Lee Crockford

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-Team's Australasian mental health panel.

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.

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Mental health isn’t just a human problem, it’s a trillion dollar business problem.

Poor mental wellbeing costs the global economy more than US$1T each year to lost productivity, absenteeism, workplace claims, staff turnover, and a range of other contributing factors.

Toucan is a digital platform that allows businesses, NGOs, governments, and interest groups to understand how their people are feeling at any moment in time.

Toucan is built on powerful machine learning that helps predict and track changes in team wellbeing, as well as providing personalised support to individuals’ needs.

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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.

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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:

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