soft skills training
complete courses, dvds, streaming video, e-learning
complete courses, dvds, streaming video, e-learning
Tracy Riddiford and Cathy Beitz formed the company in 1998. They willingly acknowledge they are quite interchangeable and greater than the sum of their parts. 13 years and never a cross word, this has turned out to be a truly unique working relationship based on mutual respect, trust, and lots of fun and laughter.
Tracy is a graduate of Flinders University with a Bachelor of Justice. She has spent the best part of twenty years working in the educational film and music publishing industries. Beginning at Video Communicators (a division of NWS9 Adelaide) she joined the company when they had a staff of three, a handful of programs and a negligible percentage of the Australian market.
When she resigned this position in 1996, not only was Video Communicators the most successful Australian education film producer, they were now exporting their catalogue of over 100 titles to 37 countries around the world. She then turned her skills to the music industry and spent 2 years in Europe managing an independent record label. These experiences stood Tracy in good stead for building Our Bizniss over the following 13 years.
Cathy is an Arts graduate of Griffith University. Early in her career Cathy was the executive producer/producer of Queensland’s first locally made tele-movie, 'Madness of Two'.
Moving to the United States in 1984, she spent 12 years producing and directing retail commercials and corporate videos. Many of them won awards including the 1989 Gold Effie for the (statistically) most effective television commercial in America. Next opportunity was directing the award winning documentary, 'They Called Me Kathy', the story of Katharine Hepburn's childhood in Connecticut for the PBS network. She went on to make her mark merging investigative journalism into a corporate communication format in a series of groundbreaking productions. These films were produced in association with The Harvard Business School and Fortune 500 companies.
After returning to Australia, Cathy made several documentaries for television, including co-producing two one hour films for Channel 4 in the UK and producing a seven part series on Great Australian Train Journeys for Banksia Productions and PBS Network in the US.
Since joining forces to create Our Bizniss (and its subsidiary Vida Films) Tracy and Cathy have now produced two broadcast documentaries and 22 dramatised educational programs.
They are both enjoying the challenge of creating benchmark e-learning.
In order to bring you high quality training and resources, ourBizniss enlists the help of many suppliers, partners and mentors. We would like to acknowledge all of them for their valuable contributions to ourBizniss.
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