Virgilia Readett is a senior Trainer with the Australasian College of Optical Dispensing (ACOD). She holds a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, a Certificate IV in Optical Dispensing and a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Communications.

Virgilia has been teaching with ACOD since 2019 and is passionate about student support and development. Having begun her optical career with Specsavers in 2012, she found training and staff support were her passion and went on to complete her optical dispensing qualification, and later her training and assessment qualification. Over her 9 years of optical experience, Virgilia has worked in several stores in supervisory and in store trainer positions.

2021 has brought exciting opportunities for training in the optical industry and saw Virgilia take on increased responsibilities in delivering training across Australia and New Zealand. Virgilia believes the key to customer satisfaction lies in more highly trained staff and is excited to assist ACOD in upskilling the Optical Assistants of our industry into qualified Optical Dispensers.