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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April 20, 2021

Shifting the focus from winning trust to being trustworthy: Ethics and integrity in public purpose work

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Has trust become a scarce commodity? Across so many of our institutions, trust, ethics and integrity are seemingly in decline.

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Thursday 15 April

Creating Public Value – Reimagining Public Purpose Partnerships

At the 2021 BiiG Network Innovation Conference in February, IPAA Queensland’s breakout sessions examined the holy grail of public purpose work – creating public value. Day 2’s session focused on the HOW of public value, reimagining how to identify and achieve better policy solutions for clients and communities through the lens of cross-sector partnerships. The

Wednesday 14 April

Privacy Awareness Week – Make privacy a priority

Privacy Awareness Week (PAW) will be held from 3-9 May 2021. IPAA Queensland asked Phil Green, Privacy Commissioner at the Office of the Information Commissioner Queensland, to share his thoughts and insights on the changing privacy landscape in the digital world. What is the significance of Privacy Awareness Week? PAW is an annual event celebrated

Thursday 18 March

Creating Public Value – The Global CoLab movement in action in Queensland

At the 2021 BiiG Network Innovation Conference in February, IPAA Queensland’s breakout session on day 1 focused on the WHAT of public value, reimagining value and better policy solutions for clients and communities. Michael Eales, Strategy Designer and Managing Director, Business Models Inc ANZ, kicked off the session with a keynote address – Reimagining trust

Thursday 18 March

Choose to Challenge

The theme of International Women’s Day 2021 is Choose to Challenge – We can all choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequality. We can all choose to seek out and celebrate women’s achievements. Collectively, we can all help create an inclusive world. Our colleagues at IPAA NSW have compiled a couple of

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