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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

  • Advisor

    2019

  • Advisor

    2019

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

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