I’ve never done just one thing.
I’ve always done everything at once.
Turns out, that’s not a flaw. It’s the whole point.
WHO IS HANNAH?
Hi! I’m Hannah.
I’m a strategist, facilitator, keynote speaker, author, Professor and the founder of Sparkle Ideas Lab.
I work with organisations who are doing genuinely important things and need someone who can hold the big picture and get in the room and make it happen.
I’ve spent my career sitting at the intersection of strategy, innovation, and people. I’ve worked in universities, government, not-for-profits, and corporates. I’ve designed strategy for research centres, facilitated leadership teams through genuine crisis, built neurodiversity programs from scratch, and interviewed 200 ADHD leaders for a book that argues, plainly: this isn’t a deficit. It never was.
I’m also an ADHDer. This means I understand from the inside what it’s like to be brilliant in a system that wasn’t designed for you — and I’ve built a career and a business on proving that the system is the problem worth solving.
“I’m the person you call when the complexity is real, the stakes are high, and the usual approaches aren’t working.”
THE SPARKLE STORY
Sparkle Ideas Lab started as a hypothesis.
The hypothesis: that a lot of smart, well-intentioned work was getting stuck.
Not because people weren’t capable, but because the systems around them weren’t designed for how people actually think, lead, and create. And that there was a better way to work: slower where it needed to be slow, faster where speed was the point, and always with the humans in the room actually at the centre of it.
We tested that hypothesis across universities, government agencies, research centres, peak bodies, and leadership teams. And the patterns were consistent.
Brilliant people drowning in complexity they haven’t been helped to name
Strategy disconnected from the people responsible for making it real
Good ideas fading between teams, meetings, and competing priorities
So, Sparkle became a system. Not just a set of services, but a way of working.
It was built around three truths:
- clarity before action
- people as the design brief
- intent only mattering if it moves.
Everything we do flows from those three things.
CREDENTIALS
Professor, PhD. MBA. GAICD.
University of Adelaide graduate. Australian Institute of Business graduate. Australian Institute of Company Directors graduate.
Academic track with applied edge.
Research that lives in the real world.
Founder, Sparkle Ideas Lab
Strategy and innovation agency.
Facilitation, strategic design, co-design, and advisory work across sectors.
Keynote speaker
On ADHD leadership, neurodiversity, psychosocial risk, and what genuinely inclusive organisations look like.
Neuroinclusive design expert
Deep expertise in neurodiversity-inclusive workplace design and psychosocial risk — because lived experience and research make a difference.
Author, Wired to Lead
(Coming in late 2026)
Two hundred conversations with ADHD leaders. The book that argues ADHD isn’t a leadership liability — it’s a leadership asset.
If you’ve read this far,
something here probably resonated.
That’s usually a good sign we should talk!