Giovanna is the founder and Managing Director of Sparrowly Group leading advisory work for clients across economic and community development, workforce development and the visitor economy. She is the lead business mentor and workshop and training facilitator as part of Sparrowly Group’s training and mentoring programs supporting close to 1,000 businesses. 

She has over 25 years commercial experience working for the private and public sector across the agriculture, education, health, tourism, community development, sport and recreation industries. Giovanna began Sparrowly Group with a vision to help create better, sustainable businesses backed by a better workforce for the future. She has grown Sparrowly Group to now service clients across Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia and has led major transformation projects including delivering business cases and evaluations for public and private sector organisations resulting in improved policy and programming and securing over $1.5 billion in funding to bring this strategic work and planning to reality. 

Giovanna is well known for her expertise in helping organisations and their stakeholders in transformational and collaborative change management. She does this through her honest and considered approach and innate ability to bring disparate stakeholders together for the common good - enabling advocacy long after the project is delivered. She is an expert in facilitating co-design environments for stakeholders at all levels and functions to evoke positive change management and collaboration.

As well as providing strategic consultation, Giovanna delivers impactful leadership and development and reflective mentorship programs for small businesses owners through to executive leaders and their teams, as well as designing and leading high performance teams.

Giovanna is an Australian Certified Economic Developer (ACEcD) and a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD). Prior to Sparrowly Group, Giovanna held senior commercial roles in the public and private sector. She has co-authored two research papers on accessible and inclusive tourism and career pathways, is a Director of the Board of IMPACT Community Services and a TedX Speaker.