Speakers
Dale Beasley – Secretary, SA Unions
Day Two: Practical Approaches in the Modern Workplace
As the current head of the United Trades and Labour Council of SA (SA Unions) Dale has a keen interest in understanding and shaping the future of work by building communities of shared knowledge, and shaping policy based on the skills, knowledge and aspirations of South Australians. As a former Director of engineer’s and scientist’s union Professionals Australia, Dale believes in collaboration and evidence-based action to achieve it.
Emily Haar – Partner, Piper Alderman
Day Two: Managing Mental Health in the workplace
Emily supports organisations by providing timely legal advice through every stage of employment, including hiring, managing the workforce, and resolving disputes. Emily provides advice to employers from various industries in relation to all aspects of employment, industrial relations, work health and safety, and workers compensation law.
Emily hosts Piper Alderman’s podcast, Employment Law for the Time Poor, updating listeners on complicated legal issues in manageable portions. In 2018, 2020, and 2021, Emily was recognised by Doyle’s Guide as a Rising Star for Employment & WHS – Australia.
Sarah Griffen – Director, Griffen People
Day One: Culture and Hybrid Work
With 20+ years of delivering contemporary People and Culture Solutions as a Senior HR Leader, Sarah now works with individuals and organisations to develop the capability, capacity and culture that drives peak performance through her coaching and consulting work. Sarah holds a Masters in HRM (Organisational Change Management), and has recently completed training in Neuroscience and Positive Intelligence.
Jeremy Johncock – Indigenous Programs Manager, Adelaide Football Club
Day One: Indigenous Employment: From Reconciliation action plans, to opportunity, to sustainable employment futures
Jeremy has 15 years’ experience working extensively in Aboriginal engagement through several roles within SA Government including the Courts Administration Authority, the Office for Recreation and Sport, the Department Planning Transport and Infrastructure and most recently the Treaty Commissioners Office.
At the Adelaide Foitball Club he works closely with the Club leadership, the RAP Committee and the community department to support Club-wide Indigenous initiatives and programs. With a focus on communication and liaison with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander players, employees and various internal and external stakeholders.
Daniel Krips – Special Counsel, Dentons
Day Two: Mediation or Investigation
Danny is a workplace and industrial lawyer who is as interested in managing people and personalities as he is the provisions of Australia’s complex laws.
He has advised public, private and not-for-profit sector clients in relation to all phases of the employment lifecycle.
With a particular interest in investigations, misconduct matters and conflict resolution, Danny takes every opportunity to work with clients to assist them understand and meet the challenges the modern workplace brings.
Alexandra Laws – Human Performance Specialist, Speaker and Educator, Performance Laws
Day one: Are you Hacking Your Human or is it Hacking You?
Alex ia an accomplished High Performance Coach, Exercise Kinesiologist and strength conditioning professional with over 20 years of experience assisting athletes to achieve World records, World Titles, Wimbledon Championships, French Open Championships, Olympic Medalists, X Games Medalists and National titles.
As a former professional Triathlete she represented Australia 4 times, competed in the Commonwealth Games and won 4 World Championship medals. Being a lifelong athlete and passionate about the human body and its proper function she possess the expertise to identify dysfunctional gaps within athletes training and performance.
Erin McCarthy – Partner, Piper Alderman
Day Two: Managing Mental Health in the workplace
Erin is a partner with 20 years’ experience in providing advice to employers and employer associations on all aspects of occupational health and safety, employment and industrial relations law as well as delivering essential information seminars and training workshops on key employment issues.
Erin regularly provides strategic advice in relation to performance management, misconduct investigations and unfair dismissal claims, bullying, discrimination and harassment matters and occupational health and safety issues including risk management and policy development.
Dr Gemma Munro – Thought leader, transformational facilitator and award-winning speaker
Day One: Making Brave Choices in the Midst of Change
Dr Gemma Munro has a PhD in performance psychology and a flair for lighting up leaders.
Winner of the Duncan Prize for speaking and a two-time Telstra Businesswoman of the Year finalist, Gemma is known as a catalyst for laughter, a-ha moments and wake-up calls.
She has the unique ability to inspire people to make deep, long-lasting changes in mindset and behaviours, and to make these changes feel easy and joyful.
