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2019 VET CEO Conference

17 May 2019
Doltone House - Darling Island

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Program

Friday, 17 May 2019

8.00am - 8.45am
Registration
8.45am - 8.55am
 
Welcome & Official Opening
Gerry Gannon
8.55am - 9.10am
 

Senator the Hon. Michaelia Cash MP, Minister for Small and Family Business, Skills and Vocational Education (Invited)
9.10am - 10.00am
 
Mastering the Art of Momentum: The secret to achieving effortless & enduring growth
Michael McQueen
10.00am - 10.30am
Morning Tea & Networking
10.30am - 11.15am
 
ASQA Update
Mr Mark Paterson AO, Chief Commissioner and Chief Executive Officer - Australian Skills Quality Authority
11.15am - 12.00pm
 
The Meaning Makers: A path to finding mastery, fulfillment and purpose at work
Phill Nosworthy
12.00pm - 1.00pm
Lunch & Networking
1.00pm - 1.45pm
 
Unlocking your Why: Keys to motivating and inspiring your workforce to attract, engage and retain top talent
Claire Madden
1.45pm - 2.45pm
 
Dealing with Information Overload
Laurie Kelly
2.45pm - 3.15pm
Afternoon Tea & Networking
3.15pm - 4.00pm
 
Are you The Reluctant RTO CEO?
Tamara Simon
4.00pm - 4.45pm
 
Passionate Leaders: Creating engaged, energised and empowered leaders
Keith Abraham

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Passionate Leaders: Creating engaged, energised and empowered leaders

Location

South Wharf

In this keynote presentation, Keith will inspire your leaders to master leading themselves first. He helps them understand team dynamics, goal achievement and identifying personal influencing skills so your leaders can bring the best out of their people as they pursue their business opportunities, business goals and business growth. 

LEAD YOURSELF 

  • Explore the four-part GoalDrivers™ process.
  • Establish your personal and business goals for the next 12 months. 
  • Discover how to elevate your thinking in your business role and tap into your true potential as a leader. 

LEAD YOUR PEOPLE

  • Define what you want your business DNA to be as a business leader in your marketplace. 
  • Discover the four types of people that form your team and how to work with their unique behaviours, actions and attitudes. 
  • Learn the eight different GoalDrivers™ so you can positively influence your team members to achieve your key goals for the year ahead.

LEAD YOUR BUSINESS

  • Discuss the key elements of taking your business, your people and your role to the next level.
  • Determine how you can become a living example of a great leader for your people. 
  • Identify the best opportunities to lead business growth, profit and market share increases, and other successes specific to your role.

Keith Abraham

Industries across the globe turn to Keith Abraham for inspiration, insights and ideas on how to not only set goals—but how to achieve them—to bring out the best in their people, their leaders and their business.

Keith Abraham is the global authority on goal achievement and the creator of the GoalDriver™ Formula. A formula designed to accurately determine what energises and engages each individual, driving them to achieve the unimaginable, unreachable and unattainable.

With over 22 years as a professional speaker, delivering to over 340 clients in 29 different countries, Keith Abraham has been the recipient of multiple awards throughout his career. In 1999, Keith became a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), putting him in the top 7% of professional speakers worldwide. He has experienced great success in Australia and in 2002 he received the highest award given to a Professional Speaker—the Nevin Award. In2012 he was named Keynote Speaker of the Year. Adding to his already impressive CV, Keith is the best-selling author of five books, published in 12 languages, covering the areas of passion, goal achievement, customer loyalty and focus. As a regular contributor to publications and a frequent guest on business media and podcasts, Keith’s expertise and authority on the subjects of goal setting, goal achievement, goal centric-cultures and goal alignment is recognised globally. Keith is passionate about the work he does. 

Keith has learnt through his career of being on stages worldwide, is that to have the biggest impact on conference attendees, it is so much more than just turning up and presenting. Keith embodies his work and has become the real life, living example. Delivering an exceptional learning experience and inspirational presentation, attendees want to implement the ideas and insights immediately into their life and business role.

Keith creates a seamless experience from the moment you book him, to the professional preparation time he takes getting to understand your business—all leading to attendees who are more engaged in a highly interactive and industry-relevant presentation. Keith leaves the audiences with resources to put what they have learnt into practice. Adding value to the learning experience for your people is Keith’s number-one priority. That’s why you’ll see that your standard conference investment includes so much more.

