About

I’ve spent thirty years in learning and development — the last decade leading capability inside Commonwealth agencies moving through digital, regulatory and organisational change.

My work is consistent wherever it lands: read the business for where capability actually sits, then own the programs that close the gap — design, delivery, evaluation, and the improvement after that. I still build the learning myself, not just manage it.

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Credentials

  • Master of Education (Work & Learning Studies), Monash University

  • Graduate Diploma of Business (Policy Studies), Deakin University

  • Diploma of Training Design & Development · Certificate IV in Training & Assessment (TAE40116)

  • AGSVA Baseline security clearance

  • Two NDIS Light Up Awards (2018, 2019) · Gordon TAFE Teaching Fellowship

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Acknowledgement of Country

I live and work on the lands of the Wadawurrung People, and I acknowledge them as the Traditional Custodians of this Country. I pay my respects to Elders past and present, and to the knowledge, cultures and continuing connection to Country they hold. I also acknowledge the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of the many lands my work reaches across.


This isn’t a formality. My work rests on the principle that cultural safety is determined by those who receive it, never claimed by those who provide it — and that begins with recognising whose land I stand on, and whose sovereignty was never ceded.

BP · Bernie Petter

Bernie Petter lives and works on Wadawurrung Country. I acknowledge the Wadawurrung People as Traditional Custodians of this land, and pay my respects to Elders past and present. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.

© Bernie Petter 2026