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Sue Ellson’s Biography
Read Full Bio →Sue Ellson GK BBus MPC PCDAA ASA WV MEdPlus is an Independent LinkedIn Specialist, Author, Educator, Practitioner, Trainer, Consultant, Gigster and Poet.
She has served an extensive range of individual, business, corporate, government, not for profit, professional association and education related clients across Australia and internationally since 1994 after an 11 year career at Westpac Banking Corporation.
She has also provided voluntary services to various organisations since 1991.
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Awards
See all 10 awards →Equal Sixth LinkedIn Specialist in International AI Chat Results by John Espirian
2024 - AI Results
On 3 October 2024, John Espirian, a LinkedIn Trainer based in the United Kingdom invited people to do an online search in their Artificial Intelligence AI Chat Platform of Choice (Chat GPT, Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini) with the following prompt: “Please provide me with your top 5 recommendations for LinkedIn specialists/consultants/trainers“ On Friday 11 October 2024, John announced the results from over 100 prompt queries from across the world. These queries produced 557 names of LinkedIn trainers and specialists. There were 190 unique names. Top 10 LinkedIn Specialists, Consultants and Trainers The top 10 for number of mentions for LinkedIn Specialists, Consultants and Trainers were: 1 – Brenda Meller 37 2 – John Nemo 25 3 – Donna Serdula 21 4 – Viveka von Rosen 21 5 – Judi Fox 19 6 – John Espirian 17 7 – Sue Ellson 17 8 – Andy Foote 15 9 – Mark Williams 14 10 – Wayne Breitbarth 12 I was the only Australian on the list! https://www.linkedin.com/posts/johnespirian_so-who-did-ai-recommend-most-often-as-activity-7250401056222801920-_7K1
Finalist The Australian Career Book Award
2023 - RSA Book Award
The RSA Oceania "LinkedIn for me and my career or business" by Sue Ellson was one of nine finalist books in The Australian Career Book Award 2023
AHRI Hall of Fame
2020 - Human Resources
AHRI Medalist for Services to HR from 2014 - added to AHRI Hall of Fame 2020 https://www.ahri.com.au/about-us/hall-of-fame
Finalist The Australian Career Book Award
2019 - RSA Book Award
The RSA Oceania "Gigsters - Any Age or Ability Employees, Experts and Entrepreneurs" by Sue Ellson was one of six finalist books in The Australian Career Book Award 2019
Significant Service Convenor Citation
2019 - Book Award Support
The Australian Career Book Award Royal Society of Arts Significant Service Convenor Citation from The RSA Oceania For service provided to The Australian Career Book Award in 2018 and 2019 as a Judge on the Award Committee in 2018 and for various online promotion and media relation services related to the award in 2018 and 2019. Convenor's Citation given by Lawrence Arnold FRSA.
Top 10% of Google Local Guides in Melbourne
2019 - Local Information
Top Local Guide - Top 10% Earned enough points in 2019 to be in the top 10% of Local Guides in Melbourne
Go Digi National Digital Literacy Program Highly Commended Mentor
2016 - Digital Literacy
Highly Commended in the Mentor Category 2016 Go Digi is a national four year digital literacy program with the goal of supporting more than 300,000 Australians to improve their digital skills. Together Infoxchange and Australia Post are working with communities around Australia, with a focus on the following audiences: > ageing community members > regional and remote communities > CALD (Culturally and Linguistically Diverse) communities > indigenous communities > small businesses The 2016 National Year of Digital Inclusion Awards includes three categories: > Learners Award > Mentors Award > Network Partner Award The Award Winners were announced at the Geelong Gallery on 1 December 2016. https://www.godigi.org.au/NYDIAwards https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/go-digi-2016-national-year-digital-inclusion-awards-winners-ellson