Are you The Reluctant RTO CEO?

Location

South Wharf

Too often, RTOs are set up and run by those of us who love training and want to help people but don’t necessarily have the passion or purpose to do all the ‘boring but essential’ tasks that come with the title of RTO CEO.

Sometimes they ignore their numbers and all the behind the scenes ‘stuff’ which must be done to run a simple profitable RTO business. But ignoring it, in the hope it will all go away, simply creates more problems, not only financially but with their people and systems.

This session will provide RTO CEOs with practical simple solutions so they can embrace their title including:

  • 7 signs of The Reluctant RTO CEO
  • Foundations you need to build a simple, profitable and compliant RTO Business
  • 3 things to start and stop in your Business, People and Systems to get you and your RTO back on track

Tamara Simon

Speaker, Author and Coach for RTOs

Tamara Simon is The Business Specialist for RTOs who is driven by curiosity, change and simplicity.

As a Speaker, Author and Coach, Tamara helps Registered Training Organisations solve problems and find untapped opportunities so they can implement simple systems which save time and money whilst maintaining compliance.

With over 20 years experience in VET and business management including CEO of Queensland’s Forest Industries ITAB (FITAB), Tamara’s mantra to RTOs is “if you don’t like compliance and don’t like change, then don’t work for an RTO or be one”.

Tamara has written the first business book specifically for RTOs:  The Five Little RTO Pigs – Helping Registered Training Organisations build simple, profitable and compliant RTO businesses which uses the analogy of The Three Little Pigs Fairytale to show how RTO businesses are built, but there’s 2 others: The Reno and The Rundown.

Tamara has also launched Australia’s only ‘Managing an RTO’ RRR Webinar PD program.  By providing RTO CEOs and RTO Managers with practical and simple tools to Refocus Re-Energise and Rebuild (RRR), they are able to get CLEAR on their Business, People and Systems.

Tamara’s leadership and management expertise was recognised as a Finalist in the Queensland Telstra Business Women’s Awards and AIM’s Excellence Awards; and she received QITC’s ‘Leadership in VET’ Award.

Afternoon Tea & Networking

Location

North Wharf

Dealing with Information Overload

Location

South Wharf

As CEOs and key decision makers in your RTO you need your brain to be operating at maximum capacity.

How are you doing with “staying on top of things”?.... Have you caught the dreaded disease …. Information Overload?

Some of the symptoms you might be experiencing in just one day:

  • Inundated with information
  • Having to maintain an accurately critical knowledge of policies, reviews, reports and agendas
  • Being asked to make exceptionally astute decisions and replies in an instant
  • Expected to deal with numerous clients and respond to them individually with skill and ease
  • Desire to handle conflict situations seamlessly, particularly with competing interest groups
  • Dealing with various government departments, agencies and lobby groups whilst maintaining your outputs
  • Attending (alertly and passionately) endless meetings
  • Delivering articulate, well thought-out responses on various topics to various groups
  • Meeting people and trying to remember their names and interests
  • Overseeing financial viability

Understanding your Brain and utilising its enormous capacity is the gift of “GOLD”. And understanding some of the brain physiology is the key…. implementing simple things that fit our personalities is the answer.

Did you know?

  • The chemicals of the brain directly impact our ability to think clearly - we have some control and influence over these chemicals
  • Our Brain needs roadmaps to focus on key themes and targets
  • We can directly affect the processing capacity of our Brain by the messages we give it
  • Sometimes a simple reboot is the solution for our computer; so too our brains can function so much better with downtime
  • There are unassuming skills and practices we can learn to clear and focus our brains, so that they maintain shape and handle the tasks required.

Those who have experienced Laurie’s work before will understand that this will be a very practical and skills-based session. You will leave with not only an understanding of how to develop your ‘focused brain’ but also a pocket full of skills to help you work with it and have it work with you.

Laurie Kelly

International Speaker, Author, Educator and Senior Consultant with Brain Friendly Training

Laurie Kelly, speaks both nationally and internationally on current knowledge of how the mind works to maximize the Impact of Training and to create an Openness Factor in our approach to Change and new Learning.

