Flexible Work That Works: Redefining Success for People and Organisations

Join Dr Ellen Joan Ford for a values-driven webinar on flexible working—designed to empower individuals and transform workplaces.

Dr Ellen Joan Ford is an award-winning leader, Army veteran, researcher, and author of #WorkSchoolHours. She has led soldiers on operations and teams in the corporate sector, bringing a rare blend of strategic insight and lived experience to the challenge of workplace transformation. In this session, Ellen will unpack the realities of navigating a career alongside personal responsibilities—and offer more than just survival strategies. This isn’t a webinar about tips and tricks to cope with a broken system. It’s about equipping people with tools to change it. Ellen will share practical, evidence-based approaches that help individuals and organisations redesign work in ways that are good for people, performance, and long-term sustainability.

In this webinar, you will:

• Explore the #WorkSchoolHours framework: A revolutionary approach that reimagines work around real lives—not idealised schedules.

• Learn how to balance career and caregiving: Whether you’re a parent, carer, or simply juggling multiple roles, this session offers tools to thrive.

• Discover how flexibility benefits everyone: From improved retention and productivity to greater wellbeing and inclusion.

• Gain actionable insights: Ellen shares practical steps for individuals, leaders, and workplaces to implement change immediately.

• Contribute to systemic change: Understand how your choices, conversations, and leadership can reshape the future of work.

Ellen’s approach is grounded in belonging, autonomy, and purpose—and this session will leave you inspired, equipped, and ready to lead change.

AI Across Borders: WiBF Australia & UK 2026 Global Virtual Event

AI is transforming finance — are you ready to lead the change?

Join WiBF Australia and WiBF UK for an exclusive global virtual event exploring how artificial intelligence is redefining the financial landscape. Discover the latest AI tools, digital innovations, and insights from industry leaders who are shaping the future of finance.

This engaging session brings together AI experts, finance professionals, and technology innovators to discuss how to harness the power of AI, adapt to disruption, and future-proof your career in an increasingly digital world.

What to Expect

  1. AI in finance: How automation and AI-driven insights are transforming decision-making, customer experience, and operations.
  2. Practical applications: Real-world examples of AI solutions driving efficiency and innovation across the industry.
  3. Thriving in an AI world: Strategies to embrace technology and unlock new career opportunities.
  4. Future-proofing your skills: The essential AI capabilities every finance professional needs.
  5. Ethical AI and inclusion: Ensuring responsible, transparent, and equitable use of emerging technologies.

This event is open to all genders and will also explore AI adoption trends across Australia and the UK, including key differences in gender representation and industry uptake.

Whether you’re already applying AI in your role or just beginning to explore its potential, this session will equip you with the knowledge, insights, and connections to stay ahead in the evolving world of finance.

 

PANELIST LINEUP TO BE ANNOUNCED SHORTLY.

Masterclass: Transformation – Motivation, Inspiration and Commitment

Masterclass date: Thursday 17th September 2026

**This WiBF Masterclass offers 1 CPD Point**

In times of transformation, leaders face a double challenge: guiding teams through change while also managing their own uncertainties. This masterclass goes beyond frameworks and processes to the human core of transformation – what truly drives behaviour when fear, uncertainty and opportunity collide.

Through reflection, research and practical tools, leaders will:

  • – Gain fresh insights into how fear influences motivation and behaviour during transformation.
  • – Strengthen their self-awareness and enhance strategies for maintaining effectiveness under pressure.
  • – Refine communication and coaching approaches that surface hidden concerns and foster trust.
  • – Reinforce team motivation and accountability by reconnecting people to purpose and meaning.

Date: Thursday 17th September 2026
Time: 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm AEST
Location: Zoom Meeting

Transformation – Motivation, Inspiration and Commitment (Thursday 17th September 2026)

Masterclass: Financial Wellness – Setting and Achieving Collective Financial Goals

Masterclass date: Thursday 20th August 2026

**This WiBF Masterclass offers 1 CPD Point**

Join award-winning money educator Jessica Brady for an engaging masterclass on Financial Wellness: Setting and Achieving Collective Financial Goals. 

In this session, Jessica will share her signature framework for setting meaningful financial goals at any age or stage, helping you shift from autopilot to intentional action. This session offers a fresh perspective on building financial systems and goals that support both individual and collective wellbeing. 

Key Learning Outcomes: 

  • – A practical, repeatable framework to set financial goals that actually stick. 
  • – Insight into common habit traps and strategies to build better money behaviours. 
  • – A step-by-step system to make your goals easy, actionable and on-track. 

Date: Thursday 20th August 2026
Time: 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm AEST
Location: Zoom Meeting

Financial Wellness – Setting and Achieving Collective Financial Goals (Thursday 20th August 2026)

Masterclass: Virtual Roundtable on Active Allyship: Engaging Leaders in Gender Equity

Masterclass date: Friday 17th April 2026

**This WiBF Masterclass offers 1 CPD Point**

Gender equity is often framed as a solely benefitting women but in reality greater equality benefits everyone. True progress is only possible when men, who are over-represented in senior leadership positions, become active participants in the change. While many men express support for gender equality, far fewer actively challenge bias, call out double standards, or advocate for systemic change.

