Meet our trainers

Meet our Trainers

CLARE EDWARDS

Clare’s vision is a world where leaders are inspiring, managers are motivating, staff are engaged and employee wellbeing is paramount. She helps leaders in organisations to tap into the collective potential of their people so that they can think, grow and succeed together.

A passionate storyteller and inspiring speaker, Clare takes her audiences on an experiential journey, offering them new insights and leaving them keen to know more and motivated to change.

Clare’s corporate background spans 2 decades of working in senior management roles with global IT companies, thriving in complex, fast-paced change environments.

She aims to make the complex simple and has studied the neuroscience of leadership extensively, bringing theory and concepts to life helping people to uncover the full potential of their amazing brain and its ability to change – all without the psychobabble.

KEVIN KOSKY

As an award winning speaker and business skills trainer, Kevin utilises his experience from the entertainment industry to present interactive and engaging training sessions. Kevin is passionate about personal empowerment and business improvement, which he believes go hand in hand to produce successful results. Currently Kevin is the sales and business skills trainer working for Dynamo Selling. Kevin launched and operated a number of different businesses over a 30 year period in a variety of industries including: entertainment, hospitality, internet applications, building maintenance, garden and nursery, supply chain, selfstorage, RTO accredited training, and corporate education. Kevin also the teaches business, employability and personal development skills, for both the national and international markets.

LEONIE LAM

Leonie is highly regarded for her exceptional facilitation skills, commitment to customer service excellence, and genuine passion for supporting individuals and organisations in achieving their goals. She is a qualified Trainer, Speaker, HR Consultant, and Career Coach. She has held Training and HR roles at Westpac, Commonwealth Bank, Veolia Water, and Western Sydney University. She is also the Director of a training and coaching business.

As a Career Coach, Leonie has directly helped more than 300 people secure employment in Australia. She has worked on major projects that have supported thousands of people in their career. In her capacity as a Trainer, she is dedicated to empowering individuals and organisations to enhance their performance and achieve their strategic goals. Her training programs consistently receive exceptional feedback, reflecting her ability to deliver engaging and impactful learning experiences.

In recent years, Leonie has incorporated meditation and mindfulness practices into her training and coaching programs. This has significantly enhanced outcomes for clients, particularly those seeking employment.

LINDA PIERSON

Linda is a highly skilled and well-regarded coach & trainer in the employment services sector. Her coaching, training, management and leadership experience includes seven years as a Bounce trainer and ten years in project & senior management roles with Australia Post and Major Change. Linda’s strengths as a coach come from her diverse livedexperiences and professional qualifications and training. Her passion for helping people and unique skills have seen her deliver the Bounce Program within employment services across the country in face-to-face training rooms and online through virtual classrooms for many years. She is a dynamic change-agent, with a talent for leading people through change with positivity and courage. Her ability to effortlessly and elegantly influence and motivate people to achieve peak performance makes her highly sort-after as a coach. Linda is a member of the International Coaches Guild. She has several qualifications, including Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, NLP, Human Behaviour Profiling (EDISC), and Mental Health First Aid, and she also speaks fluent French.

PETER HOLTMANN

Peter is passionate about being a leader of management teams who want to drive innovation and to inspire communities with their own causes, visions and missions. He uses excellent risk management processes to manage programmes from the highest levels of governance to the daily pursuits of individuals. Peter is very comfortable in the community sector, where he has helped organisations to undergo change, to commercialise their visions and to build government relations. He has ticked all the big boxes including restructuring, rebranding, mergers, acquisitions, and organisational change. He enjoys presenting to audiences on the technological and philosophical requirements of the industry he is engaging in. His mantra: motivation is everything, passion is essential, commitment is not an option, leadership is an expression of these ingredients

RAIMOND VOLPE

Raimond Volpe is an established and experienced Sales Trainer. He has over 25 years sales experience in finance, recruitment and pharmaceutical industries. He was the #1 BDM at Toll People for two years in a row, winning the National Finance Industries, BDM of the Year Award. Prior to
sales, he was the director of Five Finance, a mortgage broking and insurance company that won many awards including the Allianz & Tower Finance Broker Company of the Year Award in 2007.

Mindset plays a big part in Raimond’s sales training, as the right attitude is an integral part in a successful sales process.

Raimond is an International Best Selling Author in the SelfHelp industry, with his book ‘Success For Living’ . Shortly after it’s release, it became an international bestseller in x5 countries. Since then, it has been number #1 in Australia in the Self Help Category for many months in a row.

Raimond believes that with a solid sales process, winning attitude and advanced selling skills, excellence can be achieved in any industry.

REBECCA HERBERTSON

Rebecca holds a Bachelor of Psychology, a Graduate
Certificate in Career Development and other qualifications in Training, Management and Human Resources. With over fifteen years experience working in Employment Services and ten years delivering industry training, Rebecca is able to relay her knowledge and experience using a common sense approach and an informal manner which is popular with her clients.

