Lessons from Failure: Shaping Social Enterprises
- Date:8 Oct 2025
- Time:
- Duration: 75 minutes
- Location: online
Join a facilitated discussion with a range of leaders from social enterprises reflecting on failures within the social enterprises they’ve been involved in.
Join this interactive, honest discussion and exploration of productive failures and lessons learned to help build a stronger and more resilient social enterprise sector.
Kevin Robbie
Managing Director
Think Impact
Kevin is the Managing Director at Think Impact with over 25 years' experience in impact measurement, social innovation, social valuation, social enterprise development and collaborative leadership. His breadth of experience spans business, government, philanthropy and the for-purpose sector. Prior to Think Impact, Kevin held a range of leadership roles including CEO of United Way Australia and Executive Director at SVA. where he was responsible for the leadership and development of their Social Enterprise Hubs, providing advice and support to over 100 social enterprises. Kevin is an advanced, accredited Social Return on Investment (SROI) practitioner. Originally from the UK, Kevin was Chief Executive of Forth Sector, one of Scotland’s leading social enterprise development organisations for nearly a decade and acted as special advisor to the UK Government Cabinet Office (2007/08) on the role of impact measurement in social investment and the role of social enterprise in job creation.
Sofiah Mackay
Senior Consultant
Think Impact
Sofiah has worked in Australia and internationally as a consultant, facilitator and program manager for over 25 years specialising in social change across diverse sectors including international development and social enterprise. She’s experienced in business model development and social enterprise incubation/growth having designed and facilitated numerous incubator and accelerator programs. This included coaching and supporting the growth and development of more than 150 social enterprises around Australia for the School for Social Entrepreneurs and leading a micro business start-up initiative for multicultural communities in Melbourne’s west for the Centre for Multicultural Youth. At Think Impact, she's worked in depth with social enterprises to build their impact foundations (theory of change, outcome frameworks, data collection approaches and impact reporting), map/design participant journeys, transform business models, develop strategic plans, and build team capability to implement for impact.
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