Josephine
Ive offers professional
talks & demonstration
for clubs & 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 & 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 program, 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
program prepares students for
a working life on some of the
world's most luxurious super
yachts.
For more details, please contact
Josephine Ive. |
