Our Story

Office Class exists because someone once told me as a very young woman, that education was a waste on a girl. As all we do is get married and have children, therefore it's a poor investment.

Fortunately I've always believed that statement was wrong and I've spend a couple of decades proving it. Office Class is my attempt to encourage everyone, regardless of profession or educational status, to believe that learning can be exciting, fun and take you places you didn't know you could go.

Office Class is intentionally focused on office professionals, although the information will be broadly relevant to many professions. From Gen Y's in their first job to more experienced office professionals, this site is designed for people who spend their working lives in an office based career.  Particular groups such as managers, learning and development professionals, event managers, office administrators and project managers will find new ways of performing routine work.

Designing experiences around learning is key to Office Class.  Routine work can become dull and certainly a great deal of management activity could use a little more creativity!  Office Class specialises in finding new and creative ways to inject more life into your routine tasks.  We select great experiences and world class techniques to put into simple, savvy approaches for project work, training, presentations, events and planning.

Our mission is to connect office professionals with local and global inspiration in order to educate and build confidence in their ability to succeed personally and professionally.

I hope that you will choose to be part of this adventure with us by sharing your wisdom, experiences and inspiration with others.

Irene D. Baker

The Staff

Irene is a passionate believer in promoting learning to women and those in most need.  She has worked with children who were abused and neglected in inner Sydney as a teacher; developed adult education courses for people who are homeless and been the recipient of several awards including the Queen Elizabeth Silver Jubilee Scholarship for Young Australians to study programs to prevent child abuse overseas.

Her training packages have won the Consumer Advocacy Award and the Ministers' Award for Excellence from the Department of Fair Trading in 2006 and Irene was a finalist for the Department of Communities Minister's Award for Excellence in 2003 for a training package about children living with domestic violence. Irene operates her own consulting business Inzpire Pty Ltd and develops training packages to business, government and private industries.