As the GM of Employment Solutions Australasia (Roxlea Pty Ltd), Wayne is focused on providing Jobseekers with the attitude and understanding they need to be successful in finding employment.  Wayne has over 35 years of experience in business having worked with multi-national retailers as well as having owned and operated his own franchised retail business for many years.

Wayne has been involved in volunteer work for over ten years and with the not-for-profit sector for over five years. As a father and family man he is passionate about educating jobseekers, assisting them to find sustainable and meaningful employment.

With over 15 years’ experience in Employment Services and having placed more than 40,000 Jobseekers into employment throughout that time, Kim improves lives every day.

Nominated for the 2005 and 2006 Telstra Businesswoman of the year awards, Kim has worked throughout the Commonwealth on projects with a focus on employment outcomes for Youth, Disability and Mainstream Jobseekers.

Her ‘big picture’ knowledge of this countries many varied labour markets coupled with an understanding of the challenges faced by unemployed Australians provides the committee with unique and unmatched expertise.

As the owner of Roxlea Pty Ltd, Leah is focused on providing Jobseekers with the attitude and understanding they need to be successful in finding employment. With a background in book-keeping and volunteer community work, Leah understands the need for strong fiscal control in any venture ensuring dedicated funds are utilised to the maximum benefit of those it is targeted at.

Leah has been involved in the not-for-profit sector for over five years and as a mother of five children passionate about educating jobseekers, assisting them to find sustainable and meaningful employment.

Accomplished in the Australian Construction and Mining Industries, Damien has worked in some of the toughest and remote locations Australia has to offer.  Familiar with the demands of this type of ‘fly in and fly out’ work, Damien is well placed to provide the committee with insights into these major regional employment opportunities.

Damien is a father of a pre-teen and is determined to see sustainable employment within Australia and abroad as a means of securing a future for the next generation.

Randall has changed the attitudes of young people towards learning and life. Featured on ABC's Australian Story, in Monash magazine and in the 2006 ICET World Assembly, since 1995, Randall has worked in schools, remote communities, juvenile justice centres and jails. His programs have had remarkable success with young people whose quality of life has been threatened by drug dependency, homelessness and isolation.

Working with Aboriginal elders, students, teachers, parents, long-term unemployed, CEOs and board members, with a debilitating back condition and having lost his son to cancer, he understands how we can mould our destiny.

Despite years of homelessness, and extreme seclusion, Gregory is an academic in the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Southern Cross University, having completed a PhD. For much of his adulthood he was homeless; and by his own admission, a 'do not approach' figure living as a hermit in a forest in northern NSW for more than 10 years.

Gregory's story including his childhood spent in orphanages, boys' homes and youth detention centres, has inspired Jobseekers throughout QLD and NSW to re-think their goals in life and take charge of their futures.

As a young Jobseeker, Jake drove himself to find work in any field that would allow him to support himself. A supervisor at 19, he moved to Brisbane and quickly found work. Having completed his TAE he now trains others to have the Attitude for success that employers are looking for.

Jake is  22 and recently married.  He spends significant amounts of his time in Volunteer work and believes that young people can take control of their lives when they recognise what regular work and the income that accompanies it, can allow them to do.