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Samantha Tinsley

Board Director

Samantha Tinsley is an accomplished executive and experienced not-for-profit leader with more than 25 years’ experience spanning governance, strategic leadership, sales and marketing, strategic partnerships and organisational leadership. She brings a unique combination of commercial expertise and purpose-driven leadership, making her a valued addition to the Warrior Woman Foundation Board.

Throughout her career, Samantha has held senior executive roles across both the corporate and community sectors, including leadership positions with Mission Australia, where she led strategic initiatives, stakeholder engagement and organisational growth. She has built a reputation for fostering strong partnerships, leading high-performing teams and delivering sustainable impact through collaboration and innovation.

Samantha has extensive experience in governance, strategy, stakeholder engagement and organisational transformation. She is passionate about supporting organisations that create meaningful social change and is committed to strengthening governance, advancing strategic priorities and contributing to long-term organisational success.

As a Board Director of Warrior Woman Foundation, Samantha is dedicated to supporting the organisation’s mission to empower vulnerable women and communities through culturally informed leadership, advocacy and education.

We provide a safe and welcoming space for young women to share, learn, heal and grow. Each young woman is connected with a mentor as well as a network of diverse community-minded women who provide ongoing support and share their life experiences, resources and opportunities:

  • Connection to a safe, stable, and socially inclusive network of female role models to turn to for advice and ongoing support for the duration of the six-month program.
  • Connection to a non-judgmental group of young women who are facing similar challenges.
  • Connection to Kindred Warrior Peers, young women who have experienced challenges in life and have gone on to achieve life success.
  • Weekly one-to-one mentoring sessions with a safe mentor.

We teach young women the life skills they need to succeed in everyday life. Our “teach a young woman to fish” approach gives them support and guidance at every step, knowing that true empowerment comes from them learning to do things for themselves. In particular, we focus on financial literacy and job readiness:

  • Life-skills workshops to build self-reliance.
  • A six-week Financial Literacy program (in partnership with MoneyGirl).
  • A four-week Job Readiness program.
  • Assistance in gaining and retaining meaningful employment.
  • Access to a range of vocational skills scholarships (e.g., Code Like a Girl) and internships.

Many young women experience trauma which negatively impacts their confidence, self-esteem and self-worth. We support and nurture the trauma healing process in safe psycho-educational workshops facilitated by experts. In these sessions, young women learn to engage with self-compassion, and to soften and contain threat-based emotions, such as fear and anxiety, anger, shame and self-criticism.