Tim founded Australia’s first corporate coworking community, The Village in Melbourne for National Australia Bank’s small business customers and community partners, now with over 2500 members. He is an active supporter and researcher of coworking, social impact and innovation ecosystems, and is a lead mentor and ambassador with the Sydney Genesis Startup Program at the University of Sydney Business School. He is also a 2013 Fellow with the Centre for Sustainability Leadership.

As a Catalyst with the League of Intrapreneurs, Tim supports and helps connect a local and global network of professionals leading system change and social impact from within our largest organisations and institutions. Tim is in the final stages of completing his PhD at the University of Sydney where he is exploring new ways of working with purpose in large organisations, and how individuals can drive change and innovation from the fringes of our workplaces.

Nicola Lambert was formally trained as a Printmaker in Limerick School of Art and Design, Ireland. She has been involved in the Arts and Community sector over the past 11 years in various roles, in both Ireland and Australia. She’s a practicing community artist who works in print, textiles, oil paint, assemblage and installation. She’s the founder and director of Create & Sow Community Art Interventions. Create and Sow mission to provide an outlet for creative community involvement, while seeking to produce high-quality artwork, installations and interventions through art-making, participation and exposure. 

Nicola has been the key artist and creative producer of Studio Connect Canberra for the past 5 years. Studio Connect is a group of Canberra artists living with a disability or mental health issues; creating individual and collaborative artwork responding to Canberra and their personal stories. Her aim is to raise awareness of the presence of professional artists with disabilities working in Australia. Create & Sow will assist artists in pursuing their dream of creating and sharing their art with the local and national arts communities.

Over the past year, Nicola has poured her energy into establishing Sullivan Trail. Sullivans Trail is a public and history project developed to engage the community with the waterways through Canberra. Linking ‘Our Mountains to Our Lake’  through the creation of a cultural and creative corridor. Celebrate and strengthen cultural heritage and promote a wider understanding of the culture of indigenous and non-indigenous communities through stories collecting and place activation along the route. This project gives us the opportunity to thread people, places, animals and birds and plants, landforms and weather into a single spool.  A cultural and art trail for our visitors to explore, for our residence to travel through and engage with, creating public ‘places of the soul’ that uplift and help us connect with people and places.

Emma runs the Source Bulk Food store with her husband Rowan. She is a passionate ‘zero waster’ who saw an opportunity in Canberra to offer a plastic-free alternative to the pantry and household shopping 3 years ago.

Emma is also the Founder of Life. Done by Design, where she combines her extensive experience as a corporate educator in both private and public organisations with her love of teaching and passion for personal development. With a Bachelor of Arts (Major in Psychology), Graduate Certificate in Education (Adult) and Masters In Knowledge Management, Emma has a love of lifelong learning.

Edwina Robinson is a Landscape Architect and Founder of the social enterprise, The Climate Factory. She works with urban communities to design and plant urban micro-forests that cool the landscape, create habitat, enhance well-being and provide hope for the future.

In 2020, work on the Downer micro-forest started and focused on building great soil and water harvesting followed by community planting of climate-ready native species. Edwina lived in Canberra’s inner north until 2019 and helped establish the Dickson, Lyneham and Banksia St, O’Connor wetlands and the Birdscaping project on David St, O’Connor.

Irene is a performing artist with 20 years’ experience touring in regional NSW. She has worked with a variety of professionals including Academics, International NGO teams, Executives, Project Leaders, and State and Federal Departments to add value through an arts-based lens. Irene is also an award-winning Startup founder, a Country Music Comedian, and a social enterprise development manager. As a grant writing specialist, Irene has worked with clients to apply for funding from UN Women, the European Union, DFAT/AusAID, Create NSW, Regional Arts NSW, Jobs for NSW, and philanthropic foundations, among others.

Creative business start-ups and tech start-ups face a range of issues, particularly in regional communities. Challenges with turning ideas into reality are just one of them but with support from an experienced advisor, plus the revenue-raising strategies that may enable founders to access vital financial assistance, your creative industry start-up or tech innovation can improve its opportunities to achieve sustainable success. Irene’s years of experience has helped a diverse range of 400+ start-up creative businesses in various sectors across rural, remote and regional NSW benefit from successful funding raises of more than $40 million AUD.

As an ideas-maker and innovation specialist, Irene has mentored more than 1000 entrepreneurs to build viable ventures through a combined focus of learning-by-doing and undertaking accredited qualification pathways that help them understand the theory behind the practical action required to turn unique ideas into viable – and often thriving – business ventures.

Assisting regional, rural, and remote communities to access specialist business advisory guidance that nurtures community development and First Nation cultural preservation is just a couple of Irene’s professional passions. Creative thinking and problem-solving skills benefit from critical thinking, plus the ability to design and implement strategic sales campaigns that ensure business ideas gain the traction they need to survive and perform well. When brilliant ideas meet economic opportunities? That’s when the magic happens…

Bec Taylor is a committed educator and has dedicated her life to bringing more joy to Canberra through building a music community. 

The Bec Taylor School of Music’s mission is to redefine music education, one impassioned student at a time. The school is focused on providing modern music education and a nurturing music community that goes beyond the typical one-on-one tuition offered by many music schools in Canberra and includes the flagship Bandmates program for playing in a band, a weekly free masterclass program and kids classes. 

Now with over 300 weekly students, 17 inspiring teachers and growing group learning opportunities, the Bec Taylor School of Music aims to provide a springboard for our students to play music for life or join the Australian music industry as professional and creative performers.

Wendy Moore (OAM) is an artist and teacher who celebrates creativity and colour and encourages the creative spirit in everyone! 

She believes jewellery can make hearts sing and supports jewellery-making groups internationally, transforming the lives of vulnerable women. While Wendy now lives in Canberra, she has lived in regional and outback Australia and Nepal. In non-pandemic times you will regularly find her boarding a plane with a stash of polymer tools under one arm and a tonne of clay under the other.  

Since a dramatic life change 15 years ago, Wendy has been making her own art and using the medium of polymer clay to help people to tap into their innate creativity. In Australia, Wendy’s students have fun and make gorgeous stuff. In Nepal, her students have fun, make gorgeous stuff and sell that stuff to escape lives of violence. Wendy is one of the artists in TROVE Canberra (located in Dickson) and has exhibited at the Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery and been featured in several international publications including Polymer Clay: Global Perspectives. 

He is also a writer, videomaker, trainer, under the banner Phil Up On Science.

He has written for Cosmos, New Scientist and the American Physical Society, and been selected for the Anthology of Best Australian Science Writing three times.