I started Staying Independent in early 2024 with no clients, no staff, and no funding - just a strong belief that people with disability deserved better care than what was available. Within two years, it grew into one of Sydney's fastest-growing NDIS providers, built around a simple idea: that allied health and support work are most powerful when they work together as one team, under one roof. So simple, but not the norm.

I hold a Master of Occupational Therapy (research dissertation), postgraduate qualifications in Medical & Health Leadership, and a Bachelor of Communications. My path wasn't straightforward - before becoming an OT, I worked in advertising, national passenger car marketing at Mercedes-Benz, and worked across public health including palliative care.
My background shapes how I approach everything: I don't just see clinical need, I see systems and how to make them work better. I've published research, spoken at international conferences, and worked with healthcare organisations to improve how they deliver care.

In 2025, I received global recognition including Gold Stevie® Awards for Healthcare Innovation and Healthcare Management across Asia-Pacific, and Global Entrepreneur of the Year — Healthcare.

My personal ethos is simple: I lean into the people society pulls away from. Cognitive disability is one of the most misunderstood and underserved areas in both healthcare and technology. Unlike physical disability, it's often invisible and the systems, tools, and platforms that shape modern life are almost never designed with it in mind. That gap is where I've chosen to focus.

It's why I started Staying Independent, and it's why I co-founded LearnAble™ - the world's first AI platform built specifically for people with cognitive disability. People with autism, intellectual disability, ADHD, acquired brain injury, stroke, schizophrenia, and dementia are consistently left behind by mainstream technology. LearnAble is designed to change that.
To do it, I created an entirely new category: Cognitive Mobility™ - the idea that a person's ability to navigate and participate in the cognitive demands of daily life deserves the same attention, investment, and innovation that physical mobility has received for decades.
LearnAble is built on that framework, bringing the same outcomes-focused approach we use at Staying Independent into the digital world so that technology works for everyone, not just some people.