Rod Beach

Director

Rod Beach, the owner of Liberate Higher Education, is supported by a tight-knit and unified management team. Captilising on the unique strength and eLearning experience of our management team enables Rod to offer our clients the highest level of personal support and undivided attention.

Rod's most often used phrase:

"Bowties are cool!"

Chris Woods

Production Manager

Chris leads our large and geographically dispersed production team of up to 27 highly skill individuals. He serves as an educator and learning leader, developing training and core curriculum from inception to production rollout for a variety of universities and blue-chip companies.

Chris's most often used phrase:

"This is good weather for golf"

Pete Joison

Visual Design Manager

Pete brings a unique perspective to the management team. True to his area of expertise, Pete looks at things differently and can appreciate the stunning artistic creations and metaphoric concepts hidden in unsuspecting places. Such an unconventional thinker gives us an innovative edge as he has the ability to see abstract ideas and transfer these ideas into pieces of creative eLearning art.

Pete's most often used phrase:

"The new Apple device – I need it!"

Ashley Norriss

Lead Applications Developer

Ashley is our Apps and integration genius. Driven by a true passion for technology and application development, Ashley is always trying to push the envelope in regards to what new innovations can be achieved within the constraints of our client’s standard operating environment.

Ash's most often used phrase:

"Clear your cache!"

Lisa Smith

Project Manager

Lisa manages our priority clients and large-scale projects with partnering universities. Her experience in managing multimillion dollar contracts equips her to understand the political and infrastructure changes facing clients with a global reach.

Lisa's most often used phrase:

"It was delivered yesterday"

Darren Frisina

Graphic Designer

Darren is a seasoned user interface designer with a focus on user experience for learning via the web and mobile devices. With strong illustration skills and a passion for interactive design, Darren always works toward designing intuitive and aesthetically pleasing learning experiences for the end user.

Darren's most often used phrase:

"I'll be checking my emails from France"

Melinda Brennan

Instructional Designer

Melinda is a technical and creative writer and editor that creates courses that stimulate learners through clear content and thought-provoking activities while at the same time fulfilling the business goals for the training. Melinda produces flawlessly designed content that enhances learning and maintains interest.

Melinda's most often used phrase:

"Coffee, I need a coffee"

Cherry Stewart

Senior Learning Advisor

Cherry is a high performing, experienced education professional committed to outstanding, fit for purpose practice, pedagogy and research. She is a results oriented leader and team member who inspires creativity and innovation in the development of learner-centred educational solutions.

Cherry's most often used phrase:

"What are the learning objectives?"

Amanda Finn

Instructional Designer

Amanda is the real-deal digital learning expert and senior instructional designer. She’s a highly skilled instructional writer and has a genuine passion for authoring memorable, creative and fun online and blended learning programs.

Amanda's most often used phrase:

"Learning needs to be fun!"

Nigel Thorne

Senior Developer

Nigel is a true HTML, digital learning and application development export. His greatest skill is listening to clients, immediately understanding what they want, and delivering online and blended learning solutions that fit like a glove. Nigel's understanding of the inner-workings of the university sector makes him a highly valuable member of the team.

Nigel's most often used phrase:

"I'm on-it; easily sorted"

Julie Kiniff

Operations

Julie is a highly proficient Executive Assistant and Finance Officer. Julie is the heart of Liberate’s operations and also works hard to ensure every team members is informed, equipped and provided with every opportunity to excel at their job.

Julie's most often used phrase:

"There's a system generated report for that"

Hillar Parbo

Marketing

Hillar understands the interests and trends facing generation Y and Z, and is often described as having an old-soul. He’s an incredibly efficient operator, understands what the younger generation wants in the way of just-in-time learning, and manages a number of high profile client relationships and industry partnerships.

Hillar's most often used phrase:

"I thought blue hair was a nice change"

Zane Brown

Training Manager

Zane is a senior Learning and Development advisor and Training Manager with over 30 years’ experience across most industry sectors, with a strong focus on the Vocational Education. Zane has a strong strategic learning consulting background and has significant experience developing and implementing curriculum streams and new learning initiatives.

Zane's most often used phrase:

"I'll get there earlier"

 

We're the only eLearning specialist that is equipped, experienced and qualified to focus on creating eLearning for the higher education and tertiary network.

 

With an unparalleled understanding of the realities facing academics in the Australian tertiary education sector, our hand-picked team of professionals draw on their vast higher education experience and intimate academic knowledge to deliver memorable, high quality and higher education related eLearning solutions for all staff, postgraduate and undergraduate learners.






Liberate Higher Education has established itself as an unrivalled provider of eLearning and blended training solutions for the university sector, working closely with institutions such as:


the University of Melbourne, Monash University, La Trobe University, Queensland University of Technology, Department of Education (Victoria and Western Australia), IDP Education, Central Gippsland Institute of TAFE, Australian Catholic University, Institute of Trauma and Injury Management, Cognitive Institute, Goodstart Early Learning, Aspire Learning and more.



We Care


We care about our client's success, and we also take our responsibility to give back to our community seriously.




To promote disability and diversity awareness, we are the key corporate sponsor for the YouMeUs Social Inclusion program.


The vision is to promote an understanding of the differences in the community, challenge public perceptions of stereotypes, highlight the abilities of people with a disability and support the development of inclusive communities.


To access the related eLearning programs, visit www.youmeus.info

We also support these worthy charities.


Australian Red Cross

Wellsprings for Women




Having advised and supported some of Australia’s most revered universities and large government and private education institutions, our higher education eLearning specialists understand the key issues facing teaching and learning professionals and academics in today’s landscape.



Our Leadership Team


We pride ourselves in selecting the best-of-the-best in the eLearning market, and our staff take great pride in their work. Collectively, we have over 100 years of experience, and an extensive understanding of deploying SCORM and AICC content to a myriad of Learning Management Systems (LMS) including Oracle, Saba, SAP, SumTotal, Moodle, Cornerstone, Totara, SilkRoad and many more.



If you want a specialist higher education team of eLearning experts who intimately understand the education industry, choose Liberate Higher Education.

  Contact Us
Tel : + (61) 0413 082 712
Enquiries: enquiries@liberatehigher.education
Business Hours: 9:00 am - 6:00 pm
  Melbourne

Lvl 27, Rialto South Tower
525 Collins Street, Melbourne
VIC, 3000, Australia

  Sydney

Lvl 8, 65 York Street, Sydney
NSW, 2000, Australia

  Brisbane

Lvl 54, 111 Eagle Street, Brisbane
QLD, 4000, Austalia