Feresh is a passionate teacher and educational consultant with a trove of global professional experiences in a variety of sectors, spanning from Architecture (her original field) to Design and Technology, and Education. Her mission? To make teaching practices that connect students to the world and empower them to be future-ready become the norm and not the exception in South Australian secondary schools. She has combined education and design thinking, human-centred design and creative thinking to create ‘scaffolds’ supporting teachers to articulate and implement teaching practices that make learning more relevant to students in a way that is flexible and easy to adopt. The ‘Entrepreneurial Education Teacher Practice Guide’ is the capstone of her educator’s journey.

Callena has spent the past two years embedded on site at one of South Australia’s Entrepreneurial Specialist Schools, working in an outreach capacity for Flinders New Venture Institute. Callena is an experienced Innovation and Entrepreneurship facilitator and has a detailed and current understanding of the challenges of our education system, especially when it comes to making changes, implementing new approaches, and responding to the challenges laid out in South Australia’s Entrepreneurial Learning Strategy. Callena is particularly passionate about co-designing opportunities for industry and education to share the responsibility for our youth’s learning journey. She is looking forward to sharing with you what works, what doesn’t work, and how we can collaborate to make our young people and their future the primary customer of our educational system.