Speakers, Trainers and Presenters

“Dynamic group facilitation! You held everyone's attention and you were sensitive to individual needs.
The course was well researched, with exceptional training and it far exceeded our clients' expectations.”
Debbie Tong
CRS Australia

"Art of Communicating boosted me to a new level. No matter how experienced I thought I was as a communicator, Charmaine and her associates taught me so much more - effortlessly & effectively.
I was astounded how quickly I changed.
There is no substitute for the professionalism, quality and respect they offer to their clients.”
E Richardson
Director, Thanks 4 Pty Ltd.

"Charmaine Burke is an inspirational leader, developing and delivering unique training programs and organizing events with great success.
She has the ability to lead her team in an inclusive and consultative manner.She is a very generous, warm person, able to encourage people to perform tasks so they may see beyond their capacity.
Because of her inspirational, friendly, professional manner, she is a wonderful mentor."
Maria-Elena Chidzey,
SCGD, CS, JP
Multicultural Consultant
World Champion Speakers Workshop

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Trainers - Speakers - Presenters

 

Charmaine Burke

 

Corporate Trainer
Public Speaking Coach
Master of Ceremonies

 

 

Charmaine Burke is the Founder of Art of Communicating, a Master Course Facilitator, trained in NLP, Speech and Voice Presentation at NIDA and she is a fully qualified Cert IV Trainer & Assessor.

Over the past 20 years she has delivered exceptional results in business marketing, sales, training and presentation facilitation, working within the education industry.

She is also an award-winning public speaker and an experienced Master of Ceremonies.

She has created and produced successful training programs for a large variety of companies, employment agencies, community colleges and business networking groups. [See About Us]

Charmaine is an Advanced Toastmaster in Communication and Leadership, and the Past President and Executive of Manly Multilingual Toastmasters Club.

She has won 1st PLACE at Club, Area, and Division Levels of the 2006, 2007, 2009 and 2011 Toastmasters International Speech Contests
and achieved 2nd place at the final District 70 Competition in 2011.

She is also co-manages English Software - a company that provides training programs to help people read, write and communicate in English. [See English Software]

In her spare time, Charmaine hosts the Wild, Wise Women events, and she loves travelling, early morning walks at the beach and creating ridiculously huge oil paintings!

 

 

Alfa Jones

 

Corporate Trainer,
Vocational Training Facilitator

 

Alfa brings more than 20 years of private and government sector training experience to Art of Communicating from a diverse array of industries including recruitment, finance, insurance, industrial, construction and education.

Alfa’s consummate professionalism working at the senior level has facilitated the establishment of effective networks which she is able to draw upon to strengthen her results.

Alfa says, "The joy of my role is the diversity of people and projects I'm involved with at various times. Recently I've been working with a range of clients to design and deliver behavioural change programs where employees focus on taking personal responsibility for their career life. It's brilliant to see the changes in people over a period of time throughout the program. Results include change in perceptions, attitudes, relationships and engagement at the workplace."

Alfa’s success is founded on a commitment to delivering exceptional customer experience and building strong, long-standing relationships with clients to obtain the best possible outcomes.

Alfa is an Advanced Toastmaster. She chartered the highly successful Manly Multilingual Toastmasters Club in 2005 and is now Toastmaster's Area 22 Governor 2011.