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The SES Breakfast Series are events that provide participants with a forum to hear and interact with leading speakers on contemporary issues, which are relevant to their work.
There are two ways to register to attend SES breakfasts. You can register to attend individual events by downloading the flyer for each event, completing the details and faxing it to the listed number. Alternatively, the SES events subscription provides the opportunity to attend SES events at a discounted rate. Subscribers will be emailed information about forthcoming events as they are confirmed.
Take the opportunity to hear and interact with leading, high profile Australian and international speakers on issues relevant to contemporary challenges faced by the Australian Public Service:
Next event
19 August 2010
Organisational effectiveness and the flexible workplace - Marian Baird, Professor of Work and Organisations at the University of Sydney
Overview
A high performing organisation is dependent on a highly-capable and effective workforce. Flexible working arrangements, such as parental leave, carers leave and the availability of part-time positions, are a key component of staff retention and job-satisfaction. However, flexible working arrangements also bring about a range of leadership challenges for senior leaders.
Join Professor Marian Baird as she explores:
- leading and supporting a flexible workplace
- productivity and effectiveness in a flexible workplace
- the changing face of the Australian workforce
- the organisational impacts of the work-life balance revolution.
About the speaker
Professor Marian Baird is a researcher in the fields of women, work and family, and industrial relations. Marian’s specific research focus is maternity leave. She was a lead investigator on The Parental Leave in Australia Study and is a member of the academic team evaluating the Australian Government’s new Paid Parental Leave Scheme. She serves on the Board of the Labour Management Studies Foundation at Macquarie University.
Marian currently teaches in both the undergraduate and graduate programs of the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Sydney.
In 2008, Marian participated in the Australia: 2020 Summit on the ‘Productivity Agenda’ panel. In 2005 Marian was appointed Australian Research Council (ARC) Reader to assist with reading and ranking ARC’s Discovery and Linkage Projects programs. Marian has also undertaken a number of other major ARC funded projects, including a project that examined the achievement of the ‘dual agenda’ of gender equity and organisational effectiveness in major Australian organisations.
Past events
21 July 2010
Advancing Public Sector Innovation -
Ms Patricia Kelly,
Deputy Secretary Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research
Mr William Eggers, Global Director for Deloitte Research, Executive Director of Deloitte’s Public Leadership Institute
28 June 2010
Leading Citizen-Engagement in a Multi-Stakeholder World - Don Lenihan, Vice President, Engagement, at the Public Policy Forum in Ottawa
19 May 2010
Leadership, Lessons and Reconstruction during recovery – Christine Nixon APM, Chair, Victorian Bushfire Reconstruction and Recovery Authority
17 March 2010
Pushing peanuts uphill – the dream for equality at the top – Sue Vardon AO, Board Member, Australian Red Cross
6 November 2009
Public Policy in a changing world: why good policy still matters and how to make it -The Hon Kevin G Lynch, former Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet, Government of Canada.
15 September 2009
Turning Crisis into opportunity – Elaine Henry OAM
4 August 2009
Implications of a Pandemic for Australia – Professor Peter Collignon
12 June 2009
Investing in a downturn - Mark Lelliott and Marianne Broadbent, EWK International
19 May 2009
Responding to Climate Change and the Global Financial Crisis - Don Henry, Executive Director, Australian Conservation Foundation
8 May 2009
Privacy: where do we draw the line? - Senator the Hon. John Faulkner, Cabinet Secretary,
Special Minister of State, and Vice-President of the Executive
Council speaks on privacy and the impact of new technologies
28 April 2009
How could a Human Rights Act lead to better Government? - The Hon Catherine Branson QC, President, Australian Human Rights Commission
3 April 2009
ICT for Organisational Transformation - Peter Weill, Chairman, Sloan Center for Information Systems Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Copies of presentations from past events are, when available, at our Media pages.
Further information
For more details please contact the program manager on 02 6202 3543.
