Schedule

Key Takeaways

• Strengthen self-awareness to make smarter decisions
• Deepen empathy to lead and connect authentically
• Build resilience to navigate constant change with confidence
• Don’t just understand EI — put it into action

Session Overview
This high-impact mini-workshop is designed to elevate the emotional intelligence competencies you need most right now—self-awareness, empathy, and resilience. Led by Amy, an accredited GENOS International Emotional Intelligence Practitioner, this energising session is ideal for L&D professionals and people leaders who want to sharpen their self-awareness, deepen their empathy, and build the resilience needed to make smarter decisions, lead authentically, and navigate constant change with confidence.

The Active-Interactive Learning Program (AILP) ©

Key Takeaways

• Know your stakeholders
• Identify their learning needs
• What problems are we solving
• How can we meet these needs?
• Changing external environments
• Adaptation and re-skilling
• Engagement levels
• Learning outcomes

Session Overview
Discover how to design learning programs that truly connect with the people you serve in The Active-Interactive Learning Program (AILP) ©, led by governance and strategy expert Dr André van Zyl. With over 30 years’ experience across corporate governance, business leadership and education, André brings a practical, future-focused approach to understanding stakeholders, identifying real learning needs, and solving the problems that matter most.

In this session, you’ll explore how shifting environments, emerging technologies and evolving workforce expectations demand continual adaptation and re-skilling. You’ll learn how to lift engagement, strengthen learning outcomes, and create programs that remain relevant, responsive and impactful.

Key Takeaways

• A framework for designing an in-house Leadership Program
• A list of considerations for Program Design review

Session Overview
Seeking to drive better business outcomes and raise the performance bar for your leaders? Want to learn program design that transforms, engages, retains and connects your people?

Multi-award winning Leadership and Learning specialist Karina Calder will provide a framework for designing your Leadership Development Program. Go beyond content and leadership methodology, delving into the factors that really create impact for participants and achieve organisational goals.

This session focuses on four key areas, explored through team brainstorming and breakout rooms:

• Why: strategic goals, intended outcomes, how success will be measured
• What: essential content, in-house vs external expertise, collaborative faculty approaches
• How: program designs, blended options, scale considerations, learning transfer
• Who: learner-centred design, inclusive practices, relationship building, psychological safety

Key Takeaways

• Develop an implementation/execution plan from a position paper or policy

Session Overview
Dr Daniel Groenewald and Jill Candappa will be delving into the process and journey of developing Melbourne Archdiocese of Catholic Schools (MACS) Vision for Leadership as a compelling and guiding document to support leadership development across the full MACS system. MACS owns and operates 300 Catholic primary and secondary schools with a workforce of 18500 staff, and 118,300 students. A clear leadership charter is fundamental to the flourishing of their students from K-12 in the Catholic education system.

MACS has an aspiration to launch the Vision for Leadership in March 2026, with an implementation strategy and roadmap to achieve MACS 2030 goal to be the employer of choice in the Victorian education sector, and to have Australia’s pre-eminent Catholic teacher and leadership formation and training infrastructure, developed in collaboration with others.  This session will be a dynamic workshop discussing collaborative co-design techniques from concept to execution of the Vision for Leadership.

Key Takeaways

• Understand what xAPI is and how it enables data to move across systems
• Learn how to unlock and connect learning and assessment data from different platforms
• Discover real-world examples of xAPI in action across education and training
• See how xAPI supports decentralised learning and the Total Learning Architecture (TLA)
• Leave with practical steps to start using xAPI in your own learning ecosystem

Session Overview
Most organisations already have a wealth of learning and assessment data — every quiz, video and assessment tells a story. The problem is, that data is often locked inside proprietary systems that do not communicate.

This session explores how xAPI (Experience API) can help you unlock that data and make it work across platforms, giving you a clearer, more connected view of learning.

We will look at real examples of how educators and training providers are using xAPI to bring together data from their LMS, eLearning tools and assessment platforms. You will walk away understanding how to start small, connect your existing systems, and make smarter decisions about learning design and impact — all without needing to be a tech expert.

Key Takeaways

• The best use of psychometric tools
• How to choose the right tool
• The ethical use of psychometric tools
• The benefits of using psychometric tools

Session Overview
In this session, we will look at the beneficial use of psychometric instruments in learning, both for the participants and the facilitator. We will explore some of the more common instruments and when they are most effective, helping you choose the right instrument for the right job and administer profiles ethically and for maximum impact.

There will be time for questions, so even if you are unsure about using these tools in your learning, you are more than welcome to attend.

Key Takeaways

• How to adapt your facilitation methods and activities to align with the effective learning style of your audience

Session Overview
Technical professionals are often resistant to traditional “soft skills” or leadership training, appearing cynical, disengaged or unwilling to participate. This session explores why that happens and what can be done to engage them more effectively. It highlights the mismatch between introverted technical audiences and extroverted training styles, as well as the frustration caused when leadership is oversimplified or presented as pure science.

Participants will learn practical strategies to design and deliver leadership training that respects both the analytical and creative sides of leadership. The session offers concrete tactics to make soft skills learning relevant, credible and appealing to technical minds, helping trainers move from resistance to real engagement.

Key Takeaways
Attendees will walk away with:

• A strategic lens to review and improve their existing learning programs
• The ability to identify where neuroinclusion gaps may be undermining engagement
• An understanding of how simple design shifts can unlock measurable performance, retention and equity benefits

Session Overview
In today’s rapidly evolving workplaces, awareness alone is not enough — true inclusion demands intentional design. This session invites learning and development professionals to move past surface-level understanding and into evidence-informed action.

