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ELEVATE is a high-value, practice-led development day designed for current and future recruitment leaders seeking practical and immediately applicable strategies. Attendees will explore tools and insights that support:
• Commercial decision-making
• Cashflow and financial resilience
• Data-driven operational visibility
• Organisational performance
• Leadership, communication, and culture
THE AGENDA
MORNING THEME: Running the Business - Commercial Excellence for Recruitment Leaders
A series of practical, high-impact sessions designed to sharpen leaders’ operational and financial acumen.
9.00 – 9.15 Payday Super: what does it mean for your business? - Presented by APositive
9.15 – 10.05 Managing the Recruitment P&L: Get clear on the numbers that determine your business success
10.05 – 10.55 Mastering Cashflow: Keeping control during the ebbs and flows of business - Presented by The Finance Consultancy
10.55 – 11.25 MORNING TEA
11.25 – 12.15 Driving the business with Data: Diagnosing blockers and performance gaps, using analytics and mapping the candidate journey - Presented by Jacky Carter, The Satori Partnership
Key Takeaways:
Metrics that matter: If your business objectives have changed, your KPIs should change too. Do they really meet your current strategic goals?
12.15 – 12:45 LUNCH
AFTERNOON THEME: Leading the Business
Facilitated by leadership coaches and industry specialists, the afternoon shifts from operational expertise to the behavioral and cultural foundations of great leadership.
12.45 – 1.00 Introduction - Presented by Colin Cuthbert, EOS Worldwide
1.00 – 1.50 Great leadership - what’s the secret? - Presented by Sophie Robertson, Younique Coaching
Key Takeaways:
1.50 – 2.30 The Practical Foundations of Leading a Team - Presented by Laura Cole, Hopes Consult
For people leaders who want a clear, practical framework for leading teams effectively.
Key Takeaways:
We’ll walk through the full employee lifecycle, from day one through to long term performance and progression, and break down what good leadership looks like in practice to provide your team members a clear roadmap to success, and to allow you to move from reactive firefighting to proactive leadership.
What we will cover:
2.30 – 3.10 AFTERNOON TEA
3.10 – 4.00 Speak to Inspire: How Communication Directly Impacts Motivation - Presented by Russell Webb, Claverdon Consulting
Key Takeaways:
4.00 – 5.00 Networking Drinks
For group registrations of more than three attendees, please contact carly@apscoau.org
| Standard | Member | |
|---|---|---|
| Single ticket price | $595.00 | $495.00 |
| Group of 3 | $550.00 | $450.00 |
Younique Coaching, Recruitment Advisor & Coach
Sophie Robertson is a recruitment industry advisor, coach and trainer. She worked in recruitment for 18 years in various roles from consultant to Business Development Director to General Manager in a global firm as well as in a boutique firm.
Since 2007, Sophie has through her business Younique Coaching coached many recruiters at all levels to bill more and be more successful.
She also works at an advisory level to recruitment leaders and business owners to assist them to build high performing teams.
Sophie’s areas of expertise include: leadership for high performing teams, growing temp and contract businesses and business development.
Sophie’s book ‘Secrets to running a lucrative temp desk’ has helped many companies establish and grow their temp desks.
Claverdon Consulting, Owner & Director
After a successful career as a Recruitment Sales Manager, Russell discovered his true passion was developing people. He went on to forge a career in L&D remaining as a specialist in the recruitment industry.
By combining personalised coaching with practical training for sales consultants and leaders, Russell helped organisations improve retention, build high-performance cultures, and drive measurable productivity gains.
After relocating to Australia, he founded Claverdon Consulting to bring this expertise to the local recruitment market, where he specialises in delivering tailored training programs and coaching services to recruitment businesses across Australia.
Russell partners closely with business leaders to uplift capability, achieve targeted outcomes, and create robust, scalable L&D playbooks.
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The Satori Partnership, Co-Founder
Jacky has many years’ experience in the talent and recruitment sector, including almost 4 decades with global recruitment firm, Hays. Having held multiple global and APAC roles at executive level, Jacky's unique skillset spans operations, technology and marketing with a specific focus on customer centricity, profitable growth and innovation. Two years ago she partnered with another experienced recruitment industry professional, Steve Carter, and together with a team of data, technology and automation experts started The Satori Partnership, a specialist industry consultancy geared to supporting recruitment agencies in achieving their growth objectives.
Recruitment Trainer
Laura is a Sydney based Recruitment Trainer who has spent nearly 20 years in the industry. She is the co-founder of one of Australia’s most awarded business support agencies and has spent the last 8 years training Recruiters through workshops, programs and 121 coaching, as well as working closely with Agency Owners to provide advice across their business strategy, operations and employee lifecycle.
Laura prides herself on her highly practical, no cookie-cutter approach- she only trains on what she has learnt herself and her programs are tailored to each agency’s market, values and ways of working, with a strong focus on real world application and measurable ROI.
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