After reading in 2015 that homeless women Australia-wide were making sanitary pads out of public restroom toilet paper because they couldn’t afford to buy them, Rochelle Courtenay started a small sanitary collection in her Brisbane neighbourhood. She donated the items to a local women’s shelter.     Through demand, the not-for-profit charity Share the Dignity was born, providing homeless and at-risk women Australia-wide with sanitary items.  More than 4000 volunteers and some of Australia’s biggest corporates are now behind the charity, which has collected in excess of 1.7 million packets of sanitary items since its formation.    Rochelle, affectionately known as “Pad lady” designed a world-first Dignity Vending Machine, known as the Pinkbox. The vending machines are purposely designed to dispense a free period pack of sanitary items. By the end of 2019, there will be 200 Pinkboxes installed in poverty-stricken schools, homeless centres, domestic violence shelters and areas of severe poverty Australia-wide.    Furthermore, Share the Dignity now runs a Christmas appeal called #Itsinthebag.  In the last two weeks of November, women are asked to donate a pre-loved or new handbag filled with sanitary items plus some of other life’s essentials like shampoo, conditioner, deodorant, soap, toothpaste, a toothbrush and any other gift they may wish to donate.   More recently, Rochelle and her team of national supporters successfully campaigned the Federal Government to abolish the GST on sanitary items stating: “It’s not fair or right to have GST on sanitary items because they’re a basic human right and not a luxury. Ferrero Rochers are a luxury in my house."   Panel Discussion: Revolutionising measurement and evaluation techniques to ensure business adaptability   

• How to keep up with rapidly changing industry trends 

• Ensuring that your business remains ahead of the competition 

Rochelle Courtenay, Founder and Women's Equality Advocate, Share The Dignity 

Emma Riley is the director of strategic partnerships of award-winning Lonely Whale. In her role, Emma serves as a brand strategist focused on building cross-industry and cross-culture partnerships and spearheading radically collaborative efforts that strengthen Lonely Whale’s global presence and impact.    A leader in strategic marketing, Emma has presented around the world on the value of meaningful campaigns to Northside Festival, the Ministry of Ideas in Miami, New York City Design Festival, Beckman Centre of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine UC Irvine and more. In 2018, she was recognized as a Rubicon Global Waste Fit Champion and as one of the top 100 up and coming female culture creators in the United States by PureWow. Emma has been featured in Brooklyn Magazine, Women’s Health Magazine, MindBodyGreen and L'Express, amongst others. She is a global innovator committed to facilitating positive change.   International Case Study: Using radical collaboration to transform teams into motivated and empowered groups 

• Focussing on brand strategy to build cross-industry and cross-culture partnerships 
• Using radical collaboration to strengthen your organisations presence and impact  

Emma Riley, Director of Strategic Partnerships, Lonely Whale USA

World Vision Australia CEO Claire Rogers is a social innovator. She has been a driving force behind change initiatives, helping organisations adapt to the tech-disrupted economy and aligning physical and digital execution to maximise opportunities.  In her previous role as head of ANZ Australia’s digital banking, Claire spearheaded the bank's digital channels transformation. She is recognised for her capacity to grow customer-facing business.  A highly networked influencer, Claire brings to different environments finely-tuned communication and negotiation skills and a strength and compassion that creates strong community buy-in and support.  She is inspired by World Vision’s pursuit of a just and peaceful world, where every child can experience life in all its fullness. She has a passion for equal opportunity and understands the challenges facing not-for-profits as they adapt to the new economy.  Claire has been chair of Ridley Theological College for the past eight years and is a member of the Australian Council for International Development board.  She, her husband and two children have been World Vision child sponsors since 2006. In November 2016, Claire visited her sponsored child in Myanmar.  Presentation: Enhancing business performance through operational efficiency  

• Assessing business performance to adapt and remain ahead of the market  
• Streamlining core processes to work efficiently  

• Increasing transparency between staff through open communication platforms 

Claire Rogers, Chief Executive Officer, World Vision Australia 

Megan Gilmour is a social innovator who has worked on complex social and economic development operations across more than 24 countries, including in health and education. She is CEO and co-founder of MissingSchool, an Australian advocacy group for keeping seriously sick kids connected to their schools. She co-authored an Australian-first report on that subject which received a Prime Minister’s statement of support in 2015. As a Churchill Fellow, Megan studied models in six countries for connecting seriously sick kids to their education. She’s the creator of an Australian-first telepresence robot service giving two-way digital connection to students with serious illness to their classrooms, a TEDx Speaker, was a 2019 nominee for ACT Australian of the Year, and was recently awarded the 2019 ACT Telstra Business Woman of the Year in the For Purpose and Social Enterprise category. Her work is passionately driven by her experience as a mother to a young son who survived a life-threatening illness.  Presentation: Using a systems approach to drive results based management 

• The role of theory of change in uncovering evaluable interventions 

• Using catalytic mechanisms to trigger distributed results 
• Program logic and discovering your “flywheel” for momentum 
• Monitoring, evaluating and managing for results and impact 

