Isabel Osuna-Gatty is the recipient of the 2016 Australian Training Awards’ Excellence in Language, Literacy and Numeracy Practice. Her wide-ranging career began in South America managing the English language department of a private high school, developing ESL lecturing staff and teaching Literacy and ESL at the Central University of Venezuela. She continued her career in Australia as an adult Language Literacy Numeracy/ ESL teacher at various community colleges before moving into educational management, she was the national Workplace English Language and Literacy broker for commonwealth funded projects in rural and remote communities across Australia. Isabel worked in the development of training packages and related resources for the Community Services and Health Industry Skills Council. Isabel currently works for Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Education as the Senior Lecturer for the Community Pathways team which includes Community Services and Literacy, Numeracy and Life Skills programs. Her skills extend to instructional design, writing specialised training resources and assessment tools.