Managing Risk to Your Advantage

• Principles and benefits of risk management
• Embracing risk management and utilising the Tribunal's risk management framework to achieve our goals
• How do we embrace risk as leaders

ART Risk Management Policy [PDF, <1 MB]

ART Risk Management Toolkit [PDF, <1 MB]

For over 20 years, Kate has specialised in enterprise risk management services. She leads KPMG’s Enterprise Risk Management practice for the government and not-for-profit sectors, as well as KPMG’s efforts to improve access and inclusion for people with disabilities. Kate brings passion and enthusiasm to her role of implementing risk and governance in the public and not-for-profit sectors.

By leveraging her practical experience of ‘what works’, she identifies and understands risk exposures alongside strategy, implements risk management approaches that work, and is able to drive a culture of managing risk as means of maximising opportunities.

Kate is an outspoken advocate for diversity and is the Executive Sponsor of KPMG’s Disability Network. She is a member of the Council for Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the Chair of the SSO Vanguard Collective.

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Psychosocial safety: It's everyone's responsibility

This keynote, delivered by Luka Campbell, will cover:

• What is psychosocial safety
• Why is it important for wellbeing, performance, engagement and culture
• How does it connect to our values, leadership behaviours and legal obligations
• What is our individual role and responsibility when it comes to psychosocial safety
• What are some strategies, resources or things that I can do to support it
• Techniques for identifying early warning signs.

Psychosocial inspection program

Regulatory guide - Managing psychosocial hazards

Psychosocial hazards

Work Health and Safety (Managing Psychosocial Hazards at Work) Code of Practice 2024

Luka leads strategic initiatives within Comcare’s Regulatory Operations Group, including the Comcare’s psychosocial regulatory program. This program aims to improve health and safety by monitoring and enforcing compliance and providing advice to duty-holders on management of psychosocial risks including workplace bullying, harassment and sexual harassment.

Luka is a seasoned work health and safety professional, with substantial experience in safety and regulation. Prior to joining Comcare’s Regulatory Operations Group, Luka’s focus was directed towards preventing harm and improving health and safety across NSW public and private sector workplaces. In his recent capacity as Assistant State Inspector Health and Safe Design for SafeWork NSW, Luka led a number of initiatives to tackle complex work health and safety issues and regulatory challenges in the health care and social assistance sector. Luka’s prior experience as Senior Research Officer for the Centre for WHS and as Manager Systems and Performance, Fire and Rescue NSW have provided him the knowledge and skills to apply evidence-based approaches to the management of contemporary and emerging work health and safety issues, including psychosocial risks.

Luka holds a Master of Public Health (University of Sydney), is a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship in Strengthening Health Systems (McMaster University, Ontario). 

This session, delivered by Linda Assaf, Facilitator at Best Practice Consulting will cover:

• Self-awareness and leadership impact
• Adaptive leadership and stakeholder awareness
• Trust, culture, and leadership behaviour
• Authentic leadership in everyday practice
• Personal leadership commitment and how to apply back in the workplace

Linda Assaf brings over 20 years of experience across learning and leadership development, business development, and people and inclusion. She has worked across a range of industries, including professional services, telecommunications, government, and high growth environments. She specialises in leadership, mindset, communication, emotional intelligence, and wellbeing. Her warm and engaging facilitation style creates a psychologically safe space where people feel supported, challenged, and empowered to grow.

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This session, delivered by Heizy Serrels, Facilitator at Centre for Corporate Health – Leading for Wellbeing and Inclusion will cover:

• Inclusive leadership behaviours
• Identifying personal and systematic biases, applying strategies to support equitable decision-making within diverse teams
• Identify signs of reduced wellbeing, including supportive actions, conversations and relevant supports
• Communicate with consistency and transparency
• Promote trust and wellbeing

Heizy Serrels is a registered Senior Psychologist and the Executive General Manager of Learning and Wellbeing at the Centre for Corporate Health. With over 17 years of experience across both public and private sectors, Heizy has devoted her career to shaping workplaces where people can genuinely thrive. 

Blending deep clinical expertise with strategic insight, and a dash of neuroscience, Heizy brings a unique human-centred lens to leadership, wellbeing, and organisational culture. Her background spans human resources, counselling, education, and organisational psychology, a foundation that enables her to deliver impactful, evidence-based solutions grounded in both science and empathy. She is known for bringing calm clarity to complex challenges, and balancing empathy with commercial pragmatism. 

Heizy is widely respected for her work as a coach, facilitator, and consultant, with specialist expertise in leadership development, workplace wellbeing, team dynamics, and psychosocial risk management. Her approach is informed by her passion for normalising the full spectrum of human experience at work, from high performance to vulnerability. 

She is particularly passionate about supporting organisations to build cultures that are psychologically safe, emotionally intelligent, and aligned with modern understandings of how the brain, behaviour, and connection boost performance.

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This session, delivered by Johanne Solanet, Principal Consultant and Facilitator at Bendelta, will cover:

• Why complexity feels hard right now
• Complexity often shows up as polarities
• Polarity mapping for strategic choices
• From map to action
• Building strategic thinking habits

Johanne is the head of Bendelta’s transformation practice with a deep passion for cultural change and the unique role of leadership on transformation journeys.  

Some of her key achievements include: 

• Cultural transformation for an innovative challenger brand in the Insurance industry
• Cultural shift towards a culture of empowerment and initiative taking in an entertainment corporation
• Orchestration of a shared service model for an insurance leader
• Smooth implementation of a new operating model and work structure for a pharmaceutical leader

Johanne has deep experience in the Public Sector working with over 20 agencies at a Commonwealth or State level. She has led and designed over 25 large scale leadership development and organisational development programs and is a seasoned facilitator.

Johanne has also held in-house Director roles as Change Director for Westpac and transformation Lead for IAG. Johanne is a Guest speaker at Sydney University on strategic change implementation. 

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This session, delivered by Abbie Boulter, Facilitator at Yellow Edge, will cover:

• Leadership conversations that shape performance & potential
• Rapid coaching
• Feedback and constructive conversations
• Building potential without a Talent Framework: 3 moves approach
• Transferring back into the workplace

Abbie is a trusted executive and team coach, known for her ability to inspire action and help businesses and careers thrive. Abbie approaches her coaching from a self-leadership and team leadership perspective – working with clients to develop a deep understanding of self to then lead in a way that creates high-care and high-trust environments. 

Abbie brings her 18 years of experience in building brands to her clients to help them get clarity and confidence in who they are, what they stand for and the unique value they bring. As an accredited behavioural profiler in Extended DISC, she also offers this to her clients to dig deeper into their natural behaviours, how they show up to others and areas for growth. 

Abbie is a highly experienced and respected coach for teams focused on impactful leadership and fostering a culture of high-performance, high-care and high-trust. Her signature behavioural profiling workshop supports individuals in developing a deeper level of self-awareness to strengthen relationships and communication. Her warm and engaging manner allows her to open up the important conversations within a team that might not otherwise be had. Teams walk away with a shared language and tangible actions for immediate impact. 

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