About - Ailsa Page | Professional Speaker, Musician, Marketer

ABOUT ME

Ailsa Page is a professional MC, speaker and marketing strategist with 25+ years’ experience creating seamless, purposeful events.

Known for reading rooms, guiding audiences with confidence and connecting genuinely, she now brings her rare blend of strategic expertise and stage presence to high-impact speaking, professional MC work and strategic marketing coaching.

Want the backstory? Read on.

As a Fellow of the Australian Marketing Institute and Certified Practising Marketer, I bring professional credentials to match my practical experience. I’m also a Certified Speaking Professional, three-time published author, and a long-standing judge for the Telstra Business Awards, Telstra Women’s Business Awards and the Australian Marketing Institute National Marketing Excellence Awards.

After starting in business in 1999 and growing AP Marketing Works into an award-winning consultancy over 25 years, I’m now entering an exciting new chapter through Ailsa Page Consulting. I’m focusing my expertise on high-impact speaking, professional MC work, strategic marketing advisory and coaching. This evolution allows me to bring together my deep commercial experience with my natural presence on stage, supporting organisations and event organisers who value clarity, connection and outcomes.

An abridged history of me

1992

THE YEAR OF DISCOVERY

This is where I really found marketing, or perhaps more accurately, marketing found me. I jumped head first into the Fundraising sector (why do anything by halves!) where shoestring budgets and the need to save every penny honed my steadfast belief that the amount of money spent on marketing didn’t relate to success.

1995

Hitting all the right notes

Started Ailsa Page & Associates and joy of joys, found my love of music in tune with my love of marketing when I was appointed the Marketing Director for the Wangaratta Festival of Jazz. Winning award after award didn’t go to my head but mixing with the likes of then Prime Minister John Howard and actor Bryan Brown… maybe a little!

1998

School’s in!

Hit the books at the Melbourne Business School to nurture the business part of my brain and develop corporate marketing strategies.

1999-2003

My year of lycra

Used my ‘shoestring marketing’ principles to get on my bike and pedal with Bicycle Victoria, increasing their membership by 300%. This was also the year I started my first business, APT Training, delivering marketing training to not-for-profit organisations.

2005

I’m a company!

Officially changed the name to AP Marketing Works and became all Pty Ltd.

2007

Channelled my inner Mark Zuckerberg

Before social media was the marketing beast it is now, I was ‘Marketing Geek’ podcasting with Phillip Greenwood where we discussed helping businesses understand how social media might work for them. And was appointed a judge for the Telstra Business Awards.

2009

My year of living dangerously

A real corker of a year, I literally hit the bottle and formed the business ‘Wine chicks’ with my sister, running our own wine shop. After winning a Women In Business Award for Business and Professional Services, my glass was definitely more than half full.

2010

Time to hit the road

I’d caught a serious case of the marketing smarts, and what better way to spread it around than strutting my stuff on a roadshow to regional Victoria for the Small Business Festival.

2012

I’m an author!

I published my first book “Shoestring Marketing Kit for Small Business” – on a shoestring of course.

2013

Becoming besties with the fruit bowl

Joining the Shepparton Digital Enterprise Program gave me the opportunity to get down and dirty with the locals at Shepparton, helping them embrace technology to grow their business and improve their marketing. With a constant stream of tomatoes and fruit discussion, I had a lot on my plate.

2015

I’m an author – again!

Published “The Year I Owned a Wineshop”, sharing the biggest business learnings I gained during one of the most transformative years of my life. Goes down very nicely with a sparkling shiraz.

2016

Certified Speaker. That’s me!

The year that led me here as I was awarded with my Certified Speaking Professional Accreditation. Proud moment.

2017

Yes yes, I’m still an author

Published “Get Good or Get Off”, a guide to getting it right on social media.

2018-19

Madame President & First Lady

Took the “Bullet Proof Your Brand Online” on a roadshow during the small business festival and launched my second online course. Was appointed President of the State Chapter of Professional Speakers Australia. Oh, and eloped to Sicily and ate my way through Paris and Rome!

2020-21