Melanie Greblo

Mel's driving purpose has been to catalyse and lead positive impact.

She is currently Founder & CEO at Humans of Purpose and its Academy, an impact venture driven by its Theory of Change to achieve full social and economic participation for women who face multiple barriers to employment. 

She has honed the art of conversational leadership, is an ideas synthesist and strategist with a proven record of achievement in business, social ventures, community engagement, and culture transformation with a deep commitment to diversity, inclusion, innovation and systemic social change.

Since 2015, Melanie has been instrumental in convening the impact investing ecosystem in the Asia Pacific with the team at Impact Asia Pacific as Executive Director, Producer and Curator, and through The Coterie, has brought international thought leaders to Australia - building communities of practice together around the key themes of - impact, purpose, conversational leadership, beautiful business and innovation. In 2011, Mel founded The Coterie for Renewal (then Talking Sticks), a global human development and learning community pioneering the work of inner development and leadership.

In 2021 at Impact Asia Pacific, Mel curated and produced the first Gender Lens Investment Summit Asia Pacific in Sydney, Australia, bringing together global pioneers, thought and practice leaders, and an audience of private, family and institutional investors across philanthropy, impact and responsible investment.

Her strengths converge around systems change, connecting divergent points to create shared value, social innovation, driving engagement, building long term partnerships, strategic communication, community building, catalysing policy change and action.

Prior to her current work Mel has led social/not-for-profit organisations and teams as Chief Executive.