Kathryn Burnett

Design, promotion and facilitation of over 50 writing workshops under the Beginner's Guide Writing Workshops umbrella.

• Create and deliver promotional strategy for Beginner's Guide Writing Workshops.
• Design and facilitation of commissioned ideation workshops for large corporate and arts organisations.
• Modifying workshop content or delivery style in response to participant feedback, ensuring maximum relevance and effectiveness.
• Facilitated multi-location national road show for insurance company.
• Design and deliver effective training and coaching for other creatives.
• Guest lecturer at universities and arts training organisations.

• Utilised storytelling and screen knowledge to work on 20+ TV Series and short films.
• Utilised storytelling skills to write and promote produced plays.
• Utilised exceptional writing, editing, and proofreading skills to produce engaging content for various mediums.
• Collaborated with producers, editors, directors to refine drafts, ensuring consistent tone and style.
• Published non-fiction books and e-Books.
• Generated ideas for new content.

Managed and promoted the NZSA's regular programmes.

• Established strong relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring support for programme initiatives.
• Responsible for membership communications and compilation/publication of regular Chapbook.

Leadership role overseeing organisation's primary advocacy function and implementing a sustainable growth strategy. Management of small staff and board. This role included fund-raising, membership assistance, membership growth, fiscal responsibility and NZ representation at international conferences.