Instructional Design
Learning content sequenced so it makes sense to the learner and to the person who has to check it.
Instructional Design · Resource Writing · Hospitality Training
Resources built to hold up.
Gourav Sharma — Instructional Designer and Resource Writer with over a decade of industry experience across hospitality, retail and vocational education. Commercial kitchens, retail floors and training rooms sit behind every resource he writes, maps and puts through validation.
Instructional Designer & Resource Writer
Certificate IV in Training and Assessment
Bachelor of Business (Hospitality Operations)
Advanced Diploma in Hospitality
Certificate III in Commercial Cookery
Certificate III in Retail Operations
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FoundationA Bachelor of Business in Hospitality Operations, an Advanced Diploma in Hospitality and a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment beneath every resource
CraftInstructional design, resource writing and the validation of training resources for the hospitality and retail sectors
ReachOver a decade across hospitality, retail and vocational education — commercial kitchens, retail floors and training rooms
IDKitchen to classroom
Professional Summary
Trade practice, written into resources.
Gourav Sharma is an Instructional Designer and Resource Writer with over a decade of industry experience in hospitality, retail and vocational education. His hospitality career runs through head chef, sous chef, chef de partie and kitchen team leader roles in commercial establishments across Melbourne, setting up new restaurants, developing menus and managing kitchen operations, staff training and food safety and hygiene standards.
He has spent more than nine years as a Hospitality Trainer and Assessor at institutions such as Sunshine College and TMG College Australia, delivering and assessing training from Certificate III to Advanced Diploma levels in Commercial Cookery and Hospitality, in classroom and virtual settings.
That work is now directed at resources: program facilitation, instructional design and the validation of training resources, mapping assessment tasks to learning content and developing individual learning plans for learners from diverse backgrounds, including those with English as a second language.
In Practice
Where the trade becomes a training resource.
Core Expertise
The disciplines behind a validated resource.
The capabilities behind every resource that leaves the desk.
Resource Writing
Training and assessment resources written for the hospitality and retail sectors.
Assessment Mapping
Assessment tasks mapped to the learning content they are meant to evidence.
Validation of Resources
Experienced in the validation of training resources before they reach a cohort.
Training & Assessment
Delivered and assessed from Certificate III to Advanced Diploma in Commercial Cookery and Hospitality, in classroom and virtual settings.
Food Safety
An accredited trainer for Food Safety and Food Safety Supervisor programs, with kitchen hygiene and compliance experience behind it.
Learner Support
Individual learning plans and support for learners from diverse backgrounds, including those with English as a second language.
Kitchen & Retail Operations
Menu development, kitchen management and department management carried into the scenarios he writes.
“Comprehensive industry knowledge, a practical teaching approach and a commitment to quality — brought to high-impact, compliant educational resources for hospitality and retail.The Sharma approach
The Practice
From the floor to validation
How a Sharma resource comes together.
Now
Instructional Designer & Resource Writer
Writing and validating training and assessment resources for the hospitality and retail sectors.
Scope
Start with What Must Be Evidenced
Every resource begins with the learning content and the evidence it has to carry — never with the activity.
Draft
Write from the Floor
Scenarios drawn from real kitchen and retail operations, so the task reads the way the job runs.
Map
Map the Assessment
Assessment tasks mapped to learning content, with the trail left visible for whoever checks it next.
Validate
Put It Through Validation
Resources validated before a cohort ever sees them, and amended where validation says so.
Support
Keep It Usable
Individual learning plans and plain language, so learners with English as a second language are not shut out.
Beyond the Desk
Practice, patience & standards
PracticeHead chef, sous chef, chef de partie and kitchen team leader across commercial establishments in Melbourne
PatienceMore than nine years training and assessing, in classroom and virtual settings, with learners from diverse backgrounds
StandardsAn accredited trainer for Hospitality, Food Safety and Food Safety Supervisor programs
Let's work together
Resources that hold up
From instructional design to validation — training and assessment resources written by someone who has worked the floor and taught the unit.