www.thelivingroomcoogee.com.au

In February 2022 I began teaching at The Livingroom Yoga School in Coogee. Soon after I began teaching for them Mari (the owner) asked if I would be interested in taking on some managerial tasks to support the studio. Quickly this role grew into managing all aspects of the studio alongside the owners. It was really valuable to be teaching and practicing at the studio alongside this role in terms of understanding studio retention and conversion of clients, meeting expectations and having deep understanding when something wasn't working.

- Managed studio e-mail inbox. I dealt with a wide variety of queries, feedback support for clients, contractors, staff and suppliers for the studio. This involved taking initiative to problem solve on time sensitive matters and excellent written communication skills.

- MindBody; I managed mindbody system end-to-end including client profiles and memberships. Setting up workshops, classes, timetabling, new pricing options, challenges, events. Reporting and breaking this down using excel. Following up any unpaids. Pulling contact lists and organisation ie. duplicate accounts. Training new teachers in everything they needed to know mindbody wise as there is no receptionist at the studio and ran a training for everyone on this as well as setting up video to be sent to review at home. Over my time in this role I developed a very good understanding of the functions of mindbody and how to use it efficiently and effectively to optimise operations.

- Organising and ensuring all teachers certificates were saved and that insurance and first aid/CPR were up to date.

- I received all CV's via e-mail from interested facilitators, going on to collect all their necessary documents and process those successful to cover's list. Then take them through studio introduction (opening/closing, Mindbody, teaching at The Livingroom, culture, check in, communication with clients, feedback etc)

- Alongside the owners we decided on timetabling, offerings, any changes the studio would try and often reviewed the experience and the offering the studio had to ensure it was in line with supporting the community of the studio.

- Being a point of contact for yoga facilitators and ensuring effective communication among each other and with other users of the space and owners.

- Following up with students and supporting them into membership options that worked best and supported them in the right ways for their budget and time.

- Many other ad hoc responsibilities and supporting the studio in any appropriate ways - making sure it was clean and tidy, supplies were stocked, embellishments appropriate, everything was safe, any fixes were organised promptly

- I managed challenges, promotions and sales on offer at the studio from setting them up on mindbody, printing posters and artwork, e-mailing newsletters, encouraging teachers to share and the wording in this to following up feedback loop and review post event to ensure continuous improvement in procedures and processes in this and all operations of the studio.

- My responsibility to write and e-mail out a monthly newsletter and ensure everything necessary was included. I also ran the studios social media pages.

- The studio has 4 rooms it rents out as event space - I did the bookings for these rooms and events as well as invoicing and managing that side of studio operations.

- Updating their wordpress website with new classes, new price plans and links, new teachers, new photos and copy.

https://www.littleforestfolk.com/

2018-2022 - I have had the wonderful opportunity to work in some of the most forward thinking alternative educational settings. I have always felt a deep connection to the natural world and have loved cultivating this love and wonder for the outdoors and love for learning with children aged 2-7 years. I completed my post grad in teaching whilst working at Little Forest Folk in London, Fulham, they are full time outdoor education for children and we spent 9am-3.30pm in the great outdoors each day. In Melbourne I worked at Lady Forster. Where I was onboarded for my experience in London as they set up their beach and bush kinder programs. In these roles I have learnt more than I ever would have imagined about community, connection, the natural world, holding space for learning and encouraging engagement both of the children but also adults and other teachers in trying something new and shifting perspectives on what learning should look like for their children. Working with children this age, I learnt a lot about what it means to be truly present, to really experience what is happening around you and to ask questions, be curious and love to learn. In both roles I have been a senior teacher and had responsibilites in managing curriculum, a team, daily procedure and processes and refining all of the million things that go into each hour, each day, each week, each year to create an experience of learning that was supportive and productive and always improving.

https://alquity.com/

Previous to going into teaching I worked at a investment management company who invested in foreign and emerging markets. I worked in a operations role and was focused on streamlining, organisation, data collection and redistribution to portfolio managers, sales teams timetables etc. I will forever be grateful for the mathematical, problem solving and IT skills (particularly excel) I learnt in this role. My role was to check market movements and exchange rates each day and trends over time the relevant markets, summarising these to help support the portfolio managers make the best decisions regarding their funds.

My first 2 years out of university after completing my finance degree were in film. I worked long hours in this fast paced environment to ensure departments were in budget and all costs were accounted for. It meant developing close positive, professional relationships with a huge crew in order to keep on top of the mammoth amount of money a feature film production costs. Days were spent processing, balancing, communicating on financials and occasionally getting to watch some filming. Each film was audited which meant organisation was paramount and all costs accounted for. I worked on "The Danish Girl", "Black Sea", and "Tarzan"