Andrea is a Churchill Fellow (2004), an entertaining educator and gifted facilitator and coach.

She loves interacting with children, moving to the beat, exploring new places and using her ipad to connect with others.

Andrea Dean has her own business called Future Matters. She supports individuals, leaders and groups including those from Catholic schools and organisations in their struggles to be authentically Catholic, genuinely making a difference, effectively living the Gospel, and creating a worthwhile future, a future that matters.

Andrea Dean is a popular facilitator with Catholic organisations (Ursuline Sisters Provincial Chapter 2018), with Catholic leaders (Leaders Retreat, Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn, 2016) and with specialist groups (Disability Council 2019).

Andrea has lectured in programs offered through the Australian Catholic University and the University of Canberra. She co-designed and taught a preparation program for leading spiritual retreats and contributed to a major mentoring program for educators in the Australian Capital Territory.

She has more than 25 years’ experience in promoting growth through education, facilitation and retreat work.

Andrea has been employed by the Australian Catholic Church in a national office with special responsibility for women’s participation and lay pastoral ministry for the past two years and is now working fulltime in Future Matters.