Natasha Wood, CEO and Founder

eager beaver media is managed by entrepreneurial company founder Natasha Wood, a writer/editor, producer, strategist and problem solver who loves creating sustainable value in the online arena.

As well as IT and communications consulting, Natasha's focus is on creating and implementing the strategy for ebm's move into pure digital media projects. She is passionate about developing internal and external communications and new approaches to technology - primarily around usability, brand integration and organisational culture/change - as well as supporting emerging writers, artists, musicians, actors, filmmakers and other creative folk.

Background: With an eclectic career including banking and finance, a two-year stint as a lady's companion in England, and a decade as a freelance contributor for newspapers and magazines, Natasha has been determined to embrace, learn and enjoy as many new experiences as possible. And thanks to the likes of The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age Cheap Eats Guide, Filmnet, Business Review Weekly, Link Magazine, The Australian Way (Qantas) and Travelling Life (Ansett), she has been able to write about fascinating people, emerging technology, social issues, lifestyle, film and travel.

She moved into the digital media space as the internet started taking off and hasn't looked back. She's constantly asking "What's next?!" and working with futurists and online developers to find ways to make life easier and better through online solutions.

The eternal student: Natasha has studied media, arts, business and law at Deakin, Swinburne, RMIT and Melbourne universities, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts (Professional Writing and Editing) through Swinburne University and Deakin University, a Certificate IV in Magazine Writing, Editing and Production from RMIT University, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Creative Arts (Creative Writing) through the Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne).

She is currently undertaking the Executive MBA program at Melbourne Business School. In March 2008, she studied at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Chicago, the Otto Beisheim Graduate School at WHU in Koblenz, and in Beijing, China (Melbourne Business School).

Making a difference: A committed community volunteer, she is particularly proud of her work with the Make-A-Wish Foundation (largely involved with wish granting, public speaking, fundraising and event management), her time as secretary of Residents3000, (a community group formed in the early 1990s to bring residential and artistic life back into the central city of Melbourne), two years as a volunteer with the Wesley Mission's "Do Care" (elderly visitation) program, and most recently with m.a.d.woman - inspiring and supporting people to make a difference.

The Chair of two Academic Advisory Boards for Deakin courses relating the professional and creative writing, editing and communication, Natasha also talks to secondary and tertiary students about working in the media, IT and communications industry, being an entrepreneur, and the relationship between popular culture and future trends, to social and corporate change.