Growing with Purpose
- Date:29 Oct 2025
- Time:
- Duration: 90 minutes
- Location: online
Join this compelling open learning event facilitated by Umbo Pty Ltd and explore how they achieved sustainable, mission-led growth while expanding access to essential health services.
Founded in 2018, Umbo is a social enterprise offering online speech pathology and occupational therapy across Australia, with a core focus on reaching children and families in regional, rural, and remote communities where wait times are often long. As a registered NDIS provider, Umbo now supports over 1,000 clients and employs more than 70 therapists worldwide.
About this webinar
This 90-minute session will unpack the story behind Umbo’s journey to profitability, its ongoing growth, and the impact of its unique Access Pricing model — which reinvests 50% of profits to subsidise therapy for those who need it most.
Gain real-world insights into how a social enterprise can scale sustainably while staying committed to equity, access, and meaningful community impact.
Weh Yeoh
Co-Founder and CEO
Umbo
Weh Yeoh has worked internationally and in Australia, his home country, in the social impact space for close to two decades. He is the founder of OIC Cambodia, an initiative that aims to establish speech therapy as a profession in Cambodia. Weh holds a BA in Physiotherapy from the University of Sydney and an MA in Development Studies from the University of NSW. His experience includes volunteering with people with disabilities in Vietnam, interning in India, studying Mandarin in Beijing, and even milking yaks in Mongolia. In 2013, he started OIC and handed over leadership to a local Cambodian team in 2017. Since then, he has co-founded Umbo, a social enterprise bridging the gap for rural Australians to access allied health services.
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