Tori Cooke
Head of Workforce Development
Tori is a Senior Social Work Practitioner and a well-known specialist trainer in the field of family violence in Australia. She has delivered training and consultant advice to government, police, child protection, magistrate’s court and the family law environment. Tori has worked in a range of contexts at senior practice levels in Western Australia and Victoria. Read more
Glenn Davies
Senior Training Practitioner
Glenn has 30 years’ experience investigating and policing violent crime including family and sexual violence. He retired as a senior manager in Victoria Police in 2012, at the time, in charge of the state’s Sexual Crimes Squad. He commenced international development work as an Australian DFAT contractor designing and delivering gender equality and social inclusion planning and implementation for governments in the Asia Pacific region. Read more
Michael Hail
Training Practitioner
Michael has a range of knowledge around social inclusion topics. Originally from Scotland, his work experience includes coordinating projects challenging sectarianism, preventing violent extremism amongst young people and most recently reducing Gender Based Violence within communities. This work has taken place across Europe and further afield, including Malawi, Pakistan and China. Read more
Jessica Maxwell
Training Practitioner
Jessica is a Social Worker with a broad range of experience in the family violence and sexual assault sectors, most recently working at CASA House as a Counsellor/Advocate, Lead Trainer and Primary Prevention Worker. Prior to this Jessica has worked in the Family Violence team at Berry Street, Alice Springs Women’s Shelter, and Children’s Hope In Action in Vietnam. Read more
Ron Speed
Training Practitioner
Ron was born in Western Australia and has lived there for most of his life; he spent 7 years living in central Victoria working with high risk youth before returning to Western Australia in 2015. He has had a varied career working both in Perth metro and regional centres in the south of Western Australia. Read more
