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The City of Maroondah covers a land area of 61.4 square kilometres in Melbourne’s outer east, 22 kilometres from the Central Business District (CBD). The area is a substantially developed peri-urban residential municipality, with an estimated population of 109,575 residents and 42,898 households with an average of 2.52 people per household. The City of Maroondah includes the suburbs of Bayswater North, Croydon, Croydon Hills, Croydon North, Croydon South, Heathmont, Kilsyth South, Ringwood, Ringwood East, Ringwood North and Warranwood. The City also includes small sections of Kilsyth, Park Orchards, Vermont and Wonga Park. Cultural diversity is increasing with the highest numbers of recent overseas immigrants arriving from Burma, China, Malaysia, India, Thailand and Iran. Maroondah is now home to the largest Burmese community in Melbourne’s eastern region. Over 9,000 businesses operate within the City with small business comprising over 96 percent of these organisations. The majority of businesses are in the construction, property and business services, finance and insurance, retail trade and manufacturing sectors. The largest industry employers are the manufacturing, retail trade and health care sectors. In total, businesses in Maroondah provide employment for almost 37,000 people. At Maroondah City Council, our role is to: • Deliver services that meet the needs and expectations of the Maroondah community • Advocate on behalf of community needs to other levels of Government • Facilitate the delivery of outcomes by working in partnership with residents, businesses, community organisations and key stakeholders Maroondah City Council was constituted as a new municipality on 15 December 1994. The City of Maroondah is made up of three wards, with each ward represented by three Councillors. The most recent Council election was held in October 2012 and the new Council will remain in office until the next election in October 2016.

At Peak Performance our mission is simple: to make our customers and their customers more successful. We do this by developing peak performing people and customer centric company cultures, in four ways: • Culture We are best known for our large-scale work to transform culture, but we don’t do culture change per se. We help our customers to put their customers at the heart of everything they do. • Customised training and consulting When it comes to training, one size definitely doesn’t fit all. That’s why a large part of our business is customised training to improve the performance of sales, service, and leadership teams. Over the years we have helped more than 50,000 people hone their skills. • M&A culture integration We believe that Peak Performance is the first company in Australasia to offer specialist culture integration services to make mergers and acquisitions more successful. Our proven methodology reduces the risk of culture clash during mergers and acquisitions, and accelerates the cultural integration process. Our CEO Linley Watson is the author of "Avoiding the M&A Failure Club (What the Numbers Don't Reveal)", which outlines why people and culture can make or break your M&A deal. • Assessments & profiling To support all of the above we offer state-of-the-art tools for culture assessment and precision profiling of executives.

CBM Australia is part of an international Christian development organisation. For more than 110 years globally and 30 years in Australia, we have worked to break the cycle of disability and poverty in the world’s poorest places. We are driven by our vision for an inclusive world where people with disabilities enjoy their human rights and achieve their full potential. We partner with local community organisations, NGOs, and governments to bring the best possible combination of CBM Global Disability Inclusion’s resources together with deeply relevant local knowledge, relationships and influence. We also partner with the disability movement to influence governments, organisations and institutions, providing proven and trusted technical advice along with quality-assurance mechanisms to ensure rights-based, disability inclusive development. Our disability-inclusive advocacy ensures people with disabilities are empowered and included in planning and decision making. We keenly advocate for justice and a generous Australian Aid program. We do this because people with disabilities living in poverty face stigma, violence and discrimination, and have reduced access to health care, rehabilitation, assistive devices, safe and accessible living environments, education and employment. In emergencies, people with disabilities are often the worst impacted and face a higher risk of being injured or losing their lives during a disaster.