Claire O'Neil is the founder of Grounded Curiosity. a PME website that encourages the sharing of thoughts and ideas on the profession of arms. She is currently serving as the Deputy Director of Joint Concepts.
Claire Withrington is currently an AUSTINT Officer completing regimental training at the 1st Combat Signals Regiment. LT Withrington has a Bachelor of Sport Science (Hon) and a Master of Business (Leadership, and Entrepreneurship & Innovation) from the University of Queensland. She has previous experience in the high performance sports domain and the social enterprise and not-for-profit sector.
Caleb Sinclair has had a posting to the Defence Force School of Signals as the Troop Commander of Deployable Signals Troop, the School’s field support and demonstrational troop. In 2019, his first year at the School, he held Troop Command of an IET Troop. In 2021 he will post to 1 CSR in the Northern Territory.
Lieutenant Colonel Alistair Pope graduated from OTU Scheyville in 1967 as a Second Lieutenant and served in Vietnam, Indonesia and PNG, and as a sub-unit Commander in 3rd Brigade in Townsville. He retired in 1986 and founded his own business, working internationally as a Project Manager until his retirement in 2016.
Claire Pearson has served in a variety of ISR roles in the Air and Joint domains. With a Joint Operations bias, she has deployed as an embed officer in US 10th Mountain Light Infantry Division (Kandahar, Afghanistan), an embed in ISAF HQ (Kabul, Afghanistan), a UN Peacekeeper in UNMISS (Bor, South Sudan), and to the Middle East. Claire has been posted to numerous staff roles in HQJOC and JCG, served as a MA, Sub-unit Commander, and XO. As a qualified military Gender Advisor, she is a passionate advocate of applying a gendered perspective to vulnerable perso