Blake Beattie
Bachelor of Education (PDHPE) 1998

Blake Beattie graduated from the University of Wollongong as a PE teacher in 1998 and believes a teaching degree is a “great thing to have under your belt”. Not that he has spent much time in the classroom. Blake is Managing Director of Inspire Consulting and a professional speaker, trainer and consultant. In this role he’s addressed audiences up to 15,000 people.

“I enjoy teaching, even though I only did a limited amount of casual teaching after I graduated,” Blake said. “But my work is just a different form of teaching, and the training I received at UOW comes into everything I do.”

Blake has delivered more than 100 seminars, keynote addresses and training programs to corporate clients including Telstra, the Australian swimming team and Australian Post, focusing on unlocking people’s potential and thereby improving their performance professionally and personally.

Blake has a Certificate IV in Workplace Assessment and Training, a Graduate Diploma in Business Administration and is a trained actor and presenter (through NIDA). He is also a certified Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) Practitioner, describing NLP as an advanced form of psychology “that is very powerful if you know how to use it”.

He is also a Director of the Life Changing Experiences Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation that helps disadvantaged teenagers.

Recently Blake was one of a select group of leaders chosen from the arts, business, government and education sectors nationally to receive a 2006 Australian Davos Connection (ADC) Future Summit Leadership Award.