Eleanor Groat, founder of Your Best Asset and a committed developer of leaders and teams, will be the facilitator at the QLD Public Sector Women in Leadership Masterclass, in Brisbane, on 29 – 30 April. Photo: Supplied.
Maximising Regulatory Enforcement & Compliance Outcomes Conference
Date: 29 – 30 April
Time: 9 am – 4:40 pm
Location: Batman’s Hill on Collins, Melbourne | Naarm & Online
Email: [email protected]
Focusing on strategic approaches to strengthen enforcement for modern regulators, the inaugural Regulatory Enforcement & Compliance Outcomes Conference offers an unmissable opportunity for regulators to address the demands of today’s complex regulatory landscape.
With rising pressures to deliver transparent, effective, and better compliance outcomes, this conference will connect you with regulatory peers and experts from across jurisdictions to explore how they set their regulatory priorities, use enforcement tools innovatively, and when alternatives to enforcement work.
The Hatchery’s Annual Regulation Conference Series has attracted more than 250 regulatory professionals from various federal and state-level regulators, agencies and departments across Australia and New Zealand. Attend this leading industry event to learn how you can improve your approach to compliance and enforcement.
QLD Public Sector Women in Leadership Masterclass
Date: 29 – 30 April
Time: 9:30 am – 4:30 pm
Location: Meanjin | Cliftons Brisbane, Edward Street
Email: [email protected]
This transformative program is designed to enhance and accelerate your leadership development. Take charge of the next phase of your career. This is a watershed moment in your career, and the skills and behaviours that you cultivate now will become the cornerstones of your senior leadership in the years to come.
This intimate and engaging masterclass is designed to provide you with these skills and behaviours so you can grow and scale your senior leadership for what comes next. Specifically designed for women in public sector leadership roles from all jurisdictions, it will give you the key tools to thrive as a senior leader and set yourself up for success for the rest of your career.
One of The Hatchery’s most seasoned and highest-rated facilitators, Eleanor Groat, will take you on a journey of lightbulb moments and strategically grow key skills so that you walk away refreshed, inspired and more confident in your leadership and the path ahead.
APS 4 Essential Skills Workshop
Date: 29 – 30 April
Time: 9 am – 4:30 pm
Location: Canberra, AU
Email: [email protected]
Overview
Your leadership journey starts here.
- Enhance your professional competence to achieve results.
- Learn practical tools to communicate with impact and influence.
- Adopt effective change management principles to support strategic direction.
- Stay informed about career planning and pathways in APS roles.
Trainer Mark Butz’s diverse work experience includes more than 26 years in senior positions in government agencies, complemented by voluntary participation in community sector governance, and since 2002 working as a consultant, facilitator, trainer, and writer.
He has been training others in communication, facilitation, leadership, and conflict transformation for more than 25 years, across all states and territories of Australia, and in New Zealand, India and Nauru.
EL 2 Data Leadership
Date: 30 April – 21 May
Time: 9 am – 1:30 pm
Duration: Four 4.5-hour face-to-screen sessions
Location: Virtual
Email: https://apslearn.apsacademy.gov.au/user_login
The EL2 level has a critical role to play in lifting the data capabilities of the APS in all of these dimensions. In addition to their responsibility to show leadership in their use of data in their own activities, EL2s have a number of leadership responsibilities, including building organisational capability and responsiveness, marshalling professional expertise, and harnessing information and opportunities.
EL2s are also required to help raise the reputation of the entire public service, including by demonstrating professionalism and probity.
This course is designed to enhance data leadership knowledge and capability, focusing on the role data plays in the work of the public service and critical issues that impact on the availability, integrity and use of data. The course is pitched at APS EL2s working in policy, regulatory, corporate, service delivery and other roles. That is, those who might not otherwise see themselves as data professionals.
This learning experience has been created by the Australian National University (ANU) in partnership with the APS data profession. This content has been provided by the APS Academy and is suitable for EL2.
