Darwin Innovation Hub

- Develop and manage the startup ecosystem in Darwin with education and events for founders, students and business owners

- Manage Start NT, BIP 2.0, Graduate StartUp Program and other incubation and acceleration clients in the Darwin Innovation Hub

- Stakeholder engagement with government, private sector, NGOs and strategic partners

- Working with early stage startups on Investment Readiness for government grants and venture capital from the Paspalis Innovation Investment Fund

- Champion business, ideas, growth, industry establishment, company relocation attraction to the Northern Territory and entrepreneurship development in youth, students, women, LGBTIQA+, First Nations and underrepresented groups.

Start NT Manager

Bringing my expertise in digital, entrepreneurship and providing actionable education to businesses and those who aspire to take their businesses to the next level. Providing expertise to the StartNT program, a philanthropic activity of Paspalis.

Expert In Residence

Australian Digital Education & Retail Group Pty Ltd

Sole Director of the Group which includes Clickstarter Education, Speakstarter Education, Dante St James Consulting and St James Regional Retail Holdings.

Managing Director

True Blue

Providing marketing strategy for clients of True Blue through the Australia Small Business Advisory Service - Digital Solutions program and direct clients of True Blue.

Contracted Marketing Strategist

Clickstarter Australia

- 1 of 5 Meta Community Trainers in Australia
- Delivered training modules. in-person across 12 markets in regional Australia
- Part of a team that has delivered training to over 20,000 businesses
- Consistently maintained and exceeded knowledge and study requirements for program

Meta (Facebook) Australia & New Zealand Community Trainer

- Delivered 500+ WordPress, Wix, Joomla & Shopify websites since 2017
- Delivered 100+ Social Media & Marketing Strategies
- Delivered 400+ digital marketing paid campaigns
- Delivered 250 + SEO projects

Founder & Proprietor

Marketing Consultant

Upon handing over ownership of Clickstarter to the new owner, I have stayed on as a digital delivery consultant to assist with connection clients of Clickstarter with the correct products and services.

Digital Delivery Consultant

Speakstarter

Training tomorrow's speakers and today's presenters in a calm, positive and encouraging way that focuses on what you can do rather than what you can't. Teaching confidence, technique and mastery of words to create engaging, compelling speakers for today.

Public Speaking Trainer

Skillaroo - Your Career Partner

Contracted Career Skills Trainer

Contracted Community Trainer AU/NZ

Public Sector Network 

Training specifically in the areas of social media for government and crisis communicaitons.

Contracted Public Sector Trainer

Tech Australia Advocates

The Northern Territory brand of the Australian chapter of the Global Tech Advocates network. We are on a mission to connect Australia’s regional Tech and Innovation ecosystems, providing a National community and voice for the industry.

Regional Lead - Northern Territory

LinkedIn Local -  Darwin

Licensee/Facilitator

Educating future entrepreneurs. Investing in big ideas.

My vision: Help businesses save the world. My mission: To do this through free global online learning, local in-person education and premium private consultation and training in entrepreneurship, digital skills and access to capital.

Dante St James

Trade and Investment Queensland

Contract Senior Digital Marketing Officer

The University of Queensland

Guest lecturing on Strategic Communication/PR

Guest Lecturer

Black Sheep Communications Australia 

Helping organisations to communicate easily with their people.

Owner and content consultant

Twenty2 Collective

Marketing and change communications services to support agile and new ways of working consulting, transformations and events. 

Clients included: Rio Tinto, Fortescue, Energy Procurement Supply Association, Subiaco Council, Lean Agile Procurement Alliance, Tasmania University, Project Management Institute and CIPS.

Communications and content associate

Rowland

Contract support: Crafting and executing digital communication strategies to drive business objectives and enhance brand reputation. Focusing on data-driven decision-making and ROI and utilising various channels and platforms to engage diverse audiences effectively.

Communications Associate

PASA

Drove the digital marketing strategy for the leading provider of information and education to procurement and supply professionals throughout Australia and New Zealand. 
Procurement and Supply Australia (PASA) supports the largest community of engaged procurement stakeholders in the region, through its renowned series of events, publications, awards, plus various community and network building activities.

Digital Editor

Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (Queensland)

Project managed the website restructure and online publishing of content for the department's  Agricultural Technology website daf.qld.gov.au/agtech. 

Coordinated stakeholder engagement and content design by working with subject matter experts to bring strategically aligned information to the department’s key audiences.  Re-wrote content optimized for SEO and informed by user tasks. 

Coordinated delivery of communication strategies and projects relating to AgTech, including a Youtube series on the use of Agricultural Tech on three Queensland farms. 

Enhanced the web presence by working with the Department's online team to ensure adherence to Queensland Government style. Increased traffic to the site while increasing time on page and reducing bounce rate.

Senior Communications and Web Content Officer

North Queensland Bulk Ports Corporation

Driving overall digital strategy for the business,  managing website (Squiz Matrix CMS) and digital marketing budgets. Executing campaigns to promote commercial trade via The Port of Mackay. Formulating content strategies to support group communications plans, copywriting and story telling. Extracting digital content from port business activities and stakeholder partners and producing Electronic Direct Marketing newsletters and campaigns. Storyboarding video shoots and coordinating creative contractors. Launched and coordinated PR campaign for $5 million James Cook University partnership and on-going strategy for environmental communications. For the media-orientated aspects of my role, I liaised with local, national and international media to drive commercial coverage on the Port of Mackay, its market offerings and capabilities.

Digital Content Editor 

Department of Energy and Climate

Projects: "Buy Queensland" Procurement Policy campaign and communications management; Queensland Government Chief Information Office IT Graduate Program 2019 intake campaign.

Principal Communications Consultant and Social Procurement Advisor

Northern Territory Government

Project led content, marketing and communications strategy for NT Government emergency management website SecureNT.nt.gov.au launched in 2016. Led the management of online engagement platform Haveyoursay.nt.gov.au. Wrote stakeholder engagement and communications and marketing strategies for  Hydraulic Fracturing Inquiry and maintained website copy.

Senior Communications Consultant, Department of the Chief Minister

Temporary contract position. Edited plain content for centralised NT Government website. This project involved the decommissioning of government websites and the restructuring of content into the new CMS system. Roles included: Stakeholder engagement with government department content owners, managing workflows of digital writing team, delivered plain English training, content Quality Assurance and maintaining style guide.

Digital Editor NT.GOV.AU 

Getting the best results can happen when we keep things simple through clear communication, practical marketing, and smarter strategy with AI.

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