Aubrey Blanche
Limited Partner at Operator Collective
Surry Hills, New South Wales
Overview
Work Experience
Founder & CEO
2020 - Current
Principal consultant, strategist, and advisor across all aspects of equitable enterprise operations including focuses on DEI, people operations, sustainability, philanthropy, and ethical AI.
Board Member, Culture Amp Foundation
2023
VP of Equitable Operations
2023
In this role, I am responsible for leading the Equitable Operations (People systems, policies, processes & mobility; DEI, Social Impact, and Sustainability) team, and providing strategic guidance for DEI product development and go-to-market operations. Our teams' work in People Experience aims to ensure that the day-to-day transactions and big moments of our employees' journeys are impactful, equitable, and inclusive and that we incorporate social good into the core of the employee journey. Our work ensures that Culture Amp is able to achieve its mission to build a better world of work, starting with the way that we support and engage our own employees. In advising the commercial business focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion, I work with our Product leadership to develop the future of our roadmap to enable our customers to make progress on their DEI journeys. I also support our Sales, Customer Success, and Marketing teams to build a strategic plan to bolster Culture Amp's reputation as a leader in supporting equitable organizational evolution and transformation.
Senior Director of People Operations & Strategic Programs
2023 - 2023
Senior Director of Equitable Design, Product & People
2021 - 2023
Responsible for designing and delivering an effective diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging strategy for a rapidly-scaling global SaaS business, with a focus on anti-racist and anti-ableist cultural and process transformation. Additionally, I provide guidance and oversight for our strategy on how we build equity & inclusion-creating features and products, and guiding how we bring those products to market to transform the way Culture First businesses run. To round out our equity & inclusion portfolio, I lead the teams focused on Culture Amp's employee engagement in philanthropy and climate equity (sustainability).
Director of Equitable Design & Impact
2020 - 2021
Responsible for delivering a progressive, Culture First vision for equitable organizational transformation, with an emphasis on building and scaling an anti-racist organization.
Board Member
2022
Limited Partner
2020
RareBreed Ventures is a pre-seed fund that invests in technology companies.
Advisor
2019
Onramp is a technical workforce solutions company. We’ll help you build tomorrow’s workforce, today.
Raised $310,000.00 from JFF Ventures.
Advisor
2019
Seed&Spark is an entertainment platform for conscious consumers actively increasing diversity and representation in entertainment.
Raised $4,000,000.00 from Payam Zamani, One Planet Group, Techstars and Backstage Capital.
Limited Partner
2019
Operator Collective brings together as limited partners 100+ ultra-talented operators, investors, and founders from diverse backgrounds to invest in and accelerate the next generation of b2b tech.
Operator Collective is a venture fund and dream team community of Operator LPs.
Board Member, Treasurer
2021 - 2023
I serve as a board member for PAUSE, a non-profit that creates culturally responsive grief and end-of-life care by and for people of color.
Advisor
2019 - 2020
We leverage science and technology to impact the way people think about Diversity & Inclusion, and, more importantly, what they do about it.
Senior Director, Global Head of Diversity & Belonging
2018 - 2020
Director, Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion
2016 - 2018
Global Diversity Programs Lead
2015 - 2016
Designed and executed the company's first diversity & inclusion strategy, accounting for a globally distributed workforce and hyperscaling challenges. Role highlights: -Release of industry's first team-level diversity reporting paradigm and Atlassian's first diversity report -Overhaul of graduate recruiting program, which resulted in >46% female hires (intern and graduate) -Creation and rollout of a customized, action-oriented unconscious bias training -Adoption of proactive gender transition policy and gender-inclusive facilities initiative