Laurie has been opening up the mysteries of the mind to audiences from all walks of life for over 30 years. He has a reputation for having an uncanny ability to communicate on a level that everyone can appreciate and is passionate about the importance of the information he shares.

Laurie Kelly’s experience also includes conference keynote & workshop sessions and public and in-house training programs, delivered in Australia and overseas. He has worked extensively within both the corporate sector in many organisations covering a wide scope of industries, and with many departments of the government sector, and within the areas of education, health, resources, council and corporate organizations. Laurie is one of the most sought-after presenters in his field.

Unlocking your Why: Keys to motivating and inspiring your workforce to attract, engage and retain top talent

Location

South Wharf

Leaders and managers of organisations often feel the pressure of keeping up with the latest technologies, office design, and flexi-working strategies to attract and engage the current and emerging cohort of workers. 

While attending to these areas can facilitate improved work options and productivity, there is a deeper level of engagement of teams which can be unlocked when people are intrinsically motivated (not just externally rewarded). 

Helping people connect with your organisations ‘why’ resonates on a deeper level than simply ‘getting the tasks done’. It has the power to connect the values and mission of the organisation with the internal motivations of employees – engaging head, heart and hands in their work. In this session Claire will help you get clarity on your ‘why’ and understand how to communicate this with your teams.

Claire Madden

Director of Hello Clarity

Claire Madden (www.clairemadden.com) is a leading voice internationally on Generation Z. As an author, social researcher, keynote speaker and media commentator, Claire is in demand internationally as an expert in interpreting social trends, demographics and implications of generational change. Claire is the author of Hello Gen Z: Engaging the

Generation of Post-Millennials. Claire is highly regarded for her dynamic and engaging presentations where she translates robust, research-based content into strategic applications for educators, managers and business leaders. Claire is commissioned by some of the nation’s largest companies and leading brands to interpret the changing landscape and communicate the implications for business and society.

As a media commentator, Claire is regularly interviewed on prominent television programs including The Drum, The Project, The Today Show, SkyNews, Sunrise and The Morning Show, as well as on the radio and in print media. Claire is on the board of a financial services company and is also a PhD candidate, studying the impact of Gen Z and work.

Lunch & Networking

Location

North Wharf

The Meaning Makers: A path to finding mastery, fulfillment and purpose at work

Location

South Wharf

Drawing on exclusive interviews with notable performers, cutting edge insights from the fields of psychology and sociology along with tales from myth, the subject of meaning will be explored and distilled, offering a roadmap for how to manufacture a deep and resonant sense of meaning in one’s own life.

In brief, people are happier, healthier, more fulfilled when the following pillars of meaning are in full swing in their life and work.

Key takeaways:

  • Learn about getting good at what you do and taking charge of how you do it
  • Discover the purpose in work
  • How connection and contribution are critical to our personal and professional wellbeing
  • Why challenging yourself and making an impact gives incredible results

Phill Nosworthy

Advisor, speaker and writer

Phill Nosworthy is an executive advisor, speaker and writer in the subject areas that surround making business and life meaningful.

His insights into personal mastery and career acceleration have gained him a cult following among high performers in Fortune listed companies the world over.

He has worked in more than 40 cities and 25 countries globally and counts Microsoft, ING, Universal Music and the Commonwealth Bank amongst his clients.

He is the founder of Switch L+D, an online learning platform that gives anyone, anywhere the same level of career development that has only ever been reserved for the highest performers of Fortune 500 companies.

ASQA Update

Location

South Wharf

Mr Mark Paterson AO, Chief Commissioner and Chief Executive Officer - Australian Skills Quality Authority

Chief Commissioner and Chief Executive Officer - Australian Skills Quality Authority

Mr Mark Paterson AO has extensive experience across government and industry, including experience leading government departments at both the state and federal levels. Mr Paterson is a former Secretary of the NSW Department of Trade and Investment, Regional Infrastructure and Services; the Australian Government Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research; and the Australian Government Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources.

Mr Paterson commenced as a Commissioner of ASQA on 30 May 2016, and commenced as Chief Commissioner and Chief Executive Officer from 1 January 2017.

