CultureCon™ 2023 Melbourne Program

In 2023, workplace culture will play a bigger role than ever across all industries. Organisations face a vast array of challenges from hybrid and remote work approaches and communication technology platforms through to employee reframing (pandemic epiphany, ‘the great resignation’ and ‘quiet quitting’).

In this session, we investigate the most substantial cuture challenges facing organisations and propose a series of solutions designed to help navigate human capital in 2023.

In the past decade, three organisations have shaped and enabled ways of working more than any others. Microsoft has been positively disrupting and optimising organisational culture through its own individual culture practices and commercial connectivity tools.

In this session, join Natalie Peters from Microsoft shares her experiences and tools that are shaping current and future ways of working.

From online interviews and team meetings through to virtual water coolers, open AI and ChatGPT, 2023 promises to continue to deliver remote workplace innovation.

In this session, Professor Matt Kuperholz, goes behind the ChatGPT veil before mapping the application and implications of artificial intelligence in the workplace.

The Workplace Technology Panel investigate exciting advances in culture-specific technology through a Q&A with The Culture Institute and audience.

Panel guests include Natalie Peters (Microsoft), Jason Rau (Vimeo) and Matt Kuperholz (Former Chief Data Scientist of the Year)

As General David Morrison highlighted in a 2013 IWD speech “the standard you walk past is the standard you accept”.

In this interactive workshop style keynote, we explore how to ensure every individual in a team, department or organisation understands the importance of their role in holding themselves and others to account for creating and maintaining the required culture.

A workplace culture that is inclusive of diversity has proven to be the difference between average and high performing organisations. In particular, the inclusion of diversity leads to greater creativity, innovation, problem solving, employee morale and engagement.

In this session, join Australia’s leading diversity and inclusion expert Dr Juliet Bourke as she provides insight-led, practical recommendations to create more inclusive interpersonal relationships between colleagues.

Maximus International Q&A featuring Brent Duffy.

Featuring some of Australia’s most successful, contemporary leaders, this Culture & Leadership Panel shares the most transformative and game-changing leadership practices through a curated Q&A and audience engagement.

The Culture & Leadership Panel features Kathryn Van De Merwe (ANZ), Natalie Feehan (EstimateOne), Lizzy Geremia (Reece Group) and Henry Ruiz (REA Group).

In 2022 Australia’s leading professional services firm PwC redefined employee engagement experience through an initiative known as The Outside.

In this session, PwC Lead Partner, Lawrence Goldstone shares the insights that led to the development of arguable the world’s best employee engagement experience, before describing a typical day at The Outside.

Emotional intelligence and in particular the development and application of empathy in the workplace has proven to be transformative for current day organisational culture.

Join The Executive Chair of Small Giants, Australia’s first B Corporation, Danny Almagor OAM, for a Q&A as he unpacks reinventing and extending the traditional MBA to become the Mastery of Business and Empathy.

Organisations all over the world continue to struggle to bring employees and teams back to the office. Since 2020, the business case for employee-centric, culturally uplifting enivornments has never been stronger.

In this session we will explore the secrets behind the workplace of the future and examine a range of examples developed by Australia’s leading workplace design firm Futurespace. Examples include: Google, Microsoft, REA Group, PwC, Reece etc.

Join some of Australia’s most progressive senior people and thought leaders as we examine proven strategies and initatives behind securing and retaining high value talent.

The Talent & Culture Panel features Damian Zahra (Bunnings), Brent Duffy, (Maximus International), Colin Beattie (The People Spot) and Tamara Bonamy (Youi Insurance).

High performing individuals and teams have proven to share similar patterns and practices. In contrast to technology trends, focussing on cheats and shortcuts, the highest performing individuals demonstrate a universal approach to achieving objectives and exceeding expectations.

In this session, former world champion, Guy Leech unpacks the critical foundations and stepwise methodology behind the best performing individuals and teams, today and tomorrow.

Most organisations are much better at measuring their employee experience than actually changing it. One of the main reasons for this is that change initiatives are often run by a few people who are tasked with shifting the experience and behaviour of the entire organisation via a centralised top-down approach. Fortunately, there is a better way.

In this session, Dr Joel Davies will cover how to increase employee engagement through a bottom-up approach to culture change, how leaders throughout the organisation can be empowered to understand the experience of their own teams and act to drive change and the unique role that HR/OD professionals can play in supporting decentralised change.

The powerful relationship between employee engagement and culture is an evolving and often misunderstood topic, one that deserves attention and clarity as organisations strive for people and organisational performance.

Join Australia’s leading workplace culture strategist, Associate Professor Karl Treacher, and explore the symbiotic depedancy between employee engagement and culture.