About
Impact North
A community for Northern Australian innovators who are creating social, environmental and cultural impact through their businesses.
We are building a collaborative peer network to motivate and support our entrepreneurs.
Impact North is an initiative of Enterprise Learning Projects.
Our team
Alexie Seller
Convener
Alexie Seller is the founder and convener of Impact North and the CEO of Enterprise Learning Projects (ELP), a non-for-profit organisation that supports remote Aboriginal communities to share their culture and achieve their aspirations through enterprise.
As an internationally-recognised social entrepreneur, Alexie is motivated to identify scalable and sustainable opportunities to enable Australia’s remote Aboriginal communities to thrive in business.
Alexie returned to Australian shores in 2019 after co-founding, scaling and handing over the award-winning Pollinate Group, an organisation that equips women to lead their communities out of poverty and reached over half a million people in just seven years.
Her unique approach to community development is fuelled by her desire to see a more just and equitable world in her lifetime. Not only is she deeply passionate, but she also brings well-honed skills as an entrepreneur, and an appetite for collaboration in order to create long-lasting and highly-impactful outcomes.
Alexie is a finalist in the 2020 Telstra Women’s Business Awards for social impact in the NT; the winner of the Advance Social Impact Award in 2018; and, she was the EY Social Entrepreneur of the Year in Victoria in 2017. She is a Young Social Pioneer, Miller Centre and DRK entrepreneur. Alexie graduated from the University of Sydney with first-class honours in Mechanical Engineering and Arts.
“I believe that social enterprise is one of the most powerful tools we have to empower communities. Done well, it can transform people’s confidence and turbo-charge their potential.”
— Alexie Seller
Photo Credits | (header): Kate Atkinson | (image 1): Rhett Hammerton