Participants will use a strategic lens to critically review their existing learning programs, identifying where neuroinclusion gaps may be quietly undermining engagement, participation and results.

Through real-world examples and practical frameworks, this session will demonstrate how simple yet powerful design shifts can unlock measurable gains in performance, retention and equity. Attendees will walk away with greater insight into how executive functioning and ADHD impact learning engagement — and how thoughtful design decisions can create more accessible, equitable and high-performing learning environments for all.

Key Takeaways

• Get clear on the emotions that power your best work, so you can lead with intention instead of instinct.
• Spot the triggers that shape your reactions, giving you the awareness to stay steady when things get messy.
• Understand how your emotions influence your behaviour, both in your inner world and in how others experience you.
• Build real emotional intelligence skills that strengthen trust, connection, and leadership presence.
• Walk away with your own handbook, a tool you can use to deepen self-awareness and spark braver conversations.

Session Overview
This session is designed to strengthen your emotional clarity and leadership confidence from the inside out. You will explore how your emotions shape the way you think, connect, decide, and lead, using simple and practical tools that spark real insight. You will uncover the emotions that fuel your best work, the triggers that influence how you respond under pressure, and the behaviours that show up for you in both steady and challenging moments. This is a hands-on interactive session that blends reflection with action. By the end, you will have a clear understanding of your emotional landscape and how it shapes the relationships and learning environments you create. You will walk away with stronger self-awareness, deeper empathy, and a more grounded approach to courageous, human-centred leadership.

Key Takeaways

• How to adapt your facilitation methods and activities to align with the effective learning style of your audience
• Understand a range of learner diversity through personas
• Understand how inclusive design makes learning outcomes focused
• Practical strategies to apply for specific learner cohorts

Session Overview
As learning professionals, we design for our audience. But what does that actually mean? Learner cohorts are often highly diverse, but human-centred design gives us a practical way to consider this complexity. In this session, you’ll learn how learner personas bring people to life by deeply understanding their needs, revealing intersectionality, and helping you think more deeply about the humans in the room.

Through real examples and activities, you’ll practise using personas to guide design decisions, design inclusively with outcomes in mind, and apply strategies tailored to specific learner cohorts. You will leave with actionable tactics on using personas, add to your human centred toolkit and increase the engagement of your programs.

Key Takeaways

• Revised assessment strategies that will help you demonstrate value
• Understand how to link your work with performance factors
• Embed strategies that you and your client can assess to reinforce learning

Session Overview
Many L&D practitioners rely on outdated mechanisms to measure learning. “Happy sheets” rarely reveal actual change or the true impact or ROI of a learning experience. So is there a more effective process? Definitely yes.

In this workshop, you will explore L&D through a business impact lens. You’ll walk away with a deeper understanding of evaluation, assessment and business ROI. You’ll also receive a practical guide to support initial diagnostics that link learning assessments to business impact. By the end of the session, you will be better equipped to answer the essential questions:
“So what?” and “What is the benefit?”

Designing Learning based on Passions

Key Takeaways

• Learn how to use Passion Intelligence to design more engaging, personalised learning.
• Discover quick techniques for reading the room and adapting your facilitation in real time.
• Understand simple feedback loops that strengthen learner impact and continuous improvement.

Session Overview
This session explores how passion intelligence and diversity can move your learning design from ‘content delivery’ to high impact experiences. Participants will discover how to weave diverse perspectives, passions and experiences into their programs so learning feels relevant, inclusive and engaging.

Through practical examples and reflection, we’ll look at how to use passion intelligence as a design and facilitation tool. Reading the room, building psychological safety and adapting in real time to learners’ emotional cues.

How to create feedback loops that drive continuous improvement for both learners and L&D teams.

Join us if you want to elevate your role to strategic partner for designing learning that not only informs, but transforms

Key Takeaways
Learn how to turn everyday learning content into reusable frameworks and tools that elevate your influence with stakeholders and position L&D as a creator of organisational assets, not just training.

Session Overview
L&D teams create a mountain of content every year, but not all of it creates lasting impact. This session is about shifting from merely “delivering training” and ticking activity boxes to building tools, frameworks and repeatable assets that make your work easier, more influential and far more valued by the people you support.

You will learn how to identify the patterns in the learning you deliver every day and turn them into simple, reusable resources that people continue to use long after the workshop ends.

We will also explore how to package your expertise so it travels further than you do—helping stakeholders make better decisions, strengthening trust and positioning L&D as a practical problem-solver rather than a support function. Expect stories, real examples and hands-on ideas you can take back to your team tomorrow.

Session Overview: This presentation explores what learning/instructional designers need to know, do and be to design for how people feel. In an increasingly dehumanised world, emotionally intelligent design differentiates learning experiences from knowledge dumps and artificially intelligent products. It builds connection, enhances engagement and accessibility, and deepens learning and application.

Key takeaways

• A framework to develop your own emotional intelligence
• Tips and tools for learning designers
• Strategies to improve psychological safety and accessibility

Key concepts:

• Developing your own EI
• Defining your purpose and palette
• Developing personas
• Colour psychology
• Getting the basics right
• Minding your language
• Improving your content
• Enhancing psychological safety, accessibility (UDL)