{"id":17738,"date":"2017-09-06T10:15:08","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T00:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=17738"},"modified":"2017-09-06T10:15:53","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T00:15:53","slug":"meet-the-staff-melissa-burrows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2017\/09\/06\/meet-the-staff-melissa-burrows","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Staff &#8211; Melissa Burrows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Name: <\/strong>Melissa Burrows<\/p>\n<p><strong>Title: <\/strong>General Manager \u2013 People, Culture &amp; Communications<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is your role at Tennis Victoria:\u00a0<\/strong>My role is all about engaging people \u2013 both internal (HR) and external (through Marketing &amp; Communications). I am responsible for driving organisational strategies which develop &amp; engage our staff to maintain a high performance work culture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best thing about the role: <\/strong>I love working in the sporting industry, everyone is so passionate about their jobs and about making a difference in the community. It\u2019s an amazing culture to be a part of.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was your previous role:\u00a0<\/strong>I was the HR Manager at West Coast Eagles for a bit over 7 years (So I am still getting used to Melbourne weather!)<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are your interests outside of Tennis Victoria: <\/strong>I love going to concerts\/ gigs\/ musicals\/ plays\u2026 I\u2019m very excited to begin enjoying the cultural side of Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favourite tennis player\/sporting athlete and why: <\/strong>It\u2019s a tie between Rafael Nadal &amp; Roger Federer, they are so captivating to watch \u2013 especially when playing each other!<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is one interesting fact that no one else knows about you: <\/strong>I have many irrational fears\u2026 I have recently conquered the fear of sitting next to someone while they eat grapes&#8230; but I have never been able to get rid of my fear of ants \u2013 I will avoid footpaths when I see them!<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you were Prime Minister of Australia for one day, what would your first change be: <\/strong>Legalise marriage equality<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you had one super power for a day, what would it be:\u00a0<\/strong>To be able to slow down time &amp; spend the day (spanning the length of a year) on the beaches of Hawaii.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet our new General Manager &#8211; People, Culture and Communications, Melissa Burrows<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6038,"featured_media":17749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6038"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}