The Dimarcorp Academy are committed to supporting aged care, disability, health care and child care education providers in cultivating the skills of their teams, delivering cost-effective and easy-to-access training programs that enhance the skills of leaders and teams alike through a blend of theoretical, practical and experiential learning experiences. Our courses are tailored to discrete sectors and disciplines, allowing us to optimise outcomes for participants such as Governance & Planning, Financial Management, Marketing, Software, Clinical, Retirement Living and Human Resources.As General Manager, I lead the strategic direction and operational management of the Academy, focusing on delivering education and training programs that empower individuals and meet the evolving needs of the care sector. My key responsibilities include:Overseeing business development initiatives to drive growth and expand the academy’s reach.Managing operational processes, including training schedules and resource allocation, to ensure seamless program delivery.Developing and executing strategic marketing plans to enhance the academy’s visibility and client engagement.Building and maintaining strong relationships with clients, stakeholders, and industry partners to foster collaboration and sustain growth.Ensuring financial and operational sustainabilityThis role leverages my experience in leadership, planning, and relationship management to drive innovation and deliver impactful outcomes for the organisation and the communities we serve.

As Business Relationship Manager at My Care Journey, my primary focus is to identify and establish strategic partnerships with key providers across the Residential Aged Care, Home Care, and Retirement Living sectors. I work to build referral relationships that ensure our clients have access to a diverse range of values-based organisations capable of meeting their unique needs. Through this, I have successfully developed a broad network of national and local providers, ensuring our clients are connected with trusted, high-quality care options.Additionally, I lead initiatives to generate new business opportunities, including the development of Information and Education Sessions across Queensland and the establishment of our Referral Partner Network. These efforts have been instrumental in generating significant leads and driving business growth, further strengthening My Care Journey’s ability to support clients with tailored, comprehensive care solutions.

Five years ago, Natasha Cleeve, widely regarded in the world of Executive interim and permanent recruitment, founded a company with the vision of delivering what so many search firms promise - to be “different”. Keen to recruit people with the skills, networks and work ethic to match her own, I shared her vision of a firm based on values rather than commoditised promises. Cleeve Partnership prioritises solutions for fast-growth companies in areas where candidates require real talent and content. It does this by developing a mature, truthful, constructive and advisory relationship with clients and candidates. Our strategy for delivering this vision is hiring a team of absolute professionals who are “more” than transactional recruiters. Having worked internationally I fit her criteria both for my expertise in recruitment, but more widely in understanding what needs to change to make hiring more effective and candidate friendly.My role at Cleeve is to expand our routes to market and create relationships with fast growing clients that produce solutions. The confidence and trust resulting from this expands our market in the content rich sectors of Engineering, Clean Energy, Maritime. Shipping and Ports, Automotive, Manufacturing, Transport, Aerospace, and Defence that we specialise in.Selected Achievements:• Designing and delivering the successful campaign to find the Vice President of Programmes for the Davie Shipyard in Quebec, Canada, a global search of the meriting market for an expanding company newly admitted to Canada.• Filling a senior HR role for Global Blue Austria after an international transportation sector search leading to a successful appointment based in Vienna. • Placing in the role of Sales Lead for Europe at Eminox (a provider of high performance stainless steel exhaust and emission control systems for bus, truck, rail and off-highway vehicles) a nontraditional candidate after an extensive international search.

Aged Care Decisions is the largest business of its kind in the country. Its client base is more than 175 secondary and tertiary acute hospitals across Australia, ranging from public providers to major international for-profit chains. It also works with around 70% of the countries residential aged care providers. It provides advice to patients and their families on the best choices for them in these very sensitive situations, brokering the move and its implications into long term residential care. After three months with the company, I was asked to build its now highly successful Hospital division working with Hospitals and Allied Health departments across Australia to transition people into aged care. This required building relationships with acute care decision makers across Australia, explain the offering of this values led business and subsequently manage relationships as patients started to move through the Aged Care Decisions matching process. Selected Achievements:- Designed the routes to market, marketing collateral and channels of communication to launch this new division.- Built relationships with CEOs, the Executive Teams and Health Directors of 175 hospitals and more than 450 clinical professional leaders, meeting not only their practical and commercial but ethical requirements.- Created a $1.8m business from zero in two years, recruiting, training and building a team of specialist Placement Consultants in Brisbane to support customer requirements. - Part of the bid team for the successful tender as the sole provider for Gold Coast University Hospital, the largest of its type in Australia, subsequently onboarding them as a client of Aged Care Decisions and working with their internal team to create the necessary systems.- Acted as Provider Relationship Manager for six months to ensure the smooth and successful onboarding of a further 200 aged care providers.

During this time my main focus was raising my three children until they had all reached school age.In addition, towards the end of the period, I started two part-time businesses to reintroduce myself to the working world. 1) An integrated nutrition business which included qualifying as a trained health professional, and2) A business working to capture the life stories of aged care residents for their families. Both contributed to my appointment as National Sales Manager for Aged Care Decisions and my success in that role

Vodafone Australia is one of the country’s leading mobile telephony providers with around 20% of the market. I was hired to support the company’s expansion in New South Wales and Sydney especially, by working with hiring officers to design recruitment processes that delivered top talent.Selected Achievements: - Recruiting roles for the company’s Sydney HQ, saving costs over previous methods while improving the quality of the hires.- Successfully closed recruitments through talents searches using all the available tools, including networking, social media, LinkedIn and a company referral scheme. - Ensured recruitment risk was managed by recording all steps on Vodafone’s candidate management software, guaranteeing internal information flows.

Co-founded the first online advertising and recruitment site in the Southern Hemisphere based on identifying a need and opportunity with the advent of the Internet to enhance candidate access in the I.T. sector.Part of the Executive team that successfully grew the business through resourceful sales and business development strategies and marketing and brand management for clients