HR Conference

Join us at Melbourne Zoo for our annual two-day HR Leadership Course on Thursday, 29th and Friday, 30th October 2026. This event is specifically designed for managers and leaders within the veterinary industry, offering practical insights into the evolving field of HR. With limited places available, seize the opportunity to enhance your HR expertise and leadership capability.

Exclusive Zoo Experience: In addition to the conference, delegates will be invited to step behind the scenes for an exclusive tour. Guided by Amy Saunders and her team, this private tour offers a rare glimpse into the world of the zoo’s most captivating carnivores and ungulates—an unforgettable opportunity to get closer to these extraordinary animals and the experts who care for them.

Engaging Sessions & Key Topics:

  • HR Liability: Who Is Responsible? Clarifying where responsibility sits when things go wrong, including vicarious liability and manager obligations.
  • When You Can’t Keep Something in Confidence: Managing sensitive disclosures while balancing legal obligations and maintaining trust.
  • Sexual Harassment & Positive Duty: Understanding employer obligations to actively prevent harassment and respond appropriately under current legislation.
  • Beyond Compliance – Driving Performance: Building an integrated HR ecosystem that connects policies, performance frameworks, and data to improve outcomes.
  • Quietly Cracking: Identifying high-performing employees who are struggling beneath the surface, and how to intervene early without undermining performance.
  • Appease & Please Disease: Managing people-pleasing, setting boundaries, and preventing burnout in high-empathy teams within HR boundaries.
  • The Accidental Counsellor: Understanding the limits of a manager’s role when employees confide in them, and how to support without taking on personal liability.
  • Gender Equality: Addressing structural barriers, unconscious bias, and the practical steps required to create genuinely equitable workplaces.
  • Unwritten Workplace Rules: Identifying hidden cultural expectations that drive behaviour, and turning them into clear, safe, and accountable standards.
  • Secondary Employment: Managing conflicts of interest, fatigue risks, and legal considerations when employees hold multiple roles or side work.
  • Embedding Policies That Actually Work: Moving beyond compliance to ensure policies are understood, applied, and embedded into everyday behaviour.

When & Where?

  • When: 29th & 30th October 2026
  • Where: Melbourne Zoo – Elliott Ave, Parkville, VIC 3052
  • Cost: $1,495 per person (ex-GST)

Interested in Attending?

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