Daniel Panozzo – Disruptor, Change Leader, Award Winning Journalist
Day One: Affecting Change in a Modern Workplace: Desire 101
Daniel is an unapologetic disruptor who questions all he sees and is recognised for his ability to connect with individuals and audiences alike. His mission is to engage, challenge and inspire others to think beyond conventional thought processes and norms.
Delivering a unique blend of change management and emotional intelligence capability he possesses an ability to make sense of and communicate how to bridge the divide between organisational change methodology into individual practicality and is highly regarded for his influential operating style.
He currently juggles his time between professional public speaker, host and facilitator, the practising Organisational Change Manager for the RAA, the co-Founder and co-Director of his own boutique consulting agency, Aspen Solutions, as well as the co-Creator and co-Host of the multi award-winning radio show/podcast, Just Lawful.
Liana Reinhardt – Chief People and Strategy Officer, Credit Union SA
Day One: Skills to thrive as a HR leader
Liana is currently the Chief People and Strategy Officer with Credit Union SA and has experience across the Not-for-Profit, retail and FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) industries. Liana’s experience includes as an Executive with Workskil Australia in the National People Manager role, as the Director, People and Development with Ralph Lauren and with Kellogg’s across a number of roles including within the APAC supply chain. Liana started her career as a Trainee Optical Dispenser with OPSM, part of Luxottica, where she spent 15 years in a variety of roles and can still share a thing or two about optical physics or tighten the screws in your glasses.
Liana holds a Graduate Certificate Professional Education and Training, Diploma of Management, Diploma Positive Psychology and Wellbeing and is an Accredited Mental Health First Aider. Liana is also a Fellow Certified Member of the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI) and a Vice President of the AHRI State Council in SA.
Todd Roberts – CEO Credit Union SA
Day One: Skills to thrive as a HR leader
Todd has spent over 25 years working in finance and professional services across Australia and the UK, including 11 years as an Executive at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. He is passionate about leading a highly effective, performance-driven professional team who are dedicated to achieving outstanding results for both internal and external customers.
Susan Sadler – National President, AHRI SA State Council | Director, Red Wagon Workplace Solutions
Day Two: Does your payroll compliance pass the front-page news test? A discussion on the underpayment of wages and wage theft landscape.
As the founder and CEO of Red Wagon Workplace Solutions, Susan is passionate about her mission to provide straight talking HR advice that makes a difference to individuals, businesses and the community. She does this through a distinct focus on practical outcomes and her understanding of business outcomes and risk mitigation.
A seasoned member of AHRI and current State President, Susan holds a vision of ongoing professional development and growth for every HR practitioner. She is an active member of the AHRI National IR Advisory Panel, Australian Association of Workplace Investigators and has been recognised as one of Australia’s top 50 small business leaders.
Brenz Saunders – Founder and CEO of Garu InfoTech
Day One: Indigenous Employment: From Reconciliation action plans, to opportunity, to sustainable employment futures
Brenz is the Founder and CEO of Garu InfoTech, Deputy Chairperson of Tauondi Aboriginal College, Director of Infoxchange and Director of Far West Coast Investments. He is a strong and passionate advocate for digital inclusion in particular supporting greater opportunities to ensure digital accessibility, education and employment for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. He also serves as a board member of Generation Australia’s First Nations Advisory Group and as a regional council member for the Australian Information Industry Association.
Christelle Simpson – Head of Human Relations, SA Power Networks
Day One: Skills to thrive as a HR leader
Christelle is a results-driven senior people & culture leader with over 20 years’ experience across a variety of industries. Currently, Christelle leads a large team driving significant strategic and operational change in her role as Head of HR at SA Power Networks.
Driven by establishing a strong vision and business-aligned people strategy, Christelle’s strength is in leading the execution of these by establishing a clear line of sight in operational plans and projects, cascading to individual objectives.
Christelle is passionate about coaching and developing high performing teams and supporting them to realise their potential. She has demonstrated success partnering and collaborating across the business to enable the achievement of corporate objectives through enhancing culture and engagement, leadership capability and building a sustainable workforce for the future.
