Cindy Carpenter

Formerly GM of the Boston Consulting Group (Aust/NZ) and now co-founder and MD of strategy consulting firm Cast, Cindy chaired The Bread & Butter Project until 2024; Australia’s first social enterprise artisan bakery, training refugees and supplying bread to Woolworths and Harris Farm. She is a member of the governing group for Social Impact Investment within the Social Enterprise World Forum (the global peak body for social enterprise), co-founded the work-integration-social-enterprise-hub within Social Enterprise Australia (Australia’s peak body for social enterprise), and is spearheading the launch of a national aggregator to enable smaller social enterprises to access government support through a collective entity structure. She also founded the advisory groups supporting three other refugee-focused social enterprises; CommUnity Construction, FoodLab and Aunty’s Ginger Tonic, was instrumental in the launch of the BrandKind community providing pro/lo bono support to social enterprises, and is a national judge since 2019 for Westpac Foundation’s Social Change Fellowship. Cindy is also Chair and co-founder of the Global Refugee Academy, now training over 200 refugees in 7 countries, and has launched a collaboration to secure safe passage for refugees via skilled visas into areas of chronic labour shortage, like the health sector. She is a Board Director for Community Refugee Sponsorship Australia, and a member of the Governance Group for the Settlement Council of Australia’s ‘Road to Belonging’ national strategy.