Roma Gaster is Managing Director and founder of KARIBU Education International Pty Ltd. She is also an international business consultant, facilitator, conference speaker and published author. Her numerous qualifications include a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in Economics and Japanese from the University of Sydney.

Over the past 20 years Roma has developed expertise in organisational culture change, merging cultures, strategic direction and planning, executive coaching and management development, facilitating, coaching, public speaking and curriculum design.

Her experience spans a number of industries including financial services, insurance, information technology, media, travel, health care, retail and hospitality.

Roma's relationship with clients has led to various assignments in Australia, New Zealand, South East Asia, the UK and USA. Projects have involved working with boards, senior executives and managers as well as employees of large, medium and small enterprises.

Whether she is facilitating groups, public speaking or coaching, Roma challenges people to expand their potential by exploring choices to improve their skills, abilities and their effectiveness. She assists individuals, teams and organisations to achieve outstanding results.

Roma also has a strong reputation for building long and lasting relationships with clients. In fact, she is still in contact with clients from the mid 1990s some of whom have frequently recommended KARIBU to colleagues in other organisations.

One of her core values is "minessence" - as demonstrated in her ability to distil the complex to something simple and meaningful for others to understand and practically use.

A core ideal held by Roma involves working with clients and associates who are intent on creating positive ripples in relationships, teams and organisations. Hence the ripple graphic throughout the KARIBU website.