Community Support

Advocacy & Philanthropy Experience

As a firm believer that everyone should have the opportunity to unleash their potential, Louise is an active advocate for disability inclusion, child & women’s rights, climate action, poverty alleviation, and equitable health care access. Louise is also dedicated to justice, rights and respect for Australia's First Nations Peoples.

Disability advocate

  • Author of book “A Different Kind of Brilliant” promoting power of neurodiversity (with percentage of sales donated to ASPECT)

  • Film Producer of the award winning “Brilliant” promoting power of neurodiversity

  • Executive sponsor for World Vision’s disability campaign and “Road to Kasama” Documentary with and Dylan Alcott AO, a Paralympian and former Australian of the Year and the Dylan Alcott Foundation

  • Advisory Group Member for Aspect Research Priorities project (group received an industry award for community engagement)

  • ‘Run for Autism’ participant (marathon distance)

  • Parent / Carer of the year nomination – ASPECT

Women’s Rights advocate

  • Employed as part of World Vision’s VisionFund initiative in Cambodia and focused on delivering microfinance for female poverty alleviation

  • Executive owner of the 1,000 girls campaign for World Vision Australia

  • Executive owner of Strong Women Strong World for World Vision Australia

  • Mentor and speaker at International Women’s Day

  • Women in leadership speaker & group leader at World Vision Australia

  • Fundraiser for Mary’s House and Women and Girls Emergency Centre supporting women and families escape family violence

  • Fundraiser for Dress for Success

  • Mentor for The Orbispace Initiative (organisation set to empower the next generation of Australian female innovators)

Health advocate

  • Board Director for SDECC, a Not for Profit organisation which specialises in providing free counselling and support for young people aged 12 -25 with problematic alcohol and other drugs (AOD) use and their families across the Northern Sydney region

  • CEO Dare to Cure participant (for Children’s Cancer Research)

  • Participant in Think Tank on Redefining the Menopause Era (changing the conversation around menopause so women get the information they need and the healthcare they deserve at all stages of life)

  • Event organiser of Pink Ribbon breakfast for National Breast Cancer Foundation

  • Fundraiser for McGrath Foundation

  • Crisis Counsellor for Salvation Army Crisis Counselling Support

Environmental advocate

  • Executive sponsor of the Climate program (FMNR) for World Vision Australia

  • Employed by Green Energy as a Marketing Consultant in Vietnam (short term fixed contract working on market modelling for biofuels project)

  • Completed Essentials in Sustainability, Stanford University

Australian First Nations People advocate

Other causes