Welcome to Kooya Consultancy

Kooya Consultancy is an Indigenous organisation that offers Indigenous Education and Training services to the business and industry sector, community, private, government and non-government sectors.

About the Principle Consultant

Kim is a Nyoongar man with a Bachelor of Applied Science – Indigenous Community Management and Development at Curtin University. Kim was employed at the Centre for Aboriginal Studies (CAS) for nine years as the Coordinator of the Bachelor of Arts Indigenous Australian Cultural Studies Program and was a senior member of the Aboriginal Management Committee.  He is an Accredited Facilitator of the CAS ‘Ways of Working’ Cross-Cultural Sensitivity package and has ten years experience delivering the package to various groups.

Kim traveled widely working with Indigenous communities  both nationally and internationally. He is a Nyoongar language speaker of the Balladong dialect and is a respected member of the higher education community at Curtin University .  He has been involved in many research projects with the CAS in areas of education, employment and training and is a teacher and facilitator of Aboriginal Studies.

Kim was a member of the Aboriginal Education and Training Committee (AETC) from 1999 to 2002 and recently stood down as a member of the Aboriginal Advisory Committee with the Curriculum Council of Western Australia. He is currently the Chair of the Indigenous Australian Languages (IAL) Working Group, which is in the process of developing a curriculum framework for the implementation of an IAL program in 2006.

Kim is a Boilermaker Welder by trade and spent fifteen years has a tradesman, which included nine years working in the mining industry. Kim later went on to join the West Australian Police Service and attained the rank of First Class Constable and brings the experiences in both these fields into his teaching and learning

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