Matt has been a purpose-driven leader for over 20 years — founding a number of social startups, working as an organisational development consultant, catalysing many cross-sector collaborative initiatives, as well as leading a number of impact organisations. He understands the synergy between purpose, strategic design and rapid commercial prototyping — as well as the broad collaboration needed across multiple sectors to achieve outcomes of significant scale.

Matt is the co-founder of the Social Capital initiative – a large scale collaboration venture involving over 800 companies, impact organisations, investors, government agencies and universities – working together to advance the new ‘social economy’.

He is also a consultant and strategy designer, working with innovative companies and startups across Australia to create blended social and economic value – including working as the Social Entrepreneur in Residence for the global design agency Business Models Inc.