Our Professional Team of Learning Practitioners

AIPF will be happy to find the right learning practitioner with suitable industry experience to help your organisation.   All AIPF trainers, facilitators and coaches have met set standards to join our team so you can be assured of a top quality learning practitioner.

Here is just a sample of our professional learning practitioners. 

Scott Arbuthnot Scott is a master facilitator who draws on his 16 years of experience to finely balance process elements of support and challenge, intimacy and authority. Scott makes difficult learning experiences safe and insightful. The core values guiding Scott’s work are a dynamic balance of respect for the individual and larger organisational outcomes...  Full Profile>>
De Backman-Hoyle Deidre Backman-Hoyle (De) has a passion for assisting others to reach their optimum workplace potential. This has been her driving force for the last 25 plus years she has spent in the workforce. Her approach and methods are often described as innovative, challenging and highly interactive. She has experience in a range of industries, and has worked in Australia and overseas. These opportunities have honed her facilitation skills as well as deepened her knowledge of both corporate cultural and multicultural implications. Full Profile>>
Tim Baker Dr Tim Baker is a professional facilitator, master trainer, university lecturer, keynote speaker, executive executive coach and publisher author. Tim's international consultant business specialises in assisting public and private organisations develop productive workplace cultures. He has conducted major consulting assignments in Saudi Arabia, India, Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia, Taiwan, New Zealand, Finland and Canada. Full Profile>>
Kaye Blackburn Kaye is an ICF credentialed coach (PCC) and master facilitator.  She has an impressive background in the corporate world with over 20 years experience in a variety of leadership, facilitation, coaching, academic and clinical roles Kaye’s experience in corporate training and development, group facilitation and individual and team coaching provides a strong platform for developing individual and group performance. She has significant experience with leadership teams and health service professionals. Full Profile>>
Heather Boon Heather Boon has successfully fulfilled the roles of Financial Controller, Trainer and Human Resources Manager for several medium sized businesses across many different industries for over 20 years. Heather started her own successful mentoring and training business over 5 years ago implementing the knowledge she had gained over many years in key management roles. Full Profile>>
Steve Bruechert Steve is the director of ABL Action Based Learning and Development based in Victoria; a service focused on quality training and assessment advice to the community services and VET sector. Steve provides both accredited and non accredited training and advice to registered training providers; TAFES and universities, government and community Service organizations and small businesses. Full profile>>
Joanne Brooks Joanne has over 27 years of experience in the financial services industry from sales, general management, specialised technical skills, recruitment and training. In a training role she facilitates and personally conducts training in response to the needs of the client whether they be large corporate organisations or small to medium businesses. Joanne’s inclusive and enthusiastic style ensures an environment conducive to learning and development. Her philosophy is “grow the people to grow the business” In training and facilitation assignments, her focus is on achieving the “aha factor” and bottom line results for organisations... Full profile>>
Kerry Cassidy Kerry is a self-motivated and passionate facilitator. She has international experience within a wide variety of industries and has been involved in the training “start-ups” of a number of new businesses.   Although Kerry has worked within the corporate fold, she has found greater satisfaction and experienced greater learning in running her own business where she focuses on building business skills with frontline staff, through to new supervisors and on to middle managers. Full profile>>
Shane Cassidy Shane Cassidy has been directly and indirectly involved in training for the past 20 years. He has been a trainer, a facilitator, a senior instructor, a qualified assessor, a training designer, a training manager and an operations manager of an RTO; now Shane uses his knowledge and skills to assist organisations in achieving their business goals. Shane believes that facilitation is about involving the audience so that knowledge transfer can occur seamlessly and without effort. Shane designs his workshops/seminars so that the audience is engaged and involved from the beginning. Full profile>>
Adrianne Catlin Adrianne has worked with oprganisations throughout WA and the Asia pacific Region, her ability to think outside of the box allows her to challenge your mindsset and see alternative methods of acieving success in an interactive and productive workshop environment. Adrianne combines her extensive background as a facilitator, coach, auditor and small business owner. 'To offer the highest level of mentoring and training delivery in order to ensure clients achieve outstanding outcomes with positive future prospects for both their personal life'. Full profile>>
