BETTER WRITING
Get your point across and secure funding, gain approval, and engage stakeholders
Better writing for your website, funding applications, tender documentation, corporate communications, customer communications, marketing campaigns, executive and board communications, business cases, and strategic plans
STRATEGIC COMMUNICATOR
Independent Communications Consultant
I have over 20 years' experience in corporate and marketing communications, developing communications strategies and collateral for private and public-sector clients.
I can write your submissions, strategic and business plans, branding and identity projects, guides and manuals, responses to tender, case studies.
I can run focus groups and interviews to help you work with suppliers, customers, and others.
Corporate Communications
Grow Your Business
Internal and external communications for employees and clients from private, public, and NFP sectors; government affairs and public relations; change management; excellent writing skills; public speaking
Policy Development / Response
Achieve Your Goals
Expertise in shepherding difficult issues through policy process and working with gamut of stakeholders: MPs and senior bureaucrats, C-suite decision-makers, peak body associations and members, technical subject-matter experts, lobbyists
Stakeholder Engagement
Expert Guidance
Affinity for engaging and facilitating strategic development with diverse stakeholder groups, including board and executive, technical and other experts, customers and end-users, legal and financial advisers
Technology
Grow Your Business
Conduit between technical and non-technical personnel, interpreting strategy and technology needs for relevant parties. Experience in start-ups, introducing new technology to non-tech businesses, working with technical professionals (IT, science, and engineering), managing tech projects, creating change management and training programs, managing third-party tech vendors
CLIENTS AND CONTRACTS
spinning straw into gold
I am proud to serve the Perth metro area and beyond. I can come to you or work remotely. Reach out if you’d like to discuss the kind of writing you need. If you're not sure, let's discuss it over coffee.
Read on for examples of some of my recent work.
Water utility serving over 1 million customers in Western Australia
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board and executive papers for the multi-million-dollar digital transformation program of work
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re-designed the monthly executive report
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benefits realisation frameworkwrote
Electricity supplier for remote and regional Western Australia
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submission to the Inquiry into Microgrids and Associated Technologies in Western Australia
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2016-17 annual report
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internal communications and IT change management campaigns campaigns
New Zealand office of global insurer and risk management advisory firm
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2019 People Risk Survey report
Doghouse Agency: open-source software developer
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successful responses to RfP from federal and state government and private-sector clients
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capability statement
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case studies
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website editing (Drupal 8)
PTA and METRONET -- public rail transport for the state of Western Australia
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communicatons plans for METRONET rail projects in Bayswater, Claremont, Yanchep extension, and Thornlie-Cockburn Link
Scandinavian-inspired, Perth-based online gift boutique
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SEO and Shopify set-up prior to website launch
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product descriptions