About us
ELM (ACT) was established in 2010 by Managing Director Amanda Tobler. Amanda is the third generation of Tobler’s in the Canberra region to operate a business. Her grandfather started his first businesses at Kingston and Manuka shops in the 1927.
“My grandfather arrived in Canberra in the 1920’s. It is exciting to be continue his vision of serving and supporting the Canberra Community” Amanda stated.
Amanda has been mentored by her father Conrad Tobler who opened his first business in the 1960’s. Conrad continues to run the family business at 83 years of age.
“I think it is great that Amanda and Nicholas continue the family nearly 100-year-old tradition of owning and operating a business in Canberra” Conrad said.
ELM has now expanded to include Nicholas Dunn as ELM’s co-director and experts’ consultants in their field. This ensures that ELM can be flexible, adaptive, and available to clients.
“I am really excited to be working back in ELM (fulltime) and continuing on the family tradition” Stated Amanda
“Supporting and continuing to serve the Canberra Community is my passion. I am glad that ELM can support not-for-profits, Government, and corporate business to be able to deliver the best quality services to our community. “Amanda continued
“It is really an exciting time for us as we expand and bring on new consultants to be able to provide a greater suite of services,” said Nicholas.
Amanda’s brings to ELM over 30 years of experience in Community Sector in the ACT and NSW. Her key strengths are her diverse experience and high-level understanding of the not-for-profit, Government and corporate sectors.
She has high level strategic thinking capabilities and vast experience in advocacy and considerable commercial experience. Amanda has an exceptional ability to achieve results in demanding and challenging environments. And an ability to build excellent relationships at all levels.
Nicholas brings to ELM over 20 years of experience providing business support to several local and international organisations, including ActewAGL, The Australian Academy of Science, CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) and IBM Australia.
