Compass

About Compass

Compass Seminars PTY Ltd is Australasia's newest and most dynamic provider of day long, and short course professional development training for people working with children, young people, and families.
Compass seeks to offer the complete training experience, using the best training talent from throughout Australia and beyond. We base our workshops at comfortable and convienient venues and support them with a fantastic range of additional services including seminar notes, mouth watering catering, convenient parking, civilised finish times, and much much more. At all of our events we also offer a comprehensive bookshop relating to all our current topics. We search the world to find the most up to date and relevant resources and literature (see our Books & Resources page for more). For your convenience we offer EFTPOS, Credit Card and invoicing options at all of our events.
Over the coming months Compass will offer training in an increasing number of major cities and towns throughout Australia.

The management team at Compass are all experienced ex-clinicians from a range of child and adolescent agency settings so you know that our training programme always deals with contemporary issues that are relevant to the workforce in this industry.

Ben Monaghan, Event Manager

Ben occupys the role of Event Manager on behalf of Compass Seminars Australia. He coordinates the general operations of Compass and his key areas of responsibility are event hosting and the development of new business.

Ben is familiar with the training needs of the child and youth sector as he has worked for 12 years as a clinician in Child & Youth Mental Health and in addition to his role with Compass he works with Mater Kids in Mind providing specialist clinical and education services to regional health providers in Queensland.

Ben LOVES to travel and particularly has a softspot for Asia. Watch this space because if he gets his way we will no doubt be doing seminars there in the near future!

Ben can be emailed directly at ben@compassaustralia.com.au

Craig McKenzie, Managing Director

Craig is the Managing Director of Compass Seminars Australia. Originally from a background in Child and Adolescent Social Work, he has over seen the establishment of Compass Seminars Australia. Craig oversees the general operations of Compass and his key areas of responsibility are trainer recruitment and relationship management, some event hosting, and the development of new business.

Craig always prefers talking (about anything) to working so you can be sure he will be up for a chat if you call the office. He also makes a mean cup of coffee (not that this skill is always appreciated by others in the Compass office).

Craig can be contacted by emailing craig@compassaustralia.com.au

Kate Littley, Administrator

Kate is involved with a range of tasks including some of the administration for Australian seminars.

Kate has previously worked and studied in the health sector before heading off for her big OE to the UK and Europe. She joined Compass upon her return from this adventure.

As one of the youngest personnel in our office (by a long way) she also occupies a key role as technical advisor to the other fossils in all matters to do with mobile phones and the interweb thingy.

Roseanne Ward, Administrator

Roseanne is the newest member of the Compass crew having joined us during 2010 following the completion of her degree in English and History. She is one part of our fantastic administration and customer service team. Roseanne oversees the administrative support of some of the seminar operations and also handles a lot of the incoming phone and email enquires. Roseanne bakes a mean cake, has been known to hit the shops on occasion and play a bit of indoor netball as well. She also has an irrational fear of post it notes that have been used more then once, and those little stickers that come on fruit! You tell us what all that means!?

Rosalind McKenzie, Operations Manager

Ros is our Operations Manager. Working behind the scenes with our venues, suppliers and trainers to ensure that our events run without a hitch and look effortless. She also selects the titles and resources we sell through the Compass Bookshop.

Prior to joining Compass Ros worked as a clinician in Child & Adolescent Mental Health and also provided specialist consultation services to the education sector. This experience means that she also plays a central role in finalising seminar content to ensure it is relevant to our customers needs.

Ros likes a good cup of tea, well crafted shoes, and has a soft spot for Jamie Oliver.

You can email Ros directly at ros@compassaustralia.com.au

Leonie Whalen, Administrator

Leonie is one of our hard working administrators. She is responsible for a range of activities including registration management, customer service, and managing our website content (this makes her our ‘web mistress’, although this isn’t a title she is particularly fond of!) Leonie is a talented musician, when it comes to rock music, you hum it, and she can play it.

Leonie has previously worked in administrative roles in both school and child health agency settings and she joined Compass in 2009

You can contact Leonie at office@compassaustralia.com.au

Jet, Office Cat and Rodent Control

Jet does nothing around the office that is of any value to anyone (unless you count sleeping on the photocopier and drinking from unwatched coffee cups as being important).

Jet does not have an email address because she can't read and has no fingers.