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Jane Caro AM is a Walkley Award winning Australian columnist, author, novelist, broadcaster, documentary maker, feminist and social commentator. She spent 35 years as an award winning copywriter and 7 years teaching Advertising Creative in the School of Communication Arts at Western Sydney University. These days she is a full time writer, social commentator, speaker and broadcaster.
She has published thirteen books, including four novels Just a Girl, Just a Queen and Just Flesh & Blood – a trilogy on Elizabeth Tudor, Mother, and a memoir Plain Speaking Jane. She created and edited Unbreakable featuring stories women writers had never told before, which was published just before the Harvey Weinstein revelations. Her latest book Accidental Feminists about the life story of women over 50 was launched in 2019. She is currently working on a novel. She appears frequently on ABC Radio, The Drum, Sunrise & Weekend Sunrise. She created and presented 5 documentary series for ABC Compass, airing in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. She and Catherine Fox present a popular podcast with Podcast One, Austereo Women With Clout. She writes regular columns in Nine Newspapers and her opinion pieces appear regularly in The Saturday Paper, The Guardian and The Big Smoke. She is on the boards of Bell Shakespeare and The Public Education Foundation. To engage Jane Caro for radio , television, or presentation engagements or to discuss speaking topics contact Jane’s manager Peter Wall at Wall Media on 0408 489 057 or www.wallmedia.com.au What people say about Jane Caro Entertaining, energetic and engaging! At one stage at least a third of the crowd was scribbling notes on their napkins… I wanted to hug her! Winner, winner! Jodi Elston – Pilbara Pulse Economic Summit As Jane would be aware from the discussion, we found her talk stimulating and thought provoking, and we now have some great ideas about new approaches to our work. Allen Cheng – Associate Professor in Infectious Diseases Epidemiology Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine – Monash University Jane’s presentation at our professional staff retreat was both entertaining and motivating. Her views on ‘hope’ and ‘fear’ and client engagement were particularly relevant and the example advertisements shown at the end of her presentation were a great touch. We would definitely welcome Jane back again. Kathryn Garth – Director – Business Development and Marketing – HopgoodGanim Lawyers We were very happy with Jane’s performance at the 2013 HESTA Community Sector Awards. We found Jane professional, warm, funny and engaging — a very natural MC who we look forward to working with again. Communications and Events Manager, HESTA I can say without hesitation that both your delivery and content were fantastic. I particularly connected with your insight into effective communications being a dialogue – very refreshing to hear. Thank you for assisting us in fuelling progress in the marketing profession. Kristen Stephens and the AMI QLD Council Conference Manager – Australian Marketing Institute It was a pleasure to have you join us at our annual event and your contribution during the program contributed to providing delegates with valuable content they sound inspirational. Our practitioners are passionate about the field in which they work and your presentation was an encouragement to many. Michelle Blicavs – Chief Executive Officer – IAP2 Jane was fantastic for our event – it was perfect in so many ways. Denis Moriarty – Group Managing Director – Our Community Jane’s relaxed and humorous contributions at our conference were a big hit with our delegates. The authenticity and candour with which she delivered her presentation was exactly what was required to punctuate our program. Angela Garvey – New South Wales Nurses and Midwives’ Association Jane was amazing today and everyone was commenting on how entertaining she was. She was fantastic at getting her message across. Teachers on a first day back at school are a hard crowd however she won them over! Deborah Hobbs – Assistant Principal Austinmer Public School Jane was wonderful. She was an absolute pleasure to work with Cathy Moses – Australasian Events Manage IAP2 Australasia Jane is such an eminent Australian and such a passionate feminist who’s done great things in her lifetime to move the cause of women forward. Lieutenant-General David Morrison AO – 2016 Australian of the Year. “It was a great day and Jane did a terrific job- fun, engaging, insightful and thorough. Very favourable feedback from the audience.” Martin Krippner – Learning & Development – ATO People “Jane was a wonderfully warm and entertaining host for the evening, as well as very knowledgeable in the subject area. Lots of comments on Twitter and in person about how she was the perfect person to MC the evening and I couldn’t agree more” Cindy Chen – Adobe Marketing Wow – great job today! Comments from the floor whilst you spoke and afterwards were fantastic. It was great to have an ‘outsider’ speak who clearly is passionate about