APS6 – EL1 Women in Leadership Masterclass
Date: 30 April – 1 May
Time: 9:30 am – 4:30 pm
Location: Hyatt Hotel Canberra
Email: [email protected]
This transformative program is designed to enhance and accelerate your leadership development. Lift your APS career by becoming an inclusive and trusted leader who delivers with impact.
Choosing to lead at the APS6 – EL1 tier is a watershed moment in your career, and the skills and behaviours that you cultivate now will become the cornerstones of your APS senior leadership in the years to come. This intimate and engaging masterclass is designed to provide you with the crucial skills and behaviours to step out of being a technical expert and ready yourself for more senior leadership.
The content has been specifically designed for women in APS 6 – EL1 leadership roles to build your understanding and capability to deliver more of what your SES requires of you. It will help you navigate the APS context, be more influential, find your voice, have greater confidence leading diverse and hybrid teams, and set yourself up for success for the rest of your career.
Seasoned Commonwealth public service leadership coach and facilitator Kylie Holyland will take you on a journey of lightbulb moments and strategically grow key skills to excel in the APS. Carve out your own leadership plan, network with peers at the same stage as you and walk away refreshed, inspired and more confident in your leadership and the path ahead.
SES Orientation Program
Date: 30 April – 16 May
Duration: One two-day workshop (30 April – 1 May) and one three-day workshop (14 – 16 May)
Location: Australian Capital Territory – MoAD (Old Parliament House)
Email: https://apslearn.apsacademy.gov.au/user_login
The SES Orientation program will help you gain the essential skills, partnerships and networks required for effective SES leadership. Working at the SES level will be a little different to what you’re used to if you’re being promoted from an EL2, or if you were working outside of the APS and are newly appointed to an SES position (Band 1 to Band 3). That’s why the APS Academy designed the SES Orientation program.
The course enables SES personnel to step up to the higher strategic accountabilities of the role, step out to take a broader systems view and engage more effectively with a diverse stakeholder group, and ‘’step forward’’ to develop more capable teams.
The program will support a new SES to take up the leadership (stewardship) and management (accountability) dimensions of their role, establishing the essential skills, partnerships and networks required for effective leadership.
This content has been provided by the APS Academy and is suitable for SES Band 1 – 3. Consideration will be given to long-term acting EL2s (more than six months).
QLD Public Sector AO6 to AO7: Management Essentials Workshop
Date: 1 – 2 May
Time: 9 am – 4:30 pm
Location: Brisbane, QLD
Email: [email protected]
Overview
Gain the essential management skills to strengthen the connections between strategy and results.
- Address changing expectations facing management in the Queensland Public Sector.
- Strengthen your resilience through emotional intelligence (EI).
- Manage KPIs, set expectations and monitor outcomes.
- Develop a focused, yet flexible strategy to guide your development.
Inside Look Webinar Series
Date: 5 May; 16 June
Location: Online (via Teams)
Cost: Free, bookings are essential
Kim Vella Coaching’s free Leadership Strategies Series will equip leaders with insights into leadership challenges and teach them how to close the gap. In today’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world, public sector leaders face unique challenges that demand more than traditional leadership approaches.
The Inside Look Webinar Series is a monthly opportunity to explore one key “gap” holding leaders back from thriving in their roles. Each session focuses on a specific leadership challenge, offering insights into why it matters and how leaders can begin to close the gap.
Topics include:
- The Wellbeing Gap: Balancing performance with sustainable leadership.
- The Confidence Gap: Leading with clarity, courage and conviction.
- The Collaboration Gap: Building partnerships that create meaningful change.
- The Expert to Orchestrator Gap: Transitioning from technical expert to leadership orchestrator.
In each webinar, you will:
- Gain clarity on the leadership challenges unique to today’s VUCA environment.
- Reflect on your own experiences and begin identifying ways to bridge the gap.
- Connect with peers and explore insights that empower leadership growth.
