Penfolds Wines, Edward H O’Brien (Yellow Pages Australia), CEO of Neville Jeffress Advertising Pty Ltd , Executive Director for Hunter Douglas Australia and Chief Executive of Metal Manufactures Electrical Merchandising.
In 2004 Graeme started his own Mentoring, Coaching and Consulting firm, The Executive Connection team (TEC), and between 2006 and 2009 he was presented with the Phil Medding’s Award for Australasia Chair Excellence the Robert Nourse TEC Chairman of the Year Award and was the first Australian to receive this award. Since 2008 Graeme has been a judge for the Telstra Business Awards.
More recently Graeme has been working closely with several companies in Board or Advisory roles and is Deputy Chairman of Shake It Up Australia Foundation.
Clyde Campbell
Founder of Shake It Up
Clyde Campbell
× Clyde is the Regional Director for Australia for Scott Automation& Robotics. Clyde has over 30 years industry experience and a vision to provide the latest world-leading technology and turnkey automation and robotics solutions to clients looking for a competitive edge. In 1987 Clyde founded Machinery Automation & Robotics (MAR) and grew the company to 70 staff with offices nationally and internationally. In 2015 the business was acquired by Scott Technology and has now been rebranded to Scott Automation & Robotics.
In 2009 Clyde was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and he set out to find out as much as he could about the disease and determine what he could do in a practical sense to assist. His search led him to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research in the US and the remarkable work they do to fund medical research targeted at finding better treatments on the path to a cure for Parkinson’s disease. Clyde realised that funding Parkinson’s research in partnership with MJFF was the best thing that he could do to help himself, his family and the 80,000 other Australians living with the disease so in 2011 he founded Shake It Up Australia Foundation (SIUAF) to give other Australians the opportunity to join his quest.
