Keynote Abstracts

Professor Rich Feller
Designing 21st Century Careers: The value of connecting individual and workplace needs

Career development has become a major change strategy for individuals, organizations and communities. Yet the formula for career transitions and expanded opportunities demands personal sacrifice, cultural commitments, and accelerated engagement since average is no longer good enough. In this address Professor Feller will consider the dimensions of designing careers across the lifespan and proposes that career work for practitioners and organizations demands innovative designs to move people from being “nervously employed” to becoming “knowledge nomads”. 

Anh Do
The renegade mindset: how to prosper in uncertain times

In this address Ahn Do, best selling author and winner of the 2011 Australian Book of the Year award, will inspire delegates with an exceptional life and career story and provide tools for ourselves and our clients to turn uncertain times to advantage.

Jason Clarke - Mindworker
Be Yourself for a Living (and help others do the same)

On the whole, organisations are pretty good at attracting talent, not so good at knowing what to do with it. Few people in the workplace ever get the chance to achieve their full potential, leaving the rest of us frustrated and disengaged. It's been that way for so long that we've come to accept it as an inevitable part of working life.

But now employers are beginning to ponder the true cost of squandering the talent they have around them, and they're looking for ways to find, feed and focus it for innovation and change.

So how do you do that? Jason Clarke of Minds at Work has a few ideas...

Denise Goldsworthy
Shaping workforces – diversity, employee motivations and a new breed of leadership

In this address Denise Goldsworthy, examines how Australia’s mining industry is meeting the challenges of changing workforce patterns, employee expectations and skills required for a fast expanding industry. From the perspective of a woman in a senior executive role and winner of the 2010 Telstra Business Woman of the Year, Denise will speak about diversity initiatives under way in the sector and the new breed of leadership required for success in today’s workforces.

Ivan Neville
Australia’s future workforce – designing careers, shaping workforces

In this address expert labour market analyst Ivan Neville provides the must know facts about Australian workforce trends. Learn about industry growth areas, the emergence of new jobs, connections between educational attainment and employment outcomes and the impacts of an ageing population. This talk provides important data and questions for governments, employers, educators and practitioners in understanding employment and education trends and what changes are required for a strong future labour force into the future.