Kaye Smith – Principal Partner and Director, EMA Legal
Day Two: Developments in the law of sexual harassment
Kaye’s work extends to employment law in both State and Federal jurisdictions. She enjoys complex employment disputes, dismissals, contract and wages disputes, work health and safety, anti-discrimination law and industrial disputes. Kaye also acts as Panel Manager for local government code of conduct disputes, and enjoys providing strategic and practical advice to chief-executive officers and boards.
Kaye has been individually recognised, since 2011 in the Doyle’s Guide to the Australian Legal Profession. During that time Kaye has been consistently recognised as a ‘Market Leader’ or ‘Preeminent’ Employment Lawyer (Employer Representation) in South Australia and as ‘Leading’ in Australia since 2018.
Will Snow – Partner, Finlaysons
Day Two: Dismissals – case law update, trends and strategy
Day Two: Does your payroll compliance pass the front-page news test? A discussion on the underpayment of wages and wage theft landscape.
Will Snow gives legal advice about when things go wrong at work. It could be concerning termination of employment, a safety incident or a work injury. He usually acts for companies but also acts for employees. He loves the variety, grey areas and complexity of employment law.
Prof Andrew Stewart – John Bray Professor of Law
Day Two: Workplace relations under the Albanese Government: What do we know so far?
Andrew is the John Bray Professor of Law at the University of Adelaide, Adjunct Professor with QUT’s Centre for Decent Work & Industry, and a consultant with the law firm Piper Alderman. A pre-eminent expert on employment law and workplace relations, and the author of Stewart’s Guide to Employment Law, he has decades of experience in advising employers, trade unions and governments at all levels on legal and policy issues.
Andrea Sumner – Manager Workplace Relations, Red Wagon Workplace Solutions
Day Two: Does your payroll compliance pass the front-page news test? A discussion on the underpayment of wages and wage theft landscape.
With over 15 years of expertise as an industrial relations specialist, Andrea has unique and unprecedented experience on both sides of the fence, not only as a union official but also as an advisor to employers. Facilitation and mediation skills honed while conducting contract, trade and industrial negotiations in Europe, Columbia and across Australia, combined with a deep knowledge and passion for employment legislation, enable Andrea to position businesses to achieve successful outcomes in industrial matters.
Nicole Underwood – Managing Director, Underwood Executive
Day One: Skills to thrive as a HR leader
Nicole has led Underwood Executive through 10 years of numerous achievements. Underwood Executive has also been named in LinkedIn’s top 25 most socially engaged recruitment firms in Asia Pacific. With a significant social media following, Nicole is ranked in the top 1% of her market as an industry thought leader. She has a Bachelor of Management from The University of South Australia, is a Fellow of the Recruitment Consulting Services Association (RCSA), a Board Member of the Professional Practice Council, RCSA, as well as an Executive Mentor at the University of South Australia.
Chris Wood – Councillor, AHRI SA State Council | General Manager – People & Culture, Dr Jones & Partners Medical Imaging
Day One: Indigenous Employment: From Reconciliation Action Plans, to opportunity, to sustainable employment futures.
Chris brings executive people and culture leadership from a broad range of business. MBA qualified, offering experience gained in breadth of industry and cultures across Australia, Europe and North America. He is now the General Manager of People and Culture at Dr Jones & Partners Medical Imaging.
Chris will facilitate this session.
Samantha Young – Managing Director, Human Psychology
Day One: “I see you HR” – self-care challenges for HR Professionals in 2022
Samantha brings a unique combination of senior management and commercial experience, psychological intervention skills and Masters-level formal education in both business and psychology to her clinical, training, coaching and consulting work. She has designed and delivered training for over twenty years and is a sought after facilitator, working with hundreds of employees and managers and dozens of organisations every year.
Marcus Zeltzer – Co-Founder, Yellow Canary
Day Two: Does your payroll compliance pass the front-page news test? A discussion on the underpayment of wages and wage theft landscape.
Marcus is a senior executive and one of Australia’s preeminent experts on automation technology for use in payroll compliance. Following his passion for solving real-world business problems using technology, Marcus co-founded Yellow Canary to address under-serviced and widespread workforce compliance issues in Australian workplaces. Prior to Yellow Canary, Marcus co-founded an employment relations law firm built on automation technology and ran a company that delivered critical skills training to organisations going through transformational change.
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