public education. Oh – and you are funny! Nothing like throwing in a bit of humour. Pip Arthur – Marketing, Media and Communications – TasTAFE Thank you for your very lively conversation at the Australian Council of Deans of Education Forum. We all enjoyed your humorous but candid reflection on the state of Australian education and your personal experiences in this area. Tania Aspland – President Australian Council of Deans of Education. Your thoughtful commentary and sense of humour made the Summit a huge success and kept the audience engaged throughout the day. Thank you for your very relevant observations on financial resilience that were both entertaining and informative. We were extremely impressed with your smooth facilitation of the conversation with the various panels and keynote speakers throughout the day and would highly recommend your services. We are looking forward to taking the outcomes of the Summit and using them to inform positive change and action in the business, government and community sectors. Andrew Mooney – Chief Executive Officer – Good Shepherd Microfinance Thank you for your inspiring and entertaining talk at the Gallery for International Women’s Day last week – especially for making time for us in your extraordinarily busy schedule. The audience was enthralled and your engaging and frank style was a great fit for our program! We look forward to welcoming you back to the Gallery. Dr Josephine Touma – Manager Public Programs –Learning and Participation – Art Gallery of New South Wales Fabulous evening, Jane exceeded all expectations. Funny, knowledgeable & totally engaging with all of the crowd. Sharon Baxter-Judge – Abbeyfield Bungendore Thank you very much for being a part of “All About Women” yesterday.Your brilliant input and thoughts were priceless and the event would not have been successful without you. Hope to work with you again in the future. Carole Arulantu – Canberra Theatre Centre “The conference was a great success with Jane as MC. Jane’s easy going and humorous nature really contributed to the success of the day. We appreciated that she naturally contributed her own personal thoughts and experiences during her hosting of the sessions.” Marie Noy – QCOSS On behalf of the CMSF Programming Committee, thank you for presenting at this event. We are proud to have received extremely positive feedback and without your invaluable contribution, this would not have been possible. We appreciate the time you took out of your busy schedule to join us and thank you for sharing your insights and expertise with the CMSF19 attendees Ava Scheerlinck – Chief Executive Officer – Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees Jane was fabulous as usual. We knew she would challenge the status quo with a political view to lead into her presentation. What I loved particularly was the value for money as the conference participants were still discussing the concepts to their schools over dinner that night. Kylie Becker – Principal – Seven Hills West Public School Jane was a real hit and a true pro. Kasy Chambers – Executive Director Anglicare Australia Your keynote started us off in exactly the right way with teachers feeling valued, heard, appreciated, and empowered. . I’ve never seen that kind of engagement before and we’ve had excellent speakers previously, too! Thank you for your advocacy, support, and encouragement to teachers to stop being victims and take charge. They can. They must. Dr Claire Brown – National Director, AVID Australia Jane’s address to the Port Stephens Community and staff was fabulous. She was engaging, inspiring and truly addressed the challenges that women face, both historically and in today’s world. Juliann Lee – Port Stephen’s Council Jane was great as our facilitator – very insightful and kept the conversation moving. Joanna Holcombe – Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre Jane did an amazing job on Tuesday. She was perfect. Jane Polkinghorne – Communications & Marketing Team Lead – OPAN Jane was absolutely wonderful. I cannot tell you how much I (and everyone else at the Conference) LOVED her. Holly Lam – Vice-President of Australian Women Lawyers. Jane was a breath of fresh air and we had nothing but stellar feedback about her – what an inspiring woman. Tina Gaudry – Marketing and Events Co-ordinator – Dot.Dash – Events About Jane’s Speaking Jane is a very versatile speaker who – thanks to her advertising training – is highly skilled at pitching her message appropriately for almost any audience. She can provide original and highly expert content about marketing, advertising and communications that is highly sought after by businesses, both big and small. She can debate a wide range of topics with humour, consideration and respect. She is a warm, welcoming and highly professional emcee. She can be serious, expert, empathic, witty and, when appropriate, both hilarious and controversial. No matter what group she is talking to, she sets out to engage, to inform, to entertain and to make you think. Some Jane Caro Speaking topics:
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