The Inside Look Webinar Series is your chance to step into a community of reflective leaders and savour a taste of the transformative insights offered in the Leadership Strategies Series 2025.
Public Sector Integrity & Governance
Date: 6 – 7 May
Time: 9 am – 4:50 pm
Location: Canberra Rex Hotel & Online
Email: [email protected]
The inaugural Public Sector Integrity & Governance Conference is the premier event for public sector leaders and professionals committed to strengthening ethical governance, transparency, and accountability. This timely conference addresses real-world challenges and provides actionable solutions to uphold public trust, foster a culture of integrity, and elevate ethical standards in today’s complex operating environment.
With a strong emphasis on practical insights, the program features compelling case studies, expert panel discussions, and a workshop. Led by distinguished leaders and experts, this conference will equip attendees with the tools and strategies needed to navigate complexity and build a resilient, values-driven public service.
Speakers include:
- Chief Operating Officer, Australian Taxation Office, Jacquie Curtis
- Commonwealth Ombudsman Iain Anderson
- Assistant Commissioner of the Integrity, Performance and Employment Policy Branch, Australian Public Service Commission, Kylie Barber
- Deputy Secretary for Regional, Cities, and Territories, Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts, David Mackay
- Deputy Commissioner of the National Anti-Corruption Commission, Kylie Kilgour
- Deputy CEO, National Disability Insurance Agency, Corri McKenzie
- Director of Police Policy and Strategy, Department of Justice and Community Safety, Victoria, Catherine Roberts
- Senior Corruption Prevention Officer, NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (NSW ICAC), Stephen Wood.
Ending Coercive Control, Family & Domestic Violence Conference
Date: 7 – 8 May
Time: 9 am – 5:05 pm
Location: Tarntanya | Hotel Grand Chancellor Adelaide
Email: [email protected]
This conference examines how we can shape systems and drive change to keep women and children safe. This involves adopting integrated, culturally responsive approaches to end family and domestic violence.
On average, one woman is killed by an intimate partner every 11 days. Alarmingly, coercive control is a precursor in 97 per cent of domestic violence homicides, highlighting the urgent need for systemic change.
So far, Queensland and NSW are the only states to have criminalised coercive control. South Australia has also committed to this, and has launched a Royal Commission into Domestic, Family, and Sexual Violence, signalling growing recognition and action on this insidious issue.
This conference provides a crucial forum for changemakers to collaborate and drive bold, transformative solutions. Together, we’ll focus on understanding the systemic shifts in coercive control and family violence, fostering cross-sector collaboration, and evolving risk assessments from incident-based to holistic approaches.
Connect with peers from frontline services, government, peak bodies, legal sectors, academia, and beyond to explore the criminalisation of coercive control, integrated system responses, and effective practice and models for crisis intervention and recovery.
Speakers include:
- Chief Operating Officer, Women’s Safety Services SA, Jodie Sloan
- SA Minister for Child Protection, Minister for Women and the Prevention of Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence, Katrine Hildyard
- CEO, COTA SA, Miranda Starke
- Chief Executive Officer, Shine SA, Holley Skene
- Senior Project Officer, Women with Disabilities Australia, Sarah Smallman.
The 2nd First Nations Women in Leadership Summit
Date: 7 – 8 May
Time: 9 am – 4:30 pm
Location: Meanjin | Voco Brisbane
Email: [email protected]
This summit celebrates the knowledge, strengths and voice of First Nations women. It is an opportunity to join a community of First Nations women and be inspired by the shared stories of cultural knowledge, wisdom, and strength.
Through storytelling, reflection, and connection, this summit honours and celebrates the vital role First Nations women hold as carers, teachers, healers, and leaders in their workplaces, families, and communities, and serves as a vulnerable and safe space for women to come together, share and learn from one another.
Note: The use of the term “women” across the summit is inclusive of all First Nations women who identify as women, including cisgender and transgender women. We acknowledge the under-representation of gender-diverse and non-binary people in leadership, which is also a result of gender inequality.
