1. What have you found most challenging as a leader in the education sector?

The status of Arts & Culture within Australia

2. How do you structure your work days from waking up to going to sleep?

Music, news, breakfast, work - online interactions, designing, teaching, songwriting, farm chores, rest.

3. What's the most recent significant leadership lesson you've learned?

Hard-won College culture is not immune to commercial ambition.

4. What's one book that has had a profound impact on your leadership so far? Can you please briefly tell the story of how that book impacted your leadership?

Start with Why by Simon Sinek. In a classroom, the coalface of education validation, this framework creates a simple process to achieve value, and make something worth doing.

5. How do you find and keep great leaders in the education sector?

Candid, down-to-earth conversations with trusted colleagues.

6. What's most important as a leader in the education sector for developing a culture of wellbeing in your staff and students?

Honesty and sincere motivation.

7. What is one meaningful story that comes to mind from your time as a leader in the education sector so far?

When it became clear to me that to retain my integrity as a professional Educator and Designer, I would have to resign from my dream job.