Lisa's Work History

2002 – present	LHM Communications
1998 – 2002	WMC Resources Ltd (WMC)
1997 – 1998	Department of Minerals and Energy (DME)
1994 – 1997	Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)
1991 – 1994	Weekend Courier Newspaper (Journalist)

Corporate Communications

Lisa has experience in the following: Crisis management; strategic planning; vision/mission statements; strategic communications planning; issues management; stakeholder identification and engagement; workshop facilitation; SWOT analysis; organisational review; communications assessment and improvement. 

Indigenous and Community Relations

Lisa has been working directly with Aboriginal people since 2004 when she started interviewing local Pilbara Indigenous people for Rio Tinto’s Breaking New Ground. Over the next two years she spent time talking to both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people around Australia and looking at policy and issues associated with Indigenous relations in Australia. Based on the knowledge gained from this, she went on to work with Rio Tinto Iron Ore in long-term planning associated with its community relations function.

Lisa once again engaged directly with Aboriginal people between 2005 and 2007 when she wrote Red Dust in Her Veins: Women of the Pilbara, developing further relationships with a range of Indigenous women from central Australia and the Pilbara. This additional knowledge helped her critique an international report for Rio Tinto Corporate on the way forward for Indigenous relations in Australia, as well as edit and contribute to several more publications.

She recently completed a series of Australia-wide case studies for Rio Tinto interviewing Indigenous people about working in the resources sector. Her latest book Make your Mark, for the Graham (Polly) Farmer Foundation, saw her interview Indigenous parents and students in Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory.

Publications

Lisa has written five non-fiction books:

• Make your Mark...The Graham (Polly) Farmer Foundation
• Who the Hell is Effie Crump?
• Red Dust in Her Veins: Women of the Pilbara
• Breaking New Ground: The Stories of Miners and Aboriginal People of the Pilbara and
• Celebrating 21 Years of Passion, People and Pinks

Lisa has written and project managed 14 Annual Reports for WMC, DME, DEP and the EPA and contributed to a further four. She has written and project managed eight sustainability reports, including two for Hamersley Iron and three for Alcoa. Other publications include displays, multi-media presentations, Ministerial speeches, shareholder reporting, leaflets, posters, fact sheets, brochures, newsletters, internet and intranet articles, websites, technical report summaries, mission, vision and corporate statements, Christmas cards and calendars.

Media Relations, Sponsorship and Events

Media: Media statements and communications plans, media issues and events, national and state media tours, crisis media management (particularly during mining fatalities), media presentations and briefings, networking with journalists, media guides, media systems (logs, performance measures), media training for staff and media policy.

Sponsorship: Managing the Sir Lindesay Clark Trust Fund (comprised of a board and donated up to $500,000 per annum), sponsorship requests, partnerships and Memorandum of Understandings, sponsorship policy, databases, tax implications, company benefits from sponsorship deals.

Events: Lisa has managed and organised a large variety of events in various locations for WMC, Alcoa, DME and DEP such as media launches, sponsorship launches, government briefings, Federal and State Government Ministerial involvement with events, handovers, thank you ceremonies, employee briefings and more.

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