About Us

Stella Liliendal – Director and Co-Founder

Stella is ATA’s queen of content! A registered teacher with extensive experience in education, Stella has authored a raft of practical programs for our Professional Development library, including our signature program, Effective Teacher Aide Practices for Schools (eTAPS). Stella leads the writing of the Australian Teaching Assistant Professional Standards, and her creative flair and inquiring nature keeps ATA a forward thinking, future focused organisation. 

Mandy Bell – Director and Co-Founder

Mandy has a ‘make it happen’ approach, and the confidence to do things differently. Her entrepreneurial bent brought an innovative online model to ATA at foundation stage, putting us ahead of the game when COVID hit our shores. Mandy’s energy and enthusiasm, her unwavering pursuit of excellence, and her intentional approach to building the ATA brand, ensures our organisation thrives.

Tamara Couacaud – Operations Manager

Serving our community with grace and good vibes, Tamara is our totally outstanding operations manager. Tamara has an extensive educator background in schools, and worked in a lead coordinator role prior to making the transition to ATA. She is a genius at systems and processes, guiding our team to work efficiently and effectively, to ensure our customers have the ultimate professional learning experience with ATA.

Marie Maroun – Customer Service Consultant

Marie brings a sparkle of charisma and a whole heap of passion to her role as Customer Service Consultant. Marie connects with our professional learning community with energy and heart, and with a side interest in health and wellbeing, is the provider of regular tips at our morning team meetings to keep us all aligned with the ATA value, ‘we practice wellness’. Marie is fluent in Arabic, and contributes to the wonderful diversity of our amazing team.

Claire Raip – Customer Service Specialist

As a young mother of twin boys, nothing phases Claire! Her role is customer care, but she is also our video editor extraordinaire, ensuring our professional development programs are of a high visual and audio quality. During awards season, Claire’s role extends to keeping meticulous records of nominations, and ensuring we tick off every last task listed on our sizable project plan.

Jun Rey Raip – Customer Service Specialist

Jun Rey’s genius is records and member management. He uses our CRM to oversee the membership lifecycle of our community, creates reports that inform important decisions, and liaises with our community every day to help them on their professional learning journey. Jun Rey is also the ‘tech head’ of the team; our ‘go to’ when we need a solution to our IT issues.

Amy Davies – Marketing Officer

Amy is a qualified teacher aide and has an impressive musical background, a firm foundation for the creative competence and upbeat vibe she brings to the plethora of marketing tasks she juggles daily at ATA. We love that Amy also still works a couple of days at a local school to keep abreast of our industry. Amy originally hails from the UK, but shows a true Queensland spirit at State of Origin time.