Hetty Johnston AM

Founder Director Safeguarding Children/People Australia Founder Bravehearts Foundation Ltd 2025 QFCC Expert Advisor Inquiry Reponses to Child Sexual Abuse 2023 Inducted into Chief Executive Women 2022 Judge Telstra Best of Business Awards 2022 Inaugural Co-Chair: National Office of Child Safety Advisory Group - current member 2020 Qld Child Death Review Board Member - 2021-2022 2018 Safeguarding Advisor to the Commonwealth Games 2016 Out of the Dark Steering Committee (Online Safety) - 2022 2014 Member Qld Family & Child Commission Advisory Council & Expert Panel 2003 Member Australian Government e-Safety Working Party 2016 Graduate Australian Institute of Company Directors, (GAICD) 2013 Fellow of the Australian Institute of Community Governance and Practice (FAICGP) 2016 Inducted to the Australian Businesswomen’s ‘Hall of Fame’ 2015 Queensland Australian of the Year 2014 Member of the Order of Australia, (AM) 2013 Ernst & Young Social Entrepreneur of the Year (Nthrn Region) 2013 Financial Review & Westpac Top 100 Women of Influence 2012 Finalist Telstra Businesswomen’s Awards 2013 Member of the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN) 2010 Paul Harris Fellowship - Rotary International 2009 Toastmasters International Communication and Leadership Award ? 2004 & 2003 Australian Lawyers Alliance Civil Justice Award Hetty Johnston AM is the founder of Bravehearts. A born lobbyist and reformist, Hetty has been recognised nationally and internationally as a woman of integrity, passion and determination with the ability to create the real change needed to help real people. Spending almost 30 years as a voice for her community, Hetty continues to draw attention to, and inspire positive change in how Australia protects its most vulnerable - children, the aged and disability. A graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors & inductee to the prestigious Chief Executive Women, Hetty had a career in senior finance and business for 15 years before entering the public consciousness in the 1990s. The sexual assault of her daughter in 1996 led to the creation of Australia's first children's charity dedicated to the protection of children against sexual assault. Hetty's leadership and tenacity resulted in Bravehearts having a proud and voluminous record of achievement. Hetty has since founded Safeguarding People Australia and is now working with the community, corporate and government sectors to ensure we successfully install the National Child Safe Principles and other standards to protect the nation's most vulnerable.