An engaging presenter, Heather has taken to the stage at state, national and international conferences, including the Australian Council of Educational Leadership, Australian College of Educators, International Congress of School Effectiveness and Improvement, uLead and the International Conference on Thinking.  

Heather De Blasio has spent a lifetime committed to growing others and refusing to put limits on what people can achieve. Her teaching career began as a tennis coach in rural South Australia, and she went on to become a bilingual ski instructor in both Australia and Austria. A natural-born teacher, Heather has since held middle and executive leadership responsibilities in pastoral care, curriculum, and teaching and learning at a range of independent schools.

Heather has participated at the executive levels of leadership in many associations, including as president of the Association of Secondary Research Teachers, and as an executive committee member of history and English teachers’ associations in South Australia. @h_deblasio