Customer-focused professional with successful 30-year career in business, education and publishing. Dynamic successful application of creativity along side meticulous planning and preparation to ensure successful business and education outcomes.
Manage and direct all aspects of Disney Children's English Franchise School System.
Franchise comprised 90 schools and extensive penetration of Taiwan's public school sector.
Liaise with Disney Consumer Products, Hong Kong on quality control, access to content, character usage, publishing requirements, licencing agreements, etc.
Manage office staff, creative staff (15 writers and 9 artists), sales teams, TV advertising, new school promotions and student recruitment, recruit talent for music productions, voice talent, etc.
Maintain budget control, plan production schedules, design training program for teacher recruitment into schools, deal with publishing issues.
Winner Disney Asia Pacific Publishing Award, 1998
Consult on introduction of the Wiggles into Taiwan.
Help set up Pearson Education Publishing on Taiwan.
Consult on Establishment of Disney English, China.
English House provided English language, math, science and computer classes to 250 students weekly.
The school was located next to Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall in the Xinyi District of Taipei.
It was recognised as one of Taipei's best language schools. It serviced families attending Kung Fu and Jenai elementary schools.
Assist research academics publish research in prestigious Thomson Reuters' Indexed Journals.
Own and assist manage Southport Library cafe.
Cafe is situated in Southport library. It is the fifth busiest library in Australia by membership and the busiest library in South East Queensland.
Employ, train, and manage staffing.
Manage suppliers, food health and safety requirements, etc
Meet compliance needs for business ownership including GST, payrole, super annuation, payg requirements and insurances.
Elite school entry program for students hoping to attend Queensland Academy, A.B. Patterson, Somerset College, Emmanuel College, etc under scholarship.
Current student body 70.
Design and Implement English language teacher training programs for Education Departments of South Korea and China.
Trainings conducted at Griffith University, Gold Coast TAFE, Gold Coast Learning Centre in cooperation with Success Learning, Australian Education Visa.
Highly successful program including graduates winning best English teacher in China.
Teach English as a Second language to international students living, working or travelling in Australia.
Winner of Gold Coast Business Excellence Award, 2023
Winner of Language School of the Year Award, 2019
Teach English to international students travelling, working or planning to further study in Australia.
Teach English language in the university entrance programme.