Lead RTO Auditor Certification
DURATION: 14 Hours
COST: Online $950 | Face to Face $1,200
DELIVERY: Face-to-face
LEVEL: Integrated-Advanced
DOMAIN (S): Compliance and Ethics Management
FACILITATOR: Dr. Mo Kader
About This Workshop
Strengthen audit capability, improve compliance performance, and lead quality assurance across your RTO.
Australia’s revised VET regulatory landscape demands stronger internal audit capability, deeper systems thinking, and more rigorous assurance practices. This workshop equips RTO professionals to lead systematic audit programs that enhance governance, elevate quality, and drive continuous improvement.
What Will I Learn?
This program deep-dives into the full audit lifecycle—planning, conducting, reporting, and improving—using practical tools and methodologies contextualised for the VET environment. You will explore audit frameworks, the Standards for RTOs 2025, and the RTO Quality Management System, positioning audit practice as a strategic engine for operational uplift.
Across interactive case scenarios, you’ll learn to analyse evidence, identify systemic risks, evaluate assessment systems, and produce defensible audit findings. Delivery integrates real RTO workplace tasks, enabling you to translate knowledge into confident audit performance.
You will walk away ready to design and implement audit programs that accelerate continuous improvement, strengthen governance, and reinforce your RTO’s compliance maturity.
Who Should Attend?
This workshop is built for:
- Compliance Managers, Quality Managers, and Governance Leaders
- Internal Auditors and Assurance Officers
- Trainers/Assessors transitioning into compliance roles
- RTO Managers overseeing training quality and regulatory performance
- Consultants supporting RTOs with QMS and audit frameworks
Upcoming dates
19 – 20 November 2026
Location : Sydney Masonic Centre
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Objective
Learning
By the end of this program, participants will be able to:
- Develop an annual RTO audit schedule using organisational data and risk indicators, in accordance with audit program requirements, with 100% alignment to Standards for RTOs 2025.
- Prepare audit plans that outline scope, criteria, evidence sources, and methodologies using the RTO QMS audit framework.
- Conduct internal audits by collecting, analysing, and verifying evidence through interviews, observations, and document review under realistic operational conditions.
- Produce audit reports that document findings, root-cause analysis, and improvement actions, meeting organisational quality and compliance criteria.
Application
Within 3–6 months of completing the program, participants will be able to:
- Implement the RTO’s audit program and complete scheduled audits following defined QMS procedures with documented evidence.
- Apply audit techniques to evaluate assessment tools, training delivery, and student support practices against Standards for RTOs 2025.
- Monitor corrective and preventive actions using quality dashboards or tracking tools at least once per audit cycle.
- Engage stakeholders in audit findings by facilitating collaborative improvement discussions with trainers, assessors, and managers.
Impact
Measurable organisational outcomes expected from the program include:
- Quality uplift: Reduction in audit non-compliances or rectifications by improving system-level capability.
- Risk reduction: Earlier identification of governance, assessment, or delivery risks leading to fewer regulatory exposures.
- Efficiency gains: Standardised audit processes that decrease audit cycle times and streamline reporting.
- Stakeholder confidence: Improved assurance, transparency, and internal accountability across the RTO’s quality ecosystem.
Why You Need to Attend
RTOs are navigating heightened regulatory scrutiny, new Standards for RTOs 2025, stronger expectations for evidence-based practice, and significantly increased enforcement activity. Internal audit capability is now a strategic necessity—for governance, for risk management, and for demonstrating genuine self-assurance.
By attending this workshop, your organisation gains:
- A robust, operational audit methodology grounded in ISO 19011 and RTO QMS best practice
- Enhanced audit consistency, reliability, and defensibility
- Reduced compliance risk and stronger readiness for ASQA performance assessments
- Improved quality outcomes across training, assessment, student support, and governance
- A certified Lead Auditor credential that signals capability and builds organisational confidence
Investment
This two-days program is designed as a high-value professional development experience, providing comprehensive support and measurable capability uplift for RTO leaders. Your registration fee encompasses all components required to optimise engagement, learning transfer, and operational impact.
Your investment includes:
- All meals and refreshments, facilitating a seamless, fully catered full-day program with built-in networking opportunities.
- Complete learning resources, including digital tools, frameworks, evidence templates, and QMS-aligned compliance instruments tailored to the Standards for RTOs 2025.
- A Certificate of Participation, formally recognising your attendance and contribution to organisational governance and self-assurance maturity.
- 20 VET Workforce CPD Points, supporting your ongoing professional development and contributing directly to workforce capability requirements.
- A 15% discount on registration for the Australian VET Conference, extending your learning journey and amplifying your sector engagement.
This all-inclusive package ensures a premium, end-to-end development experience with no additional costs—maximising both organisational return on investment and professional value.
SPEAKER
Dr. Mo Kader
Dr Mo Kader is Managing Director of Consultica Worldwide Management Consultants and a trainer. He has 23 years’ experience in both business and in education and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Training and Development.
He is a Chartered Manager, Fellow of the Institute of Managers and Leaders, the Australian Marketing Institute, and the Australian Human Resources Institute. He is a Certified Human Resources Professional, Certified Practicing Marketer and Professional Lead Assessor. In his spare time, Mo enjoys cooking, admiring cars and gardening.
Agenda
Feedback from previous Workshops
participants
The session was incredibly informative and engaging! The content and activities were well-structured, easy to follow and directly applicable to RTOs.
This was a very well organized and well-presented learning session. Javier was great, showed great patience and answered all questions timely and clearly.
I really appreciated the resource documentation and how the presenter went through each of those documents and how to utilise them
I found the webinar extremely helpful. Javier did an amazing job answering questions and explaining each step.
Thank you for the very informative session. I look forward to registering for sessions like this in the near future.