This is where the real opportunity lies.

We invite you to an interactive virtual roundtable where leaders, consultants, and industry influencers will come together to tackle an important question: How do we move men from passive supporters to active drivers of gender equity in workplaces and society?

What We’ll Discuss:

  • – The Power of Active Allyship: Why “believing in equality” isn’t enough—and what differentiates performative allyship from meaningful action.
  • – Beyond Optics: Embedding Accountability: How some organisations are creating accountability regarding gender equity efforts (including KPIs and leadership evaluations)
  • – Single-Gender Learning Spaces: The role of men-only and women-only spaces in unpacking unconscious bias and shifting culture.

Why You Should Attend:

  • – Gain insights from the latest research on gender equity and workplace inclusion.
  • – Engage in bold, solution-focused conversations with executives and industry leaders.
  • – Leave with practical strategies to implement in your workplace and leadership practice.

Date: Friday 17th April 2026
Time: 8:30 am – 11:00 am AEST
Location: Zoom Meeting

Virtual Roundtable on Active Allyship: Engaging Leaders in Gender Equity (Friday 17th April 2026)

Masterclass: Overcoming Perfectionism and Imposter Syndrome

Masterclass date: Thursday 21st May 2026

**This WiBF Masterclass offers 1 CPD Point**

Being a perfectionist and a people pleaser is a painful way to live and work. Nothing is ever good enough, especially one’s own performance. When perfectionists win, to them it feels like a loss anyway. “I could have done better,” they tell themselves.

Can you relate to this? Are you feeling exhausted and on the cusp of burn-out? If you’re ready to break free from perfectionism and people-pleasing, this WiBF Masterclass is for you!

In this transformative session we will:

  • – Explore the concept of perfectionism and distinguish between healthy striving and unattainable perfection.
  • – Identify the origins of perfectionistic tendencies and recognise common triggers that fuel perfectionist behaviour.
  • – Examine the psychological and emotional toll of perfectionism, including stress, anxiety, and the fear of failure.
  • – Explore how these behaviours can affect career progression, mental health, and overall job satisfaction.
  • – Join us for a facilitator lead in-depth Masterclass, focused on overcoming perfectionism and imposter syndrome.

Date: Thursday 21st May 2026
Time: 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm AEST
Location: Zoom Meeting

Overcoming Perfectionism and Imposter Syndrome (Thursday 21st May 2026)

Masterclass: Mental Health in the Workplace – Building Resilient Teams

Masterclass date: Thursday 19th November 2026

**This WiBF Masterclass offers 1 CPD Point**

Poor mental health costs the Australian economy an estimated at $70 billion annually, driven by lost productivity, absenteeism, presenteeism, and staff turnover. Yet, research consistently shows that investing in workplace mental health delivers strong economic and social returns.

This masterclass examines the concept of Mental Health in the Workplace and its role in fostering mentally healthier, more productive, supportive and resilient workplaces. Mental Health in the Workplace equips employees and leaders with the knowledge required to help recognise early signs of mental health challenges, as well as the tools to provide immediate support, and guide colleagues toward professional help.

Through an interactive session, participants will:

  • · Understand the economic and organisational impact of poor mental health in the workplace.
  • · Learn how to identify common mental health challenges and recognise the warning signs.
  • · Gain practical skills to help reduce negative stigma and initiate supportive conversations.
  • · Learn how Mental Health in the Workplace can be integrated into broader wellbeing and leadership strategies to help strengthen culture, trust, and performance.

Participants will leave with a clear framework for action, empowering them to play a proactive role in building workplaces where wellbeing and productivity can thrive side by side.

Date: Thursday 19th November 2026
Time: 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm AEDT
Location: Zoom Meeting

Mental Health in the Workplace – Building Resilient Teams (Thursday 19th November 2026)

Masterclass: Delegate Like a Productivity Ninja – Empower Your Team, Reclaim Your Time!

Masterclass date: Thursday 15th October 2026

**This WiBF Masterclass offers 1 CPD Point**

Did you know that by optimizing the way your people delegate, you can build an organisation of thinkers? Delegating and doing it brilliantly empowers your team members to think and to problem-solve in new and innovative ways. Suddenly you are building a culture of thinking, engaged, motivated problem-solvers, rather than a culture of overloaded, responsibility-burdened managers.

This Masterclass shares the Productivity Ninja® approach to brilliant delegation, helps us see how our delegation style can affect others, and reveals the unstoppable personal and wider benefits of delegation to reclaim time and reshape the culture to create an organisation of thinkers.

