Hi my name is haz and I'd like to meet you
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We have to go back Marty!
Back to the... past? Sounds good!
This is a 4-chapter breakdown of the eras in my career so far. My own personal eras tour if you will (less impressive than Taylor's I know).
1. Skateboarding and coffee
While this sounds like a holiday by-line (and felt like it too), this was actually a perfect summary of my life straight out of school.
I worked 60 hours a week in a cafe and in my spare hours, built a skateboard brand with my best mate.
After spending all our money on boards, we realised we needed marketing to sell them. With that, chapter 2 began.
2. Websites, charities, regional Aus, and cameras.
Whilst learning web design, photo, and video for my brand, I also began facilitating school leadership and wellbeing programs across Australia for a charity called Burn Bright.
This was a hectic time (with many nights on the road) and I got to experience the best Aus has to offer whilst scaling alongside a small charity and building a freelance side biz (which is still cranking today.)
It all came to a crashing halt when COVID hit... or did it?
3. Programming, system building, and becoming one with the online
COVID - the world of digital.
We needed someone who could: Build websites, film videos, write scripts, and build an LMS to do what we need.
We got stuck in and 5 months later, we had government grants locked in to run digital programs across Australia. I then transitioned to their head of marketing, building the systems for selling these and other programs/camps.
4. Joining the Aus startup ecosystem and getting stuck into the climate crisis
My heart's always been with the creatives, the startups, the "crazy ones" as we all know them.
So in mid-22 I joined the Investible (early-stage VC) team on their marketing side to work on the Investible brand while simultaneously building a new brand called Greenhouse.
In mid-23, I jumped over to the Greenhouse team full time, opening Australia's first dedicated climate tech hub and powering memberships to 85% capacity in 5 months. Since then, I've been working on GH with clients like the World Economic Forum and KPMG as well as launching Climate Action Week Sydney.