Sharon Gough

CEO, Indigo Junction

Sharon is the CEO Of Indigo Junction, a Specialist Homelessness and Family Violence Provider in the Northeast Metro region of Perth WA. Her career has focused heavily on system reform, service design, strategic partnerships and advocacy in response to the needs of people experiencing homelessness and disadvantage.   Sharon is a 2017 Churchill Fellow, Social Impact Leadership Australia graduate and an experienced not-for-profit Board Director.  

With a focus on Youth Homelessness Sharon travelled overseas as part of a Churchill Fellowship. She visited New Zealand and Canada in search of new ideas, innovation and excellence with regards young people leaving care who were at high risk of homelessness.  This international perspective involved visiting Youth Homelessness services and the analysis of the well-established Housing First Canadian Homelessness Service System.  The aim of this work was to bring ideas and innovation back to the WA Community.  

Sharon has been instrumental in the establishment of the WA Housing First for Youth model and is a member of the WA Government’s Ministerial Housing First Advisory Committee.  

Sharon lives with her partner in Gidgegannup WA on the unceded lands of the Noongar Whadjuk people.