This session will cover:

  • – Take a fresh look at what stops you delegating and find ways to overcome this.
  • – Plan what great delegation will look like in the future and in detail, so you can leave the session ready to put learning into action.
  • – Take the time to consider the strengths of the people around you and allowing for better delegation to the right people.
  • – Learn how to prioritise, Ninja-style, to ensure we’re all working on the right things!

Join us for a facilitator lead in-depth Masterclass, focused on delegation, and prioritisation

Date: Thursday 15th October 2026
Time: 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm AEDT
Location: Zoom Meeting

Delegate Like a Productivity Ninja – Empower Your Team, Reclaim Your Time! (Thursday 15th October 2026)

Masterclass: Cracking The Engagement Puzzle

Masterclass date: Thursday 18th June 2026

**This WiBF Masterclass offers 1 CPD Point**

Understanding human motivation to energize and inspire your team

With employee engagement at an all-time low, it’s time to get to grips with human motivation. Nearly six in ten employees are “quiet quitting” (Gallup) – putting in the bare minimum effort to keep their jobs but no longer going the extra mile. This disengagement is costing businesses billions in lost productivity, innovation, and increased turnover.

But here’s the good news: this trend is not inevitable. While the world continues to change, the fundamental principles of human motivation stay the same. By understanding the 7 work-based emotional needs that drive engagement, your Managers and Team Leaders can proactively transform their team’s energy, happiness, and performance.

In this practical, hands-on workshop, you will:

  • – Gain a deep understanding of what truly motivates humans at work.
  • – Identify the best areas for improvement in your team right now.
  • – Learn practical strategies to help each team member become their most motivated, energized, and engaged self.

This session makes us better people leaders and budding aficionados in individual motivation.

Date: Thursday 18th June 2026
Time: 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm AEST
Location: Zoom Meeting

Cracking The Engagement Puzzle (Thursday 18th June 2026)

Masterclass: Building Authentic Connections – The 3 Elements of Trust to Build Network Relationships

Masterclass date: Thursday 19th March 2026

**This WiBF Masterclass offers 1 CPD Point**

Influence isn’t just for senior leaders – anyone, at any level, can learn to shape outcomes and open new opportunities. Research shows that the more diverse your network, the greater your potential for career growth and success.

In this interactive workshop, you’ll learn how to identify the key influencers within your own network and uncover personalised strategies to expand your reach. You’ll walk away with practical tools and fresh ideas to authentically build influence at work and make it work for you.

You’ll leave this session with:

  • – A definition of influencing.
  • – Why relationships influence your career trajectory.
  • – Concrete strategies to build influence.
  • – New connections from networking at the event.
  • – Personalised strategies to grow influence at work.
  • – A game plan to grow your influence at work.
  • – Action steps you can take as soon as you return to work.

Date: Thursday 19th March 2026
Time: 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm AEDT
Location: Zoom Meeting

Building Authentic Connections – The 3 Elements of Trust to Build Network Relationships (Thursday 19th March 2026)

Masterclass: Building your own personal and professional brand

Masterclass date: Thursday 26th February 2026

**This WiBF Masterclass offers 1 CPD Point**

Personal brand effectiveness is achieved through clear, succinct and authentic key messages built around a methodology of “who” and “what” people represent so they can illustrate their authenticity, purpose and position in the market.

This session is a deep dive into how to build your personal and professional brand and covers:

– Critical tips to establish your unique brand and authenticity
– Understanding the difference between a business brand & a personal brand
– Living your brand, the way you need & want

Focus Areas:

– Helping managers and leaders build their personal and professional brand and network
– Enabling people to better manage and understand the impact of their behaviour and habits to ensure improved relationships
– To help drive better and more effective conversations more simply and easily making communication clearer

Join us for a facilitator lead in-depth Masterclass, focused on crafting your personal and professional brand strategy

Date: Thursday 26th February 2026
Time: 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm AEDT
Location: Zoom Meeting

Building Your Own Personal and Professional Brand (Thursday 26th February 2026)

Masterclass: AI in Finance: Trends, Tools, and Culture Shifts

Masterclass date: Thursday 26th March 2026

**This WiBF Masterclass offers 1 CPD Point**

Embark on a journey into the dynamic world of Artificial Intelligence with our comprehensive guide to understanding the various AI tools shaping the technological landscape in the banking & finance industry. This session will cover the following areas:

In this 2.5 hour interactive and informative Masterclass, Will Liang will cover the following areas:

  • – Most recent innovations in AI
  • – The benefits and potentials
  • – The risk and concerns
  • – Understanding essential AI tools and large language models
  • – How to prepare yourself and your organisation in the age of AI

Join us for a facilitator lead in-depth Masterclass, focused on AI in Finance: Trends, Tools and Culture Shifts

Date: Thursday 26th March 2026
Time: 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm AEDT
Location: Zoom Meeting

AI in Finance: Trends, Tools, and Culture Shifts (Thursday 26th March 2026)

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