John Lund

Senior Consultant/Lead Assessor

John Lund brings over 25 years training experience to Computer Train.

The second half of this experience has been training adults to become trainers. John was responsible for the Royal Australian Air Force’s Train the Trainer School throughout the 1990s. He converted its ‘Systems Approach’ to Training to ANTA’s ‘Competency Based’ Training Reform Agenda which produced the current Cert IV and Diploma courses in Training and Assessment.

As a development of those changes during the late 1990’s John introduced into the Australian Defence Force, a suite of courses designed to gain civilian accreditation for its leadership and management courses. The accreditation was in Frontline Management.

John’s philosophy in training adults is very simple: adults can and must take responsibility for their learning. The trainer’s role is to remove any barriers that may be coming between the student and the student’s goal. Some typical barriers include: lack of confidence, time constraints, misunderstanding content, lack of direction, insufficient feedback. In short John believes that every student is capable of success, with the appropriate support.

John has graduated literally hundreds of competent trainers, many who came to the course kicking and scratching and terrified at the thought of having to train someone or speak publicly.

Sheona Beach

Director

Sheona Beach is the director of Computer Train and powers the success of the organisation.

She is an excellent communicator.  She sees employees as individuals with their own values, beliefs and personal lives – all combining to create a living, breathing organisation. She challenges and stretches individuals and teams to show them how to improve their goals and change their futures.

Sheona specialises in consulting to General Managers and CEOs about how they can implement workforce transformation projects by developing strong leadership (within themselves and their leaders), improving individual and site-wide communications, and implementing managed change.

Sheona is an NLP Master Practitioner, Master Facilitator, Accredited Emotional Intelligence Assessor, Accredited Myers Briggs Consultant (MBTI Steps I and II), and an experienced corporate trainer and facilitator.

She has designed, implemented and delivered practical solutions for various mining companies throughout Australia including Xstrata, Newcrest Mining and BHP Billiton.

She has worked within, consulted to and trained people in the mining industry since 1995. She understands the issues and work demands associated with the industry. 

Sheona has a reputation for being passionate and direct and her background includes time as a communications advisor, newsreader, television presenter, radio announcer and management consultant. 

Sheryl England

Trainer

Sheryl spent the first 7 years of her working life as a High School Teacher. In this role Sheryl developed her skills in training individuals with a wide variety of learning abilities, styles and attitudes from students with mild intellectual disabilities to gifted and talented students; and everyone in between. To add to her skills Sheryl attended training for teaching Gifted and Talented students, then enjoyed implementing those principles not only with gifted and talented students but with all her other classes as well. Sheryl now enjoys applying these principles to her work with adults.

Sheryl also took on responsibility for an entire year group of students. This role made great use of her abilities to interact with parents, staff, executive staff and support staff as she needed to be able to meet seemingly contradictory needs from these groups. This experience has enhanced Sheryl’s ability to have a holistic view of her learners, their learning needs as well as their outside pressures. Sheryl is still excited to find out how this group of students is going.

Despite knowing all about the differences between pedagogy and andragogy, when questioned about the difference between teaching High School students and training adults, Sheryl will reply that in a High School you also train your learners how to behave. Upon further reflection she may also wax lyrical about how the way that you teach high school students is a progression from pedagogy in their first year to a point very close to andragogy in their final year. (Enrol now in our Certificate IV in TAA to find out just what those two words mean!)

The majority of Sheryl’s time is now spent conducting ComputerTrain courses with occasional excursions into the TAA classroom to share her practical knowledge of training.
She keeps her learners needs central in her approach to training and to this end will go out of her way to look for ways to aid their learning. Sheryl enjoys the challenge of an unexpected question and will take time to explore answers to these questions.

Amy Pejakovic

Training Coordinator

Amy joined Corelink in 2006 and ensures the Sydney office runs smoothly, and takes care of all client and training needs. She brings with her 3 years administration and 6 years customer service experience. She strives to deliver only the highest quality of customer service to all Corelink clients and students.

Amy enjoys dealing with people and is available to assist you with any enquiry. She also looks after the coordination of Computer Train and all it’s students.

Amy joined us after travelling the world for a second time – she enjoys the immersing herself in different cultures and exploring foreign lands. She believes everyone should travel at least once in their lives, It has helped her gain confidence and independence from navigating through and communicating with people in other countries.

Amy is exploring all her options in the workforce; she joined our team to try something different and is now interested in possibly following a career in the training sector.