Eve Ash

Eve Ash was born in 1951 to Polish Jewish Holocaust survivors Feliks and Martha Ash who had emigrated to Melbourne Australia, two years previously with Eve’s older sister, Helen, settling in Murrumbeena. Feliks was in the Janowska concentration camp where he and fellow inmate Leon Wells broke out on November 19, 1943.[9] In Melbourne, he established a successful sports clothing business (Feliks Ash Industries),[10] while Martha’s artistic interests and talent for languages provided a stimulating home environment for her two girls.

Eve attended Kilvington Grammar School, followed by Shelford Girls' Grammar and Mac.Robertson Girls High between 1965-1968. After graduating with a B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in psychology from Monash University and a B.Ed. (Counselling) degree from La Trobe University, Eve worked for the Federal Government as a psychologist and trainer.[11]

Eve subsequently founded her business Seven Dimensions in 1979, with the mission of self-financing and producing comedy business films. She has two children.

In 2008, many years after her parents died, Eve uncovered a family secret that compelled her to “rewrite” her own life. After the results of DNA testing, Eve discovered that she was in fact the love-child of a long-standing clandestine affair. Her biological father was alive and well, working full-time as Australia’s oldest land surveyor. The story forms the basis of Eve’s award-winning documentary Man on the Bus - released in 2019.[12][9]

Eve has two children and two grandchildren. Her sister Helen Schamroth lives in New Zealand.

• Australian Businesswomen’s Hall of Fame – Australian Business Women’s Network (2000)[13][14]

• National Winner – 1999 Telstra Business Women’s Awards, Westpac Business Owner Awards[15][16][17][18]

• Victorian Winner – 1999 Telstra Businesswoman of the Year Awards (Bank of Melbourne Business Owner)[17][19]

• Victorian Winner – American Chamber of Commerce Market Place Forum Public Speaking (1997)[18]

• ADESIC Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Australian Education & Training Industry (1989)[20][18]

In 1979, Eve Ash founded Seven Dimensions. In 1988 co-founded Ash.Quarry Productions with fellow psychologist Peter Quarry.[21]

Seven Dimensions (7D) has produced[22] hundreds of videos including the Switch On Series[23] for culture change and the children’s animated series Finding My Magic with Cathy Freeman.[24][25][26]

In 2012, with US comedienne Erin Brown, Eve devised and produced the Cutting Edge Communication Comedy Series, the Cutting Edge English Series and the Cutting Edge Success at Work Series.[27][28] By 2016 Eve had produced 150 of the Cutting Edge videos.

From 2015 - 2020 Eve has produced 94 Insights & Strategies videos and over 150 microlearning videos.

Eve’s latest documentary is the award winning Man on The Bus,[30] 2019, about her own family investigation into her parents’ holocaust experiences and her mother’s secret that changes everything. Premiering in Australia at the Jewish International Film festival, and in Connecticut USA at the New Haven International Film festival and the Colorado Film Festival. It has won 15 awards including Award of Excellence: Documentary Feature at Accolade Global Film Competition Awards and Award of Excellence: Jewish at Indie Fest Film Awards.

Eve directed and produced an acclaimed documentary Shadow of Doubt, about the conviction of Tasmanian grandmother Susan Neill-Fraser for the murder of Bob Chappell.[31] It won a CINE Golden Eagle award[32][13] and was also nominated for Best Feature Documentary at the 2014 AACTA Awards.[33][34][35] Eve's efforts to overturn Sue Neill-Fraser’s conviction have generated considerable media publicity. Eve has continued to work on this case with former detective Colin McLaren through to 2018, and teaming up with cinematographer Tim Smart, and production company CJZ she has produced the TV series Undercurrent for the Seven Network.

Eve Ash and Rob Gerrand co-wrote Rewrite Your Life![36] and Rewrite Your Relationships![37] Published by Penguin Books. Eve is lead writer on people problems for business publication SmartCompany[38][39] where over 500 of her blogs have been published since 2007.