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TPC Founder and CEO

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Catherine Mattiske
Catherine Mattiske is the CEO of TPC - The Performance Company. Catherine started TPC in 1994. TPC has offices in New York, Los Angeles and Sydney.

Catherine has trained across Australia, USA, United Kingdom, Europe, Africa, New Zealand, and Asia. Catherine's client list reads like the 'who's who' of business including many Fortune 100 organizations. Catherine works across many industries including banking, insurance, pharmaceutical, biotechnology and retail.

Originally from Adelaide, South Australia, Catherine is a leading training professional with over 2,500 days of face-to-face training experience spanning 30 years. She has trained in both technical and non-technical training environments for leading organizations worldwide. Catherine wrote "Train for Results", which was published by Allen and Unwin in November 2002 which is now on university booklists worldwide.

In June 2007, Catherine was appointed to the US Congressional Business Advisory Council which included being nominated by her clients for her influence to US business, and attended the President's Dinner in Washington DC hosted by President George W. Bush.

In 2003, 2005, 2006 and again in 2008 Catherine was nominated for the prestigious Australian Businesswoman of the Year.

In 2009, Catherine published a series of 26 books called Learning Short-takes® across the topic areas of leadership, sales, customer service, professional development and corporate trainer development.

Catherine lives in Melbourne Australia and works overseas for approximately 10 months every year.

1980 - 2010 - The Journey
In 1980 at 16, Catherine began working in Adelaide at Elders Trustee and Executor Company as a junior in the correspondence department opening mail and typing letters. Elders implemented a computer system and along with eight other juniors, Catherine was part of the 'lucky few' to be trained on the Wang dedicated word processing system - the first word processor available to businesses. This began Catherine's journey into training and the computer industry.

During 1987, at 23, Catherine was appointed as the South Australian State Manager for a Sydney computer company. Working in partnership with the Real Estate Institute of South Australia, Catherine implemented the first personal computer into real estate agencies throughout Adelaide trained real estate agents to use the system to manage rental properties. Catherine was then transferred to the Sydney office to continue to write and deliver training on breakthrough technology of that time.

For the next six years Catherine worked for various computer companies managing training centres and polishing her own training skills.

In 1993 Catherine began her own training company TPC - The Performance Company. Based in Sydney the company began without a business plan and without a strategy but TPC had a single asset: an answering machine! Catherine rapidly moved from computer training to training trainers in how adults learn and how to write and deliver effective corporate training.

Catherine built the Sydney business and began speaking at industry conferences. As a result of speaking at conferences in USA and increased client work across America Catherine opened TPCs New York office in 2001.

Today, 16 years after starting the business, TPC has offices in Sydney, Los Angeles and New York. The focus of Catherine's work remains as educating adults in a corporate environment. Catherine trains corporate trainers in adult learning styles and has developed an award winning model for writing training programs: ID9®. ID9® has been implemented into TPC client's organizations as the framework used to develop and deliver clients own internal training programs. Using ID9® clients create their own training courses in subject areas spanning sales, professional development, leadership, medical, insurance and a myriad of other topics. TPC is also contracted to write courses for clients, on topics that are specific their business, that the client's internal trainers deliver.

In 2005, Catherine launched Learning Short-takes® for corporate training with no requirement for trainers or computers. In 2009 Catherine published 26 book format Learning Short-takes® which offer a new alternative to face-to-face training and e-learning.

Catherine is a highly sought after speaker at industry and other professional conferences. She regularly speaks at the global body for professional training ASTD (American Society of Training and Development) and many other industry meetings.

Catherine's success as a trainer lies in her simple to follow, easy to retain training techniques. Catherine's success as a consultant is due to ability to draw on years of training knowledge gained from every angle - upfront trainer, training manager, instructional designer and business owner. She has helped many companies across the globe change the way training is designed and delivered within their organizations. Catherine Mattiske is a world authority on rapid instructional design that drives participant motivation, retention and application.

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