Co-Founder and Master Coach
Benjamin J Harvey
Ben is the Co-Founder at Authentic Education and Master Coach. Ben ensures our vision is big and bright.
Past Experience: Ben has delivered 10,000+ one-on-one coaching sessions and also speaks for organisations such as the Queensland Government and Youth Challenge Australia. He has consulted with some of the largest organisations in Australia including Optus, IBM and Commonwealth Bank.
Passions: Helping people create authentic changes in their life, meditating and evolving human potential.
Personal likes: Stand up comedy, illusionists, watching movies and saving $2 coins in jars.
Head Of Marketing
Cham Tang
Cham is Head Of Marketing and Co-Founder of Authentic Education. Cham makes sure our message can reach many people.
Past Experience: Cham studied IT at University of Technology Sydney and realized he loved personal development more than PCs. Cham has since worked with and for Anthony Robbins, Dr John Demartini, Empowernet and Universal Events. He is a Facebook Certified Professional Planner and creator of Digital Marketing Made Easy.
Passions: Marketing, helping people succeed and the word “efficiency”.
Personal likes: Travelling, avoiding extreme sports and playing with babies.
Head Of Coaching
Bronwyn Kennedy
Bronwyn is our Head of Coaching and the ICF Trainer, Assessor and Mentor for Authentic Education. She is a Master Results Coach and an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with over 10 years experience in Coaching and 20 years experience in personal development, natural therapies, training and education.
Past Experience: Bronwyn has a Bachelor of Education, Diploma in Kinesiology and a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment. She continues to run a successful Kinesiology, Coaching & Mentoring business and also completed the entire PHD program offered by Authentic Education.
Passions: Helping people remember who they are and supporting them as they activate their full potential.
Personal likes: Reading as much as possible about mindset, psychology and the body/mind connection, spending weekends away with friends and family at day spas, smelling flowers, watching movies and doing jigsaw puzzles.
Administration & Customer Service Assistant
David Lumisay
David is our Administration & Customer Service Assistant. He is a dedicated and experienced customer service professional with over nine years of expertise in various industries including e-commerce, healthcare, and childcare.
Past Experience: He has held varied roles ranging from customer service representative to team leader and performance development coach, focusing on performance improvement and call quality assurance. David has also managed workforce operations, including staffing, scheduling, and attendance tracking. Prior to joining the team, he has also excelled as a virtual assistant, overseeing order management, inventory, and customer support via Shopify.
Passions: He is passionate about helping the community through NGOs and public initiatives, supporting self-improvement in both himself and those around him, and exploring his love for cooking.
Personal likes: David enjoys food, spending quality time with family and friends, watching culinary vlogs, and connecting with nature.
Finance Manager & Customer Service
Eugenie Rurawhe
Eugenie is the Customer Service & Finance Manager at Authentic Education. She makes sure everything is in order and people know how awesome our events are.
Past experience: Eugenie has worked in the hospitality industry for over 20 years in customer service and events both in New Zealand and Australia. Being a Mother of 7 beautiful children, she has been able to use these experiences to teach, work and grow both personally and professionally. She has worked for Universal Events as an Event Assistant and for Worldmark South Pacific Club as a consultant. She is a certified Coach and Master NLP Practitioner.
Passions: Serving others and helping people to grow in life, love and spirituality.
Personal Likes: Watching and participating in sports like Rugby Union and Softball. Movies and being in nature, surrounded by its natural beauty.
Video Editor
Helmer Tingzon
Helmer is our Video Editor and Content Creative at Authentic Education, helping bring powerful coaching messages to life through engaging and high-converting video content.
Past experience: Before becoming a full-time video editor, Helmer spent 3 years working as a customer service representative. When the pandemic hit, he took it as an opportunity to seriously dive into video editing (which was something he had already been experimenting with on the side). What started out as a hobby quickly turned into a full-time creative path. Now, he's approaching his 5th year as a video editor, working on a wide range of projects from social media content to full-scale marketing videos.
