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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June 2, 2020
“On the Couch” with Chris Sarra and Angela Leitch
Live-Streamed

  IPAA Queensland is delighted to invite you to our next virtual Stewards on the couch, in partnership with QUTeX, featuring Dr Chris Sarra, Director-General of Queensland’s Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships, and Angela Leitch, Pro Vice Chancellor (Indigenous Strategy) at Queensland University of Technology.

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Monday 18 May
Bringing your community up to speed on reconciliation

  At IPAA Queensland’s Chief Executives and Young Professionals Breakfast event in early 2020, an attendee posed an interesting question to the panel –  “I love my mum. She was born in Adelaide, educated to grade 10 a long time ago and then now educated by the TV. I need to bring her up to

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Wednesday 8 April
Leadership during disruption: an excerpt from KPMG

Last month, IPAA Queensland’s valued partner KPMG released a very timely and relevant report, Leading for high performance in disruption: A toolkit for leaders in the context of COVID-19. Here we provide some excerpts from the report to inform and challenge your thinking about leadership in disruptive and uncertain times. We’re all prone to falling

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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

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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

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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