The Investment Case across the Life Course
Every stage contributes to one interconnected economic system. Every investment across the life-course strengthens the system.
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First Quarter of Life
Pregnancy, early childhood, education, family support, and youth wellbeing. The evidence base for early intervention is overwhelming - every dollar invested here returns an estimated $7-17 in long-term economic value.
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Working Life
Workplaces, leadership, mental health, capability development, psychological safety, women and diverse cohort workforce participation, and healthy working environments.
03
Healthy Ageing
Cognitive health, dementia prevention, purpose, social connection, technology, regional care, and community innovation.
Emily Chapple is a leading voice on Brain Capital: the idea that cognitive, emotional, and social capability should be treated as core economic infrastructure.
Over more than a decade in consulting, she has worked across government, defence, healthcare, and financial services, helping complex institutions translate evidence into strategy and execution.
She is the author of the Brain Capital Campaign — a six-part series making the economic case for Brain Capital across the life-course — and is building Australia's first unified Brain Capital cost model: a single, current view of what these deficits cost the economy today, and what they will cost over the next decade if left unaddressed. The purpose is not only to name the cost, but to guide where capital goes — helping venture investors and startups, workplaces, governments, and institutions identify and back the interventions that protect and grow Brain Capital.
Selected credentials
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Senior Manager, Social Impact & Policy at EY Oceania
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World Economic Forum Public-Private Collaboration Award
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White House Forum on Innovation in Defence System Support
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Executive Education in Mental Health Leadership from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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Global Brain Economy Initiative contributor
ABOUT EMILY
I'm building the model — and the investment case — for Australia's brain economy.
I'm building the model — and the investment case — for Australia's brain economy.
I'm building the model — and the investment case — for Australia's brain economy.
Mental ill-health and suicide cost Australia $220 billion annually
Australian workplaces lose up to $40 billion annually through reduced workforce participation, absenteeism and presenteeism due to mental health issues
24.8% to 28.6% of GDP by 2062–63, driven largely by health, aged care, and the NDIS
The annual economic burden of Dementia is forecasted to be $26.6 billion by 2041
The Investment Case across the Life Course
The Investment Case across the Life Course
Every stage contributes to one interconnected economic system. Every investment across the life-course strengthens the system.
Every stage contributes to one interconnected economic system. Every investment across the life-course strengthens the system.
01
First Quarter of Life
First Quarter of Life
Pregnancy, early childhood, education, family support, and youth wellbeing. The evidence base for early intervention is overwhelming - every dollar invested here returns an estimated $7-17 in long-term economic value.
02
Working Life
Working Life
Workplaces, leadership, mental health, capability development, psychological safety, women and diverse cohort workforce participation, and healthy working environments.
03
Healthy Ageing
Healthy Ageing
Cognitive health, dementia prevention, purpose, social connection, technology, regional care, and community innovation.
Selected credentials
→
→
Senior Manager, Social Impact & Policy at EY Oceania
→
World Economic Forum Public-Private Collaboration Award
→
White House Forum on Innovation in Defence System Support
→
Executive Education in Mental Health Leadership from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
→
Global Brain Economy Initiative contributor
Emily Chapple is a leading voice on Brain Capital: the idea that cognitive, emotional, and social capability should be treated as core economic infrastructure.
Over more than a decade in consulting, she has worked across government, defence, healthcare, and financial services, helping complex institutions translate evidence into strategy and execution.
Emily Chapple is a leading voice on Brain Capital: the idea that cognitive, emotional, and social capability should be treated as core economic infrastructure.
Over more than a decade in consulting, she has worked across government, defence, healthcare, and financial services, helping complex institutions translate evidence into strategy and execution.
She is the author of the Brain Capital Campaign — a six-part series making the economic case for Brain Capital across the life-course — and is building Australia's first unified Brain Capital cost model: a single, current view of what these deficits cost the economy today, and what they will cost over the next decade if left unaddressed. The purpose is not only to name the cost, but to guide where capital goes — helping venture investors and startups, workplaces, governments, and institutions identify and back the interventions that protect and grow Brain Capital.
She is the author of the Brain Capital Campaign — a six-part series making the economic case for Brain Capital across the life-course — and is building Australia's first unified Brain Capital cost model: a single, current view of what these deficits cost the economy today, and what they will cost over the next decade if left unaddressed. The purpose is not only to name the cost, but to guide where capital goes — helping venture investors and startups, workplaces, governments, and institutions identify and back the interventions that protect and grow Brain Capital.