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Adele Bloodworth
Adele is the life of the party, with a quick smile and infectious laugh. Her genuine concern for people makes her our ideal Staff Wellness Coordinator. We never quite know what she's going to come up with after team building at iFly and other "out of the box" events.
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Alina Lafsky
Alina is a junior administrator with Blueprint as well as having a second job to keep her on her toes. She is a self confessed bookworm who loves immersing herself in cliche romance and period dramas. When Alina pops back into the real world, she enjoys hanging out with her family and taking care of her adorable nieces. She also told us she'd literally go insane without music and headphones.
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Ashleigh Black
When experienced chef and hospitality operations manager Ashleigh told us she loved to 'cook way too much food', we knew she was a perfect fit for our team of 'gastronomic appreciators'! As an entrepreneur, she started a small edible image business that grew into fully fledged cake business. And WOW.....we bet that her kid is the envy or every primary schooler when it comes to birthdays! When Ashleigh is not sharing her hospitality expertise, she enjoys sitting around a fire, reading a good romance novel or watching murder documentaries.
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Brittany Quimby
Brittany is a 17 year hospitality veteran with experience in fast food, fine dining, pubs, clubs and nightclubs. In her spare time she loves the varied workouts of Crossfit or chasing after her energetic toddler. Brittany's jet setting family travel regularly to England and other international destinations. Her fave meal is a chicken burger with a well made espresso martini or two.
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Cherie Robieson
Cherie has an extensive background in all sorts of businesses and industries. She now focusses on sharing her experience and expertise with work-based trainees completing business qualifications. She is very patient and especially enjoys working face-to-face with students.
Donna Mortlock
Donna Mortlock
Our Chief Disorganiser founded the company over 18 years ago after roaming the world and holding management positions in TAFE, Education QLD and private enterprise. She now focuses on empowering our team and facilitating the Certificate III in Personal Empowerment to community and educational leaders. As a former “chalkie”, Donna also writes content, develops training resources and assessment tools.
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Emily Kirby
Emily is an administrator at Blueprint who is currently working towards her Certificate III in Business. Emily loves playing Dungeons and Dragons, learning interesting folklore from different cultures and visiting haunted locations. In her spare time, Emily loves deep-diving into true crime cases and hanging out with her two Cats while playing video games.
Gayle Daniels
Gayle Daniels
Gayle is the 'jewel in our crown' for self awareness and personal development courses. She has helped hundreds of students transform their lives and is our "Trainer of Trainers" for these powerful programs. Gayle has a heart of gold and willingly shares this with all she meets.
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Gen Fulgencio
Gen has been a SEO Specialist for over 10 years. When he finishes "wrangling the internet beast", he is a self-proclaimed sports and outdoors enthusiast. In his free time, Gen enjoys taking family vacations and most especially spending a weekend just lying by the beach with a beer in hand.
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Grace Anastacio
Grace is a woman of many talents so she helps keep us organised by data management, checking a verifying student profiles and designing marketing materials for us in between. Grace works remotely and has harnessed the power of technology, much to our delight!
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Helen Schwerin
Helen joined our admin to explore a range of roles that match her multi-interest and multi-skilled abilities. She loves spreadsheets (and we love that she does!), chocolate, coffee, Disney movies, playgrounds, the beach and riding her vintage style mint green bike.
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Inneke Venter
After working all around the planet, Inneke has called Australia home for the last 14 years and she enjoys all the "Land Down Under" has to offer! As a Senior TAE Trainer and Assessor, Inneke thrives on preparing students for the VET sector with a strong focus on compliance. She loves snorkeling, painting, going for massages and spending time with her hubby, kids and adorable cat fur babies.
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Jason Marshall
Having spent 38 years in the hospitality industry, working in pubs, clubs, cafes, restaurants accommodation hotels, night clubs and charter boats, Jason was known by his colleagues as Mr. hospitality! Jason is still working in the industry and enjoys teaching the next generation of hospitality superstars the tricks of the trade. He always works some real-life lessons into all his training, while he has the captive audience! When he's not working, Jason can be found in the kitchen with a glass of wine and the music up loud.
Jenny Field
Jenny Field
Jenny is a true professional VETeran who has 30 years’ experience, uniquely across all VET sector stakeholders - RTO’s, community groups and sitting on ACPET and NCVER boards.  She has mastered “getting things done” in the face of red tape with her Zen-like composure and focus on quality. Jenny now delivers TAE40116 and takes pride in mentoring and supporting trainers succeed in their jobs.