Morning Tea & Networking

Location

North Wharf

Mastering the Art of Momentum: The secret to achieving effortless & enduring growth

Location

South Wharf

We all love being on a roll, in sync and firing on all cylinders – that flow-state sensation where everything just seems to work.

But what happens when the groove becomes a rut, inspiration evaporates or your mojo disappears?

Enduring success and growth for any business today is dependent on building and maintaining unstoppable momentum.

Session Overview

In this fast-paced & compelling keynote presentation, audiences discover:

  • The SCIENCE and ART of momentum – where it comes from and why it makes all the difference when you’ve got it working for you
  • A PRACTICAL and POWERFUL FORMULA for building momentum individually or in a team
  • How to get into a FLOW STATE of PEAK PRODUCTIVITY on a daily basis
  • The role that FOCUS and CONSISTENCY play in ensuring a GROOVE doesn’t become a RUT over time

Audience members will leave this presentation with a clear action plan for achieving effortless growth and maintaining it over the long haul

Michael McQueen

Multi-award winner, trend forecaster and six-time bestselling author

Michael McQueen is a multi-award winning speaker, trend forecaster and six-time bestselling author . With clients including KPMG, Pepsi and Cisco, he has helped some of the world’s most successful brands navigate disruption and maintain momentum. In addition to featuring regularly as a commentator on TV and radio, Michael is a familiar face on the international conference circuit having shared the stage with the likes of Bill Gates, Dr. John Maxwell and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.

Michael has spoken to over 300,000 people across 5 continents since 2004, and is known for his engaging, entertaining and practical conference presentations. Having been recently named Australia’s Keynote Speaker of the Year, Michael was inducted into the Professional Speakers Halls of Fame.

Coming from a background in marketing and research, in 2004 Michael founded a consultancy specializing in demographic shifts and social trends called The Nexgen Group.

Michael’s first book The ‘New’ Rules of Engagement was the culmination of a 3-year study of the key drivers of youth culture around the world. With an emphasis on the values and attitudes of Millennials, this 2007 release focussed on helping business leaders, educators and parents better engage a younger generation.

In 2009 and 2010, Michael went on to release a range of gift books called Memento and Wisdom which were designed to bridge the generation gap in families by helping parents pass on their stories and life lessons to the next generation. Building on the international success of this gift book range, Michael created an online memoir-writing app for parents called Histography.com.

Michael’s third bestselling book Winning the Battle for Relevance was a landmark title that explored why even the greatest businesses and institutions become obsolete and how others could avoid their fate. Drawing on research tracking 500 of the world’s most iconic brands over 5 years, Michael outlined a range of strategies for organizations and businesses who are committed to staying ahead of the curve by re-inventing themselves before they are forced to do so.

In 2016 Michael's research emphasis shifted to focus on the key habits and mindsets that enable organizations and individuals to stay at the cutting edge over time. He released his fourth bestseller Momentum: How to Build it, Keep it, or Get it Back in October that year. Receiving wide acclaim worldwide, Momentum outlined a simple but powerful formula for staying on a growth trajectory and ensuring that a success groove doesn't become a rut.

Michael's newest book How to Prepare Now for What's Next is a revealing glimpse at the key trends that will shape the coming years including Artificial Intelligence, robotics and nanotechnology. Michael's explores the technological shifts and social changes that no organization or individual can afford to ignore and offers a practical game plan for thriving in an age of disruption.

Location

South Wharf

Senator the Hon. Michaelia Cash MP, Minister for Small and Family Business, Skills and Vocational Education (Invited)

Welcome & Official Opening

Location

South Wharf

Gerry Gannon

RTO/Compliance Manager Gannon Media Services

Gerry Gannon has been a journalist, broadcaster, MC and media trainer in Australia for the last 30 years and is now one of the best known speakers and facilitators in Australia. A specialist conference MC, facilitator and media expert, Gerry is renowned for his wit, passion, easy-going nature and commitment to those he works with. He has worked extensively in both Australia and overseas and provides media skills training to government, not-for-profit organisations and industry entities, as well as conducting speech and presentation training courses. Gerry’s real passion is people; whether it is helping them reach their potential through training and support, MC at an event or providing valuable perspective and advice, Gerry’s easy humour and experience provides a refreshing opportunity for growth and knowledge for everyone he meets.

Registration

Location

North Wharf