Employer Events
Learning moments that inspire innovation
For HR and DEI professionals, leaders and their people
Our members can join live or on-demand learning events and workshops designed to connect with experts, discuss ideas and share experiences and case studies.
Our member events are designed to encourage collaboration and innovation. Join and you’ll have complimentary access to all our upcoming and past learning events past.
Add on the option to offer your employees and their families access to our Work Life Wellbeing Series of learning courses and workshops.
Featured Event
Creating a Family-Inclusive Workplace: The voice of working families and the role of employers
A call to action for business leaders and policy decision makers to make Australia a more family-friendly nation and promote the wellbeing outcomes for Australian families.
Hosted by Emma Walsh, Founder of Family Friendly Workplaces and featuring speakers Georgie Dent, CEO, The Parenthood, Geoff Lloyd, Chair, The Fathering Project & Lisa Annese, CEO, Diversity Council of Australia, this webinar will provide insights, tools and strategies to enable evidence-based, family-inclusive practices.
The voice of working families will be reflected in the initial findings of the 2024 National Working Families Survey which will be published during National Families Week (13 – 19 May). These will offer an overview of the current challenges faced by working families, and will provide employers with strategies to support their employees through informed HR and wellbeing policies and practices.
Date: Tuesday 4th June 2024
Time: 11:30 am – 12:30 pm AEST
Duration: 60 minutes, online (Zoom)
2024 Events
Parental Leave: Putting Best Practice into Practice
A practical session exploring questions from our employer community around implementation, measuring impact and the recent changes to government legislation.
Domestic & Family Violence: Shifting the Dial from Response to Prevention
How employers are playing a crucial role in preventing workplace harassment, and domestic & family violence through policy and workplace culture.
Engaging Dads in Parental Leave
Men are increasingly offered paid parental leave so why aren’t they taking it? We will explore the problem and hear potential solutions from our employer community.
Best Practice Foster and Kinship Care
What does best practice support for foster and kinship carers look like?
More information will be available soon.
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How to become a family-inclusive employer with special guest Hazel Rehn, Organisational Development Manager, HCF
To support Australian employers understand how to become a more family-friendly workplace, we offer free webinars throughout the year. These online education sessions deepen employers’ understanding, knowledge and capability on how to be a family-inclusive employer.
The change that occurs when an employer improves its family-friendly capability impacts workplace culture, employee’s work-life wellbeing and the wider economy.
Our facilitators are experts in family-friendly policies and practices, and have trained thousands of Executives, HR/DEI practitioners and Business Leaders. They share their expertise and leading practice on flexibility, parental leave, family care and family wellbeing.
Supporting Menopause at Work / Reproductive Wellbeing in the Workplace with special guests Thea O’Connor, The a2Milk Company and Genea
Ensuring menopause and reproductive health is acknowledged and supported in the workplace is critical in working towards gender equality, research also shows it will result in improved health outcomes for employees.
In this session we’ll hear from Amanda Hart, Chief People Officer from The a2Milk company discussing the recent launch of their Women’s Health Leave policy and the impact they have seen.
We will also hear from Thea O’Connor, Menopause in the Workplace expert as well as Kathleen Waite, GM Operations at fertility company Genea on the importance of implementing supportive policies as well removing any stigma and taboo around discussing reproductive health.
How to become a family-inclusive employer with special guests The NRMA
To support Australian employers understand how to become a more family-friendly workplace, we offer free webinars throughout the year. These online education sessions deepen employers’ understanding, knowledge and capability on how to be a family-inclusive employer.
The change that occurs when an employer improves its family-friendly capability impacts workplace culture, employee’s work-life wellbeing and the wider economy.
Our facilitators are experts in family-friendly policies and practices, and have trained thousands of Executives, HR/DEI practitioners and Business Leaders. They share their expertise and leading practice on flexibility, parental leave, family care and family wellbeing.
