NDIS Rules webinar – NDIS Supports

Alex Rosenthal

Alex Rosenthal is the Branch Manager of the Engagement and Inclusion Branch at the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA). The Engagement and Inclusion team are responsible for community engagement, they work closely with national disability representative organisations, manage the NDIS inclusion strategies and provide secretariat support to the NDIA reference and advisory groups. 

 Alex has been with the NDIA for almost 10 years and has worked across a number of roles and teams, including in policy and communications. 

Darryl Steff

Darryl has led Down Syndrome Australia since January 2023, successfully advocating for the needs of people with Down syndrome and intellectual disabilities.  Darryl has extensive experience in advocacy, having worked in the Down syndrome community for 10 years, as well as strong commercial, governance and leadership experience. Combined with being the parent of a child with a disability, Darryl has a unique insight and perspective enabling him to successfully advocate for change for people with intellectual disabilities. 

Megan Spindler-Smith

Megan Spindler-Smith, Deputy CEO People with Disability Australia.

Megan is a strategic, innovative and influential Executive Leader with over two decades of driving highly successful inclusion, culture and change initiatives across the not-for-profit, public and private sectors. They are currently the Deputy CEO of People with Disability Australia, the national cross-disability rights and advocacy organisation.

As a proud Disabled person, they are passionate about developing and implementing profound intersectionally-focused strategic change for people with disability at a national level, to foster widespread accessibility and integrated inclusion. Megan creates cultures of respect, inclusivity and intersectionality.
 
Through their lived experience, clinical and human-centred/organisational development background, they have driven change at the national level for accessible media and inclusion of people with disability networks across multiple sectors. They were named as a finalist and the top 8 Disability Inclusion Changemaker 2024 and a finalist for the DLI Change Maker 2022 and 2023.

Sarah Hawke

With over 2 decades of experience in social policy reform and the NDIS, Sarah Hawke is currently leading NDIS policy, legislation and engagement as a Branch Manager in the Department of Disability, Health and Ageing.

Sarah has held executive leadership roles in social services, health and disability and has a passion for person centred, outcomes-oriented reform.
She has a Bachelor of Arts and Law with Honours from the Australian National University.

Marg Renwick