“I’ve been in eCommerce for the last eleven years and my CIM Diploma has always held me in good stead. The foundation in marketing has continued to help me with strategy formulation throughout my career.”
Melanie Keeble
Commercial Classifieds Manager, The West Australian Newspapers
Our tutors
Emma Blackburn – MSc, BA(Hons), MCIM, CELTA
Emma is principal of the Australian College of Marketing. A passionate educator of marketing at both university and TAFE, Emma also has over three years experience of designing, teaching and managing CIM programs. She has taught and convened marketing programs in the UK at Oxford Brookes University and Oxford College of Education; and in Australia at Swinburne University and the Australian Institute of Management (AIM).
Prior to her career in education, Emma was a Marketing Manager specialising in business-to-business marketing in the Information Technology and Telecommunications industries. She developed marketing strategy for large multinationals including Fuji-Xerox, Epson, Texas Instruments, Telstra and British Telecom.
Harrold Burman – MCom, BBus, Grad Dip Education
Harrold has over ten years experience of teaching marketing at institutions including the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and New South Wales TAFE. He has helped to deliver nationally and internationally accredited programs to public and private sector organisations.
As a Management Consultant, Harrold is a specialist in organisational development. He has provided training, consulting and coaching services to organisations such as Lend Lease, News Limited, Telstra, Qantas and Mirvac Hotels.
Kerin Brearley – MBus, BA, Grad Dip Marketing, Dip Advertising
Kerin has extensive experience as a marketing lecturer at university and TAFE level. She currently lectures on RMIT University where she teaches on the Masters of Advertising and is the first-year coordinator.
Kerin started her career in fashion retail marketing. She has ten years experience in managerial positions at Esprit – as National Children’s Wear Wholesale Manager – and at Portmans and Sussan Corporation as Advertising and Marketing Manager. At Sussan Corporation, Kerin managed a $3 million budget and was responsible for all internal communications and external promotion for a chain of 150 stores in Australia.
Anita Rigoni – MBA, BSc, Project Management Prof Cert
Anita has over 25 years experience as a trainer in Leadership and Management, Cultural Change and Project Management. Her industry experience ranges from manufacturing and mining to banking and finance. Anita is well known for her ability to bring a balance between theory and practitioner’s experience to her teaching and consultancy projects.
The clients Anita has worked with include Coles Myer, Westpac, Adelaide Bank, Department for Trade and Economic Development, and Bureau of Meteorology.
Joanne Marriott – BBus(Hons)
Joanne is an accomplished marketing professional with a twenty year career in training, brand management and marketing consultancy. She is a marketing lecturer at the Australian Institute of Management (AIM) and at Homesglen TAFE where she teaches buyer behaviour, marketing essentials and market research.
Joanne has worked in senior marketing and brand management roles, building new brands from scratch as well as managing multi-million dollar campaigns for many well known brands. She has worked with a wide range of organisations including Procter and Gamble, Cara Operations, Creative Brands Australia, Mars Petcare, Aviva, Dulux and Nestle.
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