About

I design learning for people who have to do the work on Monday. My background is vocational and adult education, and most of my recent work has been inside Commonwealth agencies and regulators moving through digital, regulatory and organisational change.

The work is the same wherever it lands. I test the brief, find where the capability actually sits, then design, build and measure what closes the gap. When I sit with a subject matter expert I'm listening in three places at once: what the work requires, what the person can already do, and what the environment is doing to them. I still build the learning myself, which keeps me honest about what is actually possible.

bernard petter

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

Certified Scrum Master (Scrum Alliance)

Member of the Australian Institute of Training and Development

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