SALLY A ILLINGWORTH
Sally A Illingworth is a globally recognised business personality on LinkedIn boasting more than 89 Million organic content impressions since 2018. Sally is regarded for her distinguished ability to assimilate, analyse and interpret information to bolster communications.
In March 2018 Sally was the first Australian based business woman to pioneer authentic video content creation for the LinkedIn platform, earning her international recognition online and in several books and resulting in the organic generation of more than 80,000 followers in 2 years.
In Australia Sally is well known for her entrepreneurial spirit having launched the Crust Pizza brand in the Northern Territory with Retail Food Group at age 18. Her dedication to the brand and the Darwin economy resulted in multiple local and national award nominations.
During her business tenure in the Northern Territory with Crust, Sally and her team raised more than $12,000 for the Make A Wish Foundation Australia, set the record for Australia's longest cooked pizza measuring 11 metres, donated 101 pizzas to the evacuees of the Daly River Floods and made many more contributions to the brand and Darwin community.
At age 22 Sally was recognised by News Corp as the 59th Most Powerful Person in Darwin Northern Territory and as the 79th Most Powerful Woman at age 25.
In 2018 Sally was one of 12 expert contributors to the SAP commissioned white paper on The Impact of Emerging Technologies on Retail.
In 2019 Sally was one of 70 social media experts globally to contribute to the Talkwalker and HubSpot commissioned Social Media Trends for 2020 Report.
In 2021 Sally co authored the Wiley commissioned white paper on 5G AI-Enabled Automation with Dr David Soldani of Huawei.
In 2020 Sally co founded technology focussed media, communications and marketing agency LAMPS Media with Luke Stow. Within its first year of business, LAMPS Media secured contracts with some of the largest technology brands globally including Oracle and Salesforce.
Sally has been featured on podcasts across the world speaking on a range of topics including business, entrepreneurship, technology, cyber security, marketing, social media, leadership, LinkedIn and the future of work.