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Wellness advocate; decolonising yoga, teacher

Luscious Jungle – Freelance Plant Stylist and Designer 2010 - CurrentLuscious Jungle offers styling and design services that uplift and enliven, making beautiful experiences, spaces and planted creations. Offering creative direction and an eco-friendly, ‘sensory’ experiences. Specialising in the use of living plants, natural and botanical elements to create ambient, lush environments and spaces that encourage wellbeing for community and retail spaces, restaurants, bars, cafes, weddings, festivals and product launches.https://www.facebook.com/lusciousjungle/Responsibilities: Creating bespoke installations, arrangements and interiors with living plants for temporary or permanent spaces. Providing a unique ‘end to end’ interior plant-scaping service.Styling spaces, events, weddings and product launches with living plants and botanical elements. Consulting directly with clients to review requirements to fit a particular theme, space, goal or objective.Photo-shoot co-ordination and styling for film and photography.Ability to think outside the square, creative and resourceful investing carefully consideration into schemes that are both functional and aesthetically pleasing. Leading teams -subcontracting staff and volunteers when required to work within deadlines and budget.Initiated sales and distribution for Luscious Jungle planted products through selected florists, home-ware stores and have also sold in local designer pop up shops and artist markets.Achievements:Recently created a lush living plant installation within a pop up community library at the Arts Centre - Testing Grounds. It received amazing reviews and positive feed-back with visitors praising the concept; many saying that the ‘green’ interior design not only looked magnificent but also made them feel good, helped them to concentrate and discuss important reading material.

King Living (previously King Furniture) April 2012 – March 2016 Design & Sales Consultant, Church Street Richmond King Living is an iconic Australian owned business, with showrooms in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. Famous for the manufacturing and retail of customised modular sofas and occasional furniture, made to order outdoor and bedroom furniture and bespoke soft furnishings.Responsibilities:Sales and customer service, working as part of a high performing sales team in one of the busiest retail strips in Melbourne - famous for high end luxury furniture and interior design.I provided a high level of customer service and interior design advice to meet the specific needs of the varied customers.A natural rapport builder and confident presenter with a creative eye - I display a highly tuned sense of colour an spatial awareness – offering imaginative colour schemes and inspiring design solutions to a wide variety of domestic and commercial customers including interior designers and architects.Ability to build relationships, following up quotations and converting sales through consultation, excellent product knowledge and in depth understanding of materials and fabric and composition.

Contracted by VicRoads Marketing department to advise and give best practise recommendations on improving the customer experience through the sensory branding of various channels. The main focus was to observe sensory branding principles within the customer service centres. The client was seeking reputable agency recommendations on Global trends within the service/banking industries for both the interior and online user experience. ❖  Managed an overall bid and tender budget. Delivered a comprehensive report to the Executive Director, Digital team and Marketing teams which provided creative outputs & recommendations to shape and inform the strategic direction of the Customer Service Centre Environment. 
❖  Delivered highly regarded, optimistic and inspiring blue sky recommendations from Australias leading creative teams who had worked across the banking and service sectors specialising in Customer Journey, Sensory Branding, User Experience (UXD), KioskDesign/Digital Interface, and Interior Design. 
❖  Reviewed and streamlined processes for CRM, Direct Marketing for Licensing and Registration Renewal letters (VicRoads largest mail items - sent to over 5 million customers annually). Outcomes included reducing the paper trail while presenting more transparent information to the community in a more informative useful manner. Worked intensively with internal and external stakeholders on the redesign which advocated the application of graphical devices, diagrams and iconography and a more cost effective print process. 
Key focus of the role was writing comprehensive briefs and running the agency pitch and tender process, working cross functionally to align stakeholders (business, service & marketing strategy) with the optimum customer experience and making a plan to achieve it methodically with the appointed agency partners and internal teams.

Homedics / House of Marley September 2011 – December 2011Group Marketing Manager Homedics & Brand Manager House of MarleyWorking with the Australian distributor – Homedics (Consumer Electronics) and liaising with global team in the US, I launched a new brand of ‘eco-friendly’ headphones into the Australian & New Zealand Markets. House of Marley was the creation of Rohan Marley son of legendary Reggae artist Bob Marley.Responsibilities:Built robust marketing and brand activation plan to successfully launch, create brand awareness and drive sales within the highly competitive youth and consumer electronics markets. Actively drove sponsorship with selected Australian and New Zealand musicians, sporting personalities and charities for product endorsements, positive affiliations and brand ambassador programs.Achievements:Translated the global brand direction for the Australian and New Zealand markets and integrated the Website (E-commerce), Public Relations and Social Media strategies.Launched the brand in Australia and New Zealand and ran publicity tour with guest appearances by Rohan Marley - for Melbourne/Sydney and Cairns.Product distribution (B2B and B2C) through retailers Myer, Harvey Norman, JB Hifi. Worked cross collaboratively with stockists/retailers on sales promotion, visual merchandising and catalogue campaigns.

Priceline and Priceline Pharmacy - Contract Role April 2011 – June 2011Campaign Manager Pharmacy & Campaign Manager Local Area Marketing (VIC/QLD/TAS) Priceline and Priceline Pharmacy (FMCG) have over 400 stores across Australia. Specialising in women’s health, beauty and wellbeing and value for money, they have a multifaceted retail marketing program.Responsibilities:Liaised with store owners, franchisees and other stakeholders to coordinate LAM activities, including the buying and production of TV/radio, press/magazine advertisements, POS, catalogue content/design & distribution, VIP nights/launches.Planned and implemented media for a fully integrated national marketing campaigns - including TV, radio, Women’s weekly magazine, Point of Sale, website, CRM.Achievements:As the business was launching the $5.99 cut price, prescription campaign (on generic medications) this role required me to work intensively with the product and legal teams to create ACCC and TGA compliant advertising, copy and disclaimers.Leveraged consumer interaction with CRM marketing eDM, SMS via the enormous Priceline ‘ClubCard' database - effectively growing, retaining and delighting subscribers.

Forty Winks – Marketing & Communications Manager February 2008 – July 2010Previous Advertising Coordinator 2003-2008Head office - Dingley Victoria100 Franchised storesWorked in a leadership role during the rebranding and repositioning of Forty Winks, Australia’s leading specialist bedding and bedroom furniture retailer. Reporting directly to the CEO, I led a team of 3 and directed suppliers and agency partners to implement the new brand direction. Working cross functionally with product, merchandising and finance my role was a key part of the organisational transformation.Responsibilities:Established, lead and implemented marketing, advertising, visual merchandising and local area marketing plans and budgets for over 90 Franchised stores across Australia, working closely with owner operators. Championed the brand, developing comprehensive and cohesive brand style guides, visual merchandising manuals for all touch points of the brand. Travelled interstate for franchise meetings, staff training and new store openings.Drove sales, increased brand awareness by creating meaningful and engaging content for all marketing and promotions. Managing the production of all creative for TV, radio, press and styling, photography, design and print production for catalogues.Coordinated, facilitated and participated in various business and marketing planning workshops with board of directors and senior management and agency partners to develop plans. Worked closely with leading bedding and manchester brands and suppliers; Sealy, Tempur, Sleepmaker, Sherridan for promotions and styling of products for photography, film and catalogues.Achievements:Participated in role coaching and leadership programs to improve effectiveness, increase innovation and assist in influencing the new direction and transformation of the organisation.