Your ER/IR questions unpacked. Live.
Join AHRI’s ER/IR Unpacked podcast host and leading local experts for a practical, interactive event focused on the workplace issues employers and HR practitioners are navigating now.
With extended Q&A, you’ll have more time to unpack complex situations, hear expert perspectives and get practical answers you can apply in your own workplace.
Why attend
Get practical answers
Put your questions to ER/IR experts through an extended Q&A session.
Navigate complex situations
Gain practical approaches to workforce change, investigations, restructures and employee exits.
Prepare for emerging challenges
Understand ER/IR issues shaping Australian workplaces and what they mean for employers.
Event details
The program at a glance
Morning: Explore the challenges
Hear from experts as they unpack key workplace issues, including workforce change, investigations, restructures, employee exits and emerging risks.
Afternoon: Bring your questions
Take part in an extended expert Q&A, with substantially more time to explore questions than a typical conference would allow.
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Speakers
Jonathon Woolfrey FCPHR
AHRI Podcast Host,
AHRI
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Jonathon Woolfrey is an experienced HR executive and non-executive director, with a strong commitment to advancing evidence-based practice in human resources. He holds an undergraduate degree in psychology and two master’s degrees and is a passionate advocate for professional Certification within the HR profession.
Jonathon has held senior HR roles across state and Commonwealth governments, large not-for-profit organisations and private enterprise. He has also lectured in HR and employment relations at a postgraduate level for several years. He is currently Managing Partner at talenting, and serves as a Commissioner and non-executive director for Catholic Education WA Limited.
Jonathon has served as an AHRI State Councillor in Western Australia since 2019, including as WA State President from 2020 to 2026. He was appointed to the AHRI Board as a State Director from 2021 to 2026 and during that time Chaired the AHRI ER/IR National Advisory Panel. Commencing in 2026, Jonathon is now the host of AHRI’s ERIR Unpacked podcast.
Charles Power
Partner,
Holding Redlich
Michaela White CPHR
ER/IR Manager,
Cleanaway Waste Management
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Michaela White is a passionate and business focused industrial relations/employee relations specialist and a self-confessed “IR nerd” who believes effective leadership, transparency and employee engagement are the key to successful employee and industrial relations outcomes.
Currently an industrial relations manager at Cleanaway Waste Management, Australia’s largest, publicly listed waste management company with over 6,000 employees in more than 250 locations, she has extensive experience as an HR generalist and industrial relations specialist across a range of public, private and not for profit organisations.
Michaela is committed to supporting the next generation of HR professionals through coaching and mentoring and is an active member of AHRI’s ER/IR Advisory panel and the Industrial Relations Society of Victoria.
Sandy Hutchison CAHRI
Founder & CEO,
Career Money Life
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Sandy Hutchison is the Founder and CEO of Career Money Life, an Australian HR technology platform dedicated to supporting people through life’s key transitions. She brings more than three decades of experience spanning senior HR leadership at Marsh & McLennan, where she received the company’s CEO Award for her work as Asia Pacific HR Director, and consulting partnership at Mercer, through to 13 years building a business grounded in the belief that every person deserves to be treated with dignity, choice, and care, especially in their most vulnerable moments.
Before her corporate career, Sandy served the Government of Canada on the privatisation of the Canadian Air Navigation System, one of the most significant public sector transformations in Canadian history. That work earned her the Minister’s Medal, the highest honour a Canadian public servant can receive.
Career Money Life is an AI-enabled employee experience platform that blends technology, choice, and care to deliver personalised programs across career transition, outplacement, parental leave, retirement coaching, EAP, and candidate care. Its unique Future Fit and Marketplace Credit model gives employees genuine choice and control over their transition journey, while providing HR teams with clear, data-informed reporting and confidence in every program delivered. A WeConnect-certified, women-owned business, Career Money Life partners with leading organisations including Virgin Australia, EY, South East Water, and Boeing. The business has been recognised as one of Smart Company’s Top 50 SME Workplaces and is a recipient of the Career Development Association of Australia’s Award for Excellence in Service.
Sandy holds a Master of Public Policy and Administration from Concordia University, the CAHRI credential from the Australian HR Institute, and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. She is a Founding Board Director of the Australian Gender Equality Council and a published contributor to business management education.
Sandy’s work sits at the intersection of neuroscience, emotional intelligence, and HR practice, with particular expertise in supporting organisations to manage workforce transitions with empathy, psychological safety, and genuine care for the people involved.
