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Robert Veel has a B.A., Dip.Ed adn M.Ed from the University of Sydney. Since 1989 he has taught Italian language and medieval and Renaissance Italian history at the Centre for Continuing Education. Robert is a founding director of Academy Travel, a Sydney-based cultural tour opeator, and regularly leads tours to Italy, the United States and Asia.

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Philipa has a BVA and MVA from Sydney College of the Arts / University of Sydney, and a Grad Dip Comm and BTeach from UTS. She is a practising artist, writer and visual arts educator. Her artworks employ a range of practices and forms including film, sound, drawing and installation to investigate the psychic and material event of rupture that partitions our experience of the natural and the industrialised world. Philipa has exhibited nationally and internationally in over 100 solo and group exhibitions and screenings, and has curated more than a dozen exhibitions. She is an active member of the Sydney visual arts community, and was co-director of Firstdraft (1996-1997), and Loose projects (2006-2007).

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Maggie Videan is a Learning and Development professional with a special interest in the area of professional development for the Executive Assistant. Her qualifications include a Bachelor of Arts (Psychology, Education & Communication) and a Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment. Maggie’s experience includes speaking at national conferences, conducting in-house training for Executive Assistants, writing for EA-specific publications and delivering training at the Centre for Continuing Education where she has been a tutor for over 15 years.

Maggie has been privy to the many challenges and issues facing the present-day EA and continues to provide up-to-date learning opportunities to keep the skills of the current day EA relevant and meaningful.

Having worked across a wide and diverse range of industries, Maggie is an experienced educator, presenter and facilitator, and her training sessions are highly interactive and engaging.

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Teacher of Social Sciences at Kincoppal Rose Bay Secondary School.

Former Corporate Communications consultant with Ogilvy Australia: working for clients including Woodside Petroleum and Credit Suisse.

Former advisor to Federal Minister for Education, Science and Training.

Former Researcher in European Parliament.

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Michelle holds a PhD in Education. She has taught in Rehabilitation Sciences, Health Sciences and Occupational Therapy professional programs since 2001.

Michelle's teaching has focused on disability theory, research methodology, paediatric occupational therapy practice and community development. Michelle arrived at academic teaching, curriculum development, and research as a result of her formative experiences in international community development.

Working with the International Centre for the Advancement of Community Based Rehabilitation (ICACBR), Queen's University, Michelle has contributed to capacity development for rehabilitation service providers in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Russia. More recently, Michelle has contributed to program development and evaluation of community-based Social Care development in Sri Lanka, and Maternal Child Health and Disability development in Bangladesh.

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Christina Vine-Hall has worked within the FMCG and Healthcare corporate environment for over 20 years in various senior management roles and as part of executive business teams. Her focus has been primarily in the areas of strategic business planning, development of best practice consumer planning frameworks, and training and development capability programmes for marketing and sales.

Her experience within her role of Research and Planning Director at GlaxoSmithKline extended to involvement at Board and Executive Team level and resulted in Christina championing best practice consumer insight programmes in both local and international markets. She was actively involved with driving the Simply Better Way cultural change programme which developed behaviours and work practices aimed at building capabilities to prepare business leaders and teams to respond to challenges and created an organisation that could sustain success.

Christina draws on a unique base of research practices and industry contacts to bring fresh perspectives and insights into the business planning process. The quality of critical business decisions are enhanced through her ability to introduce new and different frames of reference for the organisation to view its challenges through. This allows Senior Management and Executive business teams to explore different scenarios using the insight gained to identify critical leverage points, which could ultimately lead to a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

Christina was actively involved for many years with the Australian Market and Social Research Society of Australia, developing courses, sourcing speakers and as lecturer/presenter. She was a Committee member and NSW representative for Professional Development Programme

Christina has always had a passion for working with people to help them maximise their impact and realise their potential. She has been a key driver of cultural change programmes drawing on her extensive facilitation, strategic insight and creative problem solving skills to optimise results.

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CSIRO Education is a quality provider of science education with a track record of over 25 years in presenting science outreach to schools, gifted and talented programs and in the public arena. Our Education Officers are all science graduates with qualifications also in science communication or education. Our staff experiences extend to working in a research context, teaching across the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors, as well as presenting to audiences in Science Centres and Museums in Australia and overseas.

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Marc has extensive global experience in the governance and leadership of major capital investments. As Vice President and Project Director with both BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, he led large-scale and mega-projects and held investment committee and independent peer review roles. In Marc’s most recent role with BHP Billiton, he led one of the largest projects globally in the mining sector; the expansion of the Olympic Dam Mine in South Australia. Marc joined the John Grill Centre as Chief Executive in 2013.

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Anne is an experienced teacher whose passion lies in delivering languages to students of all ages and backgrounds. She first began teaching German at the Goethe Institute in Sydney, and her role included the facilitation of classes, one-on-on tutoring and the delivery of business courses to international companies. Anne’s experience has also included a support role teaching German at a selective high school, volunteering at a Primary School in Ghana, and at present, as a primary school teacher.

Anne holds a BEd in Primary Education from Macquarie University and a BA in Communications and Media Studies from the University of Technology.

Anne continues to grow her professional development and expertise to support the diverse needs of all participants.

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Mandy is an IT professional with over 30 years of experience in delivering transformational technology training services across a broad range of industries. Her expertise lies in curriculum development and the design and delivery of Microsoft Office training solutions.

She has an established record in managing technical change projects in ICT infrastructure roles and has a proven track history of achieving outstanding results in the transformation training change space within the legal, financial, and education industries and for private and public sector clients.

Mandy designs training solutions in collaboration with her clients using a detailed training needs analysis to determine the training specifications and delivery outcomes required for the professional development of technical and general staff.

Her experience includes instructional design, coaching, strategic planning, organisational development, change management, e-learning, project management, mentoring, curriculum development, and delivery/facilitation of training programs across a variety of industries as well as the reportable monitoring and evaluation of learning outcomes.