TEDx SouthBank · How to Save a Life
Social Impact · Behaviour Change · Design
Lee (he/him) is a social impact strategist working to solve complex global challenges. As Co-Founder and Director of spur: he is passionate about instigating change through innovation, design, and behaviour change.
His work is highly varied and has spanned mental health, foster care, LGBTIQ+ rights, the environment, public health, and education.
He is a strategist, speaker, writer, and facilitator.
With a background in design, every project is approached with the ethos: It stands. It works. It is beautiful.
Lee has been recognised internationally for his ground-breaking work and approach to social change and impact measurement.
He has been awarded as a Global Laureate Fellow, UNLEASH Innovation Lab Winner, Australian representative to the G20 Youth Entrepreneurship Alliance, Global Laureate Fellow, D&F Academy Global Fellow, Australian Young Social Pioneer, Queensland Digital Champion, and Young Social Entrepreneur of the year.
Lee is currently a Board Member of the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation, committee member of GiveOUT, and member of the B Well Team.
TEDx SouthBank · How to Save a Life
In 2011, Lee co-founded what is known today as spur:, a strategy, design, and venture studio focused on positively affecting human actions—and measuring the outcome.
spur: works with organisations and communities to create a world that is fair, sustainable, and well.
A profit-for-purpose business, 5% of spur:'s revenue and 20% of employee time is donated to sister NGO spur:org.
800,000 people suicide globally each year and spur:org, a DGR-1 status charity, produces multi-award-winning, mental health projects and campaigns to reduce this number by making it an easier option for people to take positive action.
How your team is feeling, while they're feeling it–and how to help.
Toucan is a platform where teams of all sizes can understand exactly how their people are feeling at any moment – without ever compromising individual privacy. When your team logs emotions in their Toucan app, the data is aggregated anonymously and shown on a manager’s Toucan Insights dashboard.
Built on powerful machine learning, Toucan uses your team’s data to instantly predict, track and support ebbs and flows in wellbeing. This shifts the focus for businesses from collecting information, to improving their team’s wellbeing at work.
What would you to say a future version of you or someone else?
Future Postbox is a free platform that allows people to write letters which are sent 12 months later.
Some use it as for goal tracking, others as a time-capsule of memories. Some use it to say things are too hard to express face-to-face, and others just as a laugh.
The Clockmaker is a children's novel trilogy that explores life, death, and grief.
The Clockmaker follows the adventures of Ethan and his Dad through the magical world of Viik. That is, until Ethan's Dad dies, taking with him the portal to Viik. How can Ethan get back to Viik and face the one person who might be able to bring his dad back, The Clockmaker.
To be a beta reader of book one of The Clockmaker, click the link below:
UNLEASH · 123+
Good Design Award
Good Design Award
Good Design award for co-designed communication platform, Dovetail, for elder Australians (spur:)
→Gold Inclusion & Silver Health Award
Gold Inclusion & Silver Health Award
Global innovation lab to action the UN's Sustainable Development Goals in Singapore.
→Community Digital Champion
Community Digital Champion
Recognition for helping improve Queensland’s digital literacy and digital adoption.
→UNLEASH+ Winner
UNLEASH+ Winner
Accelerator competition in support of LGBTIQ+ capacity building project, 123+
→Australian Representative
Australian Representative
Australian representative at the global summit in Buenos Aires to further the sector.
→Good Design Award
Good Design Award
Good Design award for social isolation reduction campaign, #OLDMATE (spur:org)
→Young Australians on the 'Cusp of Greatness'
Young Australians on the 'Cusp of Greatness'
One of 20 young social entrepreneurs named to be on "the cusp of greatness"
→Global Laureate Fellow
Global Laureate Fellow
Youth leaders selected through a partnership between the Sylvan / Laureate Foundation and the International Youth Foundation.
→Impact 25 Award Finalist
Impact 25 Award Finalist
Recognition of contribution to the Australian not-for-profit and social sector and the wider community.
→Brisbane Top Young Social Entrepreneur
Brisbane Top Young Social Entrepreneur
The Young Entrepreneur Awards recognises Brisbane's top business founders.
→AMP Tomorrowmaker
AMP Tomorrowmaker
AMP's Tomorrow Fund supports Australian Changemakers across a wide range of fields.
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