About your masterclass leader, James Matthews
14 October 2011, Hyatt Regency Perth

When it comes to planning, organising and running events, James Matthews is an expert in the field. He has over 12 years’ experience managing events throughout Europe, North America and Australia - from conferences with 500 delegates, to balls and awards ceremonies with over 1000 guests. He also writes and facilitates masterclasses on a broad range of specific training and development subjects for customers over a wide variety of industries.

James is a master of planning smooth and successful events, both large and small-scale, from start to finish. As Managing Director of ThinkTank Media, James’ principal aims are to inspire, encourage and motivate every individual to achieve his or her full potential.

James’ event management expertise is in high demand, and he is excited to be bringing the Corporate Event Management masterclass – tailored specifically to the many event management responsibilities required of today’s Australian PA/EA. Married to a former EA from Goldman Sachs, James has gained a valuable insight into the PA/EA industry and became inspired to create events and courses tailored specifically for EAs and PAs – leading to the creation of Australia’s highly-successful flagship PA/EA Conference, ‘The Corporate PA Summit’ (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and now Perth), now into its 7th year.

James is also committed to helping raise money and awareness for his chosen charity, The Westmead Children’s Hospital, where his daughter, Isabella (2), recently underwent surgery. James has been working on achieving a few goals of his own recently, and is proud to have achieved one of his long-term goals, successfully completing the NY Marathon 2009 and raising much-needed funds for Westmead in the process.