I'm passionate about helping people & organisations to: • harness data science & AI • engage research, new knowledge & methods, across diverse disciplines • translate knowledge into opportunities for creating value, solutions, & impact for people, planet & prosperity As a "key-shaped" professional, with a depth & breadth of education & (cross-sector) experience, I'm adept at: systems & strategic thinking; connecting ideas & people across domains & sectors; enabling others; ideation & creative problem-solving; shaping opportunities; building mutually beneficial stakeholder relationships; public speaking; & creating new value, innovations & ventures. As a passionate & supportive people-person & driven doer, I deliver value & help enable people to make great ideas manifest. I bring: • post-grad qualifications (science, law & business), awards & training (patent & trade mark attorney; commercialisation) • professional experience across sectors & roles (e.g., scientist; IP attorney (managing global portfolios + famous sports/tech brands); business consultant (health, innovation, entrepreneurship, environment, CE); researcher (science; digital economy, innovation & entrepreneurship); university lecturer (MBA entrepreneurship & business); startup/accelerator mentor; marketing manager; BD; stakeholder engagement; & research translation & • innovation & entrepreneurship/intrapreneurship experience, pursued in parallel to a F/T professional career, growing initiatives both within & external to my organisations, for profit & positive impact. As industry engagement manager for data sciences at QUT (the Australian Data Science Network lead), -I help enable partnerships, R&D, knowledge transfer, innovation & commercialisation, linking frontier research(ers) w/ government, industry, startups & nonprofits, to solve problems, inform decisions, grow capabilities, & create value & impact -led BD for National Sports Data Science Hub My other work: • co-founder of innovative, award-winning social enterprise & STEM program Bionauts (to educate & empower school students to discover & protect biodiversity, & publish novel genetic life code sequences, & help herald a revolution in biology) • volunteer executive of Hacking Health QLD, activating a health ecosystem to innovate & improve health • mentor entrepreneurs/startups My “key shaped” capabilities are advantageously applied to big-picture & future thinking, innovation, adaptation to change, & a transdisciplinary approach (bringing together diverse expertise) to solve problems & create value