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Joanna Cera
Joanna is an admin wizard and fitness 'junkie' who wishes donuts were as healthy as salad. She loves spending time with family, especially her two little kids who keep her busy and on the run. Joanna also enjoys cooking and watching movies to chill out.
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Joseph Dulawan
Joseph is a computer whiz at everything from creating graphics and websites to data entry and technical support. In his spare time he enjoys getting "hands on" and dirty by fixing vintage cars, assembling model kits and home maintenance. He also plays online fighting games where we hope he plays the superhero he is for us at Blueprint.
Kate Baring
Kate Baring
Kate is the kid everyone wants to sit next to because she’s the smartest student in class. She was recently awarded The Griffith Award for Academic Excellence in recognition of her Master of Training and Development studies. Kate successfully set up and managed her own RTO for many years and now works in partnership with Blueprint delivering TAE40116 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment.
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Kelly Gordon
Vivacious Kelly has more than 20 years experience in hospitality and is especially passionate about nutrition and wellness. She's a creative at heart and loves crafting, sewing and gardening. We are still waiting for her to bring in a basket of traditional English biscuits, fudge and honeycomb for us to taste test!
Kerry-Ann
Kerry-Ann
As a current chef with 21 years’ experience in 5 and 6 star properties, Kerry-Ann Hodda has rubbed shoulders (and cooked for) the rich and famous. She recently completed her TAE40116 and has been sharing her ninja-like knife skills, contagious enthusiasm and hospitality stories with our lucky students.
Lena Southwood
Lena Southwood
Lena is an experienced school RTO Manager that we managed to entice onto our team. She brings a wealth of knowledge about VET in schools and is a consummate professional. She was possibly a wine swilling Eygptian Queen in a past life given her passion for pyramids and travel to exotic lands.
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Liann Quinones
Liann has 5 years of customer support experience as a virtual admin. She's an advocate for indigenous people and the local literary scene. When not working, she binges on Netflix, reads novels or spends quality time with her fur-babies - Calcifer and Markl.
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Maddy Southwood
Maddy is a business and volunteering trainer as well as a florist and wedding planner on the Sunshine Coast. She dabbles in an eclectic mix of interests including yoga, gardening and hanging out at the beach. Maddy is obsessed with herbal teas, candle-lit rooms, crystals and hoarding dried flowers and she weaves her creative magic throughout her training.
Mark
Mark
Mark started his career as a chef and has worked in some seriously posh hotels and Michelin starred restaurants in Europe and America. After qualifying as a teacher in 1995 he began the transition of exchanging shift work for a career in education. In addition to TAE assessing with Blueprint, Mark is also studying a Master of Education (Adult and Vocational).
Michelle
Michelle
Michelle's love of travel has seen her live in 3 countries, visit over 35 and continually search for her next adventure with hubby Rob and teenage sons (if they behave themselves). As General Manager, Michelle’s skill in leading people and organising systems, makes Wonder Woman look like an amateur!
Nadine Catley
Nadine Catley
After 15 years of working in sales and account management and gallivanting around the globe, Nadine made Australia home complete with husband, child, dog, painters easel and working for a company she is truly passionate about. Nadine coordinates our trainers and deftly juggles systems, logistics and information to keep the operation running smoothly.
Paul Richards
Paul Richards
Paul is a multi-talented TAE, business and retail trainer who is a Senior TAE40116 trainer and assessor with Blueprint.  His patience and calmness are only 2 of the reasons that students appreciate his guidance.  Paul loves all things cycling, cooking, blues music, coffee, wine and imagining himself playing the guitar (he owns 2 that laugh when he walks by!).
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Peti Kiwha
We were lucky enough to lure Peti from a 30 year career in hospitality where she has owned her own cafes and more recently been dining supervisor at the Sofitel Hotel and Gwinganna Retreat. She is undoubtably the calmest person we have ever met and students love her no nonsense, practical approach. She plays catcher for the Vixens softball team who are sponsored by Blueprint.
Rachael Newberry
Rachael Newberry
Rachael has a wicked sense of humour and an extraordinary background in hospitality from operational to management roles. She relishes imparting her 30+ years of experience to spongy, absorbent minds – both old and young. As our Head of Hospitality, Rachael leads the training team in schools, public courses and traineeships in addition to managing our social media despite taking the worst selfies we have ever seen.
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Rachelle Carmody
Welcome back to a blast from our past! Rachelle started her career with Blueprint 15 years ago, gathered a bunch of skills and has returned as our School Programs Manager. Rachelle is a self-confessed coffee addict, adrenaline junky and cocktail aficionado when she leaves the office. Oh, and don't get us (or her) started on her delightful daughter Eve.
