Sue Gemmell
Sue is an outdoors woman. She has considerable skill in stakeholder engagement and management. Her willingness to listen and her experience of operational contexts allows her to quickly understand and address issues and has been key to her success in the development of many of New Zealand’s adventure activity standards and guidelines.
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Sue Gemmell
Sue is a passionate outdoors person and keen outdoor photographer with an unquenchable enthusiasm to go to the rarely visited wild places. She has spent as many of her after-works hours, weekends and holidays as possible getting out into the wilderness.
Sue was introduced to the outdoors at a young age by her father and has been involved in outdoors as a skier, mountain-biker, rock-climber, paddler and educator ever since; making the outdoors both her leisure and professional life when-ever and where-ever she can.
She spent many years working for the Sir Edmund Hillary Outdoor Pursuits Centre in Turangi, New Zealand as an outdoor educator and instructor before time as a manager in the bureaucracies of outdoor activity and tourism safety auditing and accreditation for a range of organisations in Wellington, New Zealand.
As a keen photographer, many of the pictures on these pages are Sue's own and capture her passion and commitment not only to go to these places, but show others where they are and hopefully encourages people to get out there as well.
Sue's Experience
Sue has worked extensively in Learning Design and Training Resource Development for New Zealand’s central government industry training organisation for sport, exercise, fitness, snowsport, outdoor and community recreation. Sue has considerable skills in stakeholder engagement and management. Her willingness to listen and her experience of operational contexts allows her to quickly understand and address issues and has been key to her success in the development of New Zealand’s adventure activity standards and guidelines.
She has also engaged with development and revisions of key safety management industry resources, and has led the development, piloting and implementation of activity safety guidelines. She has also led the implementation of safety reviews in the adventure tourism sector.
Specialising in developing standards and qualifications in and partnering with organisations to assist them to align their workplace-based training to national standards and New Zealand’s qualification framework. In this role Sue has managed instructional design teams in the development of high-quality assessment resources for adventure qualifications. Her areas of expertise are in standard setting, resource development and on-line instructional design. With her very strong outdoor adventure practitioner background she is able to give clear focus on the requirements of adventure activities that meet operational contexts. She brings 20+ years of practical industry experience to her work specifically as an Adventure Activity Instructor (Including work as an alpine, rock climbing, wilderness hiking, instructor for Hillary Outdoors, a skiing and telemarking instructor both in NZ and in Canada), a Ski Patroller and as a Surf lifesaving coach. Sue has considerable skill in stakeholder engagement and management. Her willingness to listen and her experience of operational contexts allows her to quickly understand and address issues and has been key to her success in the development of New Zealand’s adventure activity standards and guidelines.
Sue has considerable skills in stakeholder engagement and management. Her willingness to listen and her experience of operational contexts allows her to quickly understand and address issues and has been key to her success in the development of New Zealand’s adventure activity standards and guidelines.
She has also engaged with development and revisions of key safety management industry resources, and has led the development, piloting and implementation of activity safety guidelines. She has also led the implementation of safety reviews in the adventure tourism sector.
Her employment history includes management roles in New Zealand’s leading Industry Training Organisation for sport, exercise, fitness, snow-sport, outdoor and community recreation. She has operated in the Middle East (Oman) as a Learning Development Specialist involved in the development and management of curriculum and learning materials for a school leadership (Principals) programme.
Sue hold holds a Degree in Physical Education and a Post Graduate Diploma in Teaching, and numerous industry-specific awards.
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