“Never saying no” and “that looks interesting” are probably the two things that have guided the almost 30 years of my business journey. From co-founding a small partnership, Nyumba Goori Studies Consultancy, in 1994 back on country with Yugambeh sista Lisa Buxton teaching Goori studies across the Tweed and Northern Rivers, to creating a niche educational publisher Blacklines Publications in the late 1990s, and now running a creative, training and technology project agency Iscariot Media, My journey has been driven by curiosity and adventure.

In addition to business, I am committed to serving community. Over the past three decades I’ve sat on a number of boards of local Aboriginal organisations, including Kooemba Jdarra Performing Arts Inc, NWAICA: North West Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Association, Meeanjin Drug and Alcohol Treatment Association. I’ve served as a volunteer board member of the South East Queensland Indigenous Chamber of Commerce, two terms (4 years) as a non-Executive Director of Viscopy, the Visual Artists Copyright Agency.

I’m a member of the Queensland Government’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Business and Innovation Reference Group. I co-founded Black Coffee Indigenous Business Networking and Indigenous Business Month.

I am a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. I currently hold a fractional appointment as Associate Professor of Practice - Indigenous Business at QUT Business School.