How to create an Employee Families Resource Network
Are you looking at setting up an Employee Resource Group for your employees with caring responsibilities? Employee Resource Groups are a great way to provide a safe space for employees to connect and raise awareness about the issues they’re facing, foster belonging, and develop a collective and active voice for change.
In this event, our guest speakers will share leading practice on:
- The Why – The benefits of a Families Resource Group
- The Who – Who should be involved? How to engage them?
- The How – How to create a purposeful and inclusive employee group?
- The What – What should be on the group’s agenda?
- The What Else – When to launch, how to keep going and how to ensure successful outcomes.
How to become a family-inclusive employer with special guest KPMG
To support Australian employers understand how to become a more family-friendly workplace, we offer free webinars throughout the year.
These online education sessions deepen employers’ understanding, knowledge and capability on how to be a family-inclusive employer.
The change that occurs when an employer improves its family-friendly capability impacts workplace culture, employee’s work-life wellbeing and the wider economy.
Our facilitators are experts in family-friendly policies and practices, and have trained thousands of Executives, HR/DEI practitioners and Business Leaders.
They share their expertise and leading practice on flexibility, parental leave, family care and family wellbeing.
Our guest speaker is Lainie Cassidy, Director – People & Inclusion at KPMG.
Organisations that lead with compassion to create inclusive workplaces for both neurodistinct employees and carers of neurodistinct family members are opening up a world of opportunity for both their people and their business.
Joined by Natalie Phillips-Mason (she/her) the founder of Inclusive Change, a Change Management consultancy with a focus on creating neuroinclusive workplaces. Natalie comes from a mixed neurotype family herself and believes that we all have a right to belong in a workplace.
Joining Natalie will be Jean Capdevielle, Director, Bid and Value Marketing at Thales Australia. Jean leads the Accessibility and Neurodiversity Stream within Thales Australia alongside an amazing Employee Resource Group focused on making the workplace more inclusive.
Understanding and supporting neurodiversity is key to DEI strategy and employee advocacy. What’s more, for employers, there is an opportunity for organisations to support and embrace the neurodistinct workforce and their allies.
Best Practice Parental Leave Moderated by Women’s Agenda with special guests Deloitte and Cube Group
Moderated by Angela Priestley, Founder of Women’s Agenda and Emma Walsh, Founder of Parents At Work. Joined by Deloitte National Director DEI – Kate Furlong and Cube Group Head of People & Culture – Kim Annesley.
They share their experiences of building the business case for change, designing a fit for purpose parental leave transition experience as well as the impact for individuals and their respective businesses.
- Understanding the current state of parental leave (PL) policies and practices, what changes have we seen in the last couple of years including access to a yet to be released Whitepaper on Best Practice Parental Leave which will inform leaders to keep up with the recent PL bill amendments.
- The impact of parental leave on employees and organisations.
- Strategies for creating an inclusive parental leave policy and parental leave support that considers diverse family structures and needs.
- The role of employers and colleagues in supporting parents during and after leave.
- Insights from Deloitte and Cube Group, in particular how regardless of size they have both developed and embedded best practice approaches that are having a real impact.
Best Practice Carers Policy and Support with special guests to be confirmed
Unpaid carers currently represent 11% of all Australians (ABS, 2018) and 1 in 8 employees (Carers Australia).
Are you aware of what it means to be a carer, who the carer population in your workforce is and how they fall within your carer policy?
A carer is a broad term which includes parents, extended family, kin, foster parents and even friends who are caring, looking after or providing support to another. In this session we focus on unpaid carers within the workforce who have a different set of needs and experiences to working parents.
This significant, and often unrecognised group of carers balance work with the support of others across a range of needs including age, illness, disability, neurodiversity, grief, loss, and victims of domestic and family violence.
It is important that these carers are recognised as a distinct group within an organisation’s policies and support framework.
In this session we will be joined by Catherine McNair, Head of Diversity Inclusion and Wellbeing at QBE Insurance, Louise Ferris, Board Member, Carers Queensland and Director Human Resources, McCullogh Robertson and Fiona Hitchiner, Client Advisory Director, Parents at Work.
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