Jane Burns is Founder of InnoWell, a joint venture between PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the University of Sydney, and Professor of Innovation and Industry at the University of Sydney in the Faculty of Health Science. She was the founder and CEO of the Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre.
In recognition for her achievements in entrepreneurship, she won the category of Social Enterprise for 2015’s Australian Financial Review and Westpac Group ‘100 Women of Influence’, and was a Victorian Finalist in the 2017 Telstra Business Women’s Awards. She was a Rex Lipman Fellow at Saint Peters College in 2015, and the Thinker in Resident for the Western Australian Commission for Children and Young People in 2016/17.
Jane is an International speaker, speaking at conferences, schools, universities and workplaces. Her topics are broad including; women in leadership, vision, values and workplace culture, wellbeing and mental health, living with disability, digital health solutions, suicide prevention and digital resilience. Jane is well respected as a workshop facilitator with a focus on co-design and co-creation to create digital health solutions for mental health and wellbeing.