Blended Online MHFA Financial Service Professionals Course

Canva Champion

Audience and Purpose in Business Writing

Business Strategy for the Post-pandemic Economy

Building a Digital Market via Websites and Email

Becoming Your Own Best Boss

COVID-19: A Novel Coronavirus

Clarity and Conciseness in Business Writing

Conducting an Effective Hiring Interview

Developing Diplomacy and Tact

Expert Insights on Managing Fear

Expert Insights on Managing Stress

Developing a Growth Mindset

ITIL® 4 Foundation: Introduction

ITIL® Service Operation Concepts

Leadercamp on-demand: Women's Career Development Amidst the Pink Pandemic

Marketing: Copywriting for Social Media

Product, Pricing, and Promotion in the Marketing Mix

Prospecting: Panning for Sales Gold

Selling with Stories, Part 1: What Makes a Great Story?

Territory Proud is a non for profit organisation that is a positive voice for all businesses in the Northern Territory.

Chair

Taking on the challenge of engaging and growing membership in the Northern Territory for AIOP and hosting events to connect and encourage members.

Northern Territory Facilitator

I hold the license for LinkedIn Local - Darwin - a set of monthly events held by LinkedIn members in Darwin, encouraged and supported by LinkedIn.

Licensee & Facilitator

The Smith Family is a national charity helping young Australians in need to get the most out of their education, so they can create better futures for themselves.

Future Seekers is a program that provides students in Years 6, 7 and 8 with early exposure to the world of work. Over seven weeks, students attend hour-long sessions with classmates at school that help fill the gaps in career network and support systems.

Future Seekers Mentor

Activate includes a wide range of elements to help build entrepreneurial mindsets in schools from teacher professional development, curriculum resources and assessment tools. Activate is an easy – and fun- way for teachers to embed Project Based Learning in all their classrooms.

Volunteer Entrepreneur in Residence - Rochedale State High School

Boys Step Up is a program by The Smith Family in the Northern Territory. It is designed to introduce boys in Year 9 to mentors working in various industries who have stories to tell about how their careers have grown and what they are doing now. The idea is to show boys that there are many options for future careers - even starting businesses of their own.

Boys Step Up Mentor

Volunteered as a mentor to two groups of business and entrepreneurship students at Charles Darwin University under the direction of Prof. Ulrike Kachel.

Volunteer Entrepreneurship Mentor

In 2022 I have been invited to be on the judging panel for the Real Estate Institute of Victoria's annual Awards.

Judge for Annual Awards for Professional Excellence

Committee Member

Providing free assistance to seniors and those requiring digital assistance with regards to their online and technology safety.

BeConnected eSafety Program

Marketing and digital advisor to the committee of Skal International Darwin

Committee Member with specific role in marketing and digital media/communications.

Darwin Pride

Selected to be a judge for the Australian Podcast Awards from 2022 forward.

Awards Judge

Landmark Forum

Master of Business Information Systems

Bachelor of Marketing

Landmark Advanced Course

Marketing Consultant

Upon handing over ownership of Clickstarter to the new owner, I have stayed on as a digital delivery consultant to assist with connection clients of Clickstarter with the correct products and services.

Digital Delivery Consultant

Public Speaking Coach and Group Learning Facilitator of Speakstarter. Founded in late 2022, Speakstarter uses a lower-impact and gentler approach to learning the art of public speaking. Teaching locals in Darwin in-person and for those outside Darwin via remote learning on Zoom/Teams/Google Meet.

Principal Educator

- Provided professional digital advise to small businesses in NT, WA and QLD
- Hosted over 200 workshops an webinars over 3 years to increase small business digital skills
- Responsible for over 80% of KPIs achieved by the contractor
- Consistently achieved 90+ percent in client feedback surveys

ASBAS Digital Solutions Advisor

- connecting digital solutions with business clients across Australia
- providing grant access advice to small business clients of Treeti
- participation in digital projects and contracts won by Treeti
- providing subject matter expertise across social, marketing, SEO to Treeti and it's clients
- growing Treeti's client base
- leading ASBAS Digital Solutions activity across the Northern Territory

Digital Advisor & Business Development

Head of Treeti's role in the Australian Small Business Advisory Services Digital Solutions program in partnership with the Australian Government, AusIndustry, Business Station and Regional Development Australia Brisbane.

My key regions include:
- Darwin, Katherine, Alice Springs, Nhulunbuy and the Northern Territory

The scheme delivers low cost, high quality, digital advisory services to small businesses in metropolitan and regional areas across four digital priority areas:

1. Websites & Online Selling
2. Social Media & Digital Marketing
3. Using Small Business Software
4. Online Security & Data Privacy

My role includes:

1. Coordination of 1:1 advisory sessions between clients and our advisory team
2. Coordination of the many workshops held in the NT and North Queensland
3. Liaising with our program partners in WA and QLD to ensure that our resources are also made available to their service areas (and vice versa)
4. Growing our advisory team from 16 to over 30 in our service areas

Head of Digital Solutions

- Mentored participants in the NEIS program in the Darwin and Alice Springs regions
- Assisted in establishing and growing self-employment businesses
- Actively improved the relationship between the NEIS program and others in the jobs and self-employment space such as the Entrepreneurship Facilitators contractor, Job Ready providers and the Department of Education, Skills & Employment

NEIS Mentor (Darwin & Alice Springs)

Digital solutions consultant for the BECNT's Australian Small Business Advisory Scheme, by AusIndustry, for Northern Australian Tourism, Indigenous Business and Small Business. This includes Darwin-based workshops, one-to-one consultation and digital service provision to over 200 small businesses each year.

Digital Solutions Consultant

Digital Media Consultant

Sales Executive

On-site and video-conference-based Technology Tutor for micro and small businesses and individuals. Sold this business off to a Gold Coast local to concentrate on opportunities in the NT.

Technology Educator

- Started the NT Founders Pre-Accelerator Program
- Host "How to start a new business" workshops
- Graduated 15 Startup Founder students in Q1 2022
- Linked over 12 different business support providers with this program
- Providing a funnel for participation in 3 specific startup support programs

Startup Mentor

- Digital Solutions Advisor for small businesses in NT, WA and QLD.
- Referred by others for the "hard stuff" and "difficult clients"
- Specialties in advanced social media, fixing website problems, CRM systems, graphic design systems, startup support, cybersecurity and productivity systems
- New business setup and support
- Supporting and growing the startup community in Darwin region

Digital Solutions Advisor & Entrepreneurship Facilitator

- 1 of 5 Meta Community Trainers in Australia
- Delivered training modules. in-person across 12 markets in regional Australia
- Part of a team that has delivered training to over 20,000 businesses
- Consistently maintained and exceeded knowledge and study requirements for program

Meta (Facebook) Australia & New Zealand Community Trainer

- Delivered 500+ WordPress, Wix, Joomla & Shopify websites since 2017
- Delivered 100+ Social Media & Marketing Strategies
- Delivered 400+ digital marketing paid campaigns
- Delivered 250 + SEO projects

Founder & Proprietor

Investing in big ideas & training the new generation of entrepreneurs.

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