Josephine Ive offers professional talks and demonstrations for clubs and groups. Her "By Jeeves!" presentation lasts for about 50 minutes with time for questions about butlering at the end.
Josephine is keen to pass on her own blend of humour, depth of knowledge and some amusing anecdotes. Her passion is good service…a passion that is borne out the subjects she teaches; Etiquette and Manners, Body Language, Guest Services, Valet services including suitcase packing, Personalised Guest Services, In-room dining, Food and Beverage service, Customer Relations, and much, much more....
It fascinates her clients, pupils and the media alike because it seems that in this egalitarian world of ours, some of us are still desirous of (or curious about) being waited on by a butler. Others may want to become one, and practically all of us would love to know what the butler saw! But, like all good butlers before her, Josephine Ive would never, ever tell....
To try to reduce Josephine Ive's colourful culinary career into a profile of a page or two is rather akin to attempting to condense the recipe for a pot au feu to a couple of paragraphs, because this lively English-born lady, who's been resident in Australia since 1987, is a lady butler; an internationally-recognised trainer of butlers and luxury yacht stewards ,an expert on the elegant art of table napkin folding, a professional cookery instructor, a trainer and judge in the hospitality industry, a food writer for Australian and international magazines and a successful author.
Josephine's background started with a four-year apprenticeship in Catering with the Hampshire County Council in Winchester, England, during which she gained two City and Guilds hotel and catering qualifications. She graduated to supervisory positions with the HCC, studied another City and Guilds course, gained her Further Education Teacher's Certificate and worked as a catering supervisor in a hospital, a freelance chef and restaurant manager before starting her own business in 1975 as a freelance chef, caterer and butler.
But it is as a trainer of butlers, valets and luxury yacht stewards that Josephine is becoming best known in Australia, South East Asia and globally. Her butler/valet programme, which trains butlers and valets both for private clients and five-star hotels worldwide, is the only one that has been granted government accreditation in Australia…whilst her Luxury Yacht Steward programme prepares students for a working life on some of the world's most luxurious super yachts.
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