Level 15, Corporate Centre One,
2 Corporate Court, Bundall
QLD Australia 4217
+61 7 3096 0507
Level 15,
Corporate Centre One,
2 Corporate Court,
Bundall QLD Australia 4217
CHIEF COMMUNITY OFFICER
NEUROLENS: EMPATHY
LEVEL OF SCALE: COMMUNITY
AUSTRALIA
Ex-fireman, online community builder, and international bowling coach in multiple capacities, serving as the National Coach to the UAE and Brunei bowling teams, and also worked as Coaching Advisor to the South African Bowling Congress, conducting coaching clinics in most major cities. Presented an elite youth coaching clinic at the Australian Institute of Sport and conducted coaching and instructional clinics in China. Read more…
My teamwork philosophies have helped me to coach and produce national and international World Champions, enabling me to share my love of self-belief through sport. I have always been dedicated to clear communication, positive social support, and knowledge mobilisation in the pursuit of excellence. My personal sporting success as a young man was highlighted in being awarded Club-man of the Year at the age of 16, and from then onwards I was committed to passing on knowledge and experience through teams, communities, companies and countries. I also established a bowling centre in Canberra as General manager and I operated for over a decade as General Manager of the Oz Tenpin Bowling Group in Melbourne.
The grit, comradery and dedication to human values that I first developed as a fireman in the NSW Fire Brigade for 5 years has featured as an enduring theme in my personal, coaching and work relations. I believe we need close relationships with those who know us and believe in us to lift us up, and this is best obtained by service to the communities we belong to. Personal excellence is a direction, not a place, and it is distributed through families, groups and organisations so we can all rise together.
After years gaining executive and financial management experience as an Operational Manager for Red Rooster and State Manager for Kellogg Australia, I returned to my passion of servicing communities through my love of team connection and radical empathy to unlock personal potential.
I learnt many lessons during the Crypto Summer of 2013 to 2017 when I helped coach a global team designing a community-led, decentralised, online marketplace using digital currencies. During this spate of projects in Australia and Europe, I gained exposure to the importance of ethical platform architecture and secure data handling, as well as a great appreciation of identity verification and digital wallets, specifically with Know Your Customer (KYC) regulations and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance which keeps us all safe when earning a living online. I developed two core convictions that drive me to this day with the diverse Neuro Brain Trust, dispersed across 20+ countries, that I now help lead: I developed a strong concern for those on the other side of the great technological divide, building an awareness of technology literacy as a human right and a cornerstone in bringing equitable access to the unbanked and marginalised. And I developed a passionate insight into how distributed communities, decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs), open technologies, Holacratic project design, and blockchain innovation can balance the transparency and privacy concerns of communities, thereby empowering people from all walks of life in a safe and educating environment.
I am inspired daily by the kindest person I know, my partner, and by my 3 children and 9 grandchildren and 1 great grandchild who I see creating a better world before my eyes. I have witnessed how people blossom when they are making lasting contributions to their homes, communities, and countries, and I am personally most inspired when working with a great team I can count on as we achieve shared goals together.
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
NEUROLENS: LOGIC
LEVEL OF SCALE: FAMILY
AUSTRALIA
Senior Program and Project Management partner with a focus on DevOps, quality assurance, risk management, and systems improvements with internal and external stakeholders. Extensive background in high-level administration and business systems development across public health, not-for-profit, and local government sectors, including in economic development and investment, and operating project budgets of £10+ million. Read more…
I have a passion towards streamlining the integration of development and operations teams to erode barriers to successful design, development, deployment and support of products. My experience in bio-innovation and research and development has provided me with a unique insight into the science lifecycle, from administering Scientific Affairs, Research and Education in a children’s and women’s hospital in Canada, to developing internal systems for health-related products and technologies in UK.
I know that positive social support begins in the home, supporting one’s mental health and capacity for engagement in family environments, and that wellbeing on a micro level then ripples out to the companies that healthy people work for, and the macro economies they support. My background spans the state rollout of structures for in-home health programs, to working in local government on issues of inward economic development.
Over the past decade of I have worked as a senior manager in Contracts and Health Service Delivery at Diabetes NSW & ACT, Australia’s oldest and largest not-for-profit organisation focused on providing support and services nationally to people with diabetes, their families, carers, friends and allied health professionals. I ensured government compliance with the National Diabetes Services Scheme (NDSS), managed teams of health professionals across 6 sites to ensure timely program delivery, and was lead contact for ISO 9001 audit. I led the Health Service Delivery team for the Registered Training Organisation (RTO) set-up committee, meeting the requirements to deliver and assess nationally recognised training and accreditation. This experience has served me well to currently lead in the development of Neuro Academy, our accreditation and identity verification services, and in open communication with the teams of health professionals and scientists we consult in our ecosystem build.
