TravelEdventures is a leading lifelong learning provider with a focus on organizational development, e-learning, and international training---Establishing Travelmania in 2006 and leading through start-up (role below), I have led the business and our team to establish a reputable and profitable player in the educational travel and lifelong learning space. Setting a vision of growth for a team of up to 50 spanning sales, customer service, business improvement and supply chain, I led multi-year business planning, taking all of my learnings from the early stage of the business to product development and customer engagement, building true customer-centricity and meaningful partnerships with our customers. I have taken a hands-on role in sales, marketing and leading product innovation and management, including 2-3 year product cycles, while building a culture that develops, empowers and motivates. I have provided leadership, coaching and development to a team of up to 9 sales leaders and up to 50 across key projects, time zones and continents. • Worked closely with government and institutional customers to develop innovative educational and lifelong learning products underpinned by technology that have delivered year on year revenue growth;• Led projects across Europe, the USA and Australia, becoming a leading expert in funding mechanics and the right EdTech and training content to augment teaching efforts; • Improved overall employee experience, creating a high performing and productive sales team environment via digital and automation solutions and a suite of sales and marketing tools; • Built a culture focused on providing exceptional value and customer service, empowered by a vibrant work environment and competitive pay/benefits;• Managed impacts of COVID-19 on education and travel elements of business, instigating communications rapidly, moving to digital and successfully lobbying COVID-19 relief fund for educational tour operators.

Co-founding Travelmania, I led the business through a series of exciting ideas and opportunities in the travel and education space, and over three years, built a multimillion-dollar revenue line from the ground up. A challenging start-up role with both wins and misses, I engaged a workforce of volunteer students on the path to growth through the creation of a safe environment for personal innovation, mistake-making and ultimately, growth. Bringing the same energy to customer relationships, I led sales and marketing strategies that drove profitable growth with minimal cost. During this period, I also held full accountability for P&L, product development and B2B/B2C liaison.• Grew Travelmania from start-up into a multimillion-dollar business on a budget, utilising guerrilla marketing techniques and a personalised email automation software to educate customers on compelling products;• Established a traineeship in Spain undertaken by 52 participants from countries across the world in the first year, a win-win offering resulting in free resources to support content creation, social media and sales calls;• Pioneered entrepreneurial ideas such as tour ride-share service ‘Bussurfing’ (ahead of Uber in Europe) and ‘Microbusiness Angels’, an initiative placing volunteer students in safe nations in Africa to support growth;• Created and embedded a vibrant workplace culture with the capability and agility to test ideas, make mistakes and rebound to capitalise on new opportunities;• Developed and delivered sales training and sales courses across Europe and Australia.

Solemsequi GmbH is involved in real estate, hotels and tourism across Europe and the parent company of TravelEdventures.

Education Europe is an NGO based in Austria with a focus on linking organizations and developing educational projects in the educational sector. The main goal of the charitable organization is to help organisations access funding to initiate and participate in European and Worldwide exchange projects, with the aim to improve the level of Education and Mental Health for teachers and students.

Mindarma is an award-winning online resilience program that has been evaluated via a world-first cluster Randomised Controlled Trial with Australian firefighters. Firefighters who received the program were found to have:• Significant improvements in adaptive resilience (as measured by the CDRISC_10)• Significant improvement in mindfulness• Significant improvement in optimism• Significant improvements in active coping. i.e. more likely to reach out for advice and support from others Targeting resilience is a proactive, preventative strategy and is associated with increased levels of wellbeing and lower levels of stress, burnout, anxiety and depression.Among high-risk occupations (i.e. high-stress roles such as first responders, frontline health workers), high resilience has been associated with lower symptoms of trauma and depression.Resilience is a malleable factor. By equipping workers with evidence-based cognitive skills and mindfulness strategies, we bolster resilience and enhance their ability to adapt effectively in the face of change, uncertainty and adversity.Developing individual resilience is considered as one of the 5 key strategies to establishing a workplace that is psychologically safe.

A precursor to Travelmania, I played an active role in the start-up and growth of Bichler Travel, a travel agency and tour operator offering meaningful overseas trips and training to both teachers and students. Leveraging experience from one of Spain’s leading language schools (role below), I sourced products and led negotiations with training providers, and subsequently, led go to market planning and execution to bring offerings to market. During this period, I also influenced sales strategies to drive lead conversion and revenue.• Participated in building a million-dollar business, leading marketing strategy and collateral including personalised email marketing, newsletters, print and digital brochures;• Built the business to employ a 10-strong supply chain, applying lessons from work and simultaneous degree study to develop and execute business, sales and marketing plans.

One of the largest Spanish language training providers in Spain, offering comprehensive ‘study abroad’ programs tailormade to the interests and goals of teachers and students.As Marketing Manager, I led online marketing campaigns for German and English speaking sectors in addition to providing sales and customer service support to current and prospective customers. A proactive participant in the growth of the business, I led sales presentations for key accounts and international trade fairs in German, English, Italian and Spanish, and built influential relationships with students to motivate participation and enhance the customer experience. • Increased sales revenue by securing whole of semester stays from the USA and Germany, supporting the renovation project of the main school in Salamanca;• Initiated and led personalised email marketing campaign targeting academic and vocational institutions, taking an experiential approach to drive sales leads;• Influenced customer satisfaction and employee morale by creating a sales and service environment based on shared successes, collaboration and empowerment.