Our People, Your Secret Sauce
Meet your outsourced communications team. Working with our diverse bunch of skilled journalists, editors, authors, marketing and business content writers – and other communications wizards – you’ll always have the right expertise at your fingertips. Our team is an innovative content creation powerhouse (minus the staffing cost) that loves ideas, information and creating in depth relationships.
Daniela Cavalletti
Founder + Communications Expert
Chief Content Consultant
Daniela is an accomplished copywriter, editor and ghostwriter, and heads the international tribe of wordsmiths at Cavalletti Communications (‘CavaCom’). A meticulous organiser and vibrant ideas-person, Daniela is your first point of contact. She’ll discuss and plan your project with you, before pairing you with our best-match writer, editor or proofreader. Multilingual, dual national – and with a global career spanning 25-odd years in corporate and small business – Daniela has a deep understanding of organisational and cultural nuances. She’s applied her life-long love of asking questions, analysing facts, and solving problems to tell powerful stories in fields from finance to film before starting CavaCom in 2009. Devouring books since the tender age of three, Daniela has a real knack for captivating and connecting people through the power of the written word.
Favourite Word – Juxtaposition. “I always loved how the ‘jux’ sound seemed to perfectly describe close proximity of two opposite things. So close, but yet so far apart.”
Diana Riekstina
Office Manager
Problem Solving Expert
Prior to joining Cavalletti Communications, Diana’s story has been a twist on the lawyer-turned-freelancer path of someone who enjoys digging deep for answers and solutions (and is making a career out of it). She has gone from focusing on media rights in the beginning of her career to diving into the tricky world of insurance business later on, to ultimately find herself most comfortable in the ever-changing life of a freelancer. Since joining CavaCom team, Diana has been keeping her finger on the pulse of day-to-day administrative and operational processes. Making big decisions in a blink of an eye is her fuel, including moving to a different country with a half-full backpack. Being trilingual, Diana deeply appreciates not only reading others’ stories, but also the ability to express herself through creative writing in more than one language. Her other favourite means of expression include cooking and baking.
Favourite Word – Infatuation. “It’s truly hard to choose just one! ‘Infatuation’ is among the top bunch. For me, the sound of it represents the meaning of it perfectly – it’s just the right match.”
Bryan Szabo
Editor + Ghostwriter, Author Coach
Business Books
Bryan has translated his lifelong love of reading and writing into a decade-long career as an editor, copywriter and ghostwriter. With a well-tuned ear for the music of language, he helps authors make their powerful ideas sing and realise their potential. Having studied the art of writing and the science of reading, Bryan understands what moves readers – what draws them irresistibly towards an article’s or book’s heart – and he has helped dozens of authors turn their books into powerful marketing tools.
Favourite Word – Eidolon. “In eighteenth-century England, authors adopted a pseudonym to publish their social commentary. It was the public but masked face of the intellectual – their eidolon –, and allowed them a greater degree of freedom to speak truth to power. The eidolon, therefore, represents the freedom of anonymous authorship (something ghostwriters know quite a bit about).”
Fiona Stocker
Writer, Editor, Author
Tourism, Agriculture + Farming
Fiona is a published author and experienced content creator and editor. Whether it’s about travel, tourism, farming, agriculture, food or wine, Fiona writes with flair, clarity and creativity. Fiona loves to cut through jargon and write content that jumps off the page. She has worked in the corporate world, which makes her a stickler for detail, but her heart is in the SME sector. She writes very well with humour, if required. Fiona is also an accomplished creative writer. She is enrolled in the Master of Arts in Writing and Literature at Deakin University, where her work consistently earns High Distinction.
Favourite Word – Oleaginous. “My favourite ever word, meaning oily and slick, and perhaps also elusive. I once challenged a friend of mine to fit it into an opera review he was writing for the Times. He did! Perhaps that wasn’t so hard, as it’s a word with such immense musicality.”
Lucy Burnage
Senior Copywriter + Editor
Non-Profit, Government, Arts
Lucy is a dedicated communications specialist who has worked with words for over a decade. Following a lifelong connection to writing, Lucy started out with a first class Honours degree in English and Creative Writing from Goldsmiths University of London. She then applied her skills to her other passion — social affairs — resulting in a productive career in the non-profit sector and a Master’s degree in Public Policy from RMIT University. Whether she’s writing website copy or proofreading a 100-page report, Lucy believes there is always an opportunity to elevate content through wordsmithing. She prides herself on her thoughtful and thorough approach to work, and enjoys supporting clients to create purposeful communications.
Favourite Word – Visceral. “There’s a sense of drama around the word ‘visceral’. It represents the untamed and the instinctual, yet it’s elegant and smooth when spoken. There’s something intriguing about that contrast.”
Sarah Kneebone
Content Writer + Editor
Digital Marketing + Health Specialist
Sarah is an engaging and skilled communications specialist. For over 10 years, she has excelled in agency and client-side environments as a marketing manager, copywriter and communications specialist. Sarah has a particular penchant for connecting purpose-driven organisations with the people they aim to serve by using authentic and customer-centric communications. She believes that words (much like people) are most effective when they are friendly, helpful, and a little bit playful. Sarah has worked across government, NFPs, education, professional services, FMCG, retail, tourism, luxury, construction, software and –her passion – health and wellness. You can count on Sarah for all things marketing writing: blog posts, magazine articles, web copy, social media content, EDMs, landing pages, video scripts, product descriptions, case studies, press releases, brochure copy… the list goes on!
Favourite Word – “This is so hard! I’ll go with ineffable. I don’t get to write ‘ineffable’ very often, but I love the fact that it is used when something is far too great for any words to be enough.”