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Learn when and how to have a wellbeing conversation, helping ensure check ins are approached with confidence and clarity.
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Read the VIS's tips on finding casual or seasonal work as an elite athlete. It includes how to stand out to employers, top industries for elite athletes, job search platforms and a job ready checklist.
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Our Experts in High Performance
Karla Bulte
Performance Scientist - Physiology
Karla Bulte is a Performance Scientist specialising in physiology, with six years’ experience supporting athletes across Olympic, Paralympic, professional, and amateur sport. She is currently embedded within the VIS swimming program while contributing to broader sport science projects.
Previously, she spent four years as Sport Science Coordinator for Carlton Football Club’s AFLW team and has taught in Deakin University’s Exercise and Sport Science program.
Karla holds a Bachelor and Honours degree in Exercise and Sport Science and is completing a PhD on physiological profiling in elite swimmers. She also has a strong interest in evidence‑based individualised preparation and recovery strategies.
Dr Susan White AM
Chief Medical Officer / Director Performance Health Services
Dr Susan White AM is a Specialist Sport and Exercise Physician with more than 30 years’ experience working with elite athletes including attending multiple Paralympic, Olympic, Youth Olympic, Commonwealth Games and World Championships in roles ranging from Team Physician to Medical Director.
She is Chair of the Australian Sports Drug Medical Advisory Committee.
Dr Ebonie Rio
Sport & Exercise Physiotherapist
Ebonie is an experienced Sport and Exercise Medicine Physiotherapist who is passionate about clinical research and has completed her PhD in tendon pain. Ebonie’s experience includes Commonwealth Games, Winter Olympics, Youth Olympics, Paralympics and supporting the Australian Team at the Headquarters at the 2024 Olympics Paris.
Grace Claringbold
Performance Lifestyle Adviser
Grace is a Performance Lifestyle Adviser and organisational psychologist. She is experienced in wellbeing, leadership development, career development, and learning. Grace has designed and delivered interventions across the individual, team and system level. At the Victorian Institute of Sport, Grace supports the wellbeing of developing, Olympic and Paralympic athletes across a range of sports. She has completed a Masters in Organisational Psychology and is accredited in a number of psychometric assessments.
Our Learning Principles
Our Learning Principals
Purposeful:
Informed by our VIS high performance environments and experience. Relevant with applied knowledge and practical tools. Evidence informed by VIS expert high performance sport practitioners.
Adaptable:
Flexible and accessible learning experiences that consider the needs of the individual and their environments.
Human-Centered:
Designed with the person at the centre with consideration of appropriate learning experiences that target and engage individuals with fun experiential learning and reflection, incorporating a growth mindset approach.
Impactful:
Innovative and continuous learning that focuses on transferring learning into the performance environment to provide sustained impact.
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