I have been successfully involved in implementing long lasting change for vulnerable people on a national level because I believe that change needs to be attained organically through the pillars of education support, scientific validation, compliance, and systems integrity. I have worked within a national health team to produce a report on safe and supported environments for children in schools and preschools in Australia, and have implemented health programs for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities.
My background is Ukrainian/Russian. I pride myself on being a no nonsense, straight-forward communicator, demonstrating that values are proved by actions and that honesty in work practices is an intrinsic and often-overlooked part of the public having trust in those they do business with. I think that in today’s ever increasing digital world, an individual’s right to democracy and privacy is more important than ever. I appreciate that protecting people’s data is becoming harder and harder, and that it takes fortified efforts of an ethics-driven team to prioritise people over the valuable commodity that some business models consider them to be.
I believe family is more important than work, and companies that foster a humancentric outlook and practice flexibility for staff to spend more quality time with their families improve the output and wellbeing of the company as a whole, bringing fresh and balanced outlooks to ecosystem architecture and agile business models based on open strategy. My passion for sustainable business is inspired by my dedication to sustainable living in rural Australia where I keep bees, make natural soaps, and have an organic orchard that I tend to with my family and friends.
FOUNDER & CHIEF VISION OFFICER
NEUROLENS: LIVING SYSTEMS
LEVEL OF SCALE: HUMANITY
AUSTRALIA
Psychological scientist (BPsychSc) and systems thinker with a focus on neuroethical mental models, schemas, and reference frames, and the roles they play in cognition, reasoning and decision-making.
I worked for the Dalai Lama for three years helping mobilise knowledge through events about wisdom and compassion with a focus on security, accreditation and national security, where I also helped to manage over 500+ values-aligned volunteers. My fields of interest are neuroethics, sociotechnical systems, life improvement science, collective intelligence, connectivism, play therapy, evolutionary parenting, holographic theory, and medical benefits of psilocybin. I am passionate about barter networks, fair tokenisation of energy, and reciprocal trade. My interest in new monetary models extends as far as their different impacts on the stress circuits of the human brain, and also, into ways to disrupt the human bias towards ‘growth without limits’ with its persisting mental models of shortage versus the sustainable mental models of Earth-based cultures.
Before discovering my love of psychology and science, I spent years in national media communications exploring ethical ways of disseminating information to large audiences, and then worked as a state project administrator building the technological infrastructure that supports massive data networks. My exposure to communications rollouts on a nationwide level is what infused me with respect for businesses that operate to a balanced triple bottom line of personal development, ecosystem health and economical benefit, weighing motives for social, ecological and profit-based gains equally.
I’m a member of ForHumanity, dedicated to the advancement of independent audits of A.I. and autonomous systems to mitigate risk in areas of ethics, bias, privacy, trust, and cybersecurity. I have studied relational maps capturing real-world social networks based on metrics analyses. This has helped me develop a special interest area in the fractal similarities between healthy connective networks across multiple levels of scale, from neuroplasticity and neural networks through to the global worldwide web. My recognition of patterns within healthy systems has emerged into a daily passion for finding the collective hacks and leverage points that can bring social balance to the multiple systems we are each and all part of – so that the families, communities, businesses and lands we belong to can work in unison with us and our cognitions in our everyday lives.
As a strategist, I run a psychological consultancy from the green forests of the Northern Rivers region of Australia, mentoring medical professionals and presenting lectures about emotional intelligence, verbal reasoning, decision-making, situational judgement, and communication skills, with a focus on neuropsychology and reference frames that enable change and understanding. In my psychological work, I help complex people find simple mental models that work best to meet their cognitive goals in performing high pressure tasks or encoding large amounts of detailed information. I am co-author of the textbook Interview Techniques that encourages the use of authentic schemas to prepare for tertiary medical entry, and have worked alongside my colleagues in neuroscience and neuroethics to produce the Neuro position paper, ‘Can neuroethicists save the internet?’ In my spare time, I have been co-creating a training program called How to Be a Doctor that uses neurobiological knowledge across multiple levels of scale to elicit empowerment, empathy and achievement in aspiring doctors.
I am Singaporean-Australian and learnt much from my Taoist mother. As a mother of two myself, I think one of the most beautiful mysteries of life is how something can seemingly emerge out of nothing: babies from humans; minds from brains, communities from values; holograms from interference patterns; social technologies from social businesses… The same ways that birds flocking together in complex adaptive systems each follow simple, evolutionary rules to emerge as one murmuration, we as digital citizens – tapping on our keypads and projecting our mental models out into cyberspace – emerge into the world as something that is bigger and more powerful than any one person or group. With my team at Neuro, I am excited to explore diverse, accessible, universal and humanistic models of thought to help resolve wicked problems and bring stability and integration to the living systems we are all part of.
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