Meet the Assisters
Caroline Starecky

I love strategic creativity and innovating by bringing ideas to life. A career in Innovation & Ventures Consulting (and previously in advertising) allows me to bring a whole lot of everything that I am passionate about into what I do on a daily basis: delivering innovation to drive behaviour change, leading cross-functional teams, facilitating workshops and innovation strategies to solve complex business problems and create new future-focused solutions. My work is human-centred and design-thinking led and I love co-creating and co-designing with clients and colleagues, brainstorming and pushing the boundaries to deliver innovative ideas.

I have recently become Director of Innovation & Ventures at Monitor Deloitte after the innovation consultancy I was working for (GLASS) got acquired by Deloitte. I’m loving the new challenge and the high impact of working on innovation programs across the public sector in Australia.

I often like to say that I’ve had a few careers in the last 20 years. I started in advertising first in media, then client services followed by a long stint in strategic planning… I then became a partner in an executive recruitment and corporate training firm specialised in the creative industries in Canada as well as being a university lecturer in Creativity and innovation for 14 years. I then founded my own Innovation Coaching business collective and had a team of 12 business coaches to deliver leadership and innovation programs to entrepreneur, leaders and big organisations.

7 years ago when I moved back to Australia, I decided to come back full circle and make a return to the advertising industry in Brisbane but in the midst of the pandemic, I decided to head back into Innovation and experience design consulting as the Practice Lead of Innovation and then Chief Experience Officer, and I haven’t looked back since!