Matt and Corey sit down with compliance enthusiast Jodie Almond founder of Coast Wide Training Solutions and a 15-year veteran of the RTO sector, alongside their very own Regional Manager, Kat Schneider. If compliance has ever felt like a dirty word, this episode will change that. Jodie and Kat break it all down in a way that’s practical, honest, and surprisingly entertaining.
Jodie has spent over 15 years helping companies in the RTO sector enhance their compliance frameworks and improve their operations. She brings a rare combination of deep expertise and refreshing straight-talk to one of the industry’s most complex topics.
Jodie and Kat walk us through the continuous improvement and processes of transitions, meeting compliance while remaining productive, juggling funding contracts and creating compliance eco systems within an RTO.
Key Takeaways:
- Continuous improvement is about always finding the next thing to get better at
- Qualification transitions are relentless and the people managing them deserve far more recognition than they get
- Compliance and actually doing your job — training people — should never feel like they’re pulling in opposite directions
- Funding contracts add another layer of complexity that RTOs have to juggle without dropping the ball on everything else
- A well-built compliance ecosystem makes the chaos manageable — and protects your business in the long run
- The regulators updating qualifications don’t always feel the ripple effect those changes create at the RTO coalface
