Engagement Institute Podcast

Beyond the Book: Conversations with Authors, a podcast from the Engagement Institute.   Episode 2: The Secret Life of Pop Ups with Engagement Institute CEO Marion Short and author Cindy Plowman.  Recorded August 2025.  We sit down with leading authors and thinkers in the engagement space to dive deeper, beyond the pages, beyond the theory, to explore the messy, meaningful, and often surprising rea...

Beyond the Book: Conversations with Authors, a podcast from the Engagement Institute.   Episode 1: The Underbelly of Engagement - The Unspoken Realities of Community Engagement with guests Max Hardy and Sally Hussey.  Recorded August 2025.  We sit down with leading authors and thinkers in the engagement space to dive deeper, beyond the pages, beyond the theory, to explore the messy, meaningful, an...

Anne Leadbeater OAM, Director and Principal of the Leadbeater Group joined Elisabeth Ellis, Professional Development Manager, IAP2 Australasia to discuss engagement tips for disaster response and recovery. Anne has 25 years' experience in community and economic development through her roles in local and state Government, emergency management and adult education. Anne worked on behalf of the M...

Join us for an audio replay of our webinar Q&A-style conversation (held on 26 March 2020) with practical information on how you can keep engaging in the COVID-19 environment.  Topics covered included: How to adapt your engagement plans and strategies to digital or other approaches The role of engagers in connecting communities Looking to positive innovations in crisis Challenges of adapting to...

Join us for an audio replay of a webinar Q&A-style conversation with practical information about current community sentiment and how to adapt your approach to engagement in the COVID-19 environment. Our panel shared tips and insights on: Community sentiment right now and what people are thinking and feeling. How to work with people with heightened anxiety. Social distancing versus social isola...

Join us for an audio replay of a webinar Q&A-style conversation with former international athlete, SBS presenter and human rights advocate, Craig Foster about his experience in engaging with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) and minority communities. Craig will provide insights into his own challenges and successes to help engagement practitioners understand and better connect with...

Keep on Engaging: #changinglives #keepingculture This webinar, recorded 21 May 2020, provided practical information about engaging with integrity in Aotearoa and, understanding and engaging with Aboriginal and Indigenous culture and community. The panel shared insights and learnings to help break down the barriers to better engage with Aboriginal & Māori communities. Speakers Cain Slater - Kar...

This webinar, recorded 24 June, provided insights into what the road to recovery and community engagement's new normal might look like. We’re all in this together! The catch phrase on everyone’s lips across the globe. But, now as we pave the road to recovery, where to from here? With our day-to-day lives interrupted both personally and professionally we need to discuss what does our new norma...

This webinar, recorded 11 August 2020, discussed practical information about deliberative engagement and how to adapt your approach to engagement to satisfy the new Victorian Local Government Act 2020. Panellists -Hannah Duncan-Jones, Director Responsible for the Implementation of the Local Government Act 2020, Local Government and Suburban Development Group, Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regi...

This webinar, Part 2 of our Deliberative Engagement series, recorded 27 August 2020, provides practical information about deliberative engagement and how to adapt your approach to engagement to satisfy the new Victorian Local Government Act 2020. Topics -What is deliberative engagement -What makes deliberative engagement different from engagement? -Deliberative engagement in the context of the Vic...

Guest presenter Suzy Jacobs joined us for a special edition personal and professional development webinar for IAP2 members and friends in November 2020. As well as being a professional speaker, Suzy is an in-demand coach, and in this webinar she shared her strategies on how to move from feeling stuck and disillusioned to empowered and unstoppable. Suzy takes us through: -Identifying the intellectu...

Is it Your Time to Shine? Tips for the Core Values Awards 2021 Are you preparing an entry for the IAP2 Australasia Core Values Awards this year? You won’t want to miss this webinar presented by last year’s judges Anne Pattillo, Clare Murrell and Leisa Prowse, along with winner Alicia Pickering from Melbourne Water. Plus Emanuela Savini from the IAP2A Research Working Group will step you through th...

Community engagement leaders struggle with how to: Involve people who are ‘hardly reached’. Appeal to young people. Engage authentically with people whose first language is not English. Extend the conversation with people who weren’t ‘in the room’ but who are keen to contribute. Overcome constraints of face-to-face engagement in a COVID world.   Jacinta Cubis and Cindy Lenferna de la Motte , Head...

Engagers share...learnings from the pandemic. This was Part 1 of a webinar presentation held in November 2021. Desley Renton, Past IAP2A President and member of our former IAP2A Ambassador program and Nicola Mendleson, IAP2A Trainer, were joined by engagement leads from the Australian health sector - Nina Fromhold, from the Victorian Public Service; Amanda Stephinson from NSW Health and Vienna Ric...

Desley Renton, Past IAP2A President and member of our former IAP2A Ambassador program and Nicola Mendleson, IAP2A Trainer, were joined by speakers from three different councils – inner city, regional and outer-urban growth -  to share the different challenges they faced as they developed their community visions and council plans. This was a webinar presentation held live on 10 December 2021. IAP2...

Discover invaluable insights, gain expert perspectives, and delve into the world of influencing political decision-makers. Panel: Sally Hussey (author of our new thought leadership paper), Louise Crossman, Director at Counsel House, Aimee Brock, National Engagement & Business Improvement Manager at Waka Kotahi New Zealand Transport Agency, Alistair Kingston, Executive General Manager, RPS and...