Cameron Read is the Director of Front and Centre and Inside 50 Player Management, where he combines his passion for leadership with a commitment to professional development. As a Leadership and Commercial Development Consultant and an accredited agent for AFLPA and Netball Australia, Cam specialises in empowering individuals and organisations to reach their fullest potential.

With years of experience in capability development, Cam designs and implements tailored learning and executive programs that cater to professionals across various sectors. Cameron’s expertise spans leadership, coaching, sales, client experience, and effective management practices—all aimed at nurturing high-performance teams and individuals.

Throughout his career, Cam has partnered with a diverse range of clients, including healthcare providers, elite sports organisations, banking and finance institutions, and various B2B and B2C enterprises. This experience allows Cam to draw valuable insights and strategies that transcend industries.

Key Areas of Expertise:

• High-Performing Leadership Teams:  focus on strategy, team dynamics, and execution, applying lessons learned from elite sports to enhance collaboration and performance within teams.
• Capable Leadership Development: Cam’s approach centre’s on unlocking and extending the potential of your most valuable asset—your people.
• Sales, Marketing, and Medical Leadership: Conducting end-to-end audits, market mapping, and comprehensive development programs designed to elevate team effectiveness, ensuring your team can influence success through skills in sales, negotiation, and communication.
• Performance Coaching: Offering executive coaching and customised coaching programs that empower leaders to maximise their impact and foster personal growth.
• Marketing Development Programs: Cam’s targeted interventions enhance marketing strategies and execution, aligning closely with your organisation’s goals.

As a certified coach with a strong foundation in sports psychology and adult learning, Cam uses his insights to catalyse growth for both teams and individuals. Cameron’s work with Front and Centre Training Solutions and Inside 50 allows him to bridge experiences from elite athletic environments to actionable strategies in the corporate world.

Front and Centre Training Solutions via Contact Us or phone Cameron directly on 0430 015 815

IIf there’s a conversation to be had, Griz owns it.

Grazina Fechner—known to most as Griz—is the powerhouse behind Front and Centre Training Solutions. She’s a high-energy corporate trainer, TV personality, media expert, and communication coach who transforms everyday interactions into unforgettable, high-impact moments.

You’ve seen her lighting up the screens on Channel 7 and 9’s morning and afternoon shows with her witty, insightful takes on life, communication, and human behaviour. A regular voice on 2GB radio, Griz brings humour, warmth, and straight-talking smarts to every topic she tackles.

With a background that spans live television, corporate sales, executive coaching, and leadership development, Griz isn’t your typical trainer—she’s a sales and leadership expert with over two decades of real-world experience across healthcare, pharma, retail, and media.

Why work with Griz?
Because she brings it—every time.

Whether she’s coaching surgeons on presenting clinical data, training sales teams to close with confidence, or keeping live audiences laughing and learning, Griz delivers memorable experiences packed with practical insights and high-energy engagement.

Her expertise includes:

