Staff-in-Training Coordinator

Marcelo is our original Brazilian.  He grew up in Sao Paulo and, other than travelling a lot; he was never away from home for more than a year until he came to Outward Bound Australia in 2002. Marcelo has always been a hard worker - working in his family business from the age of 17, as well as going to school and university. 

He worked in a management role in the business until he sold it and moved on to study to be a park ranger.  Marcelo's first job as a ranger was on one of Brazil's beautiful islands in the south of the country. Here he met a man who, because Marcelo expressed interest in experiential education, recommended Outward Bound to him. 

Outward Bound Brazil was very young at this stage and so he was given the change to come to Australia and learn how we 'do it'.  And that is when he came here to do the III (Intensive International Instructor) training course in 2001.  This led further to his application for the internship in 2002 so that he could benefit from working with a larger organisation with so much more history. 

Marcelo has been in the training department since he graduated with the Certificate IV in December 2002, and he is now the Staff-in-Training Coordinator.  His role is to assist interns to achieve their qualifications.  Teaching them about our operating procedures and standards, as well as the fundamental skills and safety involved in Outward Bound activities.
Marcelo loves being able to see interns come in to the organisation, watching how they learn and grow through their course to become competent and integrated instructors.