Lee Crockford (He/Him) is a freelance social impact advisor and non-executive director working to solve complex global challenges through co-design, impact measurement, and behaviour change. His work spans mental health, education, arts, environment, technology, and justice across private, public, and non-profit sectors.

Lee is providing ongoing, bi-annual check-ins with the Pride Cup leadership team to review and analyse progress against metrics and effectiveness of their strategic goals.

The Social Story is a socially-led marketing agency helping purpose-driven businesses share their story. We are focused on creating meaningful content, connecting with your audiences and maximising your impact.

Tiff provided mentoring in a deep-dive 1:1 session with the Kaleidoscope team to brainstorm strategic opportunities to maximise engagement with intended audiences.

I am an exploratory leader and strategist with over twenty years’ experience working in the community, health, mental health, suicide prevention and commercial sectors. As we all have a unique contribution to make, I prioritise listening and learning from others so together we can progress the complex challenges facing society. I thrive when we integrate those perspectives with the latest evidence, and collectively consider the question “How might we make things better?”.

Andrew provided ongoing mentoring to Iceberg with their strategy and financial model.

Anastasia Rose Le is a seasoned leader in LGBTIQA+ advocacy, whose work also expands in forcibly displaced, domestic and intimate violence. Anastasia is passionate about challenging systemic barriers to provide platforms for voices are not heard. She is a Joyster, an advisory member for Transfemme; a contributing writer of Nothing to Hide. She is also a returning judge for Victorian Pride Awards. One of her current projects is focusing on building inclusive network to assist and support people of intersectionality obtain and sustain employment. The other is providing safety strategies for diverse people in Victorian Western metro regions. She’s started her HrT journey since September 2015 and has not looked back!

Anastasia provided coaching and mentoring to Access Advocacy to address knowledge gaps about gender diverse communities.

The Social Story is a socially-led marketing agency helping purpose-driven businesses share their story. We are focused on creating meaningful content, connecting with your audiences and maximising your impact.

The Social Story Co. created a bespoke LinkedIn Strategy to help support The Equality Project's work—not only for the conference, but well into the future.

Pride by Side builds the capacity of LGBTIQ+ initiatives by pairing them with experts that can provide support, skilling, and knowledge.

Pride by Side developed an extremely comprehensive approach to outcomes framework which considered existing government approaches, community expectations, and the ability to adequately gather relevant data.

Pillar Initiative’s mission is to connect university students with non-profits in need of digital marketing solutions.

Pillar connected university students with The Equality to help design and create social media content in both the lead-up and during the conference.

Elisabeth (she/her) is a UX Designer with a background of many hats, including educator, program manager, and community organiser. Elisabeth's work has spanned the US, Germany, and Australia, where she has led and designed intercultural education programs, community engagement trainings, and other social impact initiatives. Currently, her work explores how UX frameworks can support queer community organizing efforts, particularly volunteer-run and low-funding groups. She's a member of the Sydney Bi+ Network leadership team.

Elisabeth conducted an accessibility audit of the current site, facilitated user interviews to understand the positives and pain points of the current site, created a survey to better understand the needs and habits of people interacting with LGBTQIA+ policy content, researched competitor sites to identify standard layouts, reviewed WCAG (web content accessibility guidelines) and made recommendations for three WordPress templates that encompassed Alastair’s work and goals for the site.

“Marriage For All Japan” aims to realize a society in which everyone has the freedom to choose whether to marry or remain unmarried, regardless of their legal sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity.

Pride by Side introduced Trillium to Marriage for All Japan—the leading voice for marriage equality in Japan. They are now collaborating on a range of fronts to engage additional companies and support each others' work.

Love Frankie is a social and behaviour change communication (SBCC) agency that designs innovative campaigns, creative content and social impact programs addressing critical social and development issues across the Asia Pacific region. We strive to ultimately improve people’s lives and positively impact their knowledge, attitudes and behaviours to create sustainable social change. We specialise in the creation of authentic, engaging and emotionally driven content and initiatives that inspire action.

Love Frankie provided mentoring and coaching on a range of sponsorship engagement topics including identification, materials, packaging, and processes

Pride by Side builds the capacity of LGBTIQ+ initiatives by pairing them with experts that can provide support, skilling, and knowledge.

Olivia Roney, on behalf of Pride by Side, presented at Sonder HQ as part of IDAHOT—outlining some of the realities, challenges, successes, and pride of LGBTIQ+ communities.

