Meet Our Team
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Lisa is the Programme Facilitator at LGMA. This encompasses managing events such as the Awards for Excellence, Inspire Conference, Women in Local Government Conference, Village Forums and Webinars, Regional Forums, the Annual Local Government Conference and many more. She also looks after our valuable corporate partners. The other part of Lisa’s role is training. Since joining LGMA in 2016 Lisa has spearheaded the Propeller Programme and in-council training for council officers. Propeller is an annual experiential learning model that provides a broad range of local government experiences and insights from a shire, city, regional and aboriginal council perspective. Lisa says Propeller is one of her favourites as each year she meets great people and experience different communities hosted by varying Queensland Councils. Prior to LGMA, Lisa had a rewarding career within the hospitality, tourism and event sectors and held managerial positions within major hotel chains in Brisbane, Sydney (10 years) and Perth (2 years). Key responsibilities included: staff management and training, sales and marketing, business development, financial management, food and beverage operations and event management. She then followed her heart and went into teaching! This was a huge learning curve and stretched her comfort zone. She taught at TAFE Queensland for approximately 10 years, based at Ithaca, Bracken Ridge and South Bank campuses delivering certificate and diploma programmes for hospitality, tourism and events. She really loved working with students and seeing them grow, develop and find employment. So the role at LGMA was a pleasant surprise as it combined Lisa’s two loves (the work ones) – events and training . What she did not expect was how much she would enjoy working in a small team and meeting with different LG sectors of Queensland. The diversity of the roles and requirements of councils was an eye-opener and makes the role of hosting and creating events and training opportunities an absolute joy. |
Peta Irvine
Lisa Hamilton Georgia Caton Administrative Support Officer E: support@lgmaqld.org.au Georgia, the newest member of the team, joins LGMA with over 9 years’ experience in the customer service industry. Along with a bright and bubbly disposition, she is an office all-rounder who loves to talk to our LGMA members and assist them with their everyday enquiries. Georgia’s role includes council subscriptions, invoicing, answering general enquiries, training support, venue preparation and overall accurate account keeping. Her least favourite role is debtor calls but she was pleasantly surprised at how nice local government officers are when she gives them a reminder. In her spare time, you will find Georgia at the dog park spending time with her little pooch, Bodhi, or in the kitchen trialling a new recipe. |
Administration Officer Lillie joined the team in February of 2022 with over 7 years’ customer service experience. Before joining LGMA, Lillie was also working as an Event Assistant at Event Cinemas alongside with volunteering at Supanovas across the country. Lillie usually has her hands in a bit of everything, from answering the phone, responding to email enquiries about events and website support. Lillie also assists with our event registrations and you may hear from her in the lead-up to some key events such as our Awards for Excellence and Annual Conference. She is also busy with setting up any new members that come through our doors and our monthly newsletter. In her spare time, Lillie loves to relax and spend time with her dog, Boots, as well as hitting up various brunch spots! |
Lillie Dommett Georgia BurgessRelationship and Marketing Lead Ph: 3174 5006 E: membership@lgmaqld.org.au Georgia works Tuesday to Thursday Georgia brings to LGMA over 25 years of human resources experience spanning roles across Australia, the UK and Europe in a variety of sectors, including FMCG, financial services, community services, healthcare, not for profit and state and local government sectors. Operating as an adept business partner, Georgia is a pragmatic generalist, however, has developed a passion and love of all things organisational development. This enables her to fulfil her love of helping people be the best version of themselves and progress in their careers. With a specific focus on leadership development, personal development and career coaching, Georgia is well placed to assist LGMA members and Local Government officers navigate through the, at times, murky waters of their careers both within and outside of the sector. At LGMA, Georgia focusses on all things individual membership related and is always up for a chat and a general shoot the breeze about what is going on in your life, role, community and just about everything in between. Georgia also has her hand in coaching, mentoring programmes, training, secondment programmes and ensuring that the membership offering with LGMA remains beneficial to the challenges and opportunities the sector is currently experiencing. When not working, Georgia is busy in her other job, playing mum’s taxi to her effervescent and boisterous 5 and 8 year old children, ferrying them around to various sporting activities, parties and other commitments (note – they have a far more interesting social life than their mother!). With what little downtime she has, Georgia enjoys cooking, travelling, crafting, wrangling a ginger tabby cat and a Dachshund/Beagle cross pooch, and attempting to turn her urban backyard into an edible adventure for her family and everyone who visits. |  Fiona CullenProgramme Facilitator Fiona has had an interesting career path, split between pursuing elite amateur sporting dreams, and developing her skills as a leadership development facilitator and communications professional. With over 20 years’ experience working with a wide variety of organisations in the commercial, not-for-profit and public sectors, Fiona has worn many hats including strategic marketer, events manager, business development lead, communications officer and now leadership coach and professional development facilitator. In her role at LGMA, Fiona facilitates professional development programmes for local government officers to develop the skills they need to lead and shape themselves, their teams, their organisations, and their communities. Fiona has represented Australia five times in two sports – athletics and bobsleigh – and she applies the lessons learned from her elite sporting career to the business world every day. |
Council Liaison Officer Sharon joined the team in August 2021 with over 15 years customer service & finance experience. With 7 of those years in local government. In her role at LGMA, Sharon facilitates village exchanges for local government officers to develop their networking environments with other councils in similar roles, all from the comfort of their office. These exchanges are beneficial when trying to troubleshoot or explore ways to think outside the box to service for their communities. Sharon believes she has the best role at LGMA as she gets to help and support council staff in a way that has never been offered before. Sharon is a firm believer that local government is about improving the community from the ground level up and what a bigger reward then to see those positive impacts directly. In her spare time… Who is she kidding she has no spare time as a mum of three young boys her “spare time” is running from one sport event to another, but she wouldn’t change it for anything. |
Governance Advisor Ph: 3174 5006 E: ga@lgmaqld.org.au Liza works Monday to Friday Liza brings over 29 years of local government experience spanning over three Councils across Queensland. Liza has worked for metropolitan and regional Councils and her work experiences have focused on good governance and implementing corporate wide business improvements. With a practical sense approach, Liza aims to implement legislation and processes that allow the organisation meet its obligations, but also ensure that the team can do their job on the ground without too much bureaucracy. As Governance Advisor, Liza will work with stakeholders to develop a library of key policy, reporting and monitoring systems. The focus will be to support the implementation of good governance practices in councils of varying sizes and will work with individual councils to tailor documents, train staff and assist in the implementation and consistent adoption across councils. Liza is passionate about working for local government, the closest level to the community, and implementing systems that are not only sustainable but flexible for all the organisation to perform their role. Liza is results and team focused, but can be relied upon to celebrate successes and have fun along the way Liza loves her touch football, with experiences representing Queensland at the Touch Rugby State of Origin and World Masters in New Zealand in Touch. She loves camping, hiking and travelling – nothing like a good road trip. |
Sharon Bradford
Liza Perrett
Leanne, by her own description, is a local government cheerleader. Making things happen, getting stuff done, making a difference and going the hard yards to make a decent contribution are all hallmarks of her 20 plus years local government career. With LGMA Leanne delivers the Executive Management Programme and can be found on a daily basis on our socials sharing insights, updates and information with our members and followers. Leanne has a vast array of experience in Queensland, NSW and New Zealand local government which she brings to the table with her contributions to LGMA. |
Leanne Mash