2025 Victoria HR Leadership Summit

26th & 27th November
Crown Conference Centre

Forward Motion – leveraging the collective strength to shape change

As trusted business advisors, HR leaders are relied upon to navigate change within their businesses, sectors and communities. Leadership is a behaviour that can inspire change and create a meaningful impact on people. The 2025 Victoria HR Leadership Summit will encourage attendees – people and culture leaders – to examine what change looks like in their organisations and how they can influence decision-making and drive positive change for the benefit of their organisations, workforces, and the communities they serve.

Embedded with the theme Forward Motion – leveraging the collective strength to shape change, the program will explore topics such as building a sustainable people strategy, fostering skills- and work-based talent, integrating sustainability principles for change, balancing human and digital capabilities, aligning values across business and leadership, and empowering a diverse, multigenerational workforce. 

Key topics to be explored:
  • Navigating complexity – developing a future-ready organisation
  • Adjusting HR practices in the changing world to enable a diverse workforce
  • Unpacking trends shaping the HR profession - leadership development, organisational culture, talent attraction and recruitment, talent mobility, people analytics and succession planning
  • Strategic workforce planning - developing a sustainable people strategy
  • Building a skills-based workforce - harnessing the power of human potential
  • Understanding talent scarcity – AI and equity
  • Assessing the use of AI in HR functions - risks, opportunities, skills and governance considerations
  • Creating a safety-first environment - the interconnection of HR, safety and leadership
  • Building a well-being strategy – a data-driven approach
  • Change management – case studies and key considerations for the future
  • Incorporating the capability framework to support the culture and leadership initiatives
  • Leadership development - identifying and developing top talent and potential leaders
  • Navigating the compliance jungle - case studies and trends in ER/IR
  • Looking ahead - how HR will shape an adaptive workforce?

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Featured Presenters

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Zemeel Saba
Chief People & Culture Officer
DHSV
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Sarah Bottomley
Chief People Officer
Service Stream 
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Tash Gawne
Chief People Officer
GloBird Energy
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Rebecca Wallace
Senior Consultant, Talent Advisory Group APAC
Randstad Enterprise
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Dr Kai Riemer
Director
Sydney Executive Plus

Professor
The University of Sydney
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Dr Sandra Peter
Director
Sydney Executive Plus

Associate Professor
The University of Sydney
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Karlie Cremin
CEO
DLPA & Crestcom ANZ
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Naz Wilson
Head of Engagement
Funlab
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Amalia Chilianis
General Manager, Culture & Organisational Development
The Lottery Corporation
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Sharon Ardley

Head of Practice
PBC Hogan             

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Cain Prentice

Learning Designer
Pukeko Learning Solutions        

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Philip Woods
Director
Catalyst Strategy
Summit Chairperson
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Rebekah Taka
AI Specialist & Managing Consultant
Unicorn Studio Co.
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Jim Saoud

State Lead Corporate Partners, VIC & TAS
Westpac

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Natasha Cuthbert
Group Chief People Officer
Viva Energy    
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Steve Collett

Chief Strategy Officer & Chief People Officer
McConnell Dowell Group        

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Jelvie Grech

People Systems & Analytics Manager
Millennium Services Group    

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Michael Coyle

Head of People Operations
Telstra Health   

Principal Partner

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Platinum Partner

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Gold Partners

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Summit Partners

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