Presenters

Sharon Ferrier

Sharon has a knack for making the complex simple. She believes that ‘passionate people persuade’ and that to make your message stick, you need to balance information with delivery style. Sharon excels at helping people shine. With a background in science, sales and marketing. Sharon delivers keynotes and workshops...

Simon Griffiths

Simon is the Co-Founder and CEO of Who Gives A Crap, a profit-for-purpose toilet paper company that uses 50% of its profits to build toilets in the developing world. He was also a co-founder of Shebeen, Australia’s first non-profit bar, which was located in Melbourne’s CBD. In 2011,...

Simon Jones

Simon Jones is the Director of Development at The Manchester Grammar School. He was educated at MGS, Exeter and Bordeaux Universities, before completing his MBA at the University Of Leicester School Of Management. After an academic career teaching geography, Simon has lead the Development Office at MGS since 2010,...

Simon Kuestenmacher

Co-FounderThe Demographics Group Simon Kuestenmacher is a Co-Founder of The Demographics Group together with Bernard Salt. The group provides specialist advice on demographic, consumer, and social trends. Simon holds degrees in human and urban geography from leading universities in Germany and Australia; he writes a weekly column for The New...

Simone Dumergue

Simone Dumergue is the Marketing & Communications Manager for the Faculty of Science at the University of Bath. Her role includes: providing strategic marketing advice to the Dean and Heads of Department market analysis for product development and portfolio review launching new products shaping key selling points, messaging and positioning...

Sona Swindley

Events & Partnerships LeadEducate Plus Sona is a dynamic, enterprising Event Manager and Conference Producer with 20+ years of experience executing memorable events while surpassing client expectations. Demonstrable aptitude for seamlessly combining proficiencies in events/production/project management with marketing to maximise brand visibility. Sona has a...

Steuart Snooks

Steuart Snooks is a Melbourne-based Email and Workplace Productivity Expert. He works with business owners, senior executives, their EAs and support teams who are overloaded with email and crying out for practical, affordable solutions to the relentless demands of email and the workload it delivers. He has over 25 years’ experience in researching...

Steven Troeth

PartnerGadens Steven has extensive experience in the education sector and acts for independent and Catholic secondary schools. He advises on employment, student and parent issues and disputes that are peculiar to educational institutions including those involving staff and teachers, discrimination claims, cyber and social media issues, child safety, reportable conduct...

Sue Ellson

Sue Ellson GK BBus MPC PCDAA ASA WV MEdPlus is an Independent LinkedIn Specialist, Career Development Practitioner, Trainer, Consultant, Author and Poet. She has provided presentations on the topic of LinkedIn, social media and recruitment at various Educate Plus Conferences, Summits, Advancement Practitioner Training Programs and PD Sessions online and...

Susan McGinley

Director of AdvancementThe Women’s College Currently Director of Advancement at The Women’s College within The University of Queensland, one of Brisbane’s leading university residential colleges since 1914. A member of the Senior Leadership Team since 2019, leading strong and innovative stakeholder engagement initiatives with results gained...

Susie Gill

Susie Gill is a qualified teacher, and the Admissions Registrar at Christ Church Grammar School, in Claremont Western Australia. Christ Church is a Pre-Kindergarten to Year 12 Anglican day and boarding school for boys with an excellent reputation for taking an holistic approach to boys education and building good men.

Suzie Hancock

Suzie has broad experience with over thirty years in training and education management across multiple sectors. Initially delivering vocational and corporate training for government and private industry, including research and curriculum design for disability workplace training programs. Transitioning into the tertiary sector she worked extensively on international business development and...