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.