Forum speeches

6 November 2009
Canada-Australia Public Policy Initiative Lecture - Public Policy in a Changing World
The Honourable Kevin Lynch

Presentation

29 September 2009
ELLN Breakfast - Green Shoots Leading
Amanda Horne

Presentation Handouts

• Dr. Martin Seligman: Happiness is a Lot More Than Just Feeling Good
• Validation

15 September 2009
SES Breakfast - Turning Crisis into Opportunity: How the Australian Public Service can support Social Inclusion
Elaine Henry CEO, The Smith Family

1 September 2009
New Directions event
Senator the Hon Joe Ludwig, Cabinet Secretary and Special Minister of State

4 August 2009
Implications of a Pandemic for Australia
Professor Peter Collignon, Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, The Canberra Hospital

31 July 2009
The global financial crisis: an alternative view
Chris Richardson, Director, Access Economics

9 June 2009
Investing in a Downturn Reflection, Resilience, Renewal
Mark Lelliott, Marianne Broadbent, EWK International

19 May 2009
SES Breakfast - Responding to Climate Change and the Global Financial Crisis
Don Henry, Executive Director of the Australian Conservation Foundation

8 May 2009
“Privacy: Where do you draw the line?” (external website)
Senator John Faulkner, Special Minister of State
held in conjunction with the Privacy Commission
related material
- http://www.privacyawarenessweek.org/topics/youth/index.html
- http://www.privacyawarenessweek.org/paw/info_sheet3_psd.html
- http://www.privacyawarenessweek.org/paw/documents/psd_report.pdf

28 April 2009
‘How could a Human Rights Act lead to better Government?’
Hon Catherine Branson QC, President, Australian Human Rights Commission

22 April 2009
The Global Financial Crisis and implications for Australia
David Gruen, Executive Director, Domestic, Macroeconomic Group, Australian Treasury

3 April 2009
SES Breakfast - Becoming more IT savvy and how it pays off
Professor Peter Weill, Chairman & Senior Research Scientist, Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), MIT Sloan School of Management

18 March 2009
International Women’s Day Address
Tanya Plibersek MP, Minister for Housing, Minister for the Status of Women

10 March 2009
Valedictory Lecture by David Borthwick, Secretary of the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts

• Introductory remarks - Lynelle Briggs, Australian Public Service Commissioner
• Valedictory speech
• Concluding remarks - Terry Moran, Secretary, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet

3 March 2009
Executive Level Leadership Network Annual Forum

• Social Inclusion and the Third Sector - Jill Farrelly, Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
• The MPC and Ethical Decision Making - Annwyn Godwin, Merit Protection Commissioner
• A Victorian approach to Social Inclusion: "New leadership, fresh approaches- advancing the social inclusion agenda." - Alison McClelland, Executive Director, Strategic Policy Research & Forecasting, Department of Planning & Community Development
• Social Inclusion and Workforce Participation - Dr Alison Morehead, Social Inclusion and Participation Group, Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
• Leading on social inclusion in the APS - Michelle Patterson, Social Inclusion Unit, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
• Social Inclusion? A different challenge for today’s leaders - Robin Ryde
• Values - Simon Tatz / David Crosbie, Mental Health Council of Australia

27 November & 2 December 2009
EL Leadership Network Breakfast – Maintaining the rage through a big organisational change and beyond
Matt Miller, General Manager, Child Support Agency

8 October 2008
SES Breakfast - New Pathways to a Regulatory Alternative (PDF /PPT)
John Tucker, CEO, Standards Australia

1 October 2008
Leader to leader forum - Leadership in a regulatory environment
ACCC chairman Graeme Samuel

28 August 2008
Departmental and Personal Perspectives of Leadership
Geoff Leeper - Deputy Secretary - Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

18 August 2008
Valedictory Lecture by Robert Cornall AO, Secretary of the Attorney-General’s Department

• Introductory remarks - Lynelle Briggs, Australian Public Service Commissioner
• Valedictory speech
• Concluding remarks - Terry Moran, Secretary, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet

30 July 2008
Water in Australia - The big issues
Ken Matthews, Chair and CEO, National Water Commission

28 July 2008
Valedictory Lecture by Mark Sullivan, Secretary, Department of Veterans' Affairs - An Unlikely Secretary

• Introductory remarks - Lynelle Briggs, Australian Public Service Commissioner
• Valedictory speech
• Concluding remarks - Terry Moran, Secretary, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet

19 May 2008
Climate Change Challenges (Presentation slides only)
Martin Parkinson - Address to the Leader to Leader Forum

30 April 2008
Address to Heads of Agencies and members of Senior Executive Service
Speech by The Hon. Kevin Rudd MP, Prime Minister of Australia
also available as media files: WMA (29mb) MP3 (44mb)

29 April 2008
Growth fetishism and public policy
Clive Hamilton - Visiting Fellow, Regulatory Institutions Network, Australian National University

15 April 2008
Stepping up to change
Greg Russell - Chief Executive Officer, Airservices Australia

12 March 2008
LDN Annual forum

• Talent and succession management - Natalie Archer, Director, Bendelta
• Talent and succession management - Telstra

8 February 2008
Valedictory Lecture by Dr Peter Shergold, Secretary, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

