An Indigenous woman who is behind two successful education-related businesses is fielding enquiries from around the world as she enters the next stage of growth.

Sydney's Lesley Woodhouse is the CEO and founder of Wingaru Education, which develops and delivers programs and resources to support schools and teachers in the classroom.

Wingaru is also a resource accessed by organisations wanting to increase cultural competency in the workplace.

"Wingaru is an Aboriginal-owned-and-operated business and our mission is to change the narrative around the issues impacting Indigenous communities via greater understanding and shared knowledge for the wider community," Ms Woodhouse said.

"Wingaru is helping to change the way Australia thinks about our community, because if we're honest, Aboriginal education hasn't changed since the 1980s.

"Our goal is to support schools to educate in culturally safe ways and share Aboriginal perspectives. It also gives non-Aboriginal teachers a way to bring those perspectives into the learning environment that isn't tokenistic."

Currently, around 500 schools use Wingaru Education, with teachers saying they feel so much more confident about teaching Aboriginal culture in the classroom with the resource.

More recently, Ms Woodhouse has launched ClassHive, which is a management platform designed to store the entire suite of digital tools and resources.

The idea for ClassHive was conceptualised during the COVID-19 pandemic when she saw the amount of time that it took kids to log into online learning resources being supplied by the school.

Woodhouse explains that ClassHive set out to make the lives of both teachers and students a little easier.

"A teacher trying to log in 30 kids with individual passwords is a hell that only a teacher can understand. ClassHive gives each student a simple code that accesses a dashboard with all of their learning resources in it," Ms Woodhouse said.

She launched the businesses with her husband and business partner, who has been involved in the edutech space for a long time.

The proud Dharug woman from the Boorooberongal clan is passionate about inclusive education and the necessity to provide simplified tools for teachers.

As a fierce advocate of Indigenous entrepreneurship, she says the first lesson along the way has been the benefit of trusting her ideas. She admits it's been a tough slog by the broader team in the business, particularly turning down investor opportunities that weren't the right fit.

"Trust your ideas. When I launched Wingaru Kids, a lot of people were questioning what I was wanting to do and questioning how my ideas were different to what was already in the space," Ms Woodhouse said.

"The key is to find people who share your vision and are willing to help you fill in the gaps. Find people who are accepting of the way you want to work and believe in your grand vision.

"Get your business direction foundations right early on, because that's what everything else is built on."

Ms Woodhouse admits there are times she has felt disheartened, recalling a time she was questioned about how she has funded the business in the launch phase at an Edutech trade event.

"One of the questions was around how can you be an Aboriginal business when you're using teachnology, and how is this authentic when this is using a screen, which was a narrow view of what culture is and what Aboriginal people can do," she said.

A number of people at the event also asked her how she funded the business, despite this question not being put to non-Indigenous businesses.

"The thing is we didn't ask for a hand-out. We did the hard work ourselves. We built the business from the ground up because we knew it was going to be great," Ms Woodhouse said.

She admits she was mildly offended about being asked the questions.

"In all my years I've learnt that people often go straight to those negative stereotypes associated with Aborigoinal people and often haven't even considered that an Aboriginal person can put together the funds to build the tech," she said.

"It's an extra bias that Indigenous businesses often have to face."

Being in a business that educated others felt like a natural fit for her based on her upbringing, Woodhouse says.

"When I look at my Elders, a lot were in the Aboriginal education space, which has helped to pave the way for us to get to where we are now."