Experience

Council of Australian Life Insurers (CALI)

• Australia
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Communications

  • May 2023 - Present

  My key responsibilities and activities include: • Ensuring high-level, understandable and effective communications output across the organisation, both to CALI members and the broader Australian community • Developing communications tools and campaigns with a focus on contributing to a growing and sustainable life insurance industry that best serves the needs of Australians My key responsibilities and activities include: • Ensuring high-level, understandable and effective communications output across the organisation, both to CALI members and the broader Australian community • Developing communications tools and campaigns with a focus on contributing to a growing and sustainable life insurance industry that best serves the needs of Australians



89 Degrees East

• Australia
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Media & Communications Consultant

  • Apr 2020 - May 2023

  This role involved providing high-level communications support for an extensive list of corporate, government and not for profit clients including MECCA, Specsavers, Digital Transformation Agency, Save the Children, Iluka, Great Barrier Reef Foundation, Fortescue Future Industries, Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics, Marinus Link, Afterpay, Academy for Enterprising Girls, Accelerator for Enterprising Women, Cyber Wardens, Innovation Victoria, UnitingCare Australia, Human Services Skills Organisation, Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, Into Our Hands and Fifteen Times Better. My key responsibilities and activities included: • Providing bespoke media and presentation training to help public & corporate sector executives speak with confidence, purpose and impact • Facilitating sessions with a series of practical exercises focused on developing storytelling skills to engage an audience • Providing considered advice and assistance underpinned by more than decade as a national television journalist and a deep understanding of how to thrive in high-pressure environments including live television broadcasts, parliamentary inquiries and in times of crisis • Providing strategic advice, communications support and assistance with stakeholder engagement Show less



Michels Warren Public Relations

• Australia
• Public Relations and Communications Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Media & Communications Consultant

  • Jun 2020 - Apr 2023

  My key responsibilities and activities included: • Facilitating the Michels Warren 5PR media training program for public and private sector clients including the CSIRO, TAFE and many others • Running comprehensive half-day sessions that included simulated radio and television interviews professionally recorded for playback purposes • Building the confidence of participants to ensure they lay the foundations for a career-long skill in public speaking with presence and poise My key responsibilities and activities included: • Facilitating the Michels Warren 5PR media training program for public and private sector clients including the CSIRO, TAFE and many others • Running comprehensive half-day sessions that included simulated radio and television interviews professionally recorded for playback purposes • Building the confidence of participants to ensure they lay the foundations for a career-long skill in public speaking with presence and poise



Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) Australia

• Australia
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 700 & Above Employee

• Political Reporter

  • Sep 2016 - Apr 2020

  My key responsibilities and activities included: • Maintaining strong political contacts including at a senior ministerial and departmental level • Overseeing all Canberra content with consistent attention to detail • Delivering live political analysis for SBS World News • Helping train and assist other team members My key achievements include: • Covering the Asia Pacific Tour of US Vice President Mike Pence in 2017 • Covering the 2018 Liberal leadership spill in Canberra and numerous federal budgets • Successfully managing staff when the Chief Political Correspondent has been on leave • Working autonomously and in a team to deliver original and exclusive content cross-platform Show less



CNN

• United States
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 700 & Above Employee

• International Fellow

  • Sep 2018 - Oct 2018

  Prestigious CNN Fellowship program for journalists around the world, which involves being based at CNN headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia for two weeks. My key responsibilities and activities included: • Attending editorial meetings with senior CNN staff • Assisting senior CNN staff with coverage regarding Australia • Liaising with journalists from around the world to compare operations Prestigious CNN Fellowship program for journalists around the world, which involves being based at CNN headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia for two weeks. My key responsibilities and activities included: • Attending editorial meetings with senior CNN staff • Assisting senior CNN staff with coverage regarding Australia • Liaising with journalists from around the world to compare operations



Seven Network

• Australia
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 700 & Above Employee

• Political Reporter

  • Jul 2014 - Aug 2016

  My key responsibilities & activities included:• Political Analysis• Working under pressure, both autonomously & in a team, to cover seven national programs• Overseas assignments including Prince Charles’ Royal tour of New Zealand & various Prime Ministerial trips abroad (Abbott & Turnbull governments)• Forming solid contacts within senior ranks of federal government (ministerial level)• Live rolling news coverage including Sydney siege & Paris terror attacks• Concise writing & strong communication skills Show less

• Reporter | Producer | Presenter

  • Jan 2010 - Jul 2014

  My key responsibilities & activities included:• Fill-in state political reporter• Presenting hourly updates from the news desk• Producing nightly bulletins including layout, timing, editing, news content• Writing, presenting & editing TV scripts to tight deadlines• Reporting live from remote locations & under pressure• Training junior staff



Monastery Stays

• Adelaide, South Australia

• Communications Officer & Travel Consultant

  • Dec 2009 - Jun 2010

  My key responsibilities & activities included: • Making travel bookings for global clientele at monasteries & convents in Italy • Liaising with directors from more than 500 venues throughout Italy, in Italian • Producing content for the Monastery Stays global website My key responsibilities & activities included: • Making travel bookings for global clientele at monasteries & convents in Italy • Liaising with directors from more than 500 venues throughout Italy, in Italian • Producing content for the Monastery Stays global website



The Naracoorte Herald

• Naracoorte, South Australia

• Journalist

  • Jul 2009 - Dec 2009

  My key responsibilities and activities included: • Writing print news articles for weekly publications including the Naracoorte Herald, the Kingston Leader and the Border Chronicle • Conducting interviews, taking photos and sourcing story ideas for a local audience in rural South Australia My key responsibilities and activities included: • Writing print news articles for weekly publications including the Naracoorte Herald, the Kingston Leader and the Border Chronicle • Conducting interviews, taking photos and sourcing story ideas for a local audience in rural South Australia