Communications training and advice that comes from hard-won experience

I’m a former Sydney Morning Herald editor and journalist who wrote for and edited almost every section at one time or another, covering everything from travel and technology to health and hospitality.

I then taught at UTS and The University of Sydney, which is when I realised how much I love training. Even when I moved on and began working in marketing, branding and corporate communications, I still moonlighted as a trainer for various organisations until I eventually had to make my side hustle a full-time gig.

Which is how Media Survival was born.

I’ve now been running it for more than 15 years and in that time I’ve trained leaders and staff from almost every kind of organisation, from government departments and councils to banks, superannuation firms, hospitals, publishers and not for profits.

I’m based in Melbourne but run training all around Australia. I also have many international clients (especially from New Zealand).