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Gabrielle Carey has published seven books, mostly non-fiction. She has a Master of Arts (English) and a Doctorate of Creative Arts. She has taught writing in various universities for more than ten years. Her most recent book Waiting Room was described by award-winning author Gail Jones as 'exquisitely tender and beautifully written.'

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Alex has founded six businesses all in different industries, covering produce wholesaling, hospitality supplies, event promotions, gift hampers, a bicycle brand and a tourism company.

Alex runs the University of Sydney’s campus wide entrepreneurship program, Genesis. In it’s eleventh year, Genesis has helped more than 1000 entrepreneurs and supports students, staff and alumnus develop and validate business, whilst contributing $50,000 worth of seed funding annually.

Alex teaches a range of courses at the University of Sydney including Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Future of Business, Social Entrepreneurship and Global Business. He holds a Bachelor of Managerial Accounting from the University of Western Australia and a Master of Educational Psychology from the University of Sydney.

Alex is passionate about teaching the skillset of an entrepreneur to prepare people for the ever-changing Australian economic environment.

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Since completing her PhD in Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, Jennifer Carpenter has lectured on medieval history in Canadian, New Zealand and Australian universities. Her research interests have primarily focused on gender and religion in the Middle Ages, but have recently strayed into the study of the concept and experience of happiness in the medieval period.

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Annabel Carr completed a Bachelor of Arts with Honours at the University of Sydney in 2005. She is currently a lecturer, tutor, and PhD candidate in the University’s Department of Studies in Religion. Her research interests include Australian mythologies, notions of “Otherness”, Elizabethan studies, and resonances of religion in literature, art, and film. Her doctoral thesis examines the recurring trope of the Lost Child in Australian folklore, assessing its significance in spiritual, psychological, and sociological contexts. Annabel holds an Excellence in Teaching Award from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Sydney.

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Amanda Carrigan holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Sydney as well as a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Law from the University of Technology, Sydney and is Principle of Carrigan Lawyers. Amanda was admitted as a Barrister of the Supreme Court of New South Wales in 1993 and has held an Open Practising Certificate issued by the Law Society of New South Wales since 2005.

Amanda has lectured and tutored undergraduate and postgraduate students since 2002. She has lectured and tutored at the University of Sydney, the University of Technology Sydney, The University of Western Sydney and The Australian Catholic University , North Sydney. She is currently lecturing and tutoring undergraduate and postgraduates students in Business Law, Finance Law and Corporations Law at the University of Sydney, The University of Western Sydney and The Australian Catholic University, North Sydney.

Prior to founding Carrigan Lawyers, which has a commercial law focus, Amanda worked as an Acting Deputy Registrar in the Supreme Court of New South Wales. Whilst studying for her undergraduate degrees Amanda worked as a Tipstaff and then Associate to a number of Justices of the Supreme Court of New South Wales.

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Anthony is an experienced Marketer. He has been running marketing and design thinking workshops for more than 11 years. Anthony completed his Master of Business in 2007 at the University of Sydney, and a Cert IV TAE in 2010 at SIT Ultimo.

He has held many roles having worked in several brand and design agencies, as well as corporate positions, including Marketing Manager for Brand at LJ Hooker (head office) Australia and New Zealand. During this time, Anthony trained close to 700 franchise owners in marketing and branding best practices to ensure consistency and key messaging with the LJ Hooker brand across the franchise network. Anthony now heads up a Design thinking agency called yellowsneakers, which focuses on helping businesses, and organisations understand the Design thinking/Human-centred approach through training and consulting.

Building on his marketing credentials and experience, Anthony has developed a deep passion for Design thinking/Human-centred design to ensure organisations are truly customer focussed and are equipped to solve complex problems in commercial, Government and social areas.

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Matthew Carroll. Tutor of CCE

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Chris Carter has a BA (Hons) from the ANU and a Masters degree specialising in social and domestic archaeological sites in NSW. He has extensive teaching experience at tertiary level as a tutor and lecturer in the field of archaeology and has also presented of a number of adult education courses for the Centre for Continuing Studies at the ANU. In his “spare” time Chris organises and leads archaeological study tours to Spain and South America.

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In 2007, Jenny wrote the publication “Don't Get Hung Up!” (How to Sell Products and Services by Phone) and also co-authored “Secrets of Top Sales Professionals”. Following a successful career in face-to-face selling as National Sales and Marketing Manager of Telford Hotels and International Sales Manager for Centralian Holidays, Jenny changed her focus to telephone selling.

From 1991 to 1997, Jenny was awarded top salesperson for her telemarketing promotion of Tom Hopkins and Anthony Robbins seminars on four of their visits to Australia, and then promoted Zig Ziglar, Jim Rohn and Brian Tracy. In 1998 Jenny completed Train the Trainer and Certificate 1V in Training and Assessment to become an accredited trainer, and has since trained over 70,000 people. Jenny conducts in-house customised sales, telesales and customer service training for companies and individuals all around Australia. She also coaches salespeople one-on-one, consults to companies who are looking for more sales and speaks at conferences.

Jenny was President of Pioneer Business SWAP 2006 – 2007 (Salespeople with a Purpose) and was awarded “National Salesperson of the Year” by the Business SWAP organization in 1993, “National Business SWAP of the Year” in 1996 and 2004, and “Telemarketer of the Year” in 1995. She received her Diploma in Languages for Business in 1971, graduated as a business coach through Coach-U in 1998 and is a Certified Speaking Member (CSP) of the Professional Speakers Association (the only internationally recognised designation of professional speakers). Jenny is passionate about teaching sales people how to become top achievers.

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Susana is an experienced native German language teacher who has been teaching for almost 20 years in different countries and different environments. During her studies she has taught French and Spanish in Germany at different language schools and community colleges. Since coming to Australia in 2008, Susana has been teaching and marking languages (Spanish, German, French, Catalan) and intercultural communication for the Berlitz Language School, Macquarie University, the University of Technology (UTS) Sydney, the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales (UNSW).

Susana holds a Master’s degree (M.A.) in Spanish, French and Political Science from the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany. She is currently also a Primary School Ethics teacher as loves teaching and encourages critical thinking, and enjoys seeing students gaining more skills and knowledge.