Our Team
We help create places where more people can shape, own and benefit from the assets, opportunities and wealth created around them.
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Place Based Capital, Community Wealth Building, Natural Capital & Environmental Markets
Meaghan is a strategist and facilitator with deep expertise in place-based capital, community wealth building, and local economic development. She works with communities, councils, social impact organisations and governments to help places take control of capital — from land and funding to enterprise and infrastructure.
Known for turning complex ideas into practical solutions, Meaghan supports communities to build capacity, design strategies, and implement locally-owned initiatives that create long-term value and resilience.
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Facilitation, Collaboration and Impact
Kate has spent the last 25 years working with individuals, groups and organisations to make the change they want, in complex settings. As a leader and facilitator, she is a specialist in brokering multi stakeholder collaborations, working with groups looking at how to effect change across whole systems and assisting individual organisations to manage change to more effectively to meet their highest ambitions.
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Community Asset Ownership, Business Advisory, Economist
Sam is a changemaker, researcher, and community builder with a passion for creating connected, empowered communities and just local economies. With over 20 years of experience across research economics, government policy, business, and advisory roles, she brings a rare ability to bridge big-picture systems thinking with grounded local action.
Driven by a commitment to social and ecological justice, Sam supports communities to imagine and build futures that are equitable, sustainable, and community-led.
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Kate Williams is a facilitator, researcher, and advisor with over 16 years of experience in community development and economic inclusion. She works across communities, government, business, and philanthropy to support collaborative decision-making and locally-led development.
Kate has managed projects in Australia and internationally, building cross-sector partnerships and working with communities to access the investment, resources, and support they need. Her approach is relational and grounded in long-term engagement.
Currently a PhD candidate at Flinders University's Centre for Social Impact, Kate's research examines community governance of local capital. She is exploring what conditions enable communities to make shared decisions about local investment and build long-term wealth and wellbeing.
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Sandy is a project and communications professional with extensive experience delivering complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives across Australia and the UK. Her background spans government, business, sport, entertainment, community and environmental sectors, managing projects, partnerships and engagement programs that unite diverse interests around shared outcomes.
Sandy specialises in stakeholder engagement and translating complexity into practical action. She is passionate about supporting initiatives that strengthen communities and promote lasting social, environmental and economic wellbeing.
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Community Capital, Community Investment & Regional Development
Chris Sounness is CEO of Wimmera Southern Mallee Development, a NfP regional development company working across six shires and 54,000 people in north-west Victoria. Across a career spanning agriculture, climate services and regional development, his focus has been a single question: how major investment can settle people and build community wealth rather than pass through a region. Under his leadership, WSM Development established Wimmera Housing Innovations, whose community-owned housing companies across four towns have raised around $1.4 million in local capital, with 13 homes under construction, and convenes the WSM Regional Energy Collaboration, winner of the Clean Energy Council's Best Collaboration Award in 2025.
Chris brings practical experience in community capital raising, governance design and cross-sector partnership, alongside board roles spanning research, education and community housing.
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Rural & Remote Leadership, Facilitation, Governance
Philippa has spent close to two decades working alongside rural, regional and remote communities across Australia, driven by a deep and enduring care for the people and places she works with. As a facilitator, she has engaged directly with thousands of leaders across RRR Australia, building the capability and agency of individuals and communities, and bringing people together across genuine difference to find shared ground.
Philippa is currently Interim Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Rural Leadership Foundation, where she has built strong and diverse networks across government, philanthropy, industry and community, and led the cultural and organisational change required to grow and sustain a purpose-driven team. She is also a Director of Commonwealth Study Conferences Australia and active in her local community.