Management Board

Joe McCarthy - Chairperson

Joe is passionate about the outdoors he has worked as a skilled and adaptable high performance sports consultant and Executive Manager, with experience in implementing and overseeing change. Joe is currently the CEO of Motorcycling WA.

Lenore Lyons

Lenore Lyons is Executive Director of the Great Southern Centre for Outdoor Recreation Excellence (GSCORE) based in Albany, Western Australia. 

Prior to joining GSCORE, Lenore held positions in the public, private and community sectors. She worked as a research professor in the university sector for over 15 years and during that time was Director of an Australian Research Council (ARC) Key Centre for Teaching and Research. In 2006, she co-founded a successful eco-tourism business in the Great Southern. That business was inducted into the Western Australian Tourism Hall of Fame in 2015. 

Lenore currently serves on the Board of Australia's South West and has previously served on the Boards of Management of the Munda Biddi Trail Foundation and Denmark Tourism Incorporated. Lenore is an enthusiastic hiker and kayaker and takes every opportunity to get outdoors.

Bernadette Suriani is a Senior Program Coordinator at Bickley Outdoor Recreation Camp – Department of Local Government Sport and Cultural Industries. She has worked for twelve years in the Outdoor Sector beginning in Outdoor Education expeditions and making her way to entry level Outdoor Recreation at Bickley Camp.

Bernadette has an enthusiastic passion for working outdoors and is one of those lucky people who loves their job. Working daily with trainees, colleagues, casual instructors and clients helps her pass on her passion to the future workers of the outdoors.

When not at work Bernadette enjoys ocean swimming, hanging with her chickens, outdoor walks and spending quality time with her little family.

Brad Green has recently accepted the position of Treasurer. Brad is an accountant and active outdoors enthusiast.

Kym Gibson

Kym Gibson is a passionate advocate for the benefits of being in nature and has dedicated her career to helping inspire others to live better, healthier, more fulfilled lives, outdoors and in nature. It is this passion that inspired her to develop her own business Adventure Connections. Kym established Adventure Connections to help build cohesion and connection in families, strengthening relationships, whilst improving their health and wellbeing, by being active outdoors, in nature.

Kym developed her love and appreciation for the great outdoors growing up in WA’s great Southern region, camping and fishing on the pristine white beaches, such as Cheynes Beach and Bremer Bay.

Over the last 15 years Kym has worked in Education and Sport and Recreation industries working with a diverse range of people in a variety of environments. She is a qualified Teacher, experienced Outdoor Recreation Facilitator and one of the Western Australian representatives, for the Australian Association of Bush Adventure Therapy (AABAT).

When Kym is not working she  loves getting away in her camper trailer with her family, enjoying quality time together in nature.

Terry Hewett (OAM)

Duncan Picknoll

Duncan is the Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of the Bachelor of Outdoor Recreation at The University of Notre Dame Australia. He has a passion for providing stimulating and challenging outdoor learning opportunities for the benefit of students and aims to develop the profile of Outdoor Education in schools and the wider community. He enjoys all outdoor pursuits.

He has a passion for working with people with special needs in the outdoors and academically has recently submitted a Doctorate of Education titled The Nature and Scope of Outdoor Education in Secondary Schools in Western Australia.

Duncan is also involved with the Curriculum Advisory Council - Outdoor Education and is an Accredited Practitioner of the Institute for Outdoor Learning.

Graham Sharpe

Graham Sharpe was appointed to Outdoors WA Board of Management in 2014 after a long tenure on the WA Industry Standards Panel. Graham is responsible for training and safety for the Sport and Recreation (WA) Recreation Camps a division of the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries, formally the Department of Sport and Recreation. Graham has been involved in the outdoor recreation sector since 2004 as a multi-qualified instructor, trainer and assessor and training and safety manager.

Graham has experience in the development of policies, procedures and standards and has contributed to the development of the Australian Adventure Activity Standards, WA Adventure Activity Standards, Department of Education Guidelines, Outdoor Recreation Training Package, Australian Canoeing Award Scheme, National Outdoor Leader Registration Scheme (NOLRS), legal enquiries and other contributions to sector development. 

Graham holds post-graduate qualifications in management (learning) and has studied across outdoor recreation, training, disability, work health safety learning areas. Graham is a Principal Auditor for Quality Management Systems and is a Director for the Australian Camps Association.

Peter Treeby

Peter Treeby has always had a passion for being in the outdoors. Originally completing a Physical Education Teaching Degree at Notre Dame University, Peter then worked in a variety of fields before returning to Notre Dame to add a Major in Outdoor Education to his teaching degree.

Peter is currently teaching Outdoor Education at Northam Senior High School, where last year he introduced ATAR Outdoor Education into the school. Peter is passionate about getting kids out into the great outdoors and introducing them to as many new experiences as possible. He gets a great sense of enjoyment in seeing the kids grow in confidence throughout their outdoor education journey.