Lynne Cazaly Lynne presents and facilitates in a range of situations in workplaces and communities, at conferences and at meetings in both formal and informal settings. She regularly works with community groups, not-for-profit organisations, associations, corporate businesses and small business owners, helping them plan for and achieve their goals.    Her facilitation, communication and leadership skills are positive, inclusive, and aimed at achieving outcomes for the meeting or session. Lynne is adept at working with a range of industries and fields and the different personality types that make up an organization and its stakeholder groups. Full profile>>
Karen Conaghan Karen has an extensive corporate background as a line manager and team leader with over 25 years experience in both government and private sector – including sales, marketing, banking and finance, information technology, transport and manufacturing. Karen has significant experience ... Full profile>>
Fran Corrigan Fran is a natural and pragmatic leader,change agent, and partner to business. Having worked for many years in one of Australia’s largest blue chip companies at a senior level, Fran understands that businesses are transformed by individuals. So, she focuses on developing practical know-how in her workshops so that participants can deliver tangible bottom-line results. Having facilitated literally hundreds of management, leadership and culture change workshops over seventeen years, Fran has developed a unique style that is both engaging and entertaining, challenging participants to take risks in learning new skills. Full profile>>
Penny Delfs Penny has an immense enthusiasm for people, training, facilitation, mentoring and executive coaching. Penny now specialises in working with Middle to Senior Management in facilitating their outcomes - this includes training trainers and professional presenters in facilitation styles, presentations and advanced communication, including defining and refining well formed outcomes and thinking skills. Penny is also the National Trainer of Australia for AussieHost with Queensland Tourism Industry Council QTIC. Full profile>>
Keith Dugdale Keith has a well established reputation as an expert in:  Determining business development strategy.  Designing and implementing business development skills training programmes. Facilitating strategy workshops. One-on-one coaching, primarily around business development. Key-note speaking at industry forums on business development. He is also the co-author of “Smarter Selling” published in London in 2007 by the Financial Times. Full profile>>
Greg Fellows Greg Fellows is one of Australia's leading specialists in behavioural change. As a Certified Master Coach and Nationally Accredited Trainer, he is dedicated to helping his clients succeed by assisting them to create focused and goal directed lives.   Greg believes passionately in the enormous, untapped potential that resides within each person and is committed to providing individuals and corporations with tools of knowledge and skills they can use to unlock this potential. Greg is an accomplished entrepreneur having owned several successful businesses across a variety of industry sectors. Full profile>>
Peter Ferreira Peter is an experienced, facilitator/trainer and consultant with a proven success track record which he gained over 20 years in business.  His experience encompasses both private and public sector organisations in the fields of manufacturing, engineering, financial services, information technology, transport & logistics, sales and marketing, aviation, and health.  Regarded as one of the top facilitators in his field in Australia, he has been a leading contract facilitator with high profile RTO’s including The Australian Institute of Management, and Chifley Business School.   Full profile>>
Dennis Hall Dennis is recognised as a motivational and informative trainer and keynote speaker who can deliver to diverse audiences. His sessions are practical, engaging and always provide participants with useful “take away” tools. He is well-known for his negotiation, mediation and conflict resolution programs as well as other key topics such as customer service, presentation skills, change management, marketing , team building, marketing and internet (marketing & Ecommerce)... Full profile>>
Brian Hanson A results oriented consultant with more than 25 years experience in education and training. Current projects focused on safety leadership, OHS Cert IV training, team development and career transition. Extensive range of complimentary university and vocational qualifications and varied experience in coaching (oil & gas) auditing (heavy vehicles, primary industry) and career development (outplacement & private practice). Full profile>>
Stephen Hartley Stephen has been facilitating, training, consulting, teaching and assessing for over 15 years throughout Australia and Asia. Stephen is renown for his passion, persuasive communication, entertaining style and ongoing commitment to aligning professional development opportunities to transferable and measurable workplace improvement. Full profile>>