Her Employment Services work has primarily involved
facilitating the Certificate IV in Employment Services
throughout Western Australia and assisting organisations
with other business needs such as tender writing and policy
development.

Currently the Director of Training and Compliance at the Betterlink Group, a Western Australian based RTO she is also a professional member of the Career Development Association of Australia, a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and an internationally certified Continuous Improvement Coach, SME Executive Coach and NLP Practitioner.s.

KEN LOFTUS

Ken Loftus is the Clinical Director of the Sunlight Centre. Ken has worked for over 20 years in the clinical space in Ireland and Australia and specialises in the self-injury area.

TROY MACRIS

Troy is a registered psychologist with over 20 years of experience as a mental health consultant, trainer and counsellor. He has worked in a wide range of community and corporate workplace settings, including local and state government, the education system, health and community services and the private business sector. Troy’s areas of expertise include: Providing individual and group counselling and coaching to employees, managers and teams, particularly in the areas of critical incident response, grief and loss, wellbeing and resilience and organisational change. Delivering engaging mental health training and resources on topics such as managing workplace stress, building positive relationships, and mental health first aid. Designing and implementing innovative and sustainable projects and programs, which focus on creating mentally healthy working environments and supporting workplace wellbeing. Conducting mental health audits and reviews. Facilitating change management processes within organisations and teams. Troy considers it a privilege to work in a field that can have such a transformative effect on people and organisations.

JULES HADDOCK

Jules is an expert in the Mental Health industry.

An accomplished conversationalist in mental health education, Jules has an engaging and creative approach in helping communities understand mental illness and how to manage the invisible learning blocks and walls often confronted, in learning expeditions. She takes the myths and fictitious beliefs about mental illness, and weaves participants into developing safe and confident based approaches that can be used in supporting and maximising confidence in “the space” for both teacher and learner.

With gaiety and passion, she introduces us into an awareness of mental health literacy, recovery, and the importance of embracing strength based and person-centred learning for each student.

Principal Master Mental Health Instructor
President of Not for Profit Charity Art of the Mind
REACH Facilitator – Black Dog Institute
Practicing Author and Artist

BRAD JENSEN

With over 20 years of successful experience in the dynamic world of Retail and Customer Service, Brad thrives as a strategic Leader, specialising in People Management and Sales Training. What truly ignites his passion is witnessing the growth and success of individuals through effective people management and group training.

Brad prides himself on his fun and engaging facilitated workshops where he incorporates motivation, personalised customer engagement, figuring out and discovering clients’ needs, getting commitment, great customer experiences, having important conversations, and achieving win-win outcomes. He excels at leading high achieving teams, and his training sessions leave participants feeling motivated and inspired.

Now part of the Dynamo Selling family, Brad has a vibe about him that draws you in and makes you feel excited and wanting to learn more. It is this vibe which has helped him in developing countless teams and individuals, including one of Australia’s largest electronic retailers, JB Hifi.

AMANDA MATHER

Amanda Mather is a purpose-driven executive and non-executive director with over 30 years of experience leading transformational change across the government, healthcare, disability, aged care, and not-for-profit sectors. Renowned for her strategic leadership and deep commitment to workforce inclusion, Amanda has consistently led from the front—creating environments where diverse communities thrive.

As CEO of TransitCare, Australia’s largest community transport provider, and Chair of TriCare, one of the country’s major aged care organisations, Amanda drives innovative solutions that put people and purpose at the heart of service delivery. Previously, as CEO of Sporting Wheelies, she pioneered a major shift in disability workforce representation, growing participation from 0% to 50% in just three years.

Amanda is a Pillar Champion for Connectivity and Mobility on the City of Brisbane Legacy Committee for the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games, reflecting her leadership in building inclusive, connected communities. A graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, she is also actively involved in shaping employment pathways for people with disability, and driving governance models that enable long-term social impact.

PAUL DAVENPORT

Paul is a Sales Trainer at Dynamo Selling specializing in training individuals and groups in sales training techniques and leadership skills. With extensive experience at a senior executive level in the Banking/Finance, Data Analytics and Consulting industries and a strong background in the development, implementation and embedding of sales and customer engagement programs, Paul brings to each and every engagement, a passion for supporting businesses to optimize their sales and customer engagement resources thereby maximizing the Value they deliver to their Customers.

MIKE SYMONDS

With over 15 years experience in ‘Building Stronger Teams, Boosting Staff Engagement and Creating Positive Workplace Cultures’, Mike has worked with some of Australia’s leading businesses. His highly interactive and practical approach is guaranteed to leave you INSPIRED, ENERGIZED and MOTIVATED to implement key learnings straight away! A former pioneer of corporate team building events, Mike’s reputation is a person who is “Highly engaging, practical and fun!” Mike’s interactive team experiences are focused on building positive relationships fast by allowing people’s ‘true spirit’ to shine. His unique ability is to show what is possible and how easy it is to create an environment of choice, heightened morale and improved staff performance. Mike will inject energising fun and engaging activities at key moments during the day.