About
Sally Webster is a senior education, technology and policy leader, and Chief Operations, Strategy & Growth Officer at Life Skills GO. She leads enterprise strategy, operational maturity, strategic growth, partnerships, policy engagement and AI-enabled transformation to help scale Life Skills GO’s impact across schools, systems and global education markets. Sally is known as a connector and translator between educators, technologists, policymakers and sector leaders. Her career has focused on turning complex education, wellbeing and technology challenges into practical, high-value solutions that improve learning, equity, access and student outcomes. Across senior roles with the NSW Department of Education and Amazon Web Services, Sally has contributed to major education reform, digital learning strategy, EdTech procurement, international education, system transformation and national policy conversations. At the NSW Department of Education, her work included selective education reform, the COVID-19 Learning from Home response, digital assurance through the Online Learning Tools Panel, major incident management, and emergency-response initiatives supporting continuity of learning across bushfires, floods and the pandemic. Sally has held a range of governance, advisory and sector leadership roles, including Ex-Officio Director on the Public Education Foundation Board, StudyNSW Board Delegate, member of the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority Digital Technologies Working Group, and Chair of the NSW Cross-Border Community – Education portfolio. More recently, she served on the EdTech New Zealand Council and represented AWS as Chair of Project 5 within the NSW Digital Skills and Workforce Compact, supporting K–12 digital skilling programs for teachers and students. Her contribution extends to national and international education forums, including work with the Global Partnership for Education, the World Bank, and global roundtable discussions connected to the United Nations Transforming Education Summit. At AWS, Sally set the K–12 strategy for Australia and New Zealand, led AWS’s submission to the Australian Parliament’s inquiry into generative AI in education, appeared as a witness before the inquiry, and contributed to national work informing the Australian Framework for Generative Artificial Intelligence in Schools. Sally is a passionate advocate for using technology with purpose — not for technology’s sake, but to create meaningful and measurable impact for students, teachers, schools and communities. Through National Check-In Week, she is committed to elevating student voice, strengthening wellbeing insight, and supporting educators and leaders with the data, tools and evidence they need to meet every child where they are.