Meet our newest team member, Elle Steele!

Elle Steele (She/Her)

Elle Steele is a 5-time Australian Swimming representative, Paralympian, and Gold medalist.

Elle's professional background is in the personal development space focusing on developing self-belief, energy healing, and motivational speaking. Elle also works with organisations to build capability and advance inclusion outcomes.

Born with a congenital Arthrogryposis, Elle’s life has been full of moments of great joy and sadness due to the continual change in her physical capabilities. She brings all of these moments into educating humans on mindset, personal power, business development and advancing inclusion.

Elle’s life mission is to show others that despite all the heartache we may face, if we can be brave to heal our hearts, the ripple effect of this will help to heal the world.

Lisa Drennan (She/Her)

Lisa leverages her 4 decades of leadership and experience to support people and organisations to build more inclusive communities where everyone has a valued and meaningful role.

Lisa shares her skills and experience through customised strategies, best practice approaches and solutions to help recreation, sport, camp or any community organisation to be more inclusive in their practices. Lisa specialises in giving the tools and confidence to welcome, engage and support people with diverse abilities to belong.

Her passion and experience come through strongly as an expert panelist, speaker or presenter focusing on the benefits, and "how to" of creating and accessing more inclusive communities.

Anna Walker (She/Her)

Anna Walker strives to help create a world in which everyone can play, live and work on terms and in environments designed for them. She does this by using sport as a social impact tool.

Over a 22 year career dedicated to growing sport participation, Anna has developed comprehensive knowledge and insights into the Australian and global sporting context. She has observed, learned from and delivered or advised customised sport solutions to more than 20 sports across Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands and England. In each setting she’s gained unique knowledge of the sporting ecosystems operating within diverse cultures and communities to vast audiences.
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Anna now applies this experience along with leading approaches to strategy development and program design to assist sports organisations to grow their participation base and retain members through sporting pathways. This is achieved by adopting an evidence-based and analytical approach, while always listening to, empathising and co-designing with communities. Solutions are never without a touch of creativity and futuristic thinking about how clients can best serve new audiences and society, growing as a result.

Dr Ryan Storr (He/Him)

Ryan is an experienced researcher and consultant with a deep interest in how organisations engage with and enact diversity and inclusion, within sport and movement contexts.
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Ryan completed his PhD in 2017 and was awarded the most outstanding doctorate by the Graduate Management Association of Australia. His advocacy and research led to him receiving the Rising Star award at the Alumni Awards at Victoria University for demonstrating significant early career and community service achievements.
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At Western Sydney University Ryan was a lecturer and academic course advisor for the new Bachelor of Sport Development degree. His most recent research projects investigate how sports organisations engage with and enact LGBT+ inclusion and increase participation in cricket, football and tennis. In 2016 Ryan co-founded Proud2Play, a charity which aims to increase LGBTI+ engagement in sport, exercise and active recreation.
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Through his academic and professional work Ryan has developed a powerful framework and reference point to influence social change, in both policy and practice.