Amanda Mather has a glowing history of helping Australians. A career in healthcare spanning more than 25 years, she is passionate about creating a positive community for everybody.
Now, Amanda is the CEO of not-for-profit, Sporting Wheelies and Disabled Association, and with her track record of making a difference, it is easy to see why. As CEO of Sporting Wheelies, Amanda has recently lead the opening of a brand new Health, Sports and Fitness Centre in Albion, a purpose built facility with cutting edge equipment and Queensland’s first dedicated courts for the Paralympic sports of Goalball and Boccia. The new centre embodies what Amanda has worked towards for years – enhancing the lives of those around her.
Sporting Wheelies makes active goals accessible, to enhance the lives of people with a disability through health and fitness, sport, active recreation, and building inclusive communities, giving every Queenslander with a disability the opportunities to live a more active and healthy life. Amanda’s knack for business has served her through a diverse career in the government, commercial, and healthcare sectors. Taking on roles from public relations, marketing and change management, to planning, policy and product development, she is truly a force with which to be reckoned.
Not one to shy away from a challenge, Amanda joined Queensland Health in 2005 and took on the enormous feat of overseeing a $2 billion statewide budget. In 2007, she turned her attention to a planning and development role for the Queensland Children’s Hospital in South Brisbane, a facility that has become a lifeline and second home to many young Queenslanders and their families.
Amanda put her heart and soul into executive roles for the Children’s Hospital, working closely with children’s health not-for-profits and foundations. Along the way, Amanda became the founding Director of Bionics Queensland and sits on the Community Services Industry Alliance’s National Reform Council. Community minded and kindhearted, Amanda Mather is a businesswoman who gets the job done by putting others first, an arguably rare and increasingly valuable trait in the modern corporate world and beyond.
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