Young Professionals

As a young professional or new manager or leader, it can be challenging to establish your professional brand and build strong connections. IPAA Queensland provides opportunities for young professionals to set themselves apart, connect with peers and leaders across the sector, and keep informed on the latest thinking. Our events and resources support young professionals and new managers to become confident and capable leaders in their organisation.

What membership type is best for me?

Either the Digital Membership or Full Membership is recommended for Young Professionals. Both levels offer a range of benefits and are priced to suit any budget. As a full Member of IPAA Queensland 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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March 5, 2020

Digital Transformation in Public Purpose Work: In Collaboration with McKinsey & Company

Level 41, 1 William Street Brisbane

Challenger Seminar Series: Digital Transformation in Public Purpose Work IPAA Queensland in partnership with McKinsey & Company welcome you to attend our second Challenger Seminar Series event.

April 21, 2020

Building Visibility and Influence for Women in the Public Sector: A Mandarin Live Event

Karstens Brisbane, 215 Adelaide St, Brisbane City QLD, Australia

A critical masterclass that enables women in leadership to maximise their influence.

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Monday 9 March

Five ways to cultivate leaders in your team

Whilst there are several ways public servants can enter leadership roles across agencies, there is also a growing focus across the public service to develop and nurture leadership talent from within. Though developing, valuing and supporting public servants at all levels is behaviour to get behind, there are several ways that agency culture can determine

Friday 6 March

Agile in Action – Embedding the SAFe® Framework at the Department of Human Services

Embedding an agile way of working, such as the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®), within an organisation is no easy feat. It generally involves completely reshaping how a business operates, evolving team members’ roles and responsibilities, developing social contracts and setting non-negotiables for behaviours? – and all these elements require the buy in and involvement of

Friday 6 March

Epics, Features and Sprints – Oh My! The prioritisation process at the Department of Human Services

The nomenclature around SAFe® and other agile processes can look complicated and seem overwhelming. However, the SAFe® process followed at the Department of Human Services’ Business Transformation Branch is nothing short of a well-oiled machine using rigorous agile procedures. Every 12 weeks, the Business Transformation Branch follows the below procedure to collate, analyse, advocate, prioritise,

Wednesday 26 February

Consider your influence and your impact: IPAA Queensland’s 2020 CEO/YP Breakfast

IPAA Queensland was delighted to host nearly 600 public purpose workers at its flagship annual Chief Executives & Young Professionals Breakfast this week at the iconic Brisbane City Hall. Professionals from across state, local and federal Governments, consulting and university sectors converged to hear about IPAA Queensland’s 2020 theme and the day’s topic ‘It’s Time.

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