Ms Rebecca Campbell-Burns

Rebecca is currently the Managing Director (VIC) and Co-Founder of Escient a wholly employee owned national consulting firm. With over 20 years of industry experience, managing professional services and delivering successful projects across a variety of sectors she has been involved in building companies from scratch both in Australia and the UK.

Rebecca is a problem solver and an optimist. She is passionate and energetic about seeing people and organisations thrive, and strongly believes in being a kind, authentic, inclusive and empathetic leader. Rebecca is a results oriented individual, who can grow and build effective teams and who has hands-on consulting experience across a variety of industries such as Health, Financial Services, Government and Defence. Currently leading the Escient Victorian team, Rebecca's passion is aligned with Escient's mission to help to shape the future - for both individuals and organisations.

Rebecca believes in innovation, diversity and a culture of continuous improvement to enhance and deliver efficient and effective business outcomes, particularly as organisations strive to do more with less, deliver the same faster, become more agile and nimble and compete in an ever increasing global market.

Strongly collaborative by nature, Rebecca is known for her ability to see the big picture and thrives in an environment that is fast-paced and requires excellent stakeholder engagement and communication.

Rebecca is committed to driving towards equality in society and the workplace and is passionate about supporting and implementing programs that support diversity and inclusion for all minority groups. With a strong initial focus on gender equality, Rebecca was one of the founding committee members for the #TechDiversity foundation and remains a member of the Advisory Board today. Rebecca supported #TechDiversity and other diversity-related initiatives through her industry role as the Chair of the AIIA Victorian Council (2015-2018).

A graduate of Monash University. Rebecca holds a Bachelor of Science, Graduate Diploma in Accounting and Masters in Business Management and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

She is a sister, aunt, friend, wife and mother of two teenage boys and has a regular meditation, yoga and fitness training practice, believing in the importance of physical and mental wellbeing.