Marcus Hodgson  Marcus is director of a niche team of facilitating consultants providing facilitation and adviory services in strategic thinking, organisational effectiveness, change and leadership learning and innovation to organisations and teams. Marcus has been consulting and facilitating for over fourteen years and previously held academic lecturing and management positions in the AustralianUniversity system following a career in international Hotel Management. Full profile>>
Alison Jardie Alison is an Organisational Psychologist and an NLP Master Practitioner and Trainer, who specialises in leadership development, executive coaching, building high performing teams and facilitating organisational change. Her unique offering is to combine traditional management psychology with modern neurolinguistic tools and her passionate optimism for human potential.  With over 17 years of experience in leading and facilitating leadership and organisational development initiatives, she brings both personal experience as a senior leader and extensive experience as a professional facilitator.  Full profile>>
Vicky Jennings Vicky is recognised as a leading facilitator and educator with an extensive history in the learning and development profession. She has demonstrated the following abilities to: develop and implement the instructional design process; needs analysis, training package development under the AQT Framework 2007, competency-based training, flexible delivery strategies, assessment and evaluation design, develop and facilitate a broad range of training programs implement change management strategies Full profile>>	No Photo Available
Mark Jones Mark has broad executive development and facilitation experience working in both the private and public sectors on many cultural climate and change management programs. Mark is recognised for his abilities both as a peak performance coach and as an executive mentor. He has written and published numerous white papers and reports focusing on contemporary Leadership Development, Cultural Change, Workplace Mentoring and Facilitation skills development. Full profile>>
David King David provides boutique corporate training and business development coaching.  After a 15 year career in international Investment and Private Banking, David applies a “high return on training investment” methodology.  Its onsite, corporate training Workshops are customised for each client, offer participants practical and tangible results and are designed to be delivered over a 3-4 month period to boost long-term retention.  Full profile>>
Kaye Kurth The attraction of coaching as a profession for Kaye came from the belief that if individuals take control of their lives, set goals, have effective plans that will help them achieve those goals and have support for the critical parts of the learning journey then they will be best placed to find that most sought after goal - ‘freedom to choose’. Effective coaching also helps to the build the resilience needed to live a quality and highly productive life in these times of rapid change. Full profile>>
Lucy Marles With 20 years experience in recruitment and training, Lucy is passionate about helping people to learn and develop, both personally and professionally. Lucy has worked with both public and private organizations and is effective in gaining an understanding of your goals & vision and tailoring facilitation style and training content to suit your needs.   Facilitating with a style that is highly interactive, engaging & empowering and with an accreditation in NLP for Facilitators, Lucy blends targeted learning with fun and activities that ensure workshop participants feel that they have been part of the learning journey and their experience and opinions valued. Full profile>>
Samantha McGilvery Samantha has many years experience in a range of learning and development roles including consultancy and management. Having spent a number of years running a Faculty and developing and managing competency-based assessment and learning resources for a private training provider. Samantha’s experience with many industries in both Organisational Development roles and management roles, coupled with her formal qualifications, holding a Bachelor of Business (Hotel Management), a Bachelor of Education (Adult and Workplace) and Certificate IV in Assessment and Workplace Training, make her a committed learning and development specialist. Full profile>>	No photo available
Jon Morgan Jon is a specialist in training and facilitation with a highly practical and dynamic approach to skills development. Jon has worked with over 22,000 managers and team members during the last 18 years, achieving consistently high results and positive feedback. Typical client feedback include comments like: “Management is about people. The practical training delivered by Jon supported our organisations philosophy of empowerment, by providing a relaxed environment conducive to learning and allowing our people to see first hand what effective management was all about. I was absolutely delighted.” Sheraton Mirage, Gold Coast. Full profile>>
