Our Trainers
Beth OBrien
Beth OBrien
Company Director - Senior Trainer and Assessor
Queensland
Beth has been an Authorised Marriage Celebrant since 1995. Her own celebrant practice has been the catalyst for her to encourage celebrants, new and experienced, to enhance their skills and knowledge to design and perform heart-felt ceremonies for clients.
Beth specialises in ceremonies that are individually crafted for each client and has found the rewards of celebrancy far greater than she had originally imagined.
Along with ceremonies for families, Beth has also been commissioned to design corporate ceremonies. Beth’s passion for meaningful ceremony design is seen in the curriculum material and she often says to students, “you only get one chance at making someone’s lifetime memory, you have to design and perform beautiful ceremonies for your clients.”
Beth is a regular contributor to industry panels on the training of celebrants nationally. She also has many established international networks with colleagues in the celebrant community.
Her background has been primarily in business and marketing, always in educational institutions. It is her passion to see the profession of celebrancy highly regarded by the community.
Her career ambition is to be a holistic provider of training for new celebrants, offering marriage, funeral and general celebrancy courses, and to continue to offer ongoing professional development to existing celebrants.
Beth’s Masters Degree in Business focused on business development and this knowledge has been a foundation in designing the curriculum for the Certificate IV in Business (Small Business Management).
Beth has also received a Smart State Queensland Award and been recognised by Business Review Weekly for her entrepreneurial business acumen.
Beth is currently researching the place of rituals and rites of passage in contemporary Australia.
Professional involvements are:
Member, Australian Institute of Management
Member, Australian Institute of Training and Development
Member, Association of Authorised Marriage Celebrants Australia Inc.
Keith Lammond
Trainer and Assessor
New South Wales
Keith was appointed as an Authorised Marriage Celebrant in 1994.
During his thirty years in sales and marketing he has held many top management positions and was involved in sales training both in the field and the classroom. Arriving in Australia in 1977 from Wales he worked in the printing industry and ran his own business in Sydney for ten years.
Keith entered into a full time commitment as a Marriage Celebrant in the year 2000 and is one of the leading Marriage Celebrants in New South Wales.
Keith is also a well respected and popular funeral celebrant in Sydney and has been involved in training a number of celebrants in presenting funeral services.
Keith is President of the Association of Authorised Marriage Celebrants Australia Inc.
Keith is passionate about his profession and the professionalism of all Marriage Celebrants.
Shari Treuren
Trainer & Assessor
Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Originally from Canada, Shari now lives on the beautiful Sunshine Coast in Queensland. She brings with her over 20 years of experience officiating at wedding ceremonies in the capacity of a Justice of the Peace. Shari became an Australian celebrant in 2004.
She enjoys designing ceremonies for her clients that reflect upon the importance of the occasion.
Her educational background is in Laboratory Medicine, Nuclear Medicine and Tertiary Education, Shari also holds a Certificate IV in Workplace Training & Assessment. She has held several supervisory positions as well as being a senior lecturer for a university. Shari finds a nice positive balance between her marriage celebrant duties and her other work commitments.
A "warm and caring personality" are words that have been used to describe Shari. She loves to meet and talk with people. Having travelled extensively around the world, Shari is well versed in many cultures, traditions and a wide variety of faiths. Her hope is to convey her knowledge to "Aspiring Celebrants" so that they too can provide their clients with a unique and personal ceremony.