Kate Martin

Director / RPL Team Leader

Allen Williams

Managing Director / Training Manager

Karyn Martin

Assistant Director / Trainer / Assessor

Brad Copelin

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).

Dr Jayde Williams

Physiotherapist / Assessor

Jayde is a registered physiotherapist with a Doctor of Physiotherapy and Bachelor of Exercise and Sport Science from Bond 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.

Brayden Williams

Law Clerk / Trainer / Assessor

Brayden is currently working as a Graduate Law Clerk with Shine Lawyers and is completing his Graduate Diploma of Legal practice.

Brayden is an impressive member of the CLET team, having achieved a Bachelor of Laws at Bond University, he is an old boy at The Southport School (TSS) and is world travelled.

Brayden is a CLET legal, crime and justice and business trainer and assessor and has completed four months studying business and law subjects at the University of Lyon in France, travelling through France, Italy, Switzerland, Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

Rochelle Hattam

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 Air Movements. 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.

Jacob Chester

Solicitor / Trainer / Assessor

A qualified solicitor, trainer and assessor, Jacob has a wealth of experience to provide to students of CLET having studied or worked in the legal and vocational educational industries since 1997.

Jacob is actively involved in the legal industry, maintaining an associate membership with the Queensland Law Society, while staying up to date with current industry trends and developments through extensive legal research and industry consultation.

Jacob’s aim is to assist every CLET student to achieve their study goals by providing high quality support throughout their course from start to finish. He takes pride in establishing rapport and meaningful relationships with students through excellence in communication techniques and the use of modern communication mediums.

Ricky Lynch (JP Qual)

Trainer / Assessor

Anthony Stratton

Police Consultant / Assessor

Entered the Queensland Police Service Academy in 2009 and graduated as a police officer in December that year. Anthony was then posted to Rockhampton where he completed his First Year Constable training.

In November 2011 he received transfer to Gold Coast and worked in general duties from Surfers Paradise Station until February 2014, when he was then transferred across to the then Taskforce Takeback before evolving into what is now Gold Coast Rapid Action and Patrols (RAP).

He has undertaken a number of courses and duties in his time in general duties of policing, including, Field Training Officer (FTO), Bomb Searching (EORT), Crowd Management, LIDAR (speed detection) and Juvenile Cautioning to name a few. He still enjoys his work in general duties, however also enjoys being a part of the training and development of their junior officers.

This passion for training has attracted him to come back to CLET as one of our justice and government trainers and assessors, after completing his justice studies course with CLET, prior to joining the Queensland Police.

Maria Pau

Doctoral Candidate / Assessor

Maria is another one of these unbelievable people we have working with us at CLET. She is currently studying her PhD, an accomplished author of many published books and has completed her Masters’ in Public Health in the field of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs studies at University of Queensland.

As the Director of an award-winning charity, Coaching With Substance since 2010, she has been passionate about making a real difference in the lives of community members for over 12 years now.

She has coached hundreds of clients in the area of recovery from addictions and mental illness issues since 2002 and is fluent in three languages. Having completed various degrees, diplomas and certificates in psychology, philosophy, linguistics, workplace training, assessment and coaching and she is our current community and counselling trainer and assessor and one of our very competent content researchers and writers.

As a Course Director, Maria oversees and monitors the study experience of students in her allocated courses to ensure everything is running smoothly for both the student and the trainers. Student Support and your trainers are always your first point of contact. Student support can be contacted via the Student Hub and your trainers by clicking on the unit you are studying in Study Mates where their name is highlighted in green and at the top of the list. If Maria is your course director, you may contact her in Study Mates inside your course overview area in the list.

Dan Kron

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.

Gisele Lanes

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.

Vicki Lohrey ( JP Qual)

Administration Officer

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.

Karen Duncan

Accounting

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.

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.