Sharon is the Founder and CEO of the social enterprise Community Capacity Builders.

As an autistic social entrepreneur and systems thinker, Sharon has used her bottom-up and associative thinking skills, and her systemising capabilities, to develop and commercialise a number of social innovations. In 2016, Sharon received a Fresh Scientist Award for her innovative work in addressing wicked problems using complexity science, and in 2021 Sharon’s work in Applied Complexity (Social Entrepreneurship & Wicked Problems) was recognised on the Map of the Complexity Sciences.

Community Capacity Builders has established a Centre for Autistic Social Entrepreneurship. This Centre has recently piloted a Program for Autistic Innovators, Systemisers and Social Entrepreneurs; and is now developing a program to build the capacity of disability service providers, social enterprise support organisations, and business advisors to provide services to autistic social entrepreneurs in a neurodiversity-affirming manner. In addition to a PhD, Sharon holds Masters Degrees in Entrepreneurship and Autism.