Trainers and Speakers

If you are interested in either volunteering with SpeakersBank or becoming one of our lead trainers, contact info@speakersbank.com.au.
Take a look at the Speakers and Trainers available through Speakersbank

Dale Rees-Bevan

Dale Rees-Bevan has been running public speaking courses since 1993. Her enthusiastic and encouraging manner has brought confidence and a voice to her course participants. Dale's particular talent is discovering and exposing her delegates' strengths. This gives them the self assurance to enjoy speaking in public. Dale's success as a course co-ordinator is due to the huge emotional investment she makes in each participant. Her engaging manner and her belief in each individual is infectious, with the result that everyone emerges a winner.

Areas of Expertise

Public speaking courses
Listening Skills workshops
Interview Skills workshops
Time Management
Effective Meetings

Current Roles:

President SpeakersBank Australia Incorporated
Guest speaker
Freelance Public Speaking training
Public Speaking Courses for Schools
Public Speaking Seminars
One-to-one speech consulting

Qualifications:

Certificate IV in Training & Assessment
BA in French & English
Higher Diploma in Education
Public Relations Diploma
Post-Graduate Diploma in Translation Theory
Diploma in Management

Not-for-Profit Work

Youth Leadership courses in schools
Public Speaking course for Teen Centre
Lions International Speechcraft
Public Speaking course for Boys' Town
Community Sewing School
Share Our Language

Other Relevant Experience

Member of Toastmasters International since 1989
Distinguished Toastmaster Award
French and English teacher in S.A. and U.K.
Experienced competitor in international public speaking competitions

Based: Sydney, Australia

Colin Cardwell

Colin has been in training for 17 years. He ran his own training company in London, focusing on sales training and sales management. He was a director for 5 years at Trainer Resources (UK).

Colin Colin has been the CEO of 3rd Sense (Australia’s leading casual games business) since 2001. He was also been a director of SpeakersBank Australia Incorporated from 2006 to 2009.

Areas of Relevant Expertise

Member of Toastmasters International since 2000.
Sales Training
Public Speaking workshops
NLP Practitioner
One-to-one coaching
International keynote speaker
Humorous Speaking workshops

Based: Sydney, Australia

Dianne Sammut

Dianne Sammut has a Diploma in Business Management and is currently enrolled to do her Cert IV in Training and Assessment.

Since 1995 she has been co-ordinating and running community courses in public speaking. Dianne has worked with both adults and students and brings to her workshops her high standards of professionalism as well as her public speaking experience and expertise. Dianne is a Director of SpeakersBank.

Relevant experience

• Trainer for SpeakersBank

• DTM in the Toastmasters International program

• Volunteer Speaker for the Heart Foundation

Emma Bell

Emma Bell has been teaching and entertaining young people since 2001. Her enthusiastic and energetic manner engages and excites her students and participants.
Emma ran her own children’s party business, ‘Whimsicality Productions’ with a colleague. She designed themed parties, games and stories for primary aged children. Emma is a fully trained classical ballet dancer in the RAD method, and went on to teach various styles of dance for 5 years. Last year Emma completed a Diploma of Business Marketing and now works in marketing and personal branding.
Emma is passionate about helping young people discover and develop their inner confidence and full potential.

Areas of Expertise

Current Roles:

· Small Business Marketing consultant for start-up businesses

· Connect Marketing – Customer Care Officer

· Glen St Theatre – Customer Service

Qualifications:

· Diploma of Business Marketing

· NLP Certificate 2007

· Certificate of Dance Teaching, QUT, 2004.

Not-for-Profit Work

· Coogee Arts Festival – Marketing/PA work

· BodySpeak Launch – Member of the Real Women Group, we published and edited ‘BodySpeak’ a collection of writings about women by women. Sponsored by The Body Shop. Launched in Pitt St Mall at The Body Shop – opened by Julie McCrossin.

· SpikeFEST – Annual festival celebrating the life of Spike Milligan

· Gosford Musical Society

· MS Society Adelaide - Musical Production – Jesus Christ Superstar

· ‘BODIES’ Youth Dance Festival – Newtown

Other Relevant Experience

· Member of Toastmasters International

· TheatreSports training – Impro Australia

· ‘The Art Of Interviews’ AFTRS

· ‘Acting’ Open Programme NIDA

· TV Presenting Workshop

Based: Sydney, Australia

Gerard Rowley

Gerard Rowley is a Director of SpeakersBank, using his management background to help with the steering of the organization. He has helped commission factories, has run his own home-improvement business and has been in corporate management for over 20 years. Gerard’s enthusiasm to work with SpeakersBank stems from a desire to make a worthwhile contribution to the community as well as develop his own communication and networking skills.

Rodney Durrant

Rodney Durrant has served as a senior business executive and business achievement consultant in the corporate world since 1997, helping large international companies solve complex business issues. Although formally trained as a Chartered Accountant and Auditor, Rodney always knew that he was destined to be involved in senior management doing something that involves getting the best out people in a business environment.

During his years as a business executive he built and managed international teams that specialised in pushing the envelope to do things that had never been done before. Rodney has coached senior executives, middle managers and individual contributors all around the world and has found his highest reward in watching people do what they thought was impossible.

In 2001 Rodney left his position as Company Director to focus on consulting to large international organisations as a business and personal achievement specialist with a focus on leadership and personal effectiveness. Along the way he has met numerous people who were struggling and uninspired by what they do. Based upon his corporate experience and passion for personal development, Rodney now works on his first love, which is helping people develop and successfully create their dreams.

Areas of Relevant Expertise

Goal setting and Time management workshops
Freelance Consultant – Personal Marketing i.e. Presentation and interview Skills
One-on-one Coaching – Money management Skills

Qualifications

Diploma in Accountancy
Bachelor of Accounting Science, Major in Accounting & Auditing (BCompt)
Honours Bachelor of Accounting Science, (Honours BCompt)
CTA (SA)
CFA (SA)

Other Relevant Experience

Youth Leadership courses – Toastmasters International
Member of International Toastmasters
Member of National Speakers Association of Australia
Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors
Member of the Australian Institute of Management

Based: Brisbane, Australia

Tony Saunders

Tony Saunders has been a professional entertainer for over 20 years. His experience of working with people started as a swimming coach, working with people between 4 and 94! His hobby was magic, however, and this led into work as an entertainer. Starting off as a cruise ship entertainment organizer, Tony found himself arranging sport and entertainment. Magic and the entertainment combined and today he works both as a corporate entertainer and as “Sparkles the Clown” for children’s parties and functions.

Thanks to his experience with the swimming coaching, Tony finds it easy to combine his coaching skills with his performing experience and use these talents in the public speaking training arena. He has worked with adults and children to help develop their confidence and public speaking skills.

Tony was a director of SpeakersBank Australia from 2006 - 2009.