Dr Anneli Knight

Founder and head facilitator

Dr Anneli Knight is a strategic writing consultant, author and journalist. She brings two decades of writing experience to Eloquence, spanning journalistic, legal, academic, entrepreneurial, corporate, online, fiction and long-form non-fiction writing forms. She has also taught writing and developed writing programs for university, corporate and industry clients.

Anneli draws upon a breadth of experience in creating and delivering the Eloquence workshops. She has worked as an intellectual property lawyer at global firm Ashurst, in various roles at stockbroking firm Goldman Sachs JBWere, as a staff reporter at Sydney Morning Herald, and at tech start-up RedBubble from the beta phase through to its successful launch. She has authored popular blogs for Fairfax Media, including personal finance blog Well Heeled and travel blog Red Letters, and has written website content for social ventures, start-ups and corporate clients.

Anneli has taught journalism and writing at the University of Technology, Sydney, the Northern Rivers Writers’ Centre and the Byron Writers Festival, and has created curriculum for the Melbourne Polytechnic Bachelor of Creative Writing program. She has delivered tailored media training programs to industry groups and small business clients and been invited to speak at events including the Walkley Foundation annual conference and a private luncheon at TEDxSydney.

Creating and delivering the Eloquence workshops is a natural extension of Anneli’s long-standing commitment to education. She holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honours), Bachelor of Commerce (finance major), Master of Arts (Journalism) and a Doctor of Philosophy (Creative Writing).

Writing is not only Anneli’s profession, but also a passion. She is a board member of Byron Writers Festival and also chairs author panels during the event, she co-authored the book Flirting with Finance (Fairfax Books), contributed to the travel collection Holiday Goddess Handbag Guide (Harper Collins), edited speakers' talks for TEDxByronBay, and is an avid reader of fiction and books on the art and science of writing. 

Anneli created the Eloquence workshops to combine her expertise in writing and teaching, to inspire an appreciation and awareness of eloquent writing among individual participants, and to enable companies to improve their business outcomes by instilling a workplace culture of powerful, persuasive, articulate writing.