Megan Gilmour, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, MissingSchool

Nicolas Brown is the General Manager of youth mental health charity Batyr. He is responsible for the overall operations of the organisation day to day and working closely with the Board to motivate the team to look for new opportunities and drive the strategic direction of Batyr. Nicolas sits on the Suicide Prevention Australia Policy Committee and within the Global Coalition for Youth Mental Health advisory group. Spending most of his career in the Not for Profit space Nicolas has spent time in roles both in Australia and overseas including working with asylum seekers for the Salvation Army in Naura’s Offshore Processing Centres. In 2015 Nicolas began at Batyr as the School Program Manager and was one of 6 staff members. Today Batyr has 45 permanent staff as well as a large pool of casual facilitators and speakers. Growing up in a small town has shown Nicolas the importance of community and now living in Sydney the energy and drive a big city can provide. Heading back up the coast to spend time with the family, chill out and go surfing is his idea of a good weekend. Nicolas believes everyone should be given an opportunity to succeed and often people just need someone to provide a platform for that opportunity. The team at Batyr aim to operate in a culture of positivity, balance, empathy, inclusiveness and boldness and keeping these values at the forefront of what they do has ensured they are able to maintain a focus on Batyr’s core mission and positively impact as many young Australians as possible.  Presentation: Developing a strong mission and vision for your organisation that your supporters and team will get behind 

• Identifying your organisations’ core purpose 
• Addressing gaps in your organisation to build strong foundations for success 
• Creating an effective strategy to reach your vision 

Nicolas Brown, General Manager, Batyr   

Jan is a highly regarded social entrepreneur, innovator, influencer and author who has spent the past 25 years growing Australia’s youth, social enterprise and innovation sectors. The CEO of the Foundation for Young Australians and YLab, the global youth futures lab, Jan’s lifelong mission is to unleash the potential of young people to lead positive change in the world.   Jan’s enlightening, challenging and entertaining with the aim of transforming the way society talks about and engages with young people – from treating them as a problem to be solved to recognising that young people are contributing to and driving social change.   Keynote Presentation: Creating the workforce of tomorrows demands 

• Ensuring young Australian’s have skills and experience for jobs of the future 

• Encouraging innovation to ensure economic and social progression 

Jan Owen, Chief Executive Officer, The Foundation for Young Australians  

Alison Covington is an innovator, passionate about creating change that disrupts industries, empowers communities and creates a better world. It has often been said she sees opportunities where others see problems. Her business success has become a platform for her philanthropic ideas – today, she uses her corporate expertise to benefit others and make a positive social difference as the Founder and Managing Director of Good360 Australia.  Alison’s goal is to connect $1 billion of brand-new goods to Australians who need them most.  Presentation: Optimising resources to ensure that your business gets value for money  

• Effectively using technology to cut costs and save time 
• Identifying where you’re resource poor and finding effective solutions 
• Utilising industry connections to share resources 

Alison Covington, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Good360 Australia

David Jack is Principal Advisor and CEO at Social Impact Institute, one of Australia’s leading advisory services dedicated to the social sector. He was previously CEO at Cystic Fibrosis Australia, Muscular Dystrophy Foundation, and ADRA. David was an appointed member of the Consumer and Community Advisory Committee of the National Health and Medical Research Council from 2013 to 2018. He is passionate about social justice and helping social sector organisations have an even greater impact.  Round table discussion: The benefits of a social impact framework on organisational transformation  David Jack, Chief Executive Officer, Social Impact Institute 

Driven by a determination to find purpose in her life, the simple act of rescuing good food and delivering it to people in need quickly caught on, and in 2004 OzHarvest was born. Ronni Kahn is renowned for her boundless energy, infectious enthusiasm and not taking no for an answer! Her ability to inspire and motivate everyone she meets has seen OzHarvest grow from humble beginnings to become Australia’s leading food rescue organisation. She is relentless in the fight against food waste and in 2019 she was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia. Starting a charity was not something she set out to do. As the owner of a successful event business, she saw the huge volume of food going to waste every day, in fact, she was part of the problem. Knowing that millions of people were going hungry, she knew this was something that had to be fixed. Instead of waiting for someone to come up with a solution, she did it herself. As a passionate and authentic leader, Ronni has built a dedicated team of nearly 200 staff and 2000 volunteers who reflect and share her devotion for the cause. In her own words ‘passion is contagious’. She is constantly looking for new ways to innovate her for impact organisation, from introducing educational programs, opening Australia’s first free supermarket and piloting digital technology to connect local food donors directly with charities feeding people in need. In Australia, her quest to tackle the country’s waste problem makes her a lead spokesperson when it comes to fighting food waste and protecting the planet. Appearing regularly in national media, on expert panels and in an advisory capacity to the government, she is regularly biting on Ministerial heels to goad them into action! Ronni’s personal story never fails to inspire, move and motivate people to make a difference in their own lives. She is in constant demand both on the national and international speaker circuit. Ronni will be chairing the Third Sector Live this year.