Creative Directors

With a background in nursing and counselling, Caylie has an affinity with people and their stories. She is a successful writer and award-winning author, heading up the popular online community history project, Under the Lino.

Caylie has a love of community engagement, and delights in helping others to discover an enthusiasm for personal legacy projects. She works as a Mentor at the Queensland Writers’ Centre, teaches Seniors how to write their memoirs, and helps Kerry run Paddington Then & Now, a local inner-city Brisbane history project.

She lives in a character Paddington cottage with her husband, two teenagers and Jack the cat, and can often be seen talking to people over her front fence, while she gives them a free dog poo bag... just in case.

Caylie’s particular skills are focused on:

• Interviewing and Counselling (one on one, face to face, online and telephone)

• Training & Education (Creative Writing, Memoir Writing and Journalling)

• Social Media Marketing and Management

• Community Engagement

• Public Speaking (Emceeing and Facilitation)

• Content Creation (Writing)

• Self-Publishing

• Personal Marketing

• Public Relations

• Mentoring Memoir Writers

• Editing and Proofreading

Kerry loves nothing more than exploring historic places, meeting the people who lived in them and listening to their stories. She has had a successful sales and marketing career, working in real estate and as a pharmaceutical sales trainer, but her passion lies in historical storytelling.

Kerry loves to create artistic digital content, and uses technology to streamline marketing and media efforts. Kerry manages a number of Facebook pages and love to help community groups with their marketing in her spare time.

She is a married mother of three children, an Hungarian Vizsla and a Ragdoll cat, and lives in a Paddington character Queenslander. She owns a 1963 VW Kombi called Violet, and runs Paddington Halloween as a charity event every year.

Kerry’s particular skills are focused on:

• Investigative Research

• Family History / Genealogy

• Online Content Creation

• Creative Digital Design

• Legacy Project Management

• Audio-Visual Recording

• Video Editing

• Social Media Marketing and Management

• Community Engagement

• Personal and Professional Document Design

• Sales, Marketing & Advertising strategies

• Training and Education

• Creative Photography