Valerie Khoo
CEO, Australian Writers’ Centre
As CEO of the Australian Writers’ Centre, Valerie runs Australia’s leading centre for writing training. With almost 50 of Australia’s top writing trainers, journalists and authors all teaching classroom and online courses to students all around the world, there are campuses in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth – as well as a huge online community of students from all over the world.
With more than 45 short courses including creative writing, travel writing, grammar and punctuation, business writing, web content and magazine writing, the centre has helped thousands of students get published, score book deals and change careers. It has been a winner in Telstra Business Awards and it has also been named by Dell as one of the ‘10 most innovative small businesses in Australia’. Over 31,000 students have graduated from the Australian Writers’ Centre.
Valerie is the author of ‘Power Stories: The 8 Stories You MUST Tell to Build an Epic Business’ and co-host of the popular podcasts ‘So you want to be a writer’ and ‘So you want to be a photographer’. Valerie is also a mentor, keynote speaker and artist. She is passionate about exploring worlds of creativity and business.
