For more than 30 years I have been telling other people's stories. Now I want to help them tell their stories for themselves.I'm a writer, trainer, speaker, and facilitator who has dedicated their life to telling stories of change. Working as a business journalist for many of Australia's leading publications taught me a lot about finding and telling compelling stories, and these days I use that experience to help organisations and individuals improve their own communications skills.As a professional trainer, I have worked with organisations of all sizes to help them better understand and tell compelling stories. This has led me to create a series of courses that assist individuals and teams in the tasks of media engagement, public presenting, content development, and crisis communications. All courses are built on the idea of storytelling as the basis for good communication, and I work with organisations and individuals to help tease out these stories and improve their delivery.As a researcher and speaker, my focus is on understanding technology and business trends and then making these understandable and actionable for a broad audience. My favourite tasks is hunting down the 'weak signals' that indicate future trends and developments. Over my career I have authored or co-authored four books on topics ranging from Australia’s startup and innovation ecosystems through to the benefits of a highspeed broadband for society and the need for people to better understand and plan for change. This work provides the basis for much of my consulting and speaking work today.This research has led me to take on the role keynote speaker and facilitator on topics relating to technology-driven change within business and society.I have also parlayed this experience into event hosting and facilitation, where I act as the guide for discussions for intimate roundtable events and panel sessions through to performing the MC role for large-scale conferences and exhibitions.My writing career has included a diverse range of roles, including marketing editor and technology editor at the weekly business magazine BRW, and as a technology writer for the national newspaper The Australian. I continue to occasionally write on marketing and technology on a freelance basis for several publications, in addition to authoring numerous white papers, research reports, speeches, and other content for a variety of organisations.