Who is Dr Dianne McGrath?

Personal Philosophy

My aim is to lead a purposeful life that seeks to create better environmental outcomes. Towards this goal, I am a leading sustainability expert, part of Stop Food Waste Australia, and the director of the sustainability and business consultancy: Food For Thought Consulting Australia.

 

Qualifications

Over 9 Years of Professional Speaking: A Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) I have presented to over half-a-million people world-wide, from global corporations, C-Suite Executives, government, education and non-for-profit organisations. This has included keynote addresses, workshops, intimate dinners and more.

I have also gained a PhD in Environmental Engineering, Graduate Diplomas in Sustainable Practice, Environmental Management, and Marketing, and a Bachelor of Education.

 

Professional Speaking

I live life challenging what others think impossible, whether that was to live a year with no single-use plastics, prepare for a fully-sustainable one-way mission to Mars, chooses to circumnavigate our planet to help protect our oceans – our future, cycle extreme distances, sail gale storms in a tall ship in the Southern Ocean or biohack my body and mind to become Dianne 2.0.

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Timeline of Achievements

  • Logo of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race 2023-24 Race Crew

    2023-24

    Clipper Round the World Yacht Race, Circumnavigator

  • Stop Food Waste Australia logo

    2022

    Stop Food Waste Australia, Technical Account Manager

  • 2021

    PhD Environmental Engineering, RMIT University

  • 2021

    Certified Speaking Professional awarded

  • 2020

    Fight Food Waste CRC REDUCE Program Leader

  • 2019

    Mars Desert Research Station 2-week immersive Mars simulation exercise, Utah

  • 2018

    Living off #foodwaste and #platewaste public experiment

  • 2017

    Presented PhD research at International Food Studies Conference, Rome, Italy

  • 2017

    Weekly corporate and education addresses across Australia and the globe

  • 2017

    Chair of the Retail & Foodservice Advisory Board, Australian Government National Food Waste Strategy

  • 2017

    Public experiment #53Sundays, no grains, no single-use plastic or alcohol for 12 months

  • 2016

    Presented to over 250,000 people at various corporate and school education events

  • 2015

    Presented to over 165,000 people at various corporate and school education events

  • 2015

    Board Director Open Food Network

  • 2015

    Founder ‘Watch My Waste’ food waste research

  • 2014

    Director – Food for Thought Consulting Australia Pty Ltd

  • 2014

    Mars One Mars100 shortlist

  • 2014

    Graduate Diploma in Sustainable Practice, RMIT University

  • 2013

    Mars One application accepted

  • 2013

    Board Director 3000 Acres

  • 2013

    Tan 50km ultramarathon, Melbourne, Australia

  • 2013

    Board Director – Cultivating Community

  • 2012

    Sail the Southern Ocean on the Endeavour

  • 2010

    Team Leader Emergency Services, Disaster and Humanitarian Relief, Australian Red Cross

  • 2009

    Cycle Adelaide to Canberra

  • 2008

    Graduate Diploma Environmental Management, Flinders University

  • 2006

    Global Brand Manager GSK Biologicals, Belgium

  • 2002

    Graduate Diploma Marketing, University of Technology Sydney

  • 1991

    Bachelor of Education, Deakin University

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