Rod Beach, the Founding Director of Liberate, 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Melany has over 20 years’ in executive-level management and board governance, with extensive experience in a broad range of areas including project leadership and management, business strategy, finance and grants, retail strategy, large-scale infrastructure projects, policy development, marketing, internal reviews, audits, risk management, strategic planning and governance.

Andrea’s strategic HR experience includes transforming the HR function of one of Australia’s top universities from a transactional personnel function to one with embedded HR business partners and centres of expertise providing strategic capability to accelerate the university’s success.

She has developed frameworks for talent management, quality, performance management, leadership and onboarding and developed strategies and programs for internal mobility, global mobility and gender equity.

Nick is a dynamic and experienced higher education management consultant, providing advice and services in strategic and operational areas of management. The variety of Nick’s work reflects skills and experience acquired in many functional areas in the university and schools sectors: governance, audit, review, legal compliance, risk management, stakeholder management, customer service, assessment, graduations, and community engagement and partnerships.

A leading expert in his field, Neville has almost 30 years experience in learning design and development with Education, Government and industry clients. Neville specialises in the development of learning strategies, learning needs analysis, educational research specifications, project management, scripting, content research, change management, user interface design, instructional system design, multimedia design and quality assurance.