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North Sydney, Nsw, Au

As a strategic advisor at Psyber, a leading cyber security training provider, I support the founder in developing long-term strategies, planning, and growth initiatives. My focus includes shaping the company's strategic direction, building a brand narrative, business development, and assisting in the formation of an advisory board to drive leadership and innovation in cyber security education.

Stanmore, Nsw, Au

Working with Osher Gunsberg to bring talent management in house. Consultancy includes media strategy, market analysis, Podcasting strategy, process and efficiency review, business development, team building, engagement with 3rd party service providers and negotiation.

Byron Bay, Nsw, Au

Engaged to Executive Produce a three day, live stream of the 2024 event on behalf of Splendour in the Grass and a global streaming platform. Wrote a project brief and tendered for a production partner to create the live stream, liaised with partners. Goals was to deliver a never before attempted, 30 hour livestream that would grow to become a cultural event engaging with viewing audiences across all screens

Brisbane, Qld, Au

Go1 is an online learning platform that aggregates training content from various providers, offering businesses a comprehensive solution for workforce training and development. • Appointed as the first Chief Content Officer for Go1 as the Australian founded start up entered a phase of global growth.• Member of Leadership Team• Tasked to oversee a global content library of over 100,000 learning items and responsible for all content partnerships activity and developing Learning Content across the platform and platform and partnership ecosystem.• Team management for 14 people covering acquisitions, content operations, curation, social responsibility, strategy, and partner management located in Australia, US, UK and France.

Los Angeles , Us

Following the merger of Viacom Media Networks and CBS ANZ, I was engaged to a newly created role to lead the merger of the two businesses. Subsequently, I was appointed as the pre-launch streaming lead tasked with launching a new streaming service in 2021, identified as a business-critical, global strategic initiative. Working with local and international strategic services teams, I integrated multiple business units in to the new entity and lead a project team to develop and and launch the new Paramount + streaming service

Berlin, Berlin, De

Appointed by the International President, my mandate was to strengthen relationships with partners, diversify revenue and drive multi-year growth. Defining and implementing a three-year strategy, I focused on delivering business innovation in line with international strategic pillars and local-first initiatives. With 10 direct and 120 indirect reports, I focused on building a best-in-class organisation by embedding the company values of honest, empathy and bravery.* Delivered and maintained year on year growth and strong margins by building new partnerships with streaming and subscription services, and driving a more disciplined approach to partner renewals; * Boosted local original productions / events for the kids and youth segments by securing additional funding and introducing structures and process around project management and review;* Piloted a new performance management model, leveraging staff insights and feedback to move from bi-annual reviews to monthly check-ins, with learnings from the initiative integrated into a new global model * Acting Chair of the Nickelodeon joint venture with Foxtel and Non-Executive Director of ASTRA (Australian Subscription Television Association) Board.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

After seven years working in Asia, I returned to Australia to join Nickelodeon , tasked with delivering consistent audience growth and new initiatives to boost margins. Leading all strategic, planning and execution, I created a long-term plan with a focus on driving change to maximise growth and efficiency. With eight direct reports in a team of sixty, I re-shaped the creative leadership team and a built a positive, cohesive workplace culture through clear communication and collaborative leadership style. * Exceeded expectations to deliver double-digit growth, year-on-year, improving margins by identifying new growth opportunities through the creation of key tentpole productions, most notably the Slimefest format which was adapted in International markets.* Identified new advertising categories by consulting with parents and conducting research, updating advertising standards and practices by improving alignment with evolving community expectations.* Successfully integrated the kids business into the broader Viacom ANZ business, realising synergies and maximising efficiencies by merging Nickelodeon and Viacom's finance teams

New York, Ny, Us

Following years of expansion in Asia, I was engaged by global management to bring structure, change and innovation to various Nickelodeon and MTV businesses in the region. Initially serving in a series of change management roles as Director of Content and Creative in India, South Korea and Indonesia before progressing to more senior roles. I defined and implemented strategies to build profitable, locally relevant operating models with a focus on creating global power brands and new licensing revenue streams. Leading teams of up to 120 people in Korea, India, Indonesia and Japan, I translated corporate strategy into regional contexts by working to understand the different cultural nuances of each market and working closely with local and regional leaders.* Improved the integration of local businesses into the global corporate structure to enable scale and growth establishing commercial partnerships to launch licensing businesses in all markets;* Introduced new innovations such as acquiring rights for multi-platform / territory distribution, using children's voices in kids' programming for the first time in language versioning;* Appointed interim head of finance, HR and co-GM for South Korea in 2008;* Built trust with local teams as a non-native speaker by adapting to the local culture and clearly communicating corporate goals and expectations* Executive Producer Kids Choice Awards Indonesia, MTV Video Music Awards Japan, Slimetime Live India

Executive Producer Live Production. Delivered over 10,000 hours of live and pre recorded music TV. Responsible for live output across owned and operated broadcast studio at Fox Studios. Live output across Australian Music festivals of multi feed streams from the Big Day Out, Homebake, Splendour in the Grass, Livid, etc. One off records including Green Day at Goat Island, Destiny's Child, Coldplay and Mody at the Hordern Pavilion.

Graduate Diploma In Journalism, Journalism

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Behavioural Science

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