SiiWA’s Advisory Team is made up of people actually making a real difference in Western Australia thought their project’s and organisation’s. The goal of the Advisory Team is to advise on what is needed on the ground to make a real difference and provide support for Social Entrepreneurs.
Andrew Outhwaite
Andrew spent four years working in Europe on leadership development for emerging leaders, facilitating low-carbon cultures within corporations, training sustainability practitioners in creative and holistic approaches to their work, researching and publishing on the role of coaching in sustainability and consulting to community enterprises and social entrepreneurs.
Andrew’s passions are creating the conditions for communities to make decisions and take action for the health of the whole. His current roles include leading sustainability policy, strategy and projects in local government, and as founder of Pollinators Inc. Pollinators Inc is a social business focused on creating the physical, social, and institutional spaces for entrepreneurs, organisations to better connect with the skills and resources they need to do social good.
David Bagheri
David has a background in Community Development, specifically working in urban communities in Sydney for seven years, spearheading new projects with the homeless, large scale renovation projects involving thousands of volunteers and other socially innovative initiatives in some of the most disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Sydney.
David is now the State Manager for Many Rivers Opportunities, an innovative microenterprise development organisation working with aspiring Indigenous entrepreneurs providing support and access to micro finance. David is applying his project management and leadership skills to help create positive social outcomes through economic development.
Claire Vanderplank
Claire has a background in health and Aboriginal health promotion, but always had a passion for environmental conservation and sustainability. It became clear that social and environmental problems were deeply enmeshed. As the enormity of the challenge posed by climate change revealed itself, it was impossible for Claire not to try to do something about it. So, over a period of time, the social enterprise, Cycling for Cohesion, was developed.
When Claire got back to WA she started a Masters in Sustainability Studies and soon made the transition to the electricity sector and is now a Sustainability Assessment and Community Engagement Consultant. Areas of interest are the use of public participation and deliberative processes to inform public policy and decision making, development of active citizenship and creative models of innovation and governance.
