As founding CEO and Director of Thriving Communities Australia, a for-purpose charity, Ciara Sterling convenes over 350 organisations across sectors, together with people with lived experience, to forge deeper understanding of vulnerability and drive ecosystem change through social design innovation.
Ciara is also the Chair on the Board of Consumer Action Law Centre (CALC), a founding member of the Economic Abuse Reference Group (EARG) and sits on various corporate, government and regulatory advisory committees.
She has over 20 years’ experience collaborating across corporate, government, regulators, Ombudsman, community sectors and lived experience to address the root causes of vulnerability, domestic abuse, and inequality.
A key example of this is the development the One Stop One Story Hub a world-first cross-sector digital wrap around support platform enabling frontline workers in corporate, community and government organisations to connect and refer people to a range of supports through a single access point. She believes in the power of cross-sector collaboration to create genuine systemic change.