• Leadership & Sales Development
  Griz designs and delivers transformative training programs that sharpen leadership skills and boost sales performance. From frontline managers to C-suite executives, she helps leaders build influence, lead with authenticity, and drive results. Her sales training is grounded in real-world experience, empowering teams to sell smarter, connect faster, and close more consistently.
• Executive Coaching & Keynote Speaking
  Griz has coached high-performing executives across industries, helping them break through plateaus, communicate with impact, and lead with clarity. Whether it’s one-on-one coaching or delivering a keynote that ignites a room, Griz is known for her ability to challenge mindsets, shift behaviours, and inspire immediate action.
• TV & Media Presenting (Accredited on Channel 7 and Channel 9)
  With years of on-screen experience and formal accreditation from two of Australia’s major networks, Griz brings a rare combination of charisma, professionalism, and insight to every media appearance. Whether she’s live on TV or coaching others for the spotlight, she knows how to capture attention and deliver a message that resonates.
• Communication & Behavioural Training (DiSC & The Big Bang Theory Behaviour Model)
  Certified in multiple behavioural frameworks, including DiSC and her own signature Big Bang Theory Model, Griz teaches people how to adapt their communication styles to get the best out of themselves and others. Her sessions are interactive, practical, and packed with aha moments that change how people show up—both personally and professionally.
• Retail Brand Training (Nike, Pandora, Fossil, Kate Spade, and more)
  Having trained with some of the world’s most iconic retail brands, Griz knows what it takes to deliver exceptional customer experiences. Her brand training programs focus on storytelling, emotional connection, and consistent in-store excellence—equipping retail teams to represent their brand with pride and purpose.
• Freelance Writing (Cosmopolitan, InStyle, Business Insider, and more)
  Griz’s ability to communicate clearly and compellingly doesn’t stop at the mic—she’s also a published writer for some of the world’s most recognised media outlets. Her writing blends personality with practicality, offering insights on communication, leadership, and life with a signature dose of humour and heart.
• Medical & Aesthetic Industry Coaching (23 years in pharma, medical devices, and surgical coaching)
  With over two decades of experience in the medical and aesthetic space, Griz has coached everyone from pharmaceutical sales teams to surgeons. She specialises in helping professionals communicate complex clinical data with confidence, connect more meaningfully with patients and stakeholders, and influence outcomes in high-stakes environments.
• Health and Wellbeing
  Griz understands that great communication starts with a grounded, healthy mindset. Her coaching and training often integrate mindset and Happiness Advantage strategies that support energy, resilience, and emotional intelligence—ensuring people not only perform at their best but feel their best doing it.

If you’re ready to elevate your communication, leadership, and performance, Griz is your go-to.

Get Front and Centre with Grazina Fechner.
Call 0430 274 616 or reach out via our Contact Us page—just be ready for a conversation you’ll remember.

Mike has a deep passion and drive for helping people and teams to reach their full potential.  He is high energy and believes that the best training and development should be outcome focused and fun!  “When people have fun during training they are much more likely to engage and learn”

Having worked in the corporate healthcare space for over 20 years, Mike brings a wealth of experience spanning across a range of areas, including Sales Leadership, Learning and Development, Sales Force Effectiveness, Launch Excellence, Key Account Management and Cross Functional Team Optimisation.  He has experience in  building High Performing, award winning teams in senior leadership positions.

Mike employs a high optimism outcome philosophy, along with a strong analytical mindset.  He can assist in understanding performance drivers and developing interventions to build capabilities to win in competitive environments.  He truly believes that people are the difference, and that through investment in them with the right training and coaching, any team or individual can excel!

Mike’s experience includes:

• Capability analysis and intervention development
• Sales training and optimisation
• Developing high performance teams
• Cross Functional Team optimisation
• Leadership training and development
• Coaching for success
• Key Account Management training and optimisation
• Sales Force Effectiveness, customer profiling, targeting and analytics
• Launch strategy and training
• Certified trainer for Team Management Systems, MBTI, Covey 7 Habits and DiSC

Meet Jayme, or JL, as she’s often referred to.

She’s our behind the scenes gal– who has a passion for copy writing, social media and coffee.
She has a degree in PR & Advertising from the University of New South Wales and has worked for the likes of The Urban List, online Health and Wellness Journals as well as a background in hospitality and customer service.

Her side hustle, along with Grazina Fechner, is a podcast called Mind The Gap, where the mother and daughter team tackle generational differences!

When she’s not busy podcasting, you’ll find JL researching the latest TikTok trends and writing her favourite Front and Centre newsletter each week!

Please email jayme-lee@frontandcentre.com.au for podcast recommendations (Mind The Gap, cough, cough) or for a chat!

Kirby is a proud GORENG – NYAKI-NYAKI, WADJAK – BALARDOG woman, hailing from the South West of WA in a small town called Mt Barker. 

A talented sportswoman, Kirby played elite level netball for the West Coast Fever, before trying her hand at AFL where she became a multiple All Australian. She was the first Aboriginal woman to hold a coaching position in the AFL, as a development coach with The Western Bulldogs AFLW program. She is now an AFLW Assistant Coach at Essendon Football Club.

