Lucy Gregg
Chief Executive Officer
Lucy is an educator, facilitator, and programme leader with experience across the education and non-profit sectors in Australia and the United Kingdom. Most recently, she served as Changemaker Programmes Coordinator at Mulberry Schools Trust in London, leading international leadership programmes, strategic partnerships, and large-scale events. Prior to this, Lucy completed a Master of Teaching through the Teach for Australia Leadership Development Program and worked as a teacher and Student Leadership Coordinator in Tasmania, where she redesigned a whole-school leadership programme and strengthened student voice initiatives. A former yLead facilitator and volunteer, Lucy brings a deep understanding of the organisation’s mission, community, and impact.
Kali Brown
Leader of SUSTAINABILITY
Kali is a finance enthusiast with over a decade of experience making numbers not only add up but work smarter! Most recently coming to us from a school in Adelaide, she’s the go-to person for all things financial—from leading audits to managing payroll and keeping everything running like a well-oiled machine. Kali thrives on collaboration and believes in the power of teamwork, positive energy, and a good sense of humour to get things done. With a background spanning local government, not-for-profit and corporate sectors, Kali has developed an eye for detail and a knack for simplifying complex financial processes. Outside of work, you’ll find her prioritising fitness, wellbeing, and spending quality time with her family. A self-proclaimed "all-rounder," Kali is always up for a challenge and loves creating solutions that make day-to-day operations smoother. She’s passionate about giving back to the community and uses her skills to help organisations make a lasting impact. Whether it’s crunching numbers or leading projects, Kali brings her heart (and her spreadsheets) to everything she does!
Sarah Hodge
Leader of IMPACT
Love, acceptance and hope are three values Sarah strives to embody in everything she does. Only through her time as School Captain of St Aidan’s Anglican Girls’ School, during which she attended a yLead conference, did she realise that those three things made her love leadership; leading and ensuring that everywhere she goes and everything she does has love, acceptance and hope at the forefront. Deciding what impact she wanted to have after leaving school took Sarah a while to navigate, exploring a client-facing corporate career before realising she was seeking a for-purpose pathway. It took recognising that purpose and passion could go hand in hand for Sarah to take the leap and grab the opportunity to work at yLead. yLead has been the chance for Sarah to pursue her love for education and wellbeing, and passion for serving young people. The organisation was part of her life long before it became her full-time job, but taking that next step remains one of the most important decisions she has ever made. Beyond the yLead world, being active and connected to her body is a huge part of Sarah’s life – especially running! It’s the one thing that never fails to bring Sarah back to herself. It fills her spare time, and keeps her body and mind at their best!
Mila Willersdorf
Client Connections Coordinator | REACH Team
Growing up along the beautiful Great Ocean Road in Victoria has instilled a curious nature in Mila. As a young person living by the water from an early age, Mila has actively practiced gratitude for the places and people around her. During her final few years at secondary school, Mila discovered her passion for leadership and took on numerous roles, including School Captain in Year 12. At the beginning of her captaincy in 2023, Mila experienced being a participant at the Australian Student Leadership Conference (ASLC) in Victoria, where she met yLead for the first time. Conference allowed Mila to explore that her true and authentic leadership is about the support we give to others. With a newly defined definition of leadership Mila continued to be a part of the spaces yLead created. Throughout 2024 and 2025, Mila volunteered her time at schools, mentored at ASLC in Victoria and had the privilege to mentor at both yLead’s Help Out Cambodia and Thrill Out New Zealand Schoolies trips. She was then awarded the 2025 Overall yTeamer of the Year, before stepping into the Client Connections Coordinator role with yLead at the end of 2025.
Mila is passionate about creating and nurturing strong connections and positive communication, central to her role on yLead's REACH team. She continues to evolve this passion alongside her love for all things music through studying a Bachelor of Arts: Music Industry, where she is developing her skills of event management.
Charley Russell
Facilitator & Volunteer Coordinator | IMPACT Team
Amid the disconnection and upheaval of the pandemic, Charley discovered a profound passion for connection, love, and the stories that unite us. This awakening – during her final years of schooling - ignited her desire to celebrate the diverse individuals around her. With a heart full of purpose, Charley embraced leadership, proudly serving as both school captain and house captain at Belmont High School. Her journey with yLead began at ASLC in 2022, where she felt called to uplift her peers. After graduation, she dedicated herself to connecting with young people, listening to their dreams and ambitions by volunteering with yLead. In recognition of her efforts, she was named yTeamer of the Year in 2023, becoming the first recipient from outside South East Queensland since 2015. Her passion shone brightly as she received back-to-back yTeam of the Year awards in 2024. Charley’s commitment extended beyond accolades; she travelled extensively to In School programs, honing her facilitation skills and evolving into a contractor for yLead, as well as mentoring on the Help Out Cambodia travel experience. When the opportunity arose to join the yLead team, Charley wholeheartedly embraced it, stepping into the roles of Junior Facilitator and yTeam Coordinator. Outside of yLead, she finds joy in exploring Queensland’s beauty and is in her third year of university, studying a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Secondary Education at Deakin University. Charley inspires those around her to dream boldly and lead courageously, fostering a strong sense of community and belonging.
Olivia (Liv) Edwards
Facilitator & Travel Coordinator | IMPACT Team
Liv believes in valuing young people and their experience of the world. Showing compassion and care in her facilitation has always been at the forefront of her practice. To Liv, leadership is the ability to encourage and inspire! A shared idea that exists in her primary love, drama. At a young age, Liv had many creative mediums to begin expressing herself. A brief list includes dance, violin, fashion, musical theatre as well as some amusingly experimental hairdos. It wasn’t long until she sunk her teeth into the arguably most experimental of all, drama. Liv spent many hours dedicating herself to the profession through performing in, directing and choreographing many community children’s theatre productions. After graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Drama) from Queensland University of Technology, she continued to share her love for the dramatic arts through teaching and facilitating to young people. She found that encouraging play and creative expression allowed her students to fully come into themselves. Nurturing these safe environments fostered moments of magic in the classroom. For great work comes from authenticity and vulnerability! Liv is excited to embark on her journey of what her own leadership looks like. At yLead, she not only has permission but full freedom to do so. In her downtime, Liv adores attending an extravagant weeknight dinner party and enjoys a gruelling hike on the weekends. Her life advice is to live life being outrageously and be unapologetically yourself!
