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| Leigh Bartlett National Manager, Corporate Partnerships The Smith Family Leigh’s passion is collaborating with Corporate Australia to tackle social challenges while supporting commercial success. This explains why Leigh has work exclusively in the Corporate Partnerships space since joining The Smith Family in 2006. During this time Leigh has managed and secured multi-year high value partnerships with companies such as Medibank, Officeworks, CGU Insurance, Holden, Audi, Origin, Aon and AGL Energy. Today, Leigh leads a national team charged with developing a sustainable funding base to enable The Smith Family to deliver its mission through shared value partnerships with Corporate Australia. | |
| Sarah Collyer-Braham Operations Project Manager Hutt St Centre Sarah currently works with Hutt St Centre, commencing as Volunteer Coordinator, where she established processes to recruit, support and recognise the 200+ volunteers giving their time, skills and energy to Hutt St Centre each week. Sarah introduced new initiatives to provide additional opportunities for volunteering at Hutt St Centre, and expanded the volunteer program to support all functions of the Centre’s services. Sarah now manages a broad range of organisational-wide projects as Operations Project Manager. These have included the configuration and implementation of a new client service data base, coordinating the sector-wide Connections Week project, managing the Centre’s work, health and safety processes and audits, the introduction of a staff online induction system, a disaster resilience and first response project with rough sleepers, and the establishment of Hutt St Centre’s first social enterprise, Beans Talk. Her energy and passion is an asset when working with a diverse team of staff and volunteers each week to provide valuable services for homeless and vulnerable people in Adelaide. Sarah is an avid volunteer herself and regularly contributes to The Smith Family, Time for Kids and OzHarvest. She has been on the Board of Volunteering SANT since 2014. | |
| David Cooke Chair and Managing Director Konica Minolta Business Solutions Australia David was appointed as the first non-Japanese Managing Director of Konica Minolta in Australia in 2013. The company is a global firm operating in the technology sector. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Managers & Leaders and a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He is also a non-executive director of UN Global Compact and Cambodian based anti-human trafficking organisation Together 1 Heart. He completed his doctorate in 2008. David's dissertation was titled "Building Social Capital through Corporate Social Investment" which dealt with the role of profit-making corporations in furthering the work of the NGO sector. His work was awarded the Globally Responsible Leadership award for Social Impact in 2011 and in 2014 he was awarded the Top Alumnus of the last 20 years by the Southern Cross University Business School. | |
| Simon Griffiths Co-Founder & CEO Who Gives a Crap Simon is one of Australia’s most prominent social entrepreneurs. Since launching, Who Gives A Crap has tripled in size year-on-year without any marketing or advertising spend. As of January 2015, Who Gives A Crap had provided more than 50,000 people with access to a toilet for one year. | |
| Corinne Habel Head of Fundraising Women's & Children's Hospital Corinne is currently the Head of Fundraising for the Women’s & Children’s Hospital in Adelaide, where she is surrounded by an amazing team that inspires her every day. Corinne has recently returned to Adelaide from Sydney where she was the Global Director for humanitarian aid organisation, SurfAid. Having worked in the non-profit sector pretty much her entire career, she is a highly experienced director and executive with over 20 years of global expertise in business development and fundraising in diverse not for profit sectors including humanitarian, hospitals, education, environment, arts and faith based. Corinne prides herself on consistently achieving stretch targets, improving business viability, building high performance teams and developing and implementing creative solutions and sustainable strategic relations. She is a results oriented team player and has successfully implemented numerous change management initiatives. Corinne has a real passion for the improving the business operations of non-profits, loves asking people for money and gets enormous satisfaction seeing the impact philanthropy makes in improving lives. | |
| Tom Keenan CEO Panthera Foundation Tom spent the first part of his career with BT (UK) in field, operational and general management roles before moving to Australia and joining Origin Energy. More recently he was Head of the Audi Foundation and now holds a senior development role within CSIRO. Originally an engineer, Tom holds an MBA from the University of Glasgow and is currently pursuing a PHD in NFP Effectiveness with Flinders University. | |
| Ruth MacKay Managing Director OURTEL Solutions P/L OURTEL Solutions P/L is the vision of founder and Managing Director Ruth MacKay. Ruth spent several years as an entrepreneur managing professional staff remotely. During this time, she developed the techniques and tools needed to effectively manage a virtual workforce. Eight years ago, she saw an opportunity to apply those principles to the telemarketing industry. Her vision was to deliver a higher quality service, more cost effectively. She quickly identified the key drawbacks of traditional call centres where inexperienced, transient agents are the main resource pool. Ruth sought to overcome this by attracting and retaining more mature, experienced tele-agents by offering them the flexibility to carry out their work from home. This virtual workforce model has evolved to where OURTEL Solutions utilises a state of the art, cloud based platform to automate the real-time management of client campaigns along with the effective monitoring of agent activity and reporting. It became evident that the OURTEL model was especially suited to the Not for Profit sector where the lower operating costs and more committed, mature agents can make a real difference to the charities return on investment. Today OURTEL Solutions is experiencing dramatic growth across the Not for Profit sector. Ruth is a passionate advocate of the virtual workplace model, and now helps educate other business leaders on how to effectively implement a virtual workforce in their businesses. She is the author of ‘The 21stCentury Workforce’, and is a leading voice in the fundraising and philanthropy services. Currently, she has several blog and magazine articles published in leading industry publications, including F&P magazine. Ruth was a finalist in the Telstra Women’s Business Awards and OURTEL Solutions has also been a finalist in two categories for the Telstra Business Awards. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce and an MBA from Monash University, is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and Monash’s MBA Alumni. | |
| Joel Nicholson Marketsoft Joel is a data and technology crusader who has a passion to help build sustainable giving in Australia. The speed of change and the convergence of data and technology has an enormous influence on the way we all live. The ability to harness and leverage both these forces to empower fundraisers towards deeper donor relationships is what excites him. Joel has been leading the data-driven services company, Marketsoft, for the past 12 years across commerical organisations including the big four banks, publishers, retailers, and in recent years a focus on Non-profit. Joel was instrumental in launching Australia's first donor centric data collaborative in late 2014, called LemonTree, with a vision to create sustainable fundraising practices through collaborative thinking, technology, data, and by ultimately putting the donor first. | |
| Martin Paul Director More Strategic Martin is one of Australia's most experienced and engaging fundraising presenters. Martin has worked as a fundraising and marketing leader for WWF, Heart Foundation and Cancer Council to significantly increase net income. With experience of working with over 100 NFP's on strategy and hearing the views of more than 25,000 donors through surveys and interviews Martin knows what donors think. | |
| Josie Peach Senior Account Manager Donor Republic A driven fundraising professional who has worked in the ͞for good͟ industry for almost a decade. Josie creates lifelong, loyal donors through combining connection, shared values and storytelling with strategic and innovative fundraising methodologies. Expert at: Regular Giving, Events, Digital Fundraising, Appeals, Telemarketing, Community Fundraising and Donor journeys | |
| Paul Ramsbottom Managing Director ASI (Asia-Pacific) Paul is Managing Director at ASI (Asia-Pacific), the company behind iMIS Engagement Management System (EMS)™. With a career exclusively in the not-for-profit sector, he’s passionate about helping not-for-profits and associations reach their goals and improve performance, through adopting new and innovative solutions. | |
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