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Leticia has been teaching English as a second language and Portuguese to foreigners since 1998. She has lived in various countries including England, where she took the ESOL Cambridge CELTA, Spain where she learnt Spanish, and in the USA where she completed a Master’s degree in TESOL and was a lecturer in Portuguese in the Master’s Program of International Relations at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Leticia currently lives in Sydney and teaches Portuguese at the University of Sydney. She holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and a Masters in Languages and a Bachelor’s degree in Portuguese and English Literatures.

Qualifications:

• PhD in Linguistics (Brazil)
• M.A. In TESOL (Philadelphia, USA)
• M.A. In Linguistics (Brazil)

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Mark is skilled in delivering services spanning strategic management, project management, business agility, business analysis, and IT service management. His history working with prominent clients reflects the quality of his training, having delivered training to IBM Australia, QANTAS, Apple, Macquarie Bank, TAFE NSW, and UNSW.

Mark utilises his strategic vision and expertise in the IT consulting and training domain to provide participants of his courses with highly relevant and immediately applicable knowledge.

Mark also has a keen interest in aviation and holds an Australian and American Airline Transport Pilot Licence.

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Heather Porter has 15 years’ experience in digital marketing as a business owner, consultant and speaker, and holds a Bachelor of International Business from San Diego State University. She is the founder of Website Love, a website development and social media agency specialising in digital marketing strategies for educational services, coaching and consulting businesses.

Heather is an Amazon Kindle #1 bestseller, co-author of four business books, and trainer of ‘That Social Media Show’ on the Bizversity business app used in over 100 countries. She is also one of seven Meta (formerly Facebook) Certified Lead Trainers in Australia and New Zealand, and is a Meta Certified Media Buying Professional.

Heather regularly speaks for local councils, chambers of commerce and business training organisations. For the last three years, she has also been the Master Social Media Trainer for Pacific Trade Invest Australia where she regularly trains and supports businesses throughout the Pacific Islands on how to use social media.

Heather loves helping simplify digital marketing for businesses so they can easily pinpoint what works for them and stop wasting time and resources.

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Rolando Ramos is a multimedia and website developer with extensive experience in creation and development of solutions for the presentation of content in interactive environments. He has been a presenter for the CCE since March 2000 in subjects ranging from web development and design to multimedia and video editing applications and practices. He is also a multimedia producer and director. Rolando also works as a personal consultant and tutor covering the subjects outlined above.

Rolando holds a Bachelor degree in Arts/Drama. His creative career started as an actor and theatre director, and as part of that practice he was introduced into 3d animation techniques that naturally developed into a visual design and manipulation practice. As a creative and curious individual, learning has always been part of Rolando’s outlook. Web development is a constantly changing environment and that applies perfectly to his skills set and personality.

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Jack is a dynamic and energetic sales, leadership and communication skills transformer.

Since 2005, Jack has delivered numerous leadership training and coaching programs for small to medium business owners, CEOs, frontline, middle & senior managers and their staff.

His unique understanding of what it takes to motivate, lead and inspire people to consistently produce outstanding results has made him an effective transformer for many organisations across industries as diverse as insurance, banking, finance, construction and engineering, IT, local, state and federal government organisations.

These organisations include Changi Airport Group, Singapore Airlines, DEEWR, CityRail, Parramatta & Penrith Councils, AIG, AON, Rio Tinto, Bluescope Steel, American Insurance Group, YMCA, Westfield, Australand, Schneider Electric, Nike and Westpac Bank.

He is a graduate of Tony Robbins Leadership Mastery and works as a senior leader for many of the Tony Robbins events around the globe as well as the Synergistic Results Leadership team during Australian Events. Jack holds a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment (upgraded in 2020), a Diploma of Project Management, and is a Certified Practicioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming.

