Breakfast at the Next Level | April 2021 | Enhancing Your Strategic & Innovative Thinking
About this Event
Join us at Fedoras Restaurant – or join via Zoom
With guestspeaker David Paterson, CEO of YMCA & Co-founder of Social Capital
Wednesday 7 April 2021 | 7:00AM – 9:00AM (networking starts 6.30AM)
Hilton Hotel – Fedoras Restaurant – 264 South Road Hilton
Welcome the month of April, when we catch up with David Paterson, CEO of YMCA South Australia & Co – Founder of Social Capital.
Currently David Paterson serves as Chief Executive Officer of the YMCA in South Australia, which has some 700 staff working in communities across the State.
David Paterson specialises in purpose-driven growth, strategy and innovation. He has worked internationally across both the business and social sectors.
In his earlier corporate career he was:
• Chief Marketing Officer of Medibank Private, responsible for $3 billion in annual revenues and 3 million members;
• Global Chief Strategy Officer of an international digital marketing agency, with clients ranging from Cisco and Hewlett-Packard, to Toyota, General Motors, HSBC, Visa International, Pfizer, Singapore Airlines, Harvard University and No.10 Downing Street;
• Director of Business Consulting with Arthur Andersen Business Consulting, with clients ranging from new start-up tech ventures to a Prime Minister’s task force.
In more recent times he has applied these skills primarily in the for-benefit space, including as:
• Chief Innovation Officer of World Vision, the world’s largest international development NGO, with some 40,000 staff across 90 countries, serving more than 100m people p.a.. Whilst at World Vision he and his team generated around $1 billion in funding for community development projects around the world;
• Professor of Innovation & Enterprise with the University of South Australia where he designed, from the ground up, a new honours degree in Innovation with the aim of developing the next generation of entrepreneurs and social changemakers.
He also maintains his consultancy firm, Cornerstone Strategy, continuing to take on strategic projects with potential for positive social and economic impact. Examples include:
• facilitating an innovation forum at the United Nations on the future shape of the humanitarian and disaster relief sector;
• advising on how to innovate the Australian international aid program;
• developing the future vision and identity of the Riverbank Precinct;
• developing an innovation framework for the State, on behalf of the then Premier;
• developing future growth and impact strategies for various key South Australian institutions;
David is a co-founder of The Bridge Project, a ground breaking program for young offenders. It has successfully reduced recidivism from an average of 60%, to less than 3%, across 3000 participants over 10 years. It won the Australian Crime Prevention Award.
David is a Williamson Community Leadership Fellow; the Co-Founder of Social Capital; Board Member of Sight for All; and a Founding Board member of The Committee for Adelaide Inc.
The SOL Results team looks forward to welcoming you on the 7 April 2021.
Yours in success,
The SOL Results Team
Join us at Fedoras Restaurant – or join via Zoom
Breakfast at the Next Level
On the first Wednesday of the Month, some of South Australia’s most successful and motivated people get together over breakfast to discuss, learn, share and grow – personally and professionally.
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