Living Your Best Life - Speakers & Topics
KATHRYN TAYLOR is a Non-Executive Director & Lead for Education with Wellbeing Australia, an expert in Education and Wellbeing for ACPi, Director of Turning Point Consulting, a Centre of Excellence: Leadership, Change & Wellbeing.
Being Your Best Self, Managing Your Well-being
Recognising the diversity of demands in supporting leaders, this session will offer you the opportunity to reflect, learn, share and grow in your personal and professional well-being. Kathryn will facilitate the session so that attendees have the time to align information to their personal dynamics, unpack how these aspects may be impacting their world and so how they can be better positioned to thrive in their workplace. By the end of the session, attendees will have one to two clear actions to implement into their daily lives and so benefit their professional and personal selves. The session will encompass:
personal motivators and strengths – How could your natural gifts be impacting you positively, and negatively?
challenges and pressures – What aspects of your role are overwhelming or more stressful?
connection and influence – Strategies and solutions to implement which will result in improved interactions, understanding and control
SARAH PLATTS is a Director of Catalyst - Enhanced Performance, a management consulting firm established a decade ago to achieve better outcomes through a more accountable approach to people development.
Highly experienced in facilitation, executive coaching and learning design, Sarah brings energy, honesty and pragmatism to individual, team and organisational development and performance. With a background in general management and people and culture, Sarah’s style uniquely blends commercial drive with the reality of step changing capability, motivation and culture. Currently Sarah’s passion and focus lies in developing people for all levels of leadership capability for the future. This includes the design and facilitation of programs in strategic leadership, high performance teams, change leadership, stakeholder influence, and personal brand/ impact.
Managing Up: Becoming Indispensible to Your Boss
’Managing up’ simply refers to doing whatever you can to make your boss's job easier by essentially managing your manager. Having a healthy, positive relationship with your boss makes your work life much easier but is also good for job satisfaction. Sarah will cover the following types of areas during her session:
being able to anticipate your boss’s needs;
understanding what makes your boss tick;
knowing the right way to discuss problems with your boss; and
learning how to be a well-rounded, valuable source of help.
MARK O’CONNOR FMS is a Marist brother and the Vicar for Communications at the Diocese of Parramatta and a Pope Francis Fellow at Newman College, University of Melbourne.
For 10 years, Mark was the director of the Archbishop’s office for Evangelisation in Melbourne, he has taught in secondary schools and been involved in adult faith formation for many decades. For 35 years he has organised the Dom Helder Camara Lecture Series in Australia which brings major international Catholic leaders to Australia. In October last year, he reported on the Synod of the Amazon from Rome following this meeting for the future of the church.
Learning from Pope Francis: People Come First
Mark will illustrate how Pope Francis’ revolutionary attitude and genuine compassion are transforming the Church. He will provide examples of the multi-faceted nature of Pope Francis, as a reformer and a disruptive and prophetic voice challenging the Church and the world.
ANNE WALKER is the National Executive Director of Catholic Religious Australia.
Anne started her career in corporate law before commencing her ministry of working for the Church, in 2001. Most recently, Anne was Chancellor and the Director of the Office of Chancery Services at the Diocese of Broken Bay. Anne is passionate about ensuring that the prophetic voice of religious is heard in the Australian Church and the wider society.
Church Structures: an overview of who’s who
Anne will provide a brief overview of the various bodies and language within the Catholic Church to enable you to better navigate your way around the structures, along with an understanding of the inter-relationships of these structures.