Trainers and Coaches

at Art of Communicating

Art of Communicating’s leadership and communication trainers and coaches are available to assist you to improve your business, career and personal growth through public speaking courses, personal communication coaching, business communication coaching, and in-house business training programs.

Charmaine Burke

Founder and Training Director

Charmaine is the lead trainer at Art of Communicating.

She developed a strong passion for the power of communication and leadership from the moment she began her career at IBM.

The desire to create her own business took hold in 1990. Studying business and marketing skills, she developed her own successful businesses – ROM’n Around and English Software. These supplied academic institutions around the world with programs to help people read, write and communicate in English.

Charmaine has 20 years experience in managing and leading teams. She is an expert in developing unique workshops and facilitating training.

Cert IV in Training and Assessment
NLP Practitioner
Certified Executive Results Coach
Distinguished Toastmaster – DTM Leadership & Communication
- Club Coach
- Distinguished Club President
- Distinguished Area Director
Award-winning public speaker for Toastmasters International Speech Competitions.
Voice and Speech Specialist (NIDA)
Fine Arts Diploma
Coaching Success Foundations
Business Administration Cert IV.

Karen Love

Executive Leadership Coach, Mediator & Counsellor

Karen is a highly experienced executive Leadership Coach & Counsellor. Having worked in many places around the world, Karen has extensive experience in change management, transformational workplace communication coaching, mediation, psychotherapy, counselling, and training facilitation.

Her qualifications include:

Bachelor of Education in Adult Education
Certificate IV in Training and Assessment
Graduate Diploma in Psychotherapy and Counselling
Bachelor of Arts (Psychology & Management)
Graduate Diploma in Relationship Counselling
Accredited Mediator – Mediation Training
Positive Psychology Diploma
Accredited Executive, Organisational and Leadership Coach

Megan Hauptfleisch

Corporate Trainer, ‘Gamestorming’ Facilitator, Marketing & Media Training

Megan has 20 years of marketing management and consultancy experience. She has a proven track record for successfully driving growth in businesses across B2C and B2B. Working across a diverse range of categories and industry sectors developing a wealth of knowledge and strategic depth of marketing insight. (FMCG, Pharma, Health & Well Being, Electronics and Appliances, Grocery Retail, Banking, Education, Construction, Technology, Transport, Kids Entertainment, NFP).

A result-focused marketeer, business advisor and facilitator. Highly skilled in motivating and empowering teams to deliver superior results. Passionate about helping businesses to turn their vision into actions that deliver sustainable growth. Expert at unlocking opportunities in their brands, products, people and organisation. She is a commercially savvy problem solver and process expert who mentor’s businesses to build efficient and effective marketing and communication teams through strategic planning, training, process development, technology and excellence in implementation.

Very experienced strategic marketing professional, business advisor and expert communication and facilitation trainer who can inspire and lead people, teams and businesses to success.

BA Commerce: Marketing
Post Grad. Communication: Advertising & Creative Writing
Qualitative Facilitation & Moderation RIVA Research Institute
Rogen Presentation
Packaging & Communication @ Added Value
“Gamestorming” and Advanced Facilitation Trainer Course

Lauren Burke

Counsellor and Psychotherapist

As your coach, Lauren will guide you on your journey so you can find deeper answers and choices to move beyond whatever is holding you back. She is skilled at creating new mindsets and behaviours, and helps you to shift your perception of what is possible.
Lauren combines this skill with being a Counsellor, qualified in holistic therapy. Explore life’s challenges, celebrations, and your internal landscape and external experiences, to find understanding, ease and illuminate new pathways forward.

Lauren’s qualifications include:

Professional Training in Holistic Counselling and Psychotherapy (PACFA registration no. 27486) – Metavision Institute
Certified Results Coaching – Authentic Education
Yoga Teacher Training (Yoga Alliance registered member) – Sacred Seeds Yoga School
Certificate IV Adventure Guiding and Certificate III Outdoor Recreation – TasTAFE
Natural environment and wilderness studies at the University of Tasmania, psychology of yoga, non-violent communication.

See more details here: Lauren Burke – Mountain Bird Wellness

Jemma Burke

Mindfulness Teacher

Jemma is a Yoga Teacher, trained at Bija Yoga. She constantly enriches her skills in Yoga, Reiki and Mindfulness and has travelled the world practicing with leading teachers in Indonesia, India and Nepal. A qualified fine-artist, (BA Fine Art) incorporating her creativity into all the work she develops.

Mindfulness Training in business is relatively new to the workplace, however many companies are finding it reduces stress and absenteeism, increases productivity, develops better leaders, and generates more creative workplaces. It also enhances cognitive thinking skills and triggers more imaginative solutions.

Jemma’s skill is in helping your staff to be aware of what is really happening in the moment, how to decrease stress, improve well-being and mental alertness, manage emotions, develop social intelligence, and improve creativity in the workplace.

Her ability to blend mindfulness practices with yoga also contributes to the success of her training outcomes. As one of our unique mindfulness trainers at Art of Communicating, Jemma’s sessions are always beautiful, balanced, harmonious and very well received by attendees.

Alfa Jones

Trainer, Corporate and Vocational Sectors

Alfa brings more than 20 years of private and government sector training experience to Art of Communicating, from a diverse array of industries including recruitment, finance, insurance, industrial, construction and education.

Alfa is a fully qualified Adult Educator and Trainer (B Ad Edu) with Adv Dip Commerce, and Cert IV Training and Assessment (TAE 40110).

She is a Distinguished Toastmaster and leader. She chartered the highly successful Manly Multilingual Toastmasters Club in Sydney and was Toastmasters Area 22 Governor, District 70, 2011-2012. She is also a member of the Australian Institute of Training & Development, and a member of UTS Alumni Association.

As a valued trainer at Art of Communicating, Alfa is committed to delivering exceptional educational experiences, and building strong, long-standing relationships with clients to obtain the best possible outcomes.