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Creative Welly Episode #50 | Jessica Rattray & Paul Tobin

Courageous conversations with bold humans (from the most creative little capital in the world).

Jessica Rattray – Road Safety Specialist

Jessica is a road safety specialist with over 20 year’s experience working in various roles across the country for private consultancies, local and central government. She has made it her mission to disrupt the traditional thinking of the road safety industry, challenge the status quo and pursue ways to improve transport safety outcomes for people of New Zealand.

Her passion is finding creative solutions to complex problems and her outcomes-focused approach ensures that her work has a tangible impact on people’s lives.

Paul Tobin, Creative Director and Concept Artist

Paul is currently the Creative Director at Arkus Games. He was formally an Art Director and Concept Artist at Wētā Workshop, where he worked on film, television and game projects notably; Peter Jackson’s and Guillermo del Toro’s “The Hobbit Trilogy”, James Cameron’s “Avatar” (and sequels), Andrew Adamson’s “Chronicles of Narnia”, Blade Runner 2049, “The Expanse”, Activision’s “Call of Duty: Vanguard” and Monolith’s “Shadow of Mordor”. Paul was also the course supervisor at the Wētā Workshop School at Massey University.

He founded NZ’s first genre art-book anthology “White Cloud Worlds” which led to co-creating the entertainment convention “Industry of Imagination”. Most recently Paul has returned to his gaming roots and co-founded Arkus Studios.

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Creative Welly Episode #45 | Michelle Farrell & Dave Greenberg

Courageous conversations with bold humans (from the most creative little capital in the world).

Michelle Farrell, Senior Learning & Development Consultant

Michelle is super-passionate about creating connections and communities within organisations. She takes a human-centred approach to everything she does, which has helped her build thriving communities.

She’s keen on connecting people with technology and loves finding ways to make their work lives more manageable.

Her roles range from Knowledge Management Collaboration Specialist to her current Senior Learning and Development Consultant position.

Dave Greenberg, Keynote Speaker / Trainer / Consultant

Dave moved to Wellington, from the USA, for a one-year IT contract in 1990 and never left.

He served as a rescue crewman on the Westpac Rescue Helicopter for 25 years, taking part in nearly 4000 missions. In 2017 Penguin Random House published his memoir, Emergency Response: Life, Death and Helicopters.

Dave was part of the Ministry of Health’s Covid Response Team, helping coordinate NZ’s health response to the pandemic for over two years.

Today he is an emergency management speaker/consultant/trainer. He regularly travels between NZ, Australia and the USA, but Wellington is, and always will be, his home.

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Creative Welly Episode #25 | Isabella Cawthorn & Richard Shirtcliffe

Courageous conversations with bold humans (from the most creative little capital in the world).

Isabella Cawthorn, Editor, Talk Wellington

Isabella has been meddling, influencing and generally making good change in urban spaces for 20-odd years. Her chequered career includes co-founding Frocks On Bikes, doing community engagement on windfarm construction and street improvement projects, editing Talk Wellington, briefing local government candidates on elementary urbanism, helping establish NZ’s tactical urbanism programme, and facilitating rapprochement between local councils’ community development and infrastructure teams.

She’s a 1.5-generation Pākehā from Porirua. Find her on dancefloors, drinking coffee, and striking up conversations on trains.

Richard Shirtcliffe, Story-teller / WildClean Executive Janitor

I’m really just a story-teller, with a passion for building disruptive ‘triple bottom line’ brands.

My kids are my north star, and back in 2018 I watched as they paddled through a sea of waste plastic while learning to surf. Since then I’ve been on a mish to Un-muck Their World. To create businesses that trash the status quo; eliminate single-use plastic; and transform categories by delivering better products in a better way. WildClean.com – the world’s first plastic-negative cleaning co – is the latest.