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Gina has over twenty years of experience teaching Modern Greek to adults and children. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (majors: Modern Greek, Fine Arts and Social Anthropology), a Postgraduate Diploma in Education (Modern Greek and English), a Master of Arts in Modern Greek, and a Diploma in Social Science (Social Anthropology).

Gina has worked as an interpreter and translator in Australia and Greece, and is currently editing a personal migrant history. She has researched the Greek-Australian migrant experience and continues her research into Greek food, culture and modern history when travelling in Greece. Gina has also attended language and Greek dance workshops in Greece.

CCE’s popular Modern Greek language and culture course for beginners has been taught by Gina since June 2000. Class highlights include getting ready for travel, Greek coffee making demonstrations, playing bingo in Greek, and sometimes, a Greek dance. ΓΕΙΑ ΣΟΥ!

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Gill is an experienced Stage 6 teacher and has been teaching Mathematics for over 10 years. She has been Mathematics Coordinator at LaSalle Catholic College and Assistant Head of Department at Waverley College. As well as mentoring and providing professional development to other Stage 6 Mathematics teachers, she has also run Talented Student HSC workshops for the Catholic Education Office, assisting in preparing students for HSC examinations.

Gill holds a Bachelor of Science (Advanced) degree, with honours, and a double major in Mathematics and Chemistry. She has also completed a Graduate Diploma in Education and a Masters of Education (Educational Psychology). She is acredited by NESA as a Proficient Teacher and has been a member of the Mathematical Association of NSW and the Metropolitan East Mathematics Head Teachers Association. Gill is passionate about mathematics and about education and loves assisting students in making connections across different areas of mathematics.

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Dr Kerry Sanders gained her PhD in Philosophy at the University of Sydney. She has taught topics including the philosophy of mind; ethics; critical thinking; political philosophy; contemporary philosophy of technology; phenomenology; and the philosophy of music. She also participates in the Gifted Students Program, which provides philosophy sessions to high school students who show interest in a broad scope of ideas and wish to develop their thinking abilities through the challenge which philosophy gives. Most recently, Kerry was awarded the title of Honorary Associate to pursue research and other academic activities in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sydney.

Kerry’s approach to philosophy

Philosophy is a living practice which calls us to critique our own pre suppositions, and it asks us to assess ideas in relation to our own lives and society. In engaging with the ideas of philosophy, we both study and practice it. Philosophy can be thought of as engaging in an ‘adventure sport for the mind’, as we develop critical thinking techniques and learn to use the mind in new ways. The skills developed in the practice of philosophy are also relevant to many other areas of academic study, as well as in the complex living of our ordinary lives. Much of Western philosophy is based on the priority of reason and logic in human thought, however to fully understand the human condition we must also consider the role of experience, emotions and the body.

Other academic functions

• Supervision of Postgraduate seminar groups
• University preparation courses, from 2000 to 2015
• Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney
• Australian Postgraduate Research Award (four years)
• Vera Edith Thorpe Scholarship

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Eleanor Shakiba is an expert in positive psychology. She has taught over 50,000 people to think and speak in ways which build success.

Eleanor started her career as a writer. Next, she discovered a passion for adult education and moved into a training role at the University of Sydney. Today, she works as a training consultant and corporate coach. She specialises in the areas of communication skills, applied psychology and business applications of positive psychology.

The focus of Eleanor’s work is teaching technically savvy professionals to create, relate and communicate. She delivers a range of services to the corporate world, including positive psychology courses; leadership training and coaching; team building and strategic planning sessions; communication and conflict resolution workshops.

Eleanor is the author of Difficult People Made Easy and is currently writing her second book, 6 Habits of Savvy Female Negotiators. She has also created over ninety training programs and a range of online learning courses.

Eleanor is qualified in Social Anthropology, Adult Education, Counselling and Positive Psychology. She delights in helping professionals learn skills for success in the real world, using experiential (interactive) learning techniques. Her students describe Eleanor as ‘a lively and enthusiastic presenter who can keep you engaged for hours.’

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