Passions: He is passionate about continuously improving his editing techniques, whether that’s through online courses, YouTube tutorials, or diving into forums, Facebook groups, and Reddit threads to pick up tips, ideas, and industry insights.
Personal Likes: Good food, winding down with games in his free time, and is a big fan of music and singing, even if the feeling isn’t always mutual when it comes to his voice.
Customer Service Ninja
Jas Halasan
Jasmin is the Customer Service Ninja at Authentic Education. She supports the customers and the team in everything from enrolment enquiries, billing and administration.
Past Experience: Jas completed a degree of Information Technology at the University of Mindanao. With a passion for helping people achieve satisfaction in life, she has held customer service and accounts roles at various companies. She has also worked in broadcasting as a program host.
Passions: Encouraging people and helping people through their different struggles and dreams (especially younger people).
Personal Likes: Traveling, playing badminton, talking about meaningful experiences and difficult challenges with friends, listening to songs with a positive message.
Website Developer
Jess Galindo
Jess is the Website Developer at Authentic Education. He supports the customers and the team in everything from creating customer websites, troubleshooting and technical support.
Past Experience: Jess completed his Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology at the University of Southeastern Philippines with a background in website development. He has been working in relation to the Digital Marketing industry for 8 years.
Passions: Helping people to the very best of his abilities, continuous learning and keeping optimism alive by simply reminding people to smile even for the simplest things in life.
Personal likes: Watching fiction shows, technology updates and eating cheese flavoured popcorn with a spoon.
Marketing Coordinator
Karen Onihog
Karen is the Marketing Coordinator at Authentic Education. She helps craft and deliver messaging that resonates with individuals striving to live their love. She coordinates online marketing initiatives across multiple platforms, ensuring cohesive and impactful communication.
Past Experience: Karen began her career with US-based startups, where she honed her skills in marketing and collaboration. She has worked with web developers, graphic designers, writers and other professionals to produce engaging content, launch campaigns and streamline daily operations.
Passions: Driven by a love for growth and continuous learning, she is dedicated to improving herself and adding value to organisations and people's lives.
Personal Likes: Exploring creativity and inspiration through design, enjoying the serene beauty of glaciers, listening to thought-provoking podcasts and spending quality time with her family.
Administration & Finance Assistant
Karla Jurado
Karla is the Administration and Finance Assistant. She assists the Administration team with their backend processes and our awesome Finance Manager with her tasks and reports. She also helps in updating our database and is highly involved in events and programs administration, ensuring a seamless client experience.
Past Experience: Karla comes with 8 years of multi-faceted experiences from Customer Service, Finance, and Administration to Human Resources. She has always been an all-rounder at work and has grabbed opportunities where she has learned and grown more as a professional and individual. Big on curiosity and with a lot of energy, Karla is dedicated to ensuring business processes flow smoothly, and the team stays afloat in all their tasks. Where she is needed in the business, she is one of the team players who rolls up her sleeves and gets all the groundwork going.
Passions: Supporting and helping individuals who find her skills and expertise useful to achieve their end goals. Also, being able to contribute to a business’ success in any way ignites a fire in her soul and keeps her going in life.
Personal likes: The beach, travelling, painting, and playing the piano.
Senior Results Coach
Lee Brownless
Lee is the Senior Results Coach at Authentic Education. He guides our students and give them clarity, direction, and practical steps to confidently build their coaching journey.
Past Experience: Lee ran his own business as a tradesman for 20 years in England and Australia. He then decided to follow his passion and swapped his tradesman tools for a set of golf clubs and trained at the PGA academy on the Gold Coast to become a professional golfer until he was introduced to personal development. He is now an Internationally Certified Coach, NLP Master Practitioner, NLP Coach and Hypnotherapist. Lee also has 7 incredible children!
Passions: Creating the opportunities for others to change, to help increase peoples happiness and to get real-world rapid results for everyone he coaches.
