Facilitator Jason Scarborough will lead an online Investigative Interviewing Masterclass from 23 — 25 June. Photo: Supplied.
Leading Teams in a Crisis
Date: 11 June
Time: 9 am — 4:30 pm
Location: UNSW Canberra City
Telephone: (02) 5114 5000
This course equips you with essential leadership skills for navigating complex and emerging situations. You will explore the differences between leadership and management, learn how to communicate intent through mission command, and develop strategies for problem-solving under pressure.
You’ll also learn how to give effective feedback, assess risks and opportunities, and make evidence-based decisions using tools such as SWOT, pros and cons lists, the Pugh matrix and Force Field Analysis. These skills prepare you to lead teams with confidence in demanding environments.
Delivered by expert facilitators, this course will help you become a strong, effective leader in the face of uncertainty. It explores leadership in uncertain environments, building your ability to manage teams, assess risk and make evidence-based decisions under pressure using practical frameworks.
Arran Hassall is a transformational and collaborative intelligence leader and senior executive with a proven track record in organisational leadership, intelligence, training and strategy. Bon Dimer is a national security professional with experience in operations planning, risk management, engineering change management, tender evaluation, contract management and consulting.
SES Integrity Masterclass
Date: 11 June
Time: 9:30 am — 1 pm
Duration: One 3.5-hour face-to-screen session
Location: Virtual
Email: https://apslearn.apsacademy.gov.au/user_login
The SES Integrity Masterclass is aimed at providing SES leaders with access to current thinking and practical applications towards embedding pro-integrity culture across the APS. The content addresses the importance of integrity in the workplace by examining current, real-world issues through a practitioner-led approach.
Developed by the APS Academy in partnership with key APS integrity agencies and academic partners, it has been recognised in the “Louder than Words: An APS Action plan” as an “excellent integrity product” with the recommendation for “Secretaries to support all SES to undertake” this course.
Successful completion of this course involves both prework (available online at a time that suits you) and attendance at an interactive, facilitated workshop. This content is suitable for SES Band 1 — SES Band 3.
Managing Psychological Safety Through Change
Date: 11 June
Time: 9 am — 4:30 pm
Location: Online
Email: [email protected]
Overview
A practical guide for navigating team resilience and wellbeing in times of transition.
- Understand the concept of psychological safety and its direct impact on collaboration and performance.
- Learn strategies for integrating psychological safety into change management processes.
- Explore the role of leadership in promoting psychological wellbeing during times of transition.
- Craft an action plan to build resilience and trust among your team.
Trainer Kevin St Mart is a workplace mental health expert with more than 23 years of experience in work health and safety. He is a consultant for the Opus Centre for Psychosocial Risk and holds qualifications in business, injury management, and training and assessment.
Kevin previously served as a workplace engagement manager at Beyond Blue and led mental health programs at Comcare. He has extensive experience delivering training, presentations and projects, and has contributed to initiatives such as the People at Work risk assessment tool and the Mentally Healthy Workplace Alliance.
QLD Public Sector AO 5-6 High-Performance & Leadership Workshop
Date: 16 — 17 June
Time: 9 am — 4:30 pm
Location: Cliftons Brisbane
Email: [email protected]
Overview
Enhance core skills and key leadership capability to achieve success and excel.
- Enhance your leadership capabilities as a confident and successful AO 5-6 leader.
- Strengthen and mobilise the unique talents and capabilities of the workforce.
- Lead with focus and optimism in complex environments.
- Explore career advancement opportunities within AO 5-6 roles.
Trainer Martin Brooker is a distinguished veteran with 37 years of service in the Royal Australian Navy. His career was marked by command at sea and operational excellence in the Middle East, Afghanistan, and the Pacific.
Retiring in 2015 as a commodore, he transitioned to become the founder and director of the Quench Group. Specialising in personal and organisational change, Martin draws from his rich leadership experiences and culture change initiatives. Recognised with awards such as the Conspicuous Service Cross and a Commendation for Distinguished Service, he shares authentic insights on leadership challenges.
SA Women in Leadership Summit 2026
Date: 16 — 17 June
Time: 9 am — 6 pm
Location: Intercontinental Hotel Adelaide
Email: [email protected]
Overview
Be inspired. Build connections. Lead with impact.
- Position yourself as a future-ready leader.
- Connect with inspiring women and transform your obstacles into opportunities.
- Thrive through change with clarity and confidence.
- Lean into your strengths, own your blindspots, and be better.
Advanced Policy Workshop
Date: 16 — 18 June
Time: 9 am — 4:30 pm
Location: Online
Email: [email protected]
Overview
Elevate policy development, drive impactful changes, and manage complex issues.
- Apply higher-level strategic thinking and influencing skills.
- Navigate complexity, and manage change, risk and opportunity.
- Assess evidence and context for policy change.