The Social Story is a socially-led marketing agency helping purpose-driven businesses share their story. We are focused on creating meaningful content, connecting with your audiences and maximising your impact.

Tiff from The Social Story Co. provided a range of tips and areas to improve on. She helped refine concise message and to help define Kingston's key audiences.

Supriya Panchangam has close to 15 years of experience in building partnerships, brand development and project management. Over the last decade, she has helped enterprises in their formative stages to acquire their first key customers, set up operations and find the right talent.

Supriya provided helped Spot to Flow explore core challenges an opportunities available to them—helping to hone their positioning and approach to potential corporate partners.

The Equality Project is a national LGBTIQA+ charity bringing together LGBTIQA+ people and allies to promote a better, more just, and fairer society for all Australians.

The Equality Project provided guidance on grant writing and funding, and conducted a retrospective-style workshop to assist their small team in pinpointing challenges and devising actionable solutions.

Sam is a values driven lawyer by training, with an analytical and strategic mind. She has spent over twenty three years working for blue chip multinational consumer digital media and technology businesses in Europe and the Asia Pacific region. Sam is widely considered a subject matter expert on the regulatory issues affecting the Internet and social media and sensitively build coalitions to advocate on cutting edge policy.

Sam provided coaching and perspectives on how to identify relevant stakeholders and devise strategies to more effectively engage them.

Lee Crockford (He/Him) is a freelance social impact advisor and non-executive director working to solve complex global challenges through co-design, impact measurement, and behaviour change. His work spans mental health, education, arts, environment, technology, and justice across private, public, and non-profit sectors.

Lee provided feedback and perspectives on some of the challenges OUT Wellbeing were facing during their pilot phases and offered advice on impact model, behaviour change theory, and cultural testing.

David describes himself as a ‘generalist’ with a breadth of experiences across his non-profit career. He has held leadership positions in community services, business development, commercialisation, fundraising, policy, and research. His current day job is as part of the philanthropy team leading the corporate giving strategy at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). David also serves as Director on the Board of GiveOUT and is involved in other voluntary-led networks as an adviser such as, Fundraise for Australia and is a member of the LGBTIQ+ Strategy Group at QUT.

David is providing several coaching sessions on donor engagement and working closely with InsideOUT to help them develop a novel approach.

Gigi established Instinct Organisational Development in 1998 in response to many not for profit and 'for purpose' organisations requesting assistance with ensuring the viability and development of their businesses.

Instinct provided coaching and mentoring on how to think about, explore, and test resourcing models as an unincorporated entity.

Pride by Side builds the capacity of LGBTIQ+ initiatives by pairing them with experts that can provide support, skilling, and knowledge.

Pride by Side supported Google.org and its funded orgs with capacity building support in myriad ways including an intensive 2-day workshop, year-long mentoring, and ongoing matching with relevant experts.

David Berthold is one of Australia's most prominent theatre directors and cultural leaders. As a theatre director, he has directed for most of Australia's major theatres companies, as well as in London and Berlin. As an artistic director, he has led transformational changes at several significant arts organisations. As Artistic Director in Residence at NIDA since January 2020, he leads artistic planning, including the curation of the 2020 Digital Theatre Festival of six major interactive new works made for various digital platforms, and partnerships with organisations such as XR studio, New Canvas.

David is providing coaching on how to best consider and approach board recruitment in the arts sector.

Monitoring Evaluation and Learning expert with 15 years experience in international development. Working closely at intersection of data collection and analysis with technology. Focus on information systems and tools to improve management efficiency and decision making - passionate about good data visualization!

As an expert in impact metrics, Chris has agreed to support the LGBTQ DVA Foundation in identifying key metrics and methodologies to accurately and consistently gather appropriate data.

Cadent is a strategic digital and technology consultancy with a mission to make the maximum positive impact on the future of humanity.

Cadent is providing 12 months mentoring—supporting and validating Spot the Flow's user-centred approach.

As a senior executive with over 20 years’ experience in policy and change, my drive comes from work that involves understanding complex public policy challenges, synthesising evidence and information, and working with stakeholders to achieve practical and effective solutions. I am passionate about diversity in leadership and governance and I live these values in my work and life. As a leader I am respected for my strategic thinking and decision making; and developing and maintaining a positive team culture. In my board roles, I am valued by peers for my collegiate nature, my governance skills, critical thinking, knowledge and understanding of Government and effective policy implementation,.

Alison provided advice on considerations when putting together a board, how to identify potential directors, and examples of organisations and relevant documents (constitutions, board charters etc) so that PFLGA didn't need to start from scratch.