Meet the Founder: Jeanette Farren

Entrepreneur. Business Architect. Strategic Advisor.

Jeanette Farren helps founders build businesses that are structured, scalable and aligned with the life they want to lead.

Unlike many advisors who have spent their careers consulting to businesses, Jeanette has built them herself.

She co-founded and scaled diggiddydoggydaycare into one of Australia’s leading dog daycare brands before successfully exiting through acquisition by Petstock/Woolworths Group in 2019.

Since then, she has worked with founders, leadership teams and organisations to help transform complexity into clarity through strategy, systems and business architecture.

Through Lighthouse for Business and the Lighthouse Business Operating System™, Jeanette helps business owners move from founder-dependent businesses to structured, system-led organisations that are calm, profitable and built to last.

Her work spans strategic advisory, governance, leadership development, business systemisation, organisational design and future-focused innovation.

Jeanette currently serves as a Board Director, advisor and mentor across a range of commercial, social enterprise and innovation initiatives while continuing to build and invest in purpose-driven ventures.

Her philosophy is simple:

Businesses should create freedom, not dependency.

They should be profitable, sustainable and capable of thriving beyond the founder.

That belief sits at the heart of every engagement, every framework and every business she helps build.