- Improve stakeholder engagement and consultation processes.
From unpacking the red tape of bureaucracy to reshaping how government delivers services in the digital age, trainer Dr Jeremiah Brown brings a sharp lens to the hidden hurdles in public policy.
A lecturer in public policy at the University of Melbourne, Dr Brown draws on his PhD in political theory and deep expertise in administrative burden to explore how systems shape, and sometimes obstruct, access. His work connects policy design with lived experience, guiding future thinkers through the complexities of research and reform.
Safety by Design
Date: 16 — 17 June
Time: 9 am — 5 pm
Location: ParkRoyal Darling Harbour, Sydney
Email: [email protected]
The inaugural Safety by Design Conference brings together regulators, industry leaders, and early adopters to answer a practical question: How do we actually embed customer safety in systems from the beginning?
Over two days, we’ll move past the theory to focus on tangible implementation. Critically, we will look at how others in your industry are already forging a pathway, ensuring that safety and privacy gaps no longer leave victim-survivors exposed to avoidable harm. Crucially, the conference explores how these risks are being systematically removed through real-world application.
Presenters will share their first-mover insights, showing you how to navigate regulation and adopt the proven approaches that are working right now. Safety by Design is a call to action for leaders ready to learn from the frontrunners — recognising that proactive prevention is the most effective way to fulfil our shared responsibility to keep people safe.
The Mandarin Live: Future-Ready Public Service — Canberra
Date: 17 June
Time: 9 am — 4:50 pm
Location: Hotel Realm, Canberra & Online Livestream
Email: [email protected]
Building a future-ready public service demands more than strategic intent — it requires a fundamental commitment to stewardship, systemic integrity and the high-performance scaling of digital capability.
This summit assembles the leaders of the Australian Public Service to navigate the complexities of the federal authorising environment. As the APS moves beyond the initial implementation of the reform agenda, the focus for senior executives must shift towards the practical mastery of a professional, modern service and the long-term protection of the public interest.
Through high-level ministerial oversight, secretary-led keynotes and peer-to-peer executive panel discussions, the program examines the core priorities defining the federal service — embedding a culture of systemic integrity and proactive accountability, navigating the post-compliance landscape to scale AI innovation, and redefining workforce mobility to attract and retain elite leadership talent.
Attendees will leave with a sharper understanding of central agency priorities, practical insights into managing the human element of a flexible workforce, and the professional connections required to steward a resilient, citizen-centred APS.
Persuasive Writing Masterclass 2026 Brisbane
Date: 23 June
Time: 9 am — 4 pm
Location: In-person | Brisbane CBD
Email: [email protected]
Improve your writing in government for impact and influence. All writing should be clear, concise, and correct. Good-quality public-sector writing should also be professional, persuasive, and polished. Public-sector writing can be challenging and time-consuming. You have to contend with different audiences, rigid deadlines, and complex topics.
While the basic skills of good writing are critical, you need more to meet the demands of more involved government communication. You need to be able to present every case confidently and well, regardless of who you are writing to or what you are writing about. You must be able to use words, structure, flow, and more to deliver compelling arguments and convincing information that people will want to read.
It is about using writing to communicate complex issues clearly and with influence. This masterclass will help you to make the most of your existing skills and practise new ones. It will also offer tips and techniques to make your writing easier, faster, and more effective.
Facilitator Bev Sullivan has decades of experience in running written communication workshops for public servants at all levels and from all tiers of government. Her specialty is helping people to use (and tweak) their existing skills and experience to make writing less of a chore and deliver better results. With an extensive background in government, education and communication, she is familiar with the challenges involved in producing excellent public-sector writing.
Investigative Interviewing Masterclass
Date: 23 — 25 June
Time: 9 am — 12:30 pm
Location: Online
Email: [email protected]
Investigative interviewing is invaluable in the regulator’s toolkit, designed to gather significant volumes of admissible evidence in a fraction of the time. Despite its value, many practitioners hesitate to use the tool or inadvertently misapply it, due to the high stakes of “getting it wrong”.
This masterclass strips away the complexity of the process by introducing the science-backed PEACE model of interviewing. You will walk away with a practical set of tools tailored to your workplace, along with the confidence to apply them immediately.
Through hands-on practice, you will master powerful questioning techniques engineered to elicit a continuous flow of information from both witnesses and suspects.
Facilitator Jason Scarborough is a highly experienced and motivated specialist in compliance, regulation, and investigation, with more than two decades of experience in regulatory roles across state and local governments. He is a specialist in regulation and compliance, from the strategic level right down to the “hands-on” perspective.
During his time with the NSW Environment Protection Authority, Jason undertook and managed numerous complex and high-profile investigations into waste crime and environmental incidents. He is also a fierce advocate for skills development for regulatory officers, enabling them to confidently undertake quality regulatory work.
