Lead a century-old organisation through its most daring reinvention yet.
For more than 100 years, API Leisure & Lifestyle has been enriching Australian lives connecting communities, creating value, and building belonging. But legacy alone doesn’t define their future. They are embarking on the most exciting pivot in their history, and they are looking for a CEO ready to lead that charge.
This isn’t a role for the faint-hearted. API is reimagining what it means to serve community in the modern world, fusing purpose and performance, innovation and empathy.
They are building something enduring: a social enterprise that is commercially sharp, deeply human, and unapologetically ambitious. By 2030 they will be reinvesting success into people, communities, and programs that change lives.
At the heart of this transformation is their canopy Early Education and canopy Community brands – creating thriving, child-centred neighbourhood hubs that bring together young families, volunteers, educators, and local service providers. These are not just places of care and learning, they are ecosystems of connection, designed to enrich lives through community.
Be the architect of the next chapter
This role will lead a talented, values-driven team through transformation – setting a strategic course for growth, embedding a culture of excellence, and ensuring every decision drives impact and sustainability. The position will engage across government, community, and industry to amplify the API voice, build partnerships, and champion the API vision nationally.
We’re talking about leading an organisation that’s as commercially ambitious as it is socially driven.
- The Board is ready.
- The opportunity is real.
- The runway is long.
All that’s missing is the right leader – strategic, decisive and and inspire people to believe in what’s possible.
Not just a CEO role
If you’ve led organisations through change, if you know how to balance mission with margin, and if you believe community impact and commercial excellence can thrive side by side, we dare you not to apply.
It’s a legacy-defining opportunity to lead transformation with purpose, courage, and heart.
Intrigued? You should be.
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Applications Close 3 November 2025
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