About Helen

Hello, I’m Helen and I’m what is known as a modern learning practitioner who has over 25 years experience in the corporate world.

So what’s a modern learning practitioner?

I help you build your digital literacy and learning capability so that you stay up to date in your field, industry or profession especially when the world and our workplaces are changing around us.

I do this through helping you use social tools, networks and platforms for the purposes of building your current career or moving into a new one.

Who Do I Work With?

I work with business teams and workers who are looking for ways to share knowledge, skills, stories and experience through collaborative opportunities in the workplace.

I work with those individuals who feel they don’t have a voice in their organisation. These individuals who may have technical and subject matter expertise, whose tenure, experiences and knowledge accrued over years of experience in their field can be used, shared, promoted and acknowledged by their company. I help you build your own online personal brand, credibility and reputation by showing you how you can use many social tools and networks to promote your knowledge and experience to those who need it.

What’s My Unique Super Power?

My unique super power is that I practice what I preach. I WANT to see people achieve their personal and professional goals through bringing their true selves to their work. That means, sharing their unique skills, knowledge, networks, experiences, stories (and their quirks) that inspire the workplace to be an environment that is not only exciting but educational and inspirational.

I’m a curious learner, a passionate explorer, a builder of networks and a connector of dots. Everything I do is focussed around personal learning and sharing my passion to the work to make them better places for our hearts, minds and spirits.

What Are Some Of the Skills I Have to Offer You?

Using Social Media for Building Your Networks
Building Communities
Building Your Digital Portfolio
Building DigitalLiteracy
Showing and Sharing Your Work Through Blogging and Vlogging

Where Can You Find Me?

As well as across the multiple social networks, I present at various conferences around Australia on how people can use the power of social networks to share and show their work, build their professional expertise and achieve their personal and professional development goals.

Co-Author of Microsoft Teams

In 2019, I was in a team that wrote a book on Microsoft Teams: A Manager’s Guide to Communication, Collaboration and Co-ordination.

Member of Change Agents Worldwide

Helen is a member of Change Agents Worldwide, a transparent co-operative of passionate and progressive solo and enterprise change agents who specialise in future of work technologies and practices.

Winner of the Jay Cross Social Learning Award

She was also the inaugural recipient of the Internet Time Alliance Jay Cross Memorial Award in 2016 in recognition for her work advocating a more humanistic approach to workplace learning and performance.

Roving Reporter for LearningNowTV

Helen is a roving reporter for LearningNow TV, an internet TV channel for learning professionals where she provides news stories and interviews from Australia on modern workplace learning practices.

Microsoft Ignite 2019 Community Reporter

In 2019, Helen was selected to be one of ten global community reporters to cover the largest technology conference in the world, Microsoft Ignite at Orlando, Florida on 4 to 8 November 2019.

Third Place Founder

Helen also founded Third Place www.meetup.com/Third-Place a social community of over 400 Learning Professionals across Melbourne, Sydney, Newcastle, Canberra, Adelaide and Brisbane to meet, share and learn from each other.

Skills and Competencies

Enterprise Social Networking Platforms: SharePoint, Yammer, SocialCast
Community Management: Yammer, Teams, WordPress, Facebook Community
Microsoft Applications: MS Teams, Yammer, Planner, Stream, O365, SharePoint, Forms, Sway and many others.
Open Source: WordPress, Google+, Facebook, Twitter, SnapChat, Slack, Trello and many others
MS Office Suite & Apple Mac equivalent (Word, PowerPoint, Project, Excel, Outlook, Publisher, Visio)
Video: Camtasia, iMovie, MovieMaker, YouTube Video Manager, Live Streaming Video (Periscope, Facebook Live, SnapChat, and many others)
Virtual Classrooms (WebEx, GoTo Meeting, Skype, Google Hangouts, Adobe Connect, AppearIn, Zoom and many others)
ELearning Development Adobe Captivate and Camtasia
Learning Management Systems Oracle, SAP, Sum Total, Moodle
Variety of Learning Technology Open Source, cloud-based based tools, apps and software