Chris (he/him) is proudly autistic. He is the Founding Director and Chief Enabling Officer of I CAN Network. I CAN® is Australia’s largest autistic-led organisation, mentoring over 3,000 young people annually through the I CAN School® and I CAN Online programs. Chris was inspired to start I CAN from the support his family, schools and mentors gave him, which he shared in his TEDx ‘Autism – How My Unstoppable Mother Proved the Experts Wrong’. Since 2015, Chris has employed close to 200 autistic people to deliver mentoring programs at scale.

In 2017 Chris received the Supreme Court of Victoria’s Best Achievement in Human Rights Award. Chris is national patron of the Australian Association for Special Education, a non-executive director of the Australian Autism Alliance and Chairperson of the Victorian Disability Advisory Council.

Chris is passionate about disability job creation and employment. He lives with his young family in Greater Geelong.