Audrey Bevan has gained extensive cultural and deep technical HR insights from working across Europe and APAC for over 15 years. As a globally experienced HR Director and AHRI Fellow, she has often dealt with the full range of HR challenges. Poorly performing teams, conflict between staff, frustrated managers, big ambitious transformation initiatives that fall short of the expected result, and so much more. Her observation from this experience is that a large proportion of people and performance related issues in the workplace come from cultural misunderstandings. This is the problem she specializes in resolving with her consultancy Accent HR.

Audrey has lived and was educated in France. Her career then took her to the UK, Singapore, and now to Australia. She has personally lived and worked through the challenges, complexities and opportunities that multicultural and multi-location workplaces bring.

Adam leads the Priority Industries and Initiatives Branch in Queensland’s Department of Employment, Small Business and Training. The Branch advises on small business procurement for the Q2032 Games, Small Business engagement around the State, and workforce policy for emerging and priority industries. Among other things, the team has delivered workforce Roadmaps for both the Hydrogen and Clean Energy industry, with a focus on the renewable transformation and the skills required to take advantage of the new economy across Queensland. 

Prior to this, Adam spent over a decade in government central agencies, leading reform teams and working on energy policy, electricity pricing, economic analysis, and delivery of State budgets.  

Stacey Rawlings is General Manager, Queensland with Engineers Australia. Known for a passion for improving diversity of the engineering workforce in QLD she brings a wealth of professional association leadership experience to the engineering sector. 

Stacey started her association management journey working for the QLD Law Society in a role that including management of their Specialist Accreditation program. Moving to Consult Australia brought her into the world of engineering and led to her current position with Engineers Australia. Both these later roles have included a high level of stakeholder engagement, working with and influencing volunteers, members and external stakeholders including government to promote the engineering profession and create better outcomes on matters with significant engineering relevance.

Mark White is an experienced learning and development consultant who believes that education and training are the keys to unlock the potential in people and business.  Mark has been working in leadership roles in education and training for over 20 years and has worked with large and small organisations, assisting them in defining their needs and implementing practical solutions. He has designed a number of innovative training methodologies, the Engineering Skills Framework and the Engineers Australia Capability Framework and continues to bring creativity and practicality to projects he works on.