Our
Staff Team

Iain Peter, Executive Director

Iain Peter has held many prestigious jobs in the outdoor education field in the United Kingdom, and served as Chief Executive, Mountain Training Trust, Plas y Brenin for a decade. An internationally recognized mountain guide Iain has climbed major peaks such as Everest, Cerro Torre in Patagonia, and the Eiger North Face. He continues to be an active and committed climber, mountaineer and skier.

He has served as Chairman of the Risk Management Committee of Outward Bound Trust UK, and he has been involved in the setting of standards, training and assessment of candidates for all UK mountaineering qualifications.  He is an internationally qualified Mountain Guide.

SARAH WILEY, Associate Director

Sarah is an experienced educational leader who has been actively involved in adventure and experiential education for over 30 years. Former instructor, Program Director and then Executive Director at Outward Bound Canada, Sarah was the Chair of OBI’s Operations Committee before joining the OBI staff team in 2019. Sarah supports OBI’s strategic priorities with a particular focus on research and evaluation, global communications and fundraising.

Sarah has an honours degree in Political Science, a teaching degree in Outdoor and Experiential Education, a Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction and an MBA with a Specialization in Leadership. Sarah is an active outdoors person and enjoys climbing, hiking, running, skiing and spending time with her husband and son in the outdoors.

aaron funnell, risk management

Aaron has been working in outdoor education for nearly 30 years and is engaged as the risk management consultant for Outward Bound International, including covering risk management reviews for Outward Bound Schools in the global network. He has worked for Outward Bound Schools in Australia, Hong Kong and Vietnam. He is a program reviewer for The Association for Experiential Education accreditation program, and secretary of the AEE Accreditation Council (USA). Aaron is based in Sydney, Australia.

richard nelson, office 365 co-ordinator

Richard is a highly experienced, innovative and passionate Technology Leader who helps deliver engaging transformational solutions and is driven by the belief that Technology should help, not hinder, people and organizations. Richard is the IT Manager at the Outward Bound Trust in the UK, where he has worked for the last 17 years. At Outward Bound International, Richard supports the global membership in their adoption, coordination and management of the global Microsoft 365 platform as a means to increase efficiencies and enhance and expand communication and collaboration throughout the network.

sara Morrison, social media coordinator

Sara has worked for Outward Bound since 2007, first as an instructor and then eventually moving to Fundraising and Development at the North Carolina Outward Bound School, part of the OB USA network of Schools. Her work with Outward Bound has taken her to Florida, Australia and North Carolina where she currently resides in Asheville with her family.  Sara’s role with OBI is to help spread the word through OBI’s various social media platforms about the amazing impact Outward Bound has all over the globe .