Darren Goossens
Training manager
Darren is our training manager and lead facilitator. His experience as a lecturer and teacher helps him design Biotext’s workshops to build real-world skills through activities and group work.
Build skills in writing, data visualisation, infographic design, accessibility and more.
For more than 25 years, we’ve delivered practical, interactive workshops both online and in person. Join one of our upcoming ticketed workshops or talk to us about custom workshops tailored to your team’s needs.
Our workshops are designed and delivered by our experienced content strategists, writers, editors and data specialists, who work with complex information every day.
We share our practical techniques and tested approaches to give you skills you can use straight away.
Participants
We’ve trained individuals and teams from government, research, nongovernment and private organisations.
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This course exceeded my expectations. It taught me new skills and refreshed my existing technical writing and editing knowledge and practice.
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[The] single most professional suite of training documents I’ve ever received. The course book will be a useful resource, and the range of activities was fantastic. Perfect balance between information and practice.
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The workshop evaluations show a really impressive shift in learners’ self-rated capability, pre- to post-program.
– Custom workshop client
Our training team
Our workshops are designed and delivered by our experienced content strategists, writers, editors and data specialists, who work with complex information every day.
We share our practical techniques and tested approaches to give you skills you can use straight away.
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Kylie Evans
Training team member
Kylie uses her communication and writing expertise to develop and update Biotext’s writing workshops, and to create custom courses for topics such as grant writing and annual report writing.
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Janna Randell
Training team member
Janna helps develop and facilitate Biotext’s visual design workshops, including our infographics workshop. She also develops short workshops to help clients implement their content strategies.
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Emily Henkel
Training team member
Emily draws on her experience as a tutor and her expertise in accessibility and Microsoft Word to help develop workshops, including our accessibility workshop.
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Carrie DeHaan
Training team member
Carrie helps develop and facilitate workshops focused on web writing, content design and content strategy. She helps workshop participants take a strategic approach to their content development.
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Ari Moloney
Training team member
Ari is a trained science communicator who previously worked at Questacon, where he presented shows and lab demonstrations to diverse audiences. Ari uses this practical experience to develop and present workshops.