ENTERPRISES
civic leadership | social trust | employment pathways | beautiful neighbourhoods
Small Shift
Inviting everyone in every neighbourhood to take small shifts
Small Shift is a social enterprise that trains and inspires communities to create beautiful, meaningful and unique public spaces in their neighbourhood. DIO (Do-It-Ourselves) projects are used as a vehicle to build community resilience, social trust and employment pathways.
- Soft entry to employment: Small Shift hires people who face tough challenges getting jobs for various reasons including mental illness, injury, disability, trauma, social capital, digital illiteracy and lack of formal education. Small Shift’s crew are upskilled, mentored, paid and supported to lead.
- Neighbours working together: locals of different backgrounds and abilities volunteer to deliver a DIO project together, and build a strong social network in their neighbourhood.
Paper Plain
Enabling property developers and governments to jump-start community building in our growing neighbourhoods
Building a sense of community costs property developers and governments hundreds of thousands of dollars for each development. We invite them to invest these resources differently, in a more sustainable, impactful and measurable way. Paper Plain is a human-centric digital platform that on-boards residents and helps them build a strong community through community-driven activities; and enables developers and governments to create better places with live data and insights.
Paper Plain is a property tech startup backed by BlueChilli and Stockland that responds to its Stockland Accelerator brief “How can we create thriving communities with better health, wellbeing and productivity outcomes?” It is one of 11 startups selected out of 500+ applicants to develop the idea and MVP by mid-2019.
LEADERSHIP
empathy | integrity | courage | competence
Future Cities Summit, Sydney
Creating Great Places
Speaker, Property Council of Australia, 2019
The Global Solutions Taipei Workshop, Taipei
Shaping the Future of an Inclusive Digital Society
Speaker, Kiel Institute for the World Economy and Chung-Hua Institute for Economic Research, 2018
Stockland Accelerator Investor Showcase
10 x Start-up pitches
Speaker, Stockland and BlueChilli, 2019
Smart Cities Taskforce meeting
Cities & innovation
Speaker, The Committee for Sydney, 2019
Vivid Ideas, Sydney
How Accessibility Makes for a More Liveable City
Speaker, Briometrix and Vivid Ideas, 2018
New Cities Summit, Songdo
The Building Blocks of Urban Wellbeing
Moderator, New Cities, 2017
Westpac Social Change Fellowship, global
Unlock Human and Place Potential
Research exploring the impact of creating citizen-led, inclusive cities, 2017
Launch a DIO (Do-It-Ourselves) Public Space, Sydney
Crowdfunding Campaign for Telopea
Pitch for Good Parramatta finalist, successfully raising over $14,000, 2018
Partnerships with Purpose, Adelaide
New Ideas, Enterprise and Solutions
Keynote speaker, Community Centres SA, 2018
Panel, the Old Parramatta Goal
Crafting Innovative Places
Podcast interview, Cities Leadership Institute, 2019
