Bio
Keith June 8th, 2007
Keith De La Rue works as an independent consultant in knowledge management, communication and learning. He previously spent eight years working in Knowledge Management at Telstra, Australia, where he led a team engaged in the transfer of product and service knowledge to Telstra’s enterprise and business sales force. This group has been known both within and outside of Telstra for its innovative work in this field.
In this team, he also worked in writing and editing online newsletters and other documents, developing and delivering training, producing an online quiz and other multimedia content and developing and administrating an online document library.
Keith is a committee member of the Melbourne Knowledge Management Leadership Forum, and is a regular speaker at conferences in Australia and overseas since 2004 on a range of topics. He has also had experience in facilitation of personal development and strategic planning workshops. He is an experienced blogger, currently blogging at http://delarue.net/.
Keith has worked in the Telecommunications and IT industries for over thirty years. In a previous role, he spent six years as a Telecommunications Consultant, consulting with a number of major Telstra business clients across a broad range of industries.
He holds a degree in Computer Science from RMIT, and is a member of the International Association of Business Communicators, and of Mensa, where he spent six years as a regular columnist for TableAus, the national magazine. Keith has also appeared on radio and in quiz programs on TV, and has planned and delivered a number of Trivia Nights.
He is married, with three children, and lives in Pascoe Vale, a suburb of Melbourne. He also enjoys travelling, reading, writing, music and trivia.
See further details of Keith’s current work here, a list of published documents here and recommendations for his work in his LinkedIn profile.
Travelling:
I enjoy travel. Most recently, I have done a number of trips to Singapore and Kuala Lumpur to speak at conferences. Previously, this often involved long trips by car with my family around various parts of Australia:
- In late 1998, we drove over to Western Australia with Renée and Lauren, travelling almost 14,000 km in six weeks.
- In 1990, we took all three children - Scott, Renée and Lauren - up the “centre” to Darwin, across to Cairns and home down the east coast. This was in a Nissan Bluebird wagon - 15,000 km in nine weeks. Lauren was only 15 months old on that trip.
- In 1983, I spent six months back-packing around Europe, including a few days in Singapore, Malaysia and the USA. I went back to Europe for one month in 1984 to pick up a BMW K100RT motorcycle on the “European Delivery” program and had it freighted back to Australia.
- My main claim to fame is my 1980 trip by motorcycle (Suzuki GSX750) from Melbourne to Karratha, WA (a distance of 5,000 km) in 5 days and 6 hours.
Hi Keith,
I’ve actually been surfing and leaving my contacts at Telstra to get hold of you. My purpose is to actually extend a speaker invitation for you to present at our regional conference here in Malaysia on Enterprise Content Management. Would be great if we could get in touch soon.
June -
Email is on its way to you - I look forward to discussing further!
Networks are funny things. Richard Webbe has introduced me to you and now I find that you and I have some scarily common interests; I too rode a Motor Cycle through the north of Australia (Yamaha 350b) in late ‘79 (still ride VTR1000 today), enjoy time in Singapore and KL speaking at conferences when I can, long car trips, and others I wont bore you with. At Richard’s request, and now to satisfy my curiousity, I would enjoy catching up for a coffee in sunny Melbourne soon. I will email you.
Garry Gosling
Garry -
Great to hear from you. Almost spooky… Look forward to comparing notes over a coffee!
Hi Keith,
Just enquiring if you do work on knowledge management measurements.
I have a study meeting coming up in Manila, and would be nice to have someone share what Telstra is doing in this regards.
Do please let me know.
Regards
Kamlesh
Kamlesh -
Thanks for your comment!
Yes, I have done work on measurement, and I have previously addressed this at conferences.
I would be happy to discuss an opportunity to present on this topic in Manila, if that is what you are suggesting. Please let me know more detail about what you have in mind.
Regards,
- Keith
Hi Keith!
Should our name not be spelled ‘de la Rue’??
What is your heritage?
Thanks so much- it’s nice to hear of another de la Rue….
Sarah
Sarah -
There are a number of alternatives for spelling the name. Apart from the choice of case and number of words (Delarue, De La Rue and de la Rue are all common), there are a number of alternatives that make life even more difficult. Some of these we know are related, others are not certain: De La Rew, De La Roux, De La Reu and more. Then there is the question of the relationship to La Rue and Rue.
You can read a bit about the Australian De La Rue families on the De La Rue page on this site at http://delarue.net/delarue.htm.
As my family came out to Australia via England, I assume that the capitalised spelling that we use is an Anglicisation. One branch of my family deliberately adopted the single-word spelling about three or four generations ago as a further simplification. The other families, having come out directly from France or the Channel Islands, tend to have retained the original lower case for the “de la”.
- Keith.
Hi Keith, I found you from your post on anecdote.com.au
“Shawn - have I ever told you about how I facilitated the development of a mission statement for my church? The process allowed everyone in the church - 250 or so people - to contribute…
Posted by: Keith De La Rue at January 13, 2006 11:30 PM”
I am new executive leadership at ernestbecker.org and we are urgently in need of a our better mission statement. We have about 5000 members, and I would love to know more about how you were able to get inputs from your church membership, and how you then got that synthesized into the new mission statement. Please call or write? I’m in Seattle: 425 466 7704. Thanks!
- Melissa Ganus