In her home state of WA, Kirby also established the Kirby Bentley Cup  https://www.kbcup.com.au a charity carnival aimed at improving inclusion and opportunity for Aboriginal girls, something that has been adopted and run by the WAFC. All programs accessed via Front and Centre, will see a donation towards the ongoing development of this program. 

Professionally, Kirby has held many leadership roles across a diverse group of industries, along with her qualifications in construction (riggers, shot firers, doggers license) culminating recently in her role with the AFL as their Reconciliation Action Plan Manager at AFL House. 

Kirby is a dynamic and talented presenter, both in key notes sharing her story, TV as an AFL commentator and in programs. Kirby is passionate about creating the conversation between what she describes as the “3 worlds” of Australia.. your world, my world, our world – helping organisations large and small with improving the understanding and opportunity for First Nations People in the Australian workforce. 

Kirby has written and packaged  a First nations Cultural Awareness online package, available for any organisation or person looking to bridge the gap and create open learning. 

Kirby is also available to support organisations from a consulting perspective with the development of their own Reconciliation Action Plans, along with the education piece and facilitated supported if required. 

Kirby can be contacted at kirby@frontandcentre.com.au

Dean’s passion for people and safety is what drives his love and focus of keeping people safe in any environment.

No matter what the company or the need, Dean is ready to contribute proactive, diverse global security management achievements, aligned with refined political awareness, and expert security talents with knowledge and understanding of current security operations while collaborating with various key stakeholders to develop, implement and drive the security function across your environment.

His current successes include

• Security Manager Parliament of NSW.
• Manager of Security Intelligence and Risk Attorney General Department NSW.
• Designing and delivering training to Iraq National Police in Iraq.
• Senior Security Coordinator Department Prime Minister and Cabinet – APEC 2007 Task Force.
• Security Training Manager Sydney Opera House.

Dean’s expertise is in developing Risk assessments for medical institutions and volatile workplaces. He also consults with companies on travel security arrangements and conducts country threat assessments for those taking their people or executives overseas.

Dean facilitates tactical Communication and negotiation programs.

Dean is also involved in writing procedures for all levels of negotiation and assists in writing government policy and procedures Contact Dean via training@frontandcentre.com.au

After Rob completed a Bachelor of Arts in Communications, he went on to Major in Broadcast Journalism at Charles Sturt University. This is where he reported on, presented and produced at local, national and international events; 2000 & 2008 Olympic Games, 2006 & 2012 Commonwealth Games, 2003 Rugby World Cup, lead reporter at 2007 Rugby World Cup (France), 2003 New Zealand All-Blacks feature assignment, 2007 San Francisco Red Bull air race, 2001 Volvo round the world yacht race, 2001-2004 Sydney to Hobart yacht race coverage.

2007-2011 – Anchor of Network Ten’s nationally acclaimed sports program Sports Tonight.

Rob presented breaking news, on-air interviews, live crosses with talent and covered both national and international sports in depth throughout a half-an-hour program. Sports Tonight received multiple Logie nominations – the highest honor in Australian television.

2012 – Ten News Sports Anchor. On-air presentation – national sports bulletin. 2013 – Sports journalism at Seven News (Sydney)

Rob will be focusing on our Media training programs, Presentation Skills, Key Note appearances, MC hosting, Presenting on media trends and how to make messages stick – communication skills.

Rob brings to the Front and Centre arena his beautiful daughter Riley and gorgeous wife Kristin!

Karlyn brings a diverse skill set and the “fun” to finance! With a background in corporate sales and marketing, formal education in business and roles culminating in Business Unit Manager – Apparel for Nike Australia, Karlyn has diversified into the financial world with a Masters in Accounting.

In her capacity with Front and Centre, she focuses on the application of sales and communication techniques and merchandising in retail, along with working with accounting organisations to put the personality into the accounting world!

Karlyn’s role with Front and Centre is broad and varied, from CFO, content designer, facilitator and brand manager.

Karlyn works in part-time capacity, whilst playing mum to her 2 kids and completing her CPA. Contact Karlyn via training@frontandcentre.com.au