Personal likes: Presenting and teaching, learning new things, reading, researching, travelling, football and golf.
Business Services & Human Resources Manager
Michelle Chan
Michelle is the Business Services & Human Resources Manager at Authentic Education. She is committed to helping students get the best client experience by providing student support and customer service. Internally, she brings the best out of each individual by looking after the human capital of Authentic Education. She also helps to ensure the behind the scenes logistics run smoothly and is continuously looking for better ways to operate.
Past Experience: Michelle is an ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC) and is a PHD member of Authentic Education. She holds a Bachelor of HRM (with First Class Honours) and Bachelor of Psychology from UNSW and has over a decade of extensive HR experience in various top, global corporations in Sydney and Hong Kong. Coupled with her professional experience, she continuously seeks to give back through her voluntary work, having volunteered with various organisations and causes over the years helping people of all different backgrounds and ages.
Passions: Being of service to others as well as helping people to grow, to find the key to unlock their own potential and to help them live a life of purpose and passion.
Personal likes: Interacting and making connections with people of all backgrounds and learning from them, travelling the world, food in general (especially spicy food) and spending quality time with family and friends.
Senior Course Advisor
Nathan Pacanowski
Nathan is our Senior Course Advisor at Authentic Education since 2016. He helps clients gain clarity in their life or business and ensures our clients are taking the next best step towards their education, personal development and/or business success.
Past Experience: Nathan started his self-development journey in 2001 while studying a Diploma of Counselling and doing volunteer work at Lifeline Australia. Nathan is a Master NLP Practitioner, Personal trainer and Results Coach with over 10 years experience as a course advisor in both the tertiary education and self-development industries. He specializes in guiding people on what they need to learn and do to be “successful” in their own personal development journeys.
Passions: Contributing to people’s positive progression through education and spirituality whilst aspiring to be the best role model as possible to his family including his 3 divine sons.
Personal Likes: Quality time with family, travelling as often as possible and relishing every Sydney Swans victory.
Website Developer
Noelle Espino
Noelle is a Web Developer at Authentic Education. She helps create snazzy websites, landing pages and funnels. She also assists the team and customers navigate around technical issues.
Past Experience: Noelle has been freelancing as a graphic and web designer for the past 7 years. She has helped various businesses across the globe elevate their brand design and websites. As a high schooler, she enjoyed playing around with websites, HTML and CSS. That’s how she ended up taking a Bachelor’s in Computer Science . Before going into freelancing, she also taught junior high school students how to code and design at a local university.
Passions: Her passions include design, volunteering, empowering women in STEM, lifelong learning, and helping people.
Personal likes: Gaming, traveling, cats, robots, tech, geeky things, reading, dad jokes, learning random things, and using history and science documentaries as background noise.
Marketing Manager
Quynh Vu
Quynh is our Marketing Manager. She manages communications about our awesome events and our advertising on Facebook, Google and YouTube. Quynh also supports our students to achieve marketing success in their business.
Past Experience: Since graduating with a BBus. from UTS, Quynh has built a portfolio of diverse marketing experience across various companies ranging from in-house companies to marketing agencies. Over the last 9 years, she has worked with some of the largest brands and startups in Australia developing and executing marketing campaigns from start to end.
Passions: Marketing and creating things. She also loves motivating others to do better in their lives.
Personal Likes: Likes interior design, fitness classes such as Step, Yoga and HIIT, trying new restaurants, property investing and travelling.
Events Manager
Tanya Jones
Tanya is our Events Manager at Authentic Education. She manages the end to end process of making the events happen!
Past Experience: Tanya has been managing awesome events for over 10 years in multiple industries including Retail and Education. Her passion and drive ensure that each event is organised and enjoyable for all.
Passions: Opening people’s minds to new opportunities and helping them reach their true potential. Creating fun experiences that make people smile.
Personal likes: She loves musical theatre, fine wines, travelling the globe and is a big fan of everything Harry Potter! Tanya’s happy place is spending quality time with her family, friends & pug Bella.
