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Register now for the 2025 IPAA ACT Future Leaders Summit: Managing across borders – the hybrid & remote team leader and learn how to navigate the complexities of hybrid and remote team management!

This summit is your opportunity to build your capability to effectively lead teams across borders and workspaces. Learn how to overcome challenges unique to hybrid working, address critical capability gaps, and adapt to future workforce trends.

What you’ll gain:

  • A deeper understanding of evidence-based practices for managing hybrid teams
  • Insights into emerging challenges and solutions in remote leadership
  • Strategies to build inclusivity and engagement, even across diverse and dispersed teams.

Who should attend?

  • Emerging and current leaders in the APS and ACT public services
  • Private sector employees who will lead or are leading hybrid teams – based in or outside the ACT.

Overview

Keynote: The state of hybrid & remote leadership in the public sector business as usual? Associate Professor Sue Williamson, UNSW
Panel: Inclusive leadership in hybrid & remote teams

Presenter: Kieran Vassallo, Director at the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts

Panel: Annabel Reid, CEO of Carers Australia, David Mackay, Deputy Secretary for Regions, Cities, and Territories in the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts, and Joyce Torres, Engagement Director, National Indigenous Australians Agency

Masterclass: The effective hybrid & remote leadership toolkit

In person: Andrea Henson, Assistant Secretary, Human Resources, Attorney-General’s Department

Online: Shane Little, Managing Director – APAC, Enterprise Solutions, HAYS

If you work for the federal or ACT public service, or in the broader public-for-purpose sector, you’re most likely already a member of IPAA ACT. Check our membership list if you’re not sure.

Event Details

Event date

Thursday 20 March 2025 8:45 am - 12:15 pm

Registration

8:45am 

Event time

9:00am - 12:15pm

Member in person 

$120

Non-member in person 

$220

Virtual member and non-member

$80

Venue

National Portrait Gallery

Speakers

  • Joyce Torres image
    Joyce Torres

    Engagement Director
    Derby/Fitzroy Crossing, Kimberley Region
    National Indigenous Australians Agency

  • David Mackay image
    David Mackay

    IPAA Councillor
    Deputy Secretary for Regions, Cities, and Territories
    Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts

  • Andrea Henson image
    Andrea Henson

    Assistant Secretary
    Human Resources
    Attorney-General’s Department

  • Kieran Vassallo image
    Kieran Vassallo

    Director
    Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts

  • Kate Driver image
    Kate Driver

    Chief Executive Officer
    IPAA Council Public Officer (ex officio)

Our partners

Tier 1 corporate partners
Tier 2 corporate partners
Work with Purpose podcast partner
In-kind partner