CEO / Adjunct A.ProfessorFamily Life / Swinburne University Centre for Social Impact
Jo has worked for the community since 1976, as a social work practitioner, researcher, consultant, manager, leader and social entrepreneur. Her passion is the wellbeing of children. At Family Life, Jo has led a program of change and organisational growth to promote volunteering and community involvement, and to expand effective services, support and connections which empower sustained transformational change for vulnerable families, children and young people. Strategic priorities include developing the organisational learning culture as the foundation for research and evaluation efforts to measure outcomes, and to project the social and financial impact for systems and social change. She believes the path to increased social wellbeing for all will be paved by innovation, enterprise and impact investment.
Jo has held various leadership roles aligned to influencing policy and practice for promoting the well-being of children, families and communities and was recognised for her contribution to the community in 2013 with an Order of Australia and received the Women of Influence Award for Social Enterprise / Not For Profits in 2014.