Dr Kate Martin DBA

LLB, BPsychSc, MSocSc (Crim), MBA, MISS, MPICT, MDis&EmergResp, MPM, MMktg, MInvestign, GDipLegPrac, GDipPsych(Adv)

Director / RPL Team Leader

Allen Williams

BAdVocEd, BA (Crim & CJ), GDipMgt (Learning), GDipStratLead

Managing Director / Training Manager

Karyn Martin

BScPsych(Hons), GCertCoun

Assistant Director - Assessor

Dr Jayde Williams (Physiotherapy)

DPhty, BExSc, GCertHumNutr

Creative Director / Consultant

With a real passion for education and business, Jayde is CLET's Creative Director leading our team of graphic designers and creative professionals. Jayde is involved in every aspect of collaboration from the idea phase to the execution. Jayde supervises and guides our copywriters, and designers to create work on our website, social media, and email campaigns. Jayde reports directly to our Director for major decisions and approvals, but does most of their work independently, using her professional judgment to manage the day-to-day details of our projects.

Jayde is also a Registered Physiotherapist with a Doctor of Physiotherapy with High Distinction and Bachelor of Exercise and Sport Science from Bond University, achieving Valedictorian with the highest GPA out of all students graduating from the Health Sciences, Law and Business Faculties.

Jayde is the Managing Director of Brayva and also Live Bright Physiotherapy after recently completing her Physiotherapy Graduate Program at the Gold Coast University Hospital where she worked in the frontline in ICU and with COVID-19 patients during the pandemic. Further, Jayde is currently completing a Master’s degree in Human Nutrition at Deakin University.

During her studies, Jayde gained experience working with sports teams including the Australian U20’s rugby union team, the Wallaroos (National Women’s Rugby Union) and the Gold Coast Suns. In addition to sport, Jayde gained experience working in multiple hospital settings ranging from acute care, intensive care, post-surgical and paediatric rehabilitation.

Jayde is passionate about musculoskeletal physiotherapy and strives to provide a caring approach for all her clients and patients. She has recently completed research looking at how health professionals can improve their communication to encourage participation in physical activity. Jayde continually pursues excellence and challenges herself to provide an individualised and enjoyable approach for all whom she treats.

In addition to her studies, Jayde also has extensive experience in aquatic water sport training and instruction of children. She has been involved in swimming for the majority of her life, demonstrating exceptional technical skill and attention to detail.

Jayde is a true industry professional and advises CLET management team on current industry practices, policies and procedures, contributing to our course delivery and assessment practices. 

Brayden Williams

LLM (IntLaw&IntRelations), LLB, GradDipLegPrac

Legal Director / Solicitor / Trainer and Assessor

Brayden is a solicitor and admitted to the Supreme Court of Queensland. He holds a Master of Laws (International Law and International Relations) from Flinders University, Bachelor of Laws from Bond University and Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice. Further, he has completed additional study in business and law at the University of Lyon in France, travelling through France, Italy, Switzerland, Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

Responsible to our Director, Brayden's role as Legal Director is an integral part of our legal management team.  He advises on ASQA's general directions that are a condition of CLET Training's RTO registration and provides guidance on specific requirements of the VET Quality Framework and the Standards for Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) 2015 made under subsection 185(1) and subsection 186(1) of the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011 (the Act). 

In addition, Brayden monitors CLET's intellectual property, copyright, and registered trademarks and holds a position in CLET's RPL and legal, crime and justice, and business training and assessor team. 

Working in the industry, Brayden holds the position of an Emergency Services Activation Support Officer with the Australian Red Cross and works within the Emergency Operations Centre with the Field Operations Team to manage the Red Cross response to emergency events. In addition, he works as a casual public safety supervisor at the Tree Top Challenge on the Gold Coast.

Plus, Brayden gives back to the community, volunteering his time as a Legal Officer at the Robina Community Legal Centre.

Sporting-wise, Brayden is the 2020 and 2022 Queensland weightlifting champion for his weight division, an accomplished gymnast, a qualified snowboard and ski instructor, plus an advanced rescue diver.

Brad Copelin

GradDipMgt (Learning), GradDipStratLead

Military Consultant / Assessor

Brad is a CLET military consultant on national and international course delivery, design and employment.

Brad Copelin enlisted into the Australian Army in 1987 as an Infantryman and in 1992 he transferred to the Military Police. In 1995, was selected and subsequently employed as a Recruit Instructor.

In 1996, Brad transferred to the Reserve and joined the Victoria Police. During his police service he specialised as an Operational Safety Tactics Training Instructor, specialising in Critical Incident Management and Crowd Control training. He was promoted to Senior Constable in 2000.

Brad returned to the Army as a Sergeant in 2001, serving in various leadership positions in Sydney and Darwin.

