For nearly 10 years, Arabella Gibson has been the CEO of Gidget Foundation Australia, a national not-for-profit mental health organisation supporting the emotional wellbeing of expectant and new parents and their families.

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Arabella has a passion for improving support systems for expectant and new parents by building emotionally resilient families. Since joining the Foundation, Arabella has expanded its Gidget House program offering face-to-face psychology support to cover all states and territories with 48 physical sites. Under her leadership, the Foundation has introduced new programs providing direct support including Start Talking, offering nationwide telehealth services for regional, rural and remote communities and Gidget Village, offering group therapy support to those in parents experiencing perinatal depression and anxiety.

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Arabella was also instrumental in developing an innovative workforce development program which facilitates specialist clinicians to be mentored and supported whilst delivering services as well as completing a Graduate Diploma in Perinatal Mental Health – the first of its kind in the country.

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Arabella is a Non-Executive Director of Motherland, an organisation that supports rural mothers by connecting them to a supportive online community and mothers group program that rural mums can access, regardless of location. Furthermore, she is the Chair of the Board of national peak body, Perinatal Mental Health Australia, which delivers Perinatal Mental Health Week annually and is a Member of the NSW Mental Health Commission’s Suicide Prevention Council.

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Arabella participated in the advisory group to devise the Australian Government’s Women’s Health Strategy for 2020 to 2030 in Canberra and contributed to the COVID-19 National Mental Health Strategy for Children, Young People and Parents. In 2020, she was awarded the Governor-General’s Medal for community service during the COVID-19 period.

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Named as the Not-For-Profit Executive of the Year in 2022, Arabella was also a Finalist in the Women’s Agenda Leadership Awards in 2019 and a Finalist in the NSW Government’s 2023 overall NSW Women of the Year Awards. In 2026, she was awarded the Ferris Family Harvard Club of Australia Non-Profit Fellowship to attend Harvard Business School, completing the Strategic Perspectives in Non-Profit Management program.

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Arabella joined Gidget Foundation Australia after a lengthy career in the media industry, working in management for small business as well as publicly listed entities in both Australia and the UK.

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Arabella was formerly General Manager UK of iSUBSCRiBE, an online magazine subscription business, based in London.

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Before moving to the UK, Arabella was the Director of Communications for Australian media entity PBL Media (now Nine Entertainment Co) as well as its subsidiary businesses Nine Network Australia and ARE Media (formerly ACP Magazines). Arabella was promoted to this role having held the position of Group Public Relations & Media Manager for ACP Magazines, responsible for the PR and communication of over 80 titles.

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Before joining ACP Magazines, Arabella was General Manager – Marketing & Sales for Australian icon brand, RM Williams, for 5 years, managing both the local and international marketing and retail business.

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Prior to that, Arabella was General Manager of leading public relations firm, Colvin Communications International, which included clients such as Louis Vuitton, Krug Champagne, the Leading Hotels of the World, MAC cosmetics, the Cointreau Ball, ACP Magazines and RM Williams among many others.

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Arabella holds a Masters Degree in Communication Management from the University of Technology, Sydney and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors Course. Arabella is a mother to twins – a son and a daughter.