Professionals

Connecting with IPAA Queensland is perfect for professionals in the midst of their career seeking to broaden their horizons, enhance their skills, and open up new professional opportunities. Through our strong relationships with local, state and federal government, academics and leaders from industry and community organisations, IPAA is uniquely positioned to connect you with the relevant information, people, and opportunities you need during this stage of your career journey.

What membership type is best for me?

We recommend Full Membership for Professionals. Being a full member offers a range of benefits. You will receive discounted tickets to events and access to the latest thought leadership on public purpose topics. Find out more here.

EVEnts and resources

For ease, we have sourced and compiled a range of events and resources most relevant to you. Please take your time to browse our recent blog and thought leadership pieces and register for any upcoming events that spark your interest. If there’s anything you’d like to see here, please get in touch with us as we are regularly creating new content and evolving our events program.

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April 20, 2023

2023 Chief Executives and Emerging Leaders Breakfast

Brisbane City Hall

Emergent leadership: Harnessing the power of the collective to future proof our organisations registrations now open! ABOUT THIS EVENT IPAA Queensland is delighted to invite the public purpose sector once again to our annual flagship event, the Chief Executives and Emerging Leaders Breakfast. Formally known as the Chief Executives and Young Professionals Breakfast, this event

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Thursday 16 March

Modern Day Leadership – According to ChatGPT

With nearly 6 months of learning under its belt, the team at IPAA Queensland had a go at using ChatGPT. An artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI and launched in November 2022, it was built using a family of large language models and has been fine tuned using both supervised and reinforcement learning techniques.

Thursday 16 March

2023 International Women’s Day – Insights beyond the Couch

Chatting with IPAA Queensland’s President and Vice President IPAA Queensland hosted our inaugural IWD Stewards on the Couch on 8 March 2023. This event saw three impressive and innovative public stewards take the couch for a candid and thought-provoking discussion about leadership, career journeys, challenges, overcoming barriers, catalysing change, and leading with courage and

Thursday 16 March

Introducing our new Council Member – Dr Graham Fraine

“I believe that now, as much as I ever have, there is no better place to work to make both large scale change for our communities, and at the same time make the small changes that matter for individuals – how lucky are we that we can do both at the same time!” – Graham

Tuesday 7 February

Introducing our new Council leadership

2023 brings not only a fresh year for IPAA Queensland, with several events and updates on the horizon, but also rejuvenation of our Council leadership. Following the announcement from our former President, Ian Stewart AO late last year that he was stepping down to support renewal of leadership following his successful three year term, we

What are members saying?

A lot of people join Government because they want to make a difference to the community and IPAA can help in improving that difference we make.

Heidi Bushnell, Professional

Queensland Government

The experiences are amazing, and the relationships and the people you meet are incredible.

Dave Stewart, Executive

Queensland Government

IPAA provides a fantastic meeting place. There aren’t many forums where you can bring together a really diverse group of stakeholders and talk about really topical issues. IPAA does this really well.

Michael Hiller, Queensland Chairman

KPMG

It is great to see IPAA thriving, bringing in so many people, the calibre of the people you meet is priceless. I recommend everyone get involved and join in.

Fahim Khondaker, Professional

BDO

The forums, exceptional presentations – it is learning in a relaxed way that you don’t see in other institutions. I am very glad that IPAA is back in Queensland.

Katarina Carroll, Commissioner

QFES