Co-creator and festival coordinator for the new Festival of Resilience- a celebration of the Blue Mountains as a resilient, creative, connected community, living sustainably within a World Heritage National Park. Headline and crowdsourced events are happening across the greater Blue Mountains during September and October, promoting community connection, resilience, sustainability and creativity. www.festivalofresilience.org

Resilient Blue Mountains (RBM) is a community led network, for collaborative, community action oncreating a resilient and sustainable future. Responsibilities include:- Coordinate the establishment of a new community led network of climate activists and environment groups, supporting citizen action- Convene the Anchor Group and facilitate strategy and governance development- Co-design the Festival of Resilience, coordinate the Festival Working Group and liaise with Festival partner Blue Mountains City Council- Design and facilitate in-person and zoom community events and workshops- Build relationships with relevant networks and partners- Build and administer CRM, Facebook page & discussion group, edit event videos, update website.

Macquarie Alliance for Climate is a non-partisan collaboration of environment and community groups across the Hawkesbury and Blue Mountains, aiming to demonstrate to all federal political parties, that in the seat of Macquarie there is overwhelming support for urgent action on climate. Responsibilities included:- Coordinate alliance members, partners and volunteers to carry out activities and advocacy- Schedule and facilitate meetings and events- Liaise with federal candidates and their offices- Design, coordinate and moderate 'Climate Survivors' Forums' with candidates- Develop and administer the website, facebook page and member database, coordinate communications- Develop and acquire resources including leaflets, posters, signs, market and volunteer equipment- Coordinate with national climate action networks.

As a facilitator, trainer and consultant:- I support patients and families in shaping better health services in NSW through supporting and amplifying consumer advocates. - I support health services to engage effectively with health consumers and community. I collaborate with services and staff to help build and strengthen their engagement programs. Recent work includes:- Developed and managed an online engagement platform using engagementHQ: https://amplify.hcnsw.org.au/- Consulting projects to support the recruitment of and establishment of health consumer advisory bodies- Custom workshop design and delivery for various clients including: health consumer advocates, health services and health/medical researchers- Supported consumer leaders to research, deliberate, write, produce and promote reports in response to adverse impacts of the COVID-19 response: https://amplify.hcnsw.org.au/visiting-guide- Conducted online engagement with health consumers to explore their experiences of telehealth, facilitated consumer leaders in intrepeting the findings and and co-authored the reports Navigating Telehealth: – the patients’ perspective and an accompanying background report https://www.hcnsw.org.au/navigating-telehealth/- Participated as a Thought Leader in the development of five possible future for Australia in 2030 with the Climate and Health Alliance https://www.caha.org.au/media_fivefutures- Participated on the advisory group as as an advocate presenter for two citizens juries on sharing administrative health data with private industry (co-author on paper https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hex.13268)I developed the HCNSW-WentWest Consumer and Community Engagement Model as a tool for health services to support building sustainable and effective engagement programs.

The joint HCNSW - WentWest Consumer Engagement Project aimed to embed consumer engagement across all operations of the medicare local and develop a practical toolkit for organisations to support good practice consumer engagement.The major project outcomes included:1. The development of the HCNSW-WentWest Consumer and Community Engagement Model.2. A web-based Toolkit supporting consumers and community to engage (due to go live in August 2015 on www.hcnsw.org.au).3. Gap analysis of consumer and community engagement activities across WentWest, and recommendations.4. Support for WentWest's implementation of Gap Analysis recommendations.See attached links for more information about the HCNSW-WentWest Consumer and Community Engagement Model including:- Webinar- Poster- Brochure- Report

Supporting and implementing the work of the Joint Interim Health Consumer Committee of the Nepean-Blue Mountains Medicare Local and the Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District.• Project managed and co-facilitated the eight Community Forums on Health held in the Blue Mountains, Hawkesbury, Lithgow and Penrith local government areas (LGAs),• Coordinated the collation of data on consumer views on local health issues and needs from local community forums and concurrent online surveys,• Co-authored the Reports on the Community Forums on Health for each LGA, supporting analysis of the findings by the local consumer representatives,• Through consultation with the Joint Consumer Committee, developed the Terms of Reference and Information Package for the recruitment of local consumer representatives to four local Health Consumer Working Groups,• Project managed the recruitment of the four local Health Consumer Working Groups.

Master of Social Research, specialising in social network analysis and digital social research, qualitative health research and anthropological approaches to health interventions.

• Worked with the BMGPN consumer reference group and the connected health professional group to inform the development of this project. • Produced local directory of self management groups and activities including current use of one to one self-management by general practitioners. • Raised consumer awareness of CDSM and local self management initiatives. • Raised CDSM awareness amongst health professionals and increased referral to local self-management initiatives and health services by working with the General Practitioner membership of the Blue Mountains GP network, health professionals and local pharmacists. • Identified access issues and barriers for the local community to participate in CDSM. • Implemented in the local area “Moving On: a Self-management Course for people with a Chronic Illness” which is a generic self-management course designed to increase people’s knowledge and skills to enable them to self-manage. • Co-ordinated the evaluation of the whole project including qualitative evaluation of the local implementation of “Moving on”. (The actual evaluation was conducted by the Menzies Centre for Health Policy). • Worked with the Blue Mountains Aboriginal Health Coalition and "Healthy For Life Program" to pilot the Moving On program for the local Aboriginal Community. • Built on local activities to increase the long-term sustainability of local CDSM. Formal evaluation of project by the Menzies Centre for Health Policy: http://www.menzieshealthpolicy.edu.au/other_tops/pdfs_pubs/bmevaluation270411.pdf

• Facilitated workshops for clients on information architecture, usability techniques and project mgt of intranet redesigns• Needs analysis for a federally funded medicines advocacy service• Senior consultant on a major project for a large NSW government agency: Intranet review and roadmap: - Needs analysis with interviews, workshops, mind-mapping and recommendations - Two day intranet scoping workshop using Step Two’s 6x2 planning methodology - Development of new intranet information architecture with usability testing across 10% of the workforce• Project managed design brief and selection of new conference logo.• Developed a new members site for the Intranet Leadership Forum

The Collaboration Cabaret! was devised as an interactive pre-conference and mid-conference event. Held in 2008 at the actKM Conference, Collaboration Cabaret took pre-event networking to a new level. Participants were invited to collaborate in the weeks leading up to the conference in creating a unique piece of entertainment that was staged on the evening of Day One. Delegates were able to explore focused, online collaboration using a variety of Web 2.0 tools prior to the event - actively learning (or learning more) about collaboration by really doing it.Participant and audience feedback:“You are to be congratulated on organising a fantastic evening - I am incredibly impressed and am hoping you can repeat the performance next year.”“Thanks to you for everything you did (and the team behind you) it was a great evening. I really enjoyed myself.”

Led the development, use and management of catchment and spatial (GIS) information systems. Supporting catchment management, water supply and water quality management.Redesign and mange the five person GIS team.

Managed the corporate website within the Corporate Communications Unit. Project Managed website redesign. Intranet Coordinator.