Scheduled Speakers

Damian West
Project Leader, Cross-Agency
ICT Skills Reform Team
Australian Public Service Commission
and Australian Government
Information Management Office

Richard Millington
Director, Innovation and Skills
Development
Department of Education,
Employment and Workplace
Relations
Mr Richard Millington is currently the Director Skills Development in the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR), responsible for strategies to help Australian industry address current and future skills needs. This includes workforce projects to promote innovation, enhance sustainability and increase productivity. Richard has spoken about workforce development and responding to the ageing workforce at various conferences.
Prior to his current appointment, Mr Millington has also been responsible for industry and mature age employment programs, business and strategic planning, performance and risk management, and he has also been a state manager in the Department of Defence. He is a graduate of the University of New South Wales and Deakin University.

Tony Wallace
Director, Strategic Workforce Planning
Department of Defence

Anna Lutz
Director, Workforce Planning
and Recruitment
Australian Customs and
Border Security Service
Anna Lutz is the Director Workforce Planning and Recruitment in the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service. Anna has worked in a variety of HR roles in state government and more recently in federal government. Anna has had exposure in a range of diverse small, medium and large organisations and the challenges associated with implementing HR strategies and workforce planning within different organisations

Julie Sloan
Director
Workforce Planning Australia
Julie Sloan, Director Julie Sloan Management Pty. Ltd.(JSM) , and Director, Workforce Planning Australia Pty.Ltd., (WPA) is regarded as one of the most experienced specialist workforce planners in Australia.
Julie has national credibility in both strategic and operational workforce planning and workforce development across the broad and diverse Australian industry and business community.
She has more than 35 years work experience in policy development, strategic planning, human resource management and as a specialist consulting in strategic and operational Workforce Planning.
She has worked at all levels of Government – Commonwealth, State Government (all), Local Government, in the Corporate and Private Sector, and in the Not-for-Profit sector internationally & nationally

Narelle Cameron
 Business Manager,
People Strategy Branch, Centrelink

Bernadette Fallon
State Services
Authority, VIC

Glenda Gorrie
Department of Human
Services, VIC

Glynis Schultz
Department of Health, QLD
Jennie Hunter, Department of Justice
and Attorney General, QLD
Glynis is the Director of Workforce Planning for the Department of Queensland Health and has worked across a number of clinical and non roles in health.

Michael Stanley
Roads and Traffic
Authority, NSW
Michael Stanley is the NSW Road and Traffic Authority’s (RTA) Workforce Capability Manager and is responsible for ensuring that the RTA has the right people with the right skills to undertake the many and varied responsibilities that the RTA is entrusted with by the NSW State Government both now and, more importantly, into the future. Michael heads up a team of organizational strategists who provide the RTA with Leadership, Management, Professional, Technical and targeted compliance development. His team is responsible for the strategies that ensure the effective attraction, selection, retention and ongoing development of all levels of people in the RTA. Central to all of this work is strategic workforce planning; a process on which he has taken the lead for the RTA.

Diane Wasson
Department of Education
and Training, NSW
Diane Wasson is currently the Director of Human Resource Policy and Planning in the NSW Department of Education and Training. Her role covers strategic human resources policy and planning, workforce planning and recruitment and management of Senior Executive Service (SES) and Senior Officers. Part of Diane’s responsibilities include the development of policies and procedures affecting the various classifications within the Department such as those for the accreditation of teachers and the development and implementation of the Strategic Human Resources Plan, the Aboriginal Human Resource Development Plan and the Workforce Diversity Plan.
The role requires interaction with all portfolios across the Department as well as liaison with agencies external to the Department. This involves representing