2025 Summit Speakers

Jan Owen AM Hon DLitt is an entrepreneur, founder and leader in a range of national and global organisations and alliances to achieve purposeful, courageous and imaginative social change.
As a thought leader, keynote speaker and author in education and modern work, social innovation, health and wellbeing, Jan is a liberating force for change, unlocking new thinking and connections between people, disciplines, sectors and domains.

Jan is the Founder & Principal of AdaptabilityQ which provides strategy, systems change and leadership support to CEO’s across a diverse range of clients in Australia and globally.
Jan is Co-Chair/Founder of Learning Creates Australia whose mission is to support the reimagining of secondary school education; Co-Convenor, Foyer Foundation’s FoyerInvest Consortium to address youth homelessness, education and employment for young people; Chair, Cool.org Australia’s first edtech platform creating comprehensive teaching resources for educators here and globally on sustainability, equity, and social justice issues; Director Innovation Unit ANZ, Save the Children Impact Fund and Global Village Schools.
With her husband, David James, Jan is co-Founder of Be Well Health and Longevity.