• Introduction - Lynelle Briggs, Public Service Commissioner
• Valedictory lecture - Dr Peter Shergold, Secretary, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
• Response to Valedictory lecture - Dr Ian Watt, Secretary, Department of Finance and Deregulation

1 November 2007-
LDN - BreakfastManaging talent through better career design
Dr Heidi Viljaama, Managing Director, CareerStorm Ltd, Finland

7 September 2007
LDN - Investing in Leadership Development Are we getting value for money?
Dr Carla Day, Director, Leadership Values and Cultural Engagement, Personnel Executive, Department of Defence presentation

27 June 2007
LDN - Powering Up Leadership through Mentoring
Imogen Wareing, Director at The Growth Connection presentation

23 April 2007
Reflections on Life at Home and Away in the Australian Public Service
Ms Joanna Hewitt, Secretary of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry - Valedictory speech

18 April 2007
An appetite for service
Ms Lynne Tacy, Deputy Public Service Commissioner at 'A Taste of Government'

4 April 2007
LDN - Organisational Change (Leadership – Culture – Change)
Malcolm Wright - National Manager, Planning & Change Management, Centrelink

21 February 2007
LDN - Recruiting and retaining staff in a high pressure environment
Philippa Crome – Branch Manager HR Services, Department of Finance and Administration

5 December 2006
'The last count' - Dennis Trewin, Australian Statistician, Australian Bureau of Statistics - Valedictory speech

15 November 2006
LDN - Annual one-day forum - Leadership, culture and change

• Dr Iain Densten, Associate Professor of Leadership, UNSW at ADFA
• Mr Kevin Panozza, CEO, SalesForce
• Mr Michael D’Ascenzo – Commissioner, ATO
• Ms Josephine Schumann, HR Manager, DVA
• Ms Kate Dawson, Better Practice – Diversity, Australian Public Service Commission

13 September 2006
LDN - Leadership in crises and disasters -

• Infections and epidemics - Professor Peter Collignon, MB, BS (Hons), B.Sc (Med), FASM, FRACP, FRCPA
• Leadership in crisis situations - General Peter Cosgrove, AM, MC, (Retd)

22 June 2006

• Still learning after all these years - Dr Peter Shergold, Secretary, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
• Launch of Better Practice Guides: Workforce Planning, Performance Management & Absence Management - Lynne Tacy, A/g Public Service Commissioner22 June 2006

21 June 2006
LDN - Accountability, governance and leadership -

• The ANAO's leadership initiatives in improving public administration - Ian McPhee, PSM, Auditor-General for Australia
• Organisation management, oversight and practice - lessons from the Cornelia Rau Inquiry - Associate Professor Michael (Mick) Palmer, AO, APM

2 May 2006
An overview of organisational change within the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs and its implications for other agencies - Andrew Metcalfe, Secretary of the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs - Presentation

12 April 2006
LDN - Advancing leadership development practices

• Building leadership capability - Ian Harris, Clerk of the House, Department of the House of Representatives.
• DMO leadership programmes - Mary Kelaher, Director-General People and Performance, Defence Materiel Organisation.

22 February 2006
LDN seminar: Reviews and initiatives in leadership development

• The impact of leadership development - Catherine Hayman, Business Manager, Organisational Learning and Development, Centrelink
• Building SES leadership capability - Gordon McDonald, Director, Governance and Support/Programme Delivery, Programmes, Australian Public Commission

30 November 2005
LDN annual forum: The talent war: leadership and retention issues

• Identifying talent - Leanne Ansell-McBride, Assistant Commissioner, Australian Taxation Office
• Attracting and maintaining diversity of expertise - Peter Yuile, Executive Director, Australian Qauarantine and Inspection Service
• Implications of the MAC 5 report - Rob Wooding, project team leader, MAC report 2005, Managing and Sustaining the APS Workforce

21 September 2005
LDN - Starting anew: current initiatives in leadership -
Geoff Leeper, Deputy Secretary, Department of Human Services

21 September 2005
Starting anew: current initiatives in leadership
Andrew Metcalfe, Secretary, Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs

20 July 2005
Seminar: Leadership in a changing environment

• Professor Judith Whitworth, AC, Director, John Curtin School of Medical Research,
• Joanna Hewitt, Secretary, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
• Kerrie Tim, Group Manager, Office of Indigenous Policy Coordination

14 July 2005
Protective security and the APS Senior Executive
Ed Tyrie, Executive Director, Protective Security Coordination Centre (PSCC), Attorney-General's Department

9 June 2005
SES update
Jeff Lamond, Merit Protection Commissioner

27th April 2005
Succession management - How do you make it happen?
Ms Doreen Blevins, Assistant Commissioner, Australian Taxation Office

20 April 2005
Collaborative community relationships
Malcolm Hellmuth, Department of Main Roads, Queensland

24 March 2005
Preparing the public service for super change
Steve Gibbs, CEO of the Public Sector and Commonwealth Super Schemes (PSS and CSS) and Leo Bator, Commission for Superannuation and CEO of ComSuper

23 February 2005
Leadership and Whole of Government
Patricia Scott, Secretary of the Department of Human Services (speaking notes)