Nick
Allardice

Speaker Profile

Nick Allardice is a social change advocate and entrepreneur, with a history of creating and leading high impact national campaigns and organisations on the critical issues facing the world today. Nick is the Founder and Director of Change.org Australia, the fastest growing platform for social change in the world, empowering millions of members (growing at over one million per month) to start, join and win thousands of campaigns for social change every day.

Nick is also the co-founder of the Live Below the Line campaign. First created in mid 2010, over 9000 Australians have since taken the challenge to live on $2 a day for five days, and through doing so raise money and awareness. In its first year the campaign raised an incredible $520,000, and in 2011 it tripled in size raising a huge $1.5 million in Australia alone, whilst also expanding into the US, UK and New Zealand.

Nick plays a significant role in a number of leading non-government organisations. He is Deputy Chair of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition and Non-Executive Director of award winning sustainability education NGO OzGREEN. Nick was previously General Manager of The Oaktree Foundation and was a member of the MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY Coalition's Australian Steering Committee.

Nick has been a speaker, consultant, facilitator and advisor for organisations as diverse as the United Nations Development Program in Bangkok, Newcrest Mining in Melbourne and the NAB. He is a sought after commentator and speaker on leadership, social innovation and enterprise, changing the world, technology, people power, social media, poverty, climate change and much more. He is an ongoing commentator on significant social issues through his regular opinion editorials for state and national newspapers, and as co-author of books including The Future By Us: Australia Beyond 2020.

Travels from Victoria