William Stubbs

William is social impact strategist, mental health advocate, and Co-Founder and Director of spur: and spur:org. 

After childhood experience with suicidality and depression, William co-founded the award-winning mental health non-profit spur:org in 2011. The organisation’s mission is to tackle the growing problem of suicide and mental illness in Australia and beyond. As a self-funded organisation, spur:org is free to try new and innovative approaches that have resulted in reshaping the narrative around public mental health campaigns. 

To fund the non-profit’s growing efforts, William launched a second company, spur: - a profit-for-purpose strategy agency that works with some of the largest governments, corporates, and non-profits worldwide to solve complex social issues through research, strategy, and design. spur: strategists tackle topics such as sustainability, child wellbeing and security, global civil rights, corporate mental health, and more. 

spur:’s achievements have included producing the world’s first open-source real time global mental health database, developing impact metrics for WWF’s Earth Hour campaign, producing a record-breaking volunteer project for elderly care, and developing a low-cost mental health aid kit for refugee camps.