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She regularly presents on a variety of career and development related topics for professional groups and conferences and led a career segment on ABC radio.

Helen lives in Brisbane Australia with her Engineer husband and two children.

Vicki Webster

Vicki Webster
is an organisational psychologist with over 10 years experience in managing consulting teams. Having experienced three career transitions herself to date, she knows the value of taking responsibility for maintaining her own job satisfaction and employability. After her role as a Court Reporter with the state government was made redundant she took on a HR and training role, while studying psychology part time as a mature age student. Since becoming a registered psychologist she has been consulting in career management, leadership development and executive and transition coaching. She is currently completing a part-time research PhD on leadership.

She lives in Brisbane with her partner, John, who runs his own building business. They maintain work life balance by escaping to the coast on the weekend.

Helen and Vicki co-authored the chapter "Creating the Right Impression" for
Practicing Excellence in Australian Career Practice
edited by Mary McMahon and Wendy Patton.

Alison Lees

Alison Lees
has had enough careers for ten people, having started as a secondary school Teacher and subsequently worked as a Counsellor, a tertiary ESL Teacher, a business adviser and trainer with the Queensland government, run her own business, lectured in communication and small business management, and worked as a Development Manager in the Arts industry. Alison has also recently qualified as a marriage celebrant. All the while she has been happily scribbling in the background writing short stories and working on a novel manuscript. She has self-published
The Accidental Entrepreneur,
a self-help book for counsellors and natural therapists running their own private practice.

Alison currently works from home which allows her the flexibility to enjoy her expanding young family. Her husband Paul is an Engineer with Queensland Health — and was the inspiration for Paul Handy!