In December 2005, he was promoted to Warrant Officer and became the Warrant Officer In Charge, Military Police Stations in Wagga Wagga, Wodonga and Puckapunyal. Brad was then appointed Company Sergeant Major, Defence Force Corrective Establishment (the Defence Prison); followed by Warrant Officer In Charge, Advanced Military Police Training, Defence Police Training Centre, until his medical retirement in December 2011.

Brad has been awarded a Meritorious Unit Citation (with Star), Soldiers' Medallion for Exemplary Service, Provost Marshal-Army Certificate of Merit, two other commendations; campaign and service medals.

Brad gained operational command experience whilst deployed on Border Protection Operations with the Royal Australian Navy (2003) and in the Solomon Islands as the Military Police Commander (2003). He also deployed to Afghanistan with the Australian Special Operations Task Group (2006).

Rochelle Hattam

DipJusAdmin, DipLeadMgt

Military Consultant / Assessor

Rochelle started with the college as a student and when she completed her Diploma of Justice Administration she continued as an employee and has done some stunning work in course development, student support, training and assessment.

Rochelle has also been a serving member of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) since 2008. In her initial four years, she was employed in a security role as a Military Working Dog Handler (MWDH). This job included duties such as: intruder detection training with MWD, basic obedience with MWD, MWD husbandry, protective security of personnel and assets, patrolling of the Air Base with a MWD, emergency response, traffic and crowd control, and detainee and prisoner of war handling.

Her current role in the RAAF is that of airfield ground operations. This is a logistical function that provides airfield services for the movement of personnel and cargo to support ADF activities, exercises and operations. On a day-to-day basis she receives, prepares, and loads cargo for movement by air, process passengers for flight, operate forklifts and other special-purpose vehicles, and prepare and record documentation for aircraft departures and arrivals. It was within this role that she undertook a six-month deployment to the Middle East in support of ADF operations.

Gisele Lanes

BDP, BSA

Software Engineer

Gisele has over 20 years experience in software engineering, project management and consulting. She has exceptional software development knowledge and skills from working with a range of systems for several small and large companies. She also has industry experience in project management and consulting.

Gisele joined CLET team in 2015 and is current an asset working with our web development team on our new and innovative student records system.

Karen Duncan

DipBusAdmin

Accounts Manager

Karen is another one of our amazing administrators and you will more than likely speak with her if you ring our head office. Karen is friendly and no request is too big or ever a problem.

Karen's main role is to manage all student fees, payments and accounts. She processes all payment plans, in charge of all student financial records and organises and sends all students their invoices.

In addition to her accounts role, Karen is one of those amazing people who can multi-task and assists the Director with the management and recording of all RPL applications and ensures all information is processed correctly with the upmost confidentiality at all times.

All account and payment related requests sent from inside the Student HUB will be received and processed by Karen.

Vicki Lohrey (JP Qual)

DipBus

Administration Manager

Vicki is our college administration wizard and we are very lucky to have her with us. As a student you can have the confidence that your personal information and course results will be protected and recorded by an amazing administrator who has exemplary attention to detail.

Your administration requests from inside the Student HUB will be received and actioned by Vicki in a timely manner. In addition, when you have completed your course, Vicki is responsible to check, process and record your results, print and send your Certificate and Academic Transcripts via Registered Post.

Dan Kron

BMA

Web Developer

Dan has over 20 year experience in web design and development. Originally from Brazil and living in Australia for the past 15 years, he developed his skills in UI/UX and front-end web development while working for numerous web companies.

Dan joined the CLET team in 2011 and has been instrumental in the development of all CLET websites, including our student learning management systems and student online study experience.

Industry Consultants

Advice and Practices

CLET staff are in daily contact with a large list of industry employees and employers that inform us on current industry expectations, policies and procedures relevant to our courses and qualifications. To this date our staff have spoken, either on the phone or in person with more than 17 000 industry representatives about their roles and current practices and expectations in their organisations and then considered this information when designing our courses and assessments, including Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) outcomes.

Our staff have more than 1500 LinkedIn industry members in their network and monitor and receive notifications via Twitter and email from 100's of relevant organisations daily, that keeps us up to date with industry activities and events.

Our consultants currently hold positions at all levels across many sectors, such as:

• Solicitors and Paralegal's - Legal Practice
• Government - Local, State and Federal
• Police Officers, State and Federal
• Probation and Parole and Prison Officers
• Border Patrol, Fisheries, 
• Military - Army, Navy and Airforce (Australian and Overseas)
• Emergency Services - Fire Fighters (Country and City) and Paramedics
• Security - Australia and International
• Health - Registered Nurses and Doctors
• Charity Organisations
• Vocational Education Sector
• University Lecturers - PHD recipients
• University Students

CLET staff have many memberships with associations and attend professional development conferences regularly.