NSW Event: Career Development & Networking

The Next Step

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October 30, 2024

Networking Event

Broadcasting Your Leadership Potential

Just as great radio connects, influences and inspires, exceptional HR and Safety leaders need to master the art of making meaningful impact.


Join us at ARN Media's North Sydney broadcast hub - home to KIIS FM and other leading radio stations - where  senior leaders will share how they found their authentic voice and amplified their influence beyond technical expertise. Like the best broadcasters, they've learned to read their audience, deliver compelling messages, and create lasting impact.


Why Attend:
  • Network with peers as we dive into 2025 with an impressive leadership panel across HR, Employment Relations, and Safety.
  • Tune in as we reveal how to create, curate, and showcase your own leadership style.
  • Listen in as industry leaders reveal their own journey in discovering their leadership voice.
  • Learn ways to read an audience and adapt your message for different stakeholders.
  • Discover ideas to help build influence and create opportunities leveraging more than just your technical expertise.


Event Details:
  • Where: ARN Media House | 40 Mount Street, North Sydney
  • Date: Thursady 13th February
  • Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
  • Format: Informal Networking & Panel Discussion
  • Light refreshments included

Featured Speakers

Angela Ewers

Chief People Officer, ARN Media

Angela Ewers CPHR, PPA, has extensive experience in human resources and leadership roles in large and complex organisations. Effective business partner and coach to executive teams, building leadership capability, leading complex change, and organisational design.


Josh Keech       

Head of Employment Relations & Safety, ABC

An experienced employee relations and HR leader with extensive experience in senior roles across private, government, and human services sectors. A qualified employment law solicitor and specialist in employee/workforce relations.


Ben Kirkbride

Head of Safety, Environment & Quality, Gamuda

A proven HSE professional with 21 years of experience across iconic multi-site organisations in diverse industries, including civil construction, telecommunications, minerals and industrial, road infrastructure, logistics, and rail.


Katie Johnson

Director, The Safe Step 

With over eighteen years' experience throughout Australia and the UK, Katie works with a diverse portfolio of leading organisations and has a real passion for identifying and developing  integrated talent solutions within the HSE market.


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