Zoe Brissett is a communications professional seeking a career in corporate marketing and communications, with a background in disability advocacy and policy work, salesforce administration, and volunteer experience in special education and film projects. She has a Masters in Clinical Audiology, Bachelor's in Communication, and diplomas in Media and Communications and Higher School Certificate, as well as work experience in disability services, mentoring programs, and salesforce solutions. Her skills include innovation, communication, stakeholder engagement, research, project management, and social media marketing.

1. Zoe Brissett
Communications
Linked In | M 0430 770 431 | E zoe.r.brissett@gmail.com
Innovate + Engage + Empower + Impact
💡 👥 🙌 📈
Career Objective 💭
To invest my solid innovation, communication and stakeholder management skills
towards kick starting a career in corporate marketing and communications.
Education 📚
📖 Masters of Clinical Audiology - Macquarie University (2014, withdrew from course)
📖 Bachelor of Arts in Communication (Social Inquiry) - University of Technology
Sydney (2010)
📖 Diploma of Media and Communications with Distinction - Meadowbank TAFE
(2007)
📖 NSW Higher School Certificate - Roseville College (2006)
Experience ✏ ️
✏ ️ Volunteer Special Education Assistant, Disability Care Project - Projects Abroad
Vietnam (December 2014 - January 2015).
I did a volunteer disability care placement with USA Vietnam Friendship Village in Ha
Noi, working a special education class.
Experience included:
- Management/ assistance of students group and individual school work;
- Taught English, basic communication and social skills, games and activities;
- Provided general help to teacher and students in cooking and sport lessons; and
- Catered for students diverse and education care needs in an inclusive and
person-centred manner.
✏ ️ Biz Academy Student - salesforce.com (August 2014)

2. Experience included:
- Used innovative thinking to create a customer oriented cloud computing solution;
- Developed solutions on a company’s customer service challenges, and developed
a sales based cloud computing/ CRM solution;
- Strong presentation skills, having delivered a cloud computing solution to
executive staff and executive customers;
- The ability to conduct business meetings with a major company, as well as the
ability to learn about and respond to their customer needs and challenges; and
- Critical thinking and problem solving skills to work through customer challenges
and engineer a customer oriented sales solution.
My role in the group project was the account executive. This experience provided:
- The ability to manage client and project team relationships;
- Strong communication skills to facilitate between client and project team; and
- A talent for supporting teams in their assigned roles and tasks.
✏ ️ Policy and Research Officer, NSW - National Disability Services (June 2010 -
January 2014)
At National Disability Services, I started out in a junior policy role (2010 - 2011) before
progressing to a sector based position (2011 - 2012), and to my last role as Policy and
Research Officer.
Experience included:
- Collation and analysis of research for internal and external communication
purposes. For example: research reports, news updates;
- Strong written communication skills, including preparation of policy papers,
submissions, reports, and media updates to inform internal staff and external
stakeholders;
- External event management support for conferences, consultations, and sector
engagement activities, incl. registration, customer administration, answering
inquiries;
- Strong research and presentation skills, including preparation and analysis of
industry information, reports and initiatives to present to management, executive
staff and stakeholders;
- Project work and management on research, problem solving and developing
awareness and understanding of stakeholder and business issues;
- Stakeholder engagement activities, through attendance at external meetings,
conferences, consultations;
- Supported the Sector Development team work on various administration, event
management, communication, research and project management tasks;
- Supported NDS National Staff through completing research and project tasks,
tools and resources;
- Supported the Disability Safe team through completing research and
communication tasks on work, health and safety issues in disability sector;
- Supported the Every Australian Counts Campaign through public speaking
engagements, event management, and administration tasks; and
- Administered customer surveys and prepared evaluation reports to provide
internal feedback on training programs

3. Other Skills 🌟
📌 Awareness and understanding of the realities affecting businesses and
customers, and coming up with solutions that can maximise reach and potential;
📌 Strong networking and communication skills when attending external
conferences, and through raising awareness of your organisation
📌 An eye for detail in looking for new ways to market businesses;
📌 Computer Skills (Intermediate - Microsoft Office and Macintosh Suites, Adobe
Suite; and
📌 Social Media Skills - Blogging, Facebook, Vimeo
Awards 📜
📌 Biz Academy Graduation Award and Team Challenger Award (2014);
📌 Emerge Mentoring Graduate Award (2013); and
📌 Bei Loon Dragon Boat Club Rookie of the Year Award (2011)
Voluntary Experience 👣
📌 PACE Mentoring Program with ANZ Bank (September - November 2014) - spent
three months being mentored by an ANZ employee, as a job seeker. Experience
included developing the skills, confidence and understanding in preparation for
work opportunities in a corporate environment;
📌 Special Olympics Australia Young Athletes Program (July 2014 - present) -
Volunteer sports coordinator/ coach for Young Athletes (ages 2-8);
📌 TTW Film Project (September to November 2014) - jointly coordinated and
assisted with a film project that raises awareness of school leavers with disability
who are either working or studying. Done in collaboration with Cerebral Palsy
Alliance;
📌 Cerebral Palsy Alliance Boccia Program (July 2014 - present) - Volunteer sports
coordinator/ coach
📌 Created and marketed a disability awareness video as part of the Emerge
program (2012 - 2013). The video, called Believe Achieve, tells nine inspiring stories
of young people with disability overcoming an obstacle - www.youtube.com/watch?
v=5V38erR50Dg;
📌 Believe Achieve Initiative Foundation (2013 - present) - Co founder, documentary
film initiative that aims to raise awareness of people with disability. We invite and
film all types of people with disability who want to share their stories - https://
www.facebook.com/BelieveAchieveInitiative; and
📌 Participated in Emerge Program with ANZ and Cerebral Palsy Alliance (2012 -
2013) as a mentee. This program empowered young people with disability and
communities through leadership training and project work.

4. Hobbies 😀
🌍 Travel | 🚴 Cycling | 🎬 Films | 📷 Photography
Referees 🚩
🚩 Katherine McLellan
Executive Officer (Office of COO)
National Disability Services
E: katherine.mclellan@nds.org.au
M: 0408 175 564
🚩 Michelle Butterly
Senior Wealth Project Manager
Global Wealth Program Office, ANZ
E: michelle.butterly@anz.com
M: 0412 018 537
🚩 Natalie Chrara
Sales Director
salesforce.com
E: nchrara@salesforce.com
M: 0415 308 475