Our board

Jane Hunt (Chair) - Jane is an innovative and results driven social change leader who has dedicated her career to empowering people to improve the world. Jane’s contribution to advancing social innovation has received international recognition by the Schwab Foundation who honoured her work and thought leadership with a global Social Entrepreneur Award. In Australia, Jane’s work to strengthen businesses and communities has been recognised through the Victorian Telstra Business Women's Award and the Melbourne Business 3000 Award for Community Innovation. Jane was the founding CEO of the Front Project, and has a BA (Hons), MA (Hons) and Masters in Business Leadership, and is a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Adrian Sculthorpe - Adrian is a Palawa man with a lifelong commitment to improving outcomes for Aboriginal people. His work experiences include a diverse range of leadership and operational roles that span the government, community and corporate sectors – with a focus on ensuring that services are culturally inclusive and effective.

Gary Powell - Gary is a Senior Advisor in Empowered Communities supporting the National Leadership group, the national team and the ten regional Empowered Communities regions around the country. He has a high achieving history in the community or non-government sectors and various boards, prior to his public sector and Indigenous organisations experience including the establishment of a welfare rights and legal centre, community housing and community based employment programs. He was a Senior Executive in the Australian Public Service for many years, and has led and managed teams covering policies and programs including Australian NGOs, Business Engagement, Australia’s international volunteers’ program, aged care assessment, school equity programs, youth and employment and regional PM&C among others.

Kerry Graham - Kerry has worked in social impact for over 20 years where she has built the capacity of communities, corporations, governments, philanthropy and non-profit organisations to drive large-scale social change through collaboration and systems change. Kerry has held executive roles in national non-profits; and advised governments on social policy. She holds qualifications in public policy, law, social work, and community management. Kerry is a co-founder of CFI.

Kyrstie Dunn - Kyrstie has been building organisations (and programs within these) that build capacities in leaders for transformational leadership to address complex social change and for enabling collaborative initiatives and systems change endeavours, for the last 15 years. These programs built capacity in individuals, teams, organisations, cross-sectoral groups of leaders and ultimately collectives with systems change agendas. Kyrstie believes deeply in the opportunity and power of movements and collectives to create a better future now and for future generation.

Morgan Cataldo - For the past 15+ years, Morgan has been developing and advocating for participatory practice and peer education as essential levers for creating true, lasting, powershifting systemic change in services for historically excluded communities. Her commitment and passion stems from her own intimate lived experience of service systems. Morgan is the the Founder and Principal Consultant of morgan&co (‘co’ for collective), where she advises, coaches, and consults with organisations both in Australia and internationally. These organisations seek to understand the role of power in their everyday work, and how to design more meaningful policies, programs and services through partnering with people with lived/living experience and expertise relevant to their purpose. Morgan holds a degree in Social Science and is a Visiting Fellow of the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University.

Regina Hill - Regina has worked as a consultant for over 15 years, globally and through her own consulting practices Effective Consulting and Effective Philanthropy. Regina has a blend of organisational governance, strategy, operations, change management, research and evaluation experience. Regina is a longstanding member of the CFI Network.

Sean Leong - Sean has run some of Australia’s most innovative and fastest growing companies. In 2019, he helped build a community-led social enterprise that won the “Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific” award. Sean has held senior roles in finance and tech companies, having worked in Asia, United States and the UK. Sean specialises in risk, commercial contracts and community-driven systems change. He is a CPA with Commerce and Law degrees.