Eleonora De Michele, Director of Eleonora De Michele Consultancy, is a passionate practitioner, consultant, trainer and coach who has been working in the child and family welfare field for the past 41 years, specializing in all aspects of child protection service delivery, from early intervention and prevention, through to intervention, permanency and restoration practices. Eleonora has worked in a range of capacities, including as a frontline statutory Child Protection worker; as a manager/ supervisor of Caseworkers undertaking child protection, out-of-home-care and restoration service delivery; as a senior manager managing and leading a range of Community Service Centres in metropolitan and rural and remote settings, including rural and remote Aboriginal communities; as a senior policy advisor on child protection and out-of-home-care state-wide policy and service implementation and as a Child Protection trainer. For the past 25 years Eleonora has worked as an independent consultant, both nationally and internationally, and provides high quality consultancy, advisory, training and coaching services to government and non-government organisations working in the human services and child and family welfare sectors. Eleonora has a deep passion and commitment to bringing best outcomes for children, young people and their families. Her focus is on assisting organisations shift their culture and practices to drive better outcomes by implementing policy and practices that are ethical, evidence based, culturally relevant, family led, collaborative and dignity driven. Eleonora is a skilled facilitator and leading provider of curriculum development, training and education, supervision and coaching services to leaders, managers and frontline staff in the child protection prevention, intervention, permanency and restoration fields. Her reputation for delivering high quality learning and development opportunities is well-established as she has extensive experience in the development of evidence based, tailored, responsive training curriculum that reflects the needs of the organisation and the context in which they are delivered. People who know Eleonora describe her key values as: integrity, honesty, inclusion, respect, empowerment, commitment and collaboration. Her professional practice is often described as: ethical, committed, passionate and dynamic.