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Rhys Smith
Whipping up culinary creations as a chef for 20 years, Rhys is excited to share his knowledge of the industry he is so passionate about. When he isn't cooking up breakfast or lunch for Brisbane's early risers, he enjoys catching up for a beer with mates, going for day trips with the family and kicking a footy around with his son.
Susan
Susan Dennison
Our Bookings Coordinator Susan is possibly the friendliest person walking the planet. She genuinely likes making people happy so her customer service consistently surprises and delights our team, students and clients. She loves wining, dining and walks along the beach. No this is not a dating profile, it’s all true! Susan makes sure that our courses and trainer are scheduled between providing clients with information and advice about which course best meets their needs.
Tai Hau
Tai Hau
Tai is our amazing Hospitality administrator and she is never without a cheerful smile.  She has superpowers with Blueprint’s information systems. With the click of a button, Tai finds incredibly interesting and useful reports, and ways to help our trainers and students.  She possibly still barracks for the All Blacks but calls Australia home with her extended family.
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Talia Russon
Talia completed her Certificate II in Hospitality with us a couple of years whilst at school. Now she's become a bit of an expert behind the scenes of the training world. In her spare time, she enjoys watching movies, eating and going out with family and friends. Talia is currently on maternity leave having recently given birth to a bouncing baby girl.
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Tracy Lee
At the young age of 15, Tracy started her hospitality journey by washing dishes in a busy restaurant. From here she pursued her dream of becoming a chef and has spent the last 25 years working in a some unusual and interesting hospitality venues. These include colleges, not-for-profit organisations, 5-star hotels and fine-dining restaurants. Tracy is passionate about passing on her experience, knowledge and skills to the up-and-coming hospitality stars of tomorrow! In her spare time, Tracy can be found camping, kicking back by a fire and listening to some country tunes with her family.
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Wera Smith
Wera thrives on finding ways to make the seemingly impossible, possible. She often has multiple craft and building projects on the go and claims she even finishes some of them! We think her pragmatic approach to guiding fledgling and experienced TAE professionals is an invaluable addition to our team.
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Anneliese Howard
Anneliese spent 20 years honing her hospitality skills in 5 star resorts, and she now shares her experience with our lucky high school students. In her time off, Anneliese loves shopping of any kind, hanging out with family and friends and generally enjoying life. We also hear that she takes delight in practical jokes and pranks...... we're onto you Anneliese!
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Leanne Elliott
Leanne has 20 years of experience providing engaging training experiences in career development, health and safety. She loves to socialise and have dress up parties, go boating, camping and travelling with friends and family. She also used to live in the snow in Vancouver, Canada where she was a wildlife educator with grizzly bears and wolves. Leanne believes that variety is the spice of life.
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Richard
Richard is a self-confessed computer geek with more than 10 years of experience in front-end web design and development. Even his hobbies include playing video games, watching anime and learning about all things technology. We love it when he turns our vision and ideas into cyber reality!

Why Choose Us

  • LEADERSHIP

    We strive to be innovators within the training industry. We are the only RTO approved to deliver 10939NAT Certificate II in Self Awareness & Development and 10860NAT Certificate III in Personal Empowerment.

    Leadership
  • Experience

    EXPERIENCE

    Over 20 years honing our skills and training thousands of people means that we have the experience to offer the most comprehensive training possible. We hold Preferred Supplier status and work with some of the biggest organisations in Australia.

  • SPECIALISTS

    As specialists in our vocational areas we are able to fully focus on delivering high quality, customised qualifications that meet industry and individual needs.  We aim to be the best rather than the biggest.

    Specialists
  • Genuine

    GENUINE

    We pursue excellence and go "over and above” to surprise and delight in everything we do.  We take pride in being human, authentic and having a sense of humour.  We believe in personalised service.

  • NATIONALLY RECOGNISED

    We are proud to have been an RTO for over 15 years and have a strong reputation in the VET sector.    We appreciate that our business growth has been almost entirely based on "word of mouth" so we take customer service and compliance seriously.

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  • focused

    FOCUSED

    Our VET courses are designed and delivered by industry and education specialists.  Courses for teachers are developed by teachers.  We specialise in contextualising qualifications so they apply directly to our clients.

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