Master Classes
The role of First Responders - Jamie Ranse
Lighthouse recently spoke with Jamie Ranse, a Research Associate of Flinders University, Disaster Research Centre. Jamie is an Associate Editor of the Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal, holding disaster portfolio, and peer-reviews for a number of national and international journals relating to disaster, emergency and primary health care.
Jamie's research focuses on nurses' willingness, preparedness, role and experience of disasters. Additionally, Jamie has research interests in the delivery of health care, research and evaluation of mass gathering (or major public event).
Real-Life Product Marketing: Corin Forest with Andrew Snell
Corin Forest Communications Manager Andrew Snell looks at marketing in the real-world.
From having 14 days to launch, to having too many customers, the best laid plans can often mean little once your business is off and running. Making the most of opportunities and managing issues, while keeping on message and the right tone, can be challenging for any business.
Andrew takes us through the process, ups, downs and thinking behind a rebrand and new product offering at an iconic ACT attraction.
Interview with an Entrepreneur - Peter Shankman
Lighthouse recently spoke to Peter Shankman, US entrepreneur and founder of Help A Report Out (HARO) to discuss his startup story and views on the Australian startup ecosystem.
Managing Employees - Peterson Collarde, Employsure
Employee management is your first concern if you are a supervisor or manager at work. Employsure is part of the Peninsula Group, the largest provider of employment law and workplace health and safety advice in the world.
Peterson Collarde from Employsure met with Lighthouse to discuss some key areas of employee management including managing redundancies, sick leave, casual vs. full time employees, award rates, and Fair Work and WHS legislation.
Understanding Intellectual Property
Lighthouse interviewed Paula Chavez to hear about her knowledge and experience with Intellectual Property (IP) and patenting.
Paula began practising IP and business law in the Silicon Valley in 1990. Paula was General Counsel to high tech companies in Portland Oregon before working with Motorola for seven years while living in France.
Since arriving in Australia in 2010, Paula realised that Australia has a yearly IP deficit of $3.25B because Australians do not patent.
Paula's passion is to promote the worldwide knowledge-based capital economy in Australia, which she does by writing and teaching how to capture innovation as transferable assets, in particular patents.
Embracing Diversity Workshop: Celebrating the International Day of People with Disability
In celebration of the International Day of People with Disability, Lighthouse hosted a workshop on Wednesday 3 December 2014 to celebrate and promote the benefits of inclusion and success of people with a variety of challenges in the fields of entrepreneurship and business.
The Embracing Diversity workshop encouraged the sharing of business knowledge and experience as well as raised awareness among members of the ACT community of the business potential and employability of people with disabilities.
Guest speakers were asked to contribute to the workshop by giving insight into their disability or health condition, how it has impacted their lives and how this has all played a role in their approach to business.
Master Class Series: How do you fix your business when you don't know what the problem is?
Einstein is quoted as having said that if he had an hour to save the world, he would spend 55 minutes defininting the problem and 5 minutes solving it.
In this Master Class, you will learn how to rephrase a problem from diffferent viewpoints, looking at the quality of your problem description and the impact on the solutions.