Selected work

Programs and learning I’ve worked on, alongside the people who had to run them and use them.

Case study

NDIA Contact Centre: competency-based onboarding

A nine-week competency-based onboarding program for the National Contact Centre, put together with the teams who would run it, through a live CRM migration.

Program delivery

Government

Case study

NDIA: First Nations cultural-safety learning ecosystem

A program strategy for embedding cultural safety across the workforce, built on the principle that safety is judged by the people who receive it. Shown here as strategy and design. The cultural content itself is shaped with First Nations people.

Leadership & strategy

Government

Case study

Contemporary Disability Rights: national induction module

A rights-based induction module co-designed with the disability community, now 14,954 completions.

Learning & instructional design

Government

Case study

ASIC: learning architecture for enterprise-system rollout

Learning architecture for a national ERP rollout, approached as a capability question rather than a systems-training one.

Leadership & strategy

Government

Case study

Aged Care Quality & Safety Commission: capability through reform

Worked with a team of six designers and developers delivering outcomes-based learning through major aged-care regulatory reform.

Leadership & strategy

Government

Case study

Golden Plains Shire: enterprise capability strategy

A costed, prioritised capability strategy for a diverse local-government workforce, worked out with the service areas it covered.

Evaluation

Community

Interactive tool

Learning System Quick Scan

A 90-second diagnostic that maps where an organisation's learning system sits and returns a personalised insight and matched reading.

Evaluation

Government

Interactive tool

Learning Design Map

Positions a learning design on a curiosity-theory matrix, grounded in the neuroscience of how curiosity shapes memory.

Learning & instructional design

Government

Interactive tool

Cultural Safety Evidence Landscape

An interactive synthesis of the cultural-safety evidence base: twenty sources across four layers, with click-through citations.

Leadership & strategy

Government

Interactive tool

The Language Problem

Five terms, five different learning systems: an interactive terminology architecture for cultural safety.

Leadership & strategy

Government

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