Steve Atherton

Steve began his working life as an officer in the Royal Australian Navy where he learned much about management and leadership, and started his career in the technical areas of software development and server administration. On leaving the Navy, he joined an ACT based training company where he managed the Technical Training and Software Development Division. Following this, he started and ran his own Technical Training and Software Development company based out of the ACT, which created bespoke software and training solutions for Federal and Local Government clients.

On returning home to Perth, he continued to provide training services and complete software development projects as a consultant for clients including IBM and Drake International. His focus is now on programming and data driven intelligence training and consulting. Most recently this includes Microsoft’s Power BI platform, and creating and facilitating our own comprehensive and highly successful Power BI training offerings. Steve offers a wealth of knowledge and expertise and is passionate about helping people to work smarter and reach their goals sooner.

Phil Haberland

Phil is a highly engaging accredited trainer and coach specialising in all aspects of leadership and management training, business writing, customer service, high performance teams and safety training. Participants appreciate Phil’s entertaining and practical approach to learning. Phil brings his unique style of a ‘hands on’ experiential delivery to ensure participants get the best learning experience as possible and can translate learning into actions and results. He brings his decades of industry experience to the training room to help his participants learn and grow.

Karyn Corby

Karyn’s passion for courageous leadership and empowering teams and individuals to perform at their best has led her life-long journey in education, training, and ongoing development. She has practical skills in identifying training needs coupled with deep theoretical knowledge that underpins her ability to design effective development strategies for individuals, teams, and organisations. Her ability to deliver targeted training and coaching services with compassion, connection and clarity ensures success for her clients.

With substantial experience in the WA public sector – TAFE, Education, and Health – Karyn is skilled in supporting organisations and individuals to understand the expectations and constraints of Government and optimise opportunities within the sector to deliver excellence for WA government organisations and the WA community. This coupled with a deep knowledge of staff motivation, performance development, and team building processes enhanced by her long-standing regular mindfulness practices ensures her ability to deliver significant value to her clients.

“I believe being able to deliver excellence at work enhances life for the individual and for the organisation. Sometimes we need a little guidance on how to deliver that excellence effectively.”

Jonh Ford

John has 20 years of experience using Microsoft Excel & Access in a range of quantitative finance positions in the Banking and Finance industry, including stockbroking, banking & commodities. He also has extensive experience in training and consulting in Microsoft Excel & Access at all levels from Introduction to Advanced.

John is an experienced trainer in Microsoft Power BI – Data Analysis and Reporting, delivering courses to the resources sector and government. With over 5 years working experience in Microsoft Office Training and Consulting.

Charlene Nichols

Charlene has 12 years experience in people management as well as over 10 years experience in training and organisational development. Charlene has a wealth of experience in learning and development, having started in this field as a training consultant and having developed and delivered a wide range of training from legislation, to sales and service, to leadership and behavioural change programs.

Charlene then moved into Human Resources and more specifically Organisational Development specialising in Leadership Development. Now working as a consultant, Charlene continues to work with leaders and team members in the areas that have always been her passion. These areas include leadership, team, and personal development especially through the use of psychometric tools.

Claire Kennedy

Claire brings a wealth of industry knowledge to the safety and training sector with experience both nationally and internationally. She has over 14 years’ experience working in mining and resources sectors, having held various health and safety roles. Claire can work with all levels of an organisation with well-developed skills in the design, development and facilitation of safety training, as well as health and safety management systems.

Her training style is ‘hands on’ with a strong focus on engaging participants, ensuring the learning environment is interactive.

Roger Davis

Roger’s planning and implementation skills are put to work in ATI-Mirage operations and growth strategies, including the national accreditation programs and associations. Roger makes sure hardware, software and premises are all in working order and ready for our clients, guests and facilitators.

Roger was a previous partner of ATI-Mirage from 2003 to 2022 and now works as a consultant to the company. Roger has over 30 years’ experience in the Australian IT industry including software development, hardware distribution, vertical market product development and training as well as Asia/Pacific sales management.

“I’m a big fan of Humalogy – The blending of humanity and technology to optimize potential”