VET Sector Leadership
Strategic vision, growth planning and multi-divisional operations across Australia's vocational education landscape.
Education · Compliance · Organisational Leadership
Three decades of quality, learning & leadership.
Anna Haranas — Former General Manager, LLND Expert & Quality Assurance Consultant. A strategic, results-driven executive with more than 35 years of cross-industry management experience across vocational education, quality management systems and large-scale organisational transformation.
Former General Manager
LLND Expert
Quality Assurance Consultant
ISO Lead Auditor ×3
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
Certified across 6 ISO standards
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35+Years of impact
Professional Summary
Quality assurance as an executive discipline.
Anna Haranas is a strategic, results-driven executive leader with more than 35 years of cross-industry management experience, specialising in vocational education and training, quality management systems, integrated compliance frameworks and large-scale organisational transformation.
With a Director & Principal Consultant background across two of Australia's most respected education and training consultancies, she has led multi-divisional operations delivering end-to-end solutions in compliance, quality assurance, training resource development and professional development for Registered Training Organisations nationwide.
Her career spans VET, Early Childhood Education and Care, Allied Health, Hospitality and Retail, with deep hands-on experience in Federal and State regulatory audits, ASQA compliance and the transition to the Standards for RTOs 2025.
In Practice
Learning, led in person.
Real classrooms and real coaching — the working footage behind three decades of LLND delivery and educator development.
Core Expertise
Twelve disciplines. One standard.
The specialisations behind three and a half decades of defensible, evidence-based practice.
Compliance & Quality Assurance
Integrated compliance frameworks, internal audit and the quality systems behind thousands of successful RTO projects.
LLND Expertise
Adult language, literacy, numeracy and digital capability — from graduate-certificate depth to program design.
ISO Management Systems
Certified across six ISO standards, with lead-auditor credentials in quality, risk and business continuity.
Regulatory Audit (ASQA)
Federal and State audit leadership with no adverse findings, and the transition to the Standards for RTOs 2025.
Curriculum & Resource Development
Training resources, assessment kits, learner guides, RPL kits and SCORM e-learning packages used nationally.
Organisational Transformation
Large-scale change, continuous improvement culture and Lean Six Sigma discipline embedded organisation-wide.
People & Performance
High-performing teams, professional development programs and enduring client relationships.
“Continuous improvement is not a project. It is a culture you build, one standard at a time.The Haranas approach
Career Highlights
Signature achievements
Milestones from a career that spans hotels in the Northern Territory to the boardrooms of national education consultancies.
2019
Director & General Manager, Academia Group
Sets and executes strategic vision, corporate governance and the quality assurance of training resources, assessment kits and SCORM e-learning used by RTOs nationally.
2017
General Manager, Career Calling International
Led day-to-day operations across CAQA Compliance, CAQA Resources, CAQA Publications, CAQA Courses, Career Calling Education and Career Calling Jobs.
2,000+
State-wide Educator Training
Secured and delivered major DEECD contracts, including state-wide training for over 2,000 educators under new Children's Services Regulations and an 18-month coaching program reaching 2,000+ more.
Audits
No Adverse Findings
Managed RTO compliance for Certificate III and Diploma programs at Gowrie Victoria, leading successful Federal and State audits with no adverse findings.
ISO ×6
Six ISO Standards
Certified across ISO 9001, 14001, 45001, 22000, 27001 and 19011, with lead-auditor qualifications in quality, risk management and business continuity.
VECCI
Second-largest in Victoria
Built VECCI into Victoria's second-largest apprenticeship services provider, exceeding quarterly targets by 200 percent as Staff Member of the Month.
Beyond the Boardroom
Languages, community & service
LanguagesEnglish and Swedish fluent · Greek conversational · German basic
Community TeachingVolunteer English teacher at Cheltenham Community Centre, supporting Ukrainian, Vietnamese and Chinese students
Support WorkVolunteer support worker at Sandybeach Community Centre, Sandringham, assisting elderly people and people with disabilities
Let's collaborate
Build quality into everything you deliver
From compliance frameworks to LLND programs, let's turn your next regulatory milestone into a strength.