About
Sarah founded Data Wisely to help people engage with the systems that their data helps to shape so they have the means to express their rights, questions, and concerns.
Sarah realises both the incredible potential for AI to support positive outcomes in policy and consumer experiences, and the lack of awareness about appropriate ethical, and technical governance in the AI space.
Sarah holds a Master of Business Analytics and a Bachelor in Fine Arts, and 6 years of professional experience supporting NFP, Government and Private organisations realise their business objectives by placing humans and quality data, at the centre of their decisions and investments. Sarah has designed and led stakeholder engagements on projects delivering algorithmic decision-making models to users. This includes Australia’s Family Court’s first machine learning product amïca, helping couples separate by automating a two-party workflow to gather data, and suggesting a fair division of assets for their agreement.
Sarah is on the Australian Red Cross Humanity First Advisory Panel to support the development of a humanitarian framework to guide ethical technology development.
Sarah’s consulting expertise is built on a foundation of nine years in digital and design agencies as a strategic designer, senior leader and Chief of Operations at Portable. She is a strategic thinker using systems-led design-thinking and data-based approaches to support executives and their teams. Sarah helps to design models for strategy, innovation and change, to implement strategic objectives, engage stakeholders, and foster emergent ways of working to create solutions for citizens’ needs in a complex and changing world.
Sarah is experienced in leading digital transformation projects, that use data design and co-design research and development to drive innovation. Combining research, data analysis, organisational design, digital transformation strategy, and leadership operations experience, Sarah works with stakeholders, end users of a product or service, and creative teams to build public trust in the ways organisations use and steward data in their care.
Recent projects include designing an online interactive Workforce Planning Tool for the Aged Care Workforce Industry Committee accounting for both public and privately held data in aged care service providers, a data and insights dashboard for strategic pillars for Bushfire Recovery Victoria, digital transformation and data governance scoping for the Australasian Fire Authorities Council, and human-centred privacy impact assessment for design collective Co-Design Co.
Part of the Committee for Economic Development’s Public Interest Technology Working group, Sarah has published Data Ethics policy reviews and is undertaking current research on the Corporate Governance of Artificial Intelligence in Australia. She worked with the University of Melbourne’s Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Data Ethics (CAIDE) in its founding months to conduct an evaluation of the data model of the Australian Government’s first AI-driven family law product, amïca.