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Darren has worked in a diverse range of roles in both the public and private sectors and has been running a successful consultancy for over 15 years. His key areas of expertise are training and assessment design and delivery, human resource management, management and leadership, strategic, operational and project management, and change management.

He assists clients in developing more effective project management approaches and systems. He has also been involved in operational and strategic planning as a manager and later in his career as a consultant. In particular, he has played a key role in a range of strategic and cultural change programs.

He has designed learning programs for clients such as the Australian Institute of Management, NSW Health, NSW Police Force, Kaplan International, Nikon, Coty International, Jemena Gas, CPB, Tyco, and Westpac. He has facilitated numerous training programs, demonstrating his ability to engage diverse audiences.

Darren's qualifications showcase his commitment to professional development. He holds a Master's degree in Education, a Graduate Diploma in HR Management, and multiple diplomas in project management, vocational education, training and assessment, WHS, and leadership.

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Mr Costa Loucopoulos is and English and drama teacher/tutor/lecturer. He was the 2011 recipient of the NSW Professional Teachers Council award for outstanding professional service in drama. He has been teaching the subject for over 22 years, including being Drama Method Tutor/Lecturer at The Universities of NSW and Western Sydney. He is currently enrolled in a PhD at The University of Sydney, where he has also lectures and tutors in Education and The Arts.

Costa’s key interest is developing students' critical awareness, writing skills and participation in civics. He has also been training teachers both here and overseas for over four years and consistently receives good feedback for his practical and well resourced courses.

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Jo-Anne is a specialist in management with more than 20 years of industry experience in the public and private sectors. She has more than 15 years experience in teaching adults and on the job training. She developed and delivered training for many government departments such as the ATO, RTA, Centrelink and ADI and has written, delivered and developed resources for the NSW Premier’s Department for cross agency delivery. She has also provided training services to corporate clients such as Chep, Cleanaway, David Jones, IBM, Woolworths, CSR, Hewlett Packard, Tomago Aluminium, BHP and Coca Cola Amatil, along with many small businesses.

Jo also provides human resource consultancy and training to all levels of business and industry in a range of areas in order to improve their customer service ability, improve their productivity and quality.

Jo-Anne holds a Bachelor of Education (Communications) a Diploma of Teaching, an Executive Coaching Certificate and a number of VET qualifications.

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Dr Georgina Loveridge is an experienced HSC English marker, Senior English Teacher and Assistant Head of Department (English Stage 6). Georgina holds a Graduate Diploma of Education from the University of New South Wales, a Doctorate in Philosophy (English) and a Master of Arts (Coursework) both from the University of Sydney.

Over the past decade, Georgina has taught English in a range of Sydney schools including Cranbrook, St Catherine’s and Waverley College. She currently teaches English at Ascham School.

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Loves Data is a rapidly growing digital marketing and measurement company based in Sydney, specialising in website optimisation using Google Analytics, online advertising with Google AdWords and conversion testing.

As a Google Certified Partner, we let data drive improvement of our client’s accounts. We provide our clients with the best data-driven solutions to achieve high quality results for their businesses.

Our friendly team is comprised of highly skilled and experienced professionals who work closely with you to focus on your specific needs. We provide integrated online marketing consulting for our clients and offer training in both Google Analytics and Google AdWords.

We provide certified consulting, training and support for a unique set of Google online marketing tools to help all types of organisations increase targeted traffic to their websites to improve leads, conversions and ROI (Return On Investment).

Our clients include SMBs (Small and Medium Businesses), corporations, government departments, education providers and nonprofit organisations.

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Elizabeth Lowe. Tutor of CCE

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Victoria Loy. Tutor of CCE

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Jia Lu has extensive experience as a Chinese language teacher. A key part of her approach is her personal belief that creating an interactive and enjoyable learning environment is very important for adult language learning. Through her teaching, Jia Lu focuses on facilitating students to gain an understanding of language as well as establishing a good foundation of abilities in self learning; the two key elements that enable adult learners to memorise what they have learnt from class. This dual method is a proven way of encouraging students to make progress in their studies; by ‘building on’ instead of ‘losing out’ on what they have learnt in class.

As a trilingual (Chinese, Japanese & English) speaker, language teacher and translator, Lu Jia draws from her own experiences of learning languages to offer a creative and student-centred approach. Everyone learns differently, so she is keen to discover each student’s strength and maximise it to help overcome their weaknesses in language learning. Imagination and creativity are seen by her as an essential part of this process.

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Betty was born in Vietnam, migrated to Australia in 1991 and has been working in the Health Service for 20 years. She is currently working as a Vietnamese Health Education Officer in South Western Sydney Area Health Service. Betty has a special interest in teaching Vietnamese language. She holds a Diploma of Interpreting (1998) Accredited as Interpreter Level 2 (NAATI) since 1999 and was a SOCOG Language Specialist at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. She has a Certificate in Communicative Language Teaching from the University of New South Wales (2001), was a teacher at Green Valley Vietnamese Language School (2000 – 2003) and is a member of the Vietnamese Parent Committee of Green Valley Vietnamese Language School (2003 – present).

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Georgina Luscombe is Associate Professor of Rural Health at The University of Sydney School of Rural Health. Her research supports the rural health research agenda, with a focus on innovative rural service delivery models, rural health workforce development and health issues directly impacting rural populations. Working in collaboration with the Western NSW Local Health District, her research and evaluation work aims to improve health services and public health policy and practice.

Georgina has a broad range of expertise in medical and allied health research, particularly in the design and implementation of research with community organisations and clinicians. She strives to achieve fairer participation of Aboriginal people in healthcare and in health research and believes that privileging of Indigenous ways of knowing will lead to improvements in health for Aboriginal people.