Mark Oliver Mark has run leadership development and assessment courses since 1986 – first in the military (including designing and implementing an innovative escape and evasion course on Lantau Island, Hong Kong) and then in commercial environment from 1993.  Over the last 15 years he has designed and facilitated leadership development and assessment courses for Australian ‘Top 100’ and American ‘Fortune 500’ companies in Australasia, USA, China, Singapore and India, for all levels from the CEO, and their Executive team, down to first line leaders.  He is accredited in many organisational psychology instruments, has three honours degrees from Cambridge University, and is a Fellow of the Australian Human Resources Institute and Life Fellow of the Australian Institute of Professional Facilitators.  Full profile>>
Megan Overell Megan recognised for her commitment to management training and people development. She is a highly motivating and energetic program facilitator who models excellent communication skills and professionalism in all her training programs. Her style of presentation supports the principles of adult learning. She creates an immediate rapport with participants and this leads to full involvement from them, ensuring effective training, facilitation, maximum learning, and fun. Full profile>>
Gerald Pauschmann Gerald Pauschmann is regarded by many as one of the most inspirational, humorous and thought provoking speakers with entertaining presentations engaging audiences from all backgrounds. So what is it about Gerald that’s made him a self made success? Well it is as simple as applying the teaching of the ‘Law of Attraction’. His training, motivational and leadership methods enabled him to turn under-performing groups of individuals into high performing and goal oriented teams. In any arena, Gerald will provide his audience with a blueprint that you can use to help build successful leaders, individuals and teams within your organisation. Full profile>>
Jacqui Perkins Jacqui has spent 12 years in the corporate world in Johannesburg South Africa in various leadership positions. These positions ranged from Gallery manager for the Market theatre to Branch Manager of a specialist recruitment consultancy to Sales Manager of the largest media company in Southern Africa. Jacqui then moved to Durban , South Africa, where she joined Deloitte Consulting as a DDI facilitator (Development Dimensions International ), facilitating over 44 different workshops for their client companies. She conducted these workshops for first line management through to executive level. Full profile>>
Aileen Tan Aileen is an experienced consultant and executive coach in organisational behaviour and organisational development.   In her facilitation and consulting role she works with clients to identify their strategic needs, assisting them to develop and implement strategies that will help to achieve their corporate goals and to enhance performance.  Aileen understands the need to plan but more importantly the need to implement plans. She is especially effective in working with client in designing and implementing strategies in enhancing human resources management and development. Full profile>>
Carole Vacher Over the past 15 years, Carole’s planning, consultation, facilitation, advice provision, whole-of-government policy development and project management experience has enabled her to interact with a wide audience – from Ministerial and senior executives to front line and technical workers. She well-versed in organisational performance management tools and facilitation, information/communication planning and e-learning strategies. Carole's clients find her engaging, outcome-focused, responsive, collaborative, innovative and ethical in her approach. Full profile>>
Bruce Watson Bruce is skilled at working with individuals and groups to achieve desired outcomes attributable to advanced communication, both written and verbal.  He has a highly developed aptitude for practical analysis, problem solving and clear thinking. Bruce is recognised as an innovative strategic thinker with an ability to comprehend “the big picture” and different organisational cultures.  He is greatly accomplished at developing and implementing strategies to deal with complex issues, concentrating on open communication, coaching, and an understanding of bureaucracy. Full profile>>
Julie Watson Julie's broad experience - in both England and Australia - as both an internal resource and external provider - across a wide range of topics and projects - and with the full range from professionals and senior management to junior administrators - gives her the flexibility to find a solution that genuinely meets your needs, rather than merely providing an 'off-the-shelf' training product. To this she adds a desire and passion to work with people and bring out the best in them together with a practical approach based on an understanding of your organisational objectives.  Full profile>>
Frank Yarsley Frank  is a successful facilitator, trainer, coach and consultant with over 15 years of experience working with both private and public sector clients. His experience covers the fields of manufacturing, financial services, sales and marketing, construction, information technology and telecommunications. He has a passion for working with groups and individuals to ensure change. He has an ability to be theoretical and conceptual when required and also work at an operational level to ensure things are implemented. Full profile>>