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MEET US
Carolen Barripp
Founder
Publishing is Carolen’s business, but collaborating on projects that can transcend communities is her passion.
Self-starter and entrepreneurial, Carolen views the world through a creative lens to look for ideas and solutions that will bring about change. She is passionate about startups and developing entrepreneurial ecosystems by bringing together enthusiastic people from all backgrounds who are interested in creating or building businesses.
Carolen organised Start Up Weekend Central Coast which attracted over 60 locals (developers, designers, marketers, product managers, and entrepreneurial enthusiasts) who came together and shared ideas to launch startups.
In 2018, CL Creations Pty Ltd, the publishing company Carolen founded, celebrated a 30-year milestone as a specialist publishing company producing magazines and books and content for global organisations across many channels, including online and traditional media.
Carolen is a volunteer with the Pyjama Foundation and President of her local progress association.
Email: carolen@thecollaborativeventure.com
Mob: +61 418 298 620
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolen-barripp-1aa39ba/
Katelijne Lenaerts
Advisor
Katelijne has 20 plus years’ experience in starting and supporting enterprises, social enterprises and injecting social innovation principles and practices into business, not for profit and government programs. As the former Director of the Centre For Applied Policy in Positive Ageing, she has driven innovative solutions for the economic wellbeing of mature women and she continues to use human-centred design approaches in the co-design, prototyping and testing of a number of individual and community wellbeing projects.
Katelijne has experience with the challenges of entrepreneurship, having planned for, started and grown a small business as a newly arrived migrant to Australia. She grew her business into a multi-award-winning venture, and after divesting the business, continued to provide technical expertise and support to projects across the world, focusing on enterprise and economic strengthening.
She currently runs her own consulting business, Synergy Insights Consulting, which applies a social development approach to complex organisational and business problems. Synergy Insights Consulting prides itself on using deeper engagement with clients and their customers, beyond business data analysis, to generate meaningful insights for rational decision-making. In doing so we create a bridge between evidence needed for business improvement and qualitative evidence that captures people’s lives.
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Email: kat@thecollaborativeventure.com
Mob: +61 467 711 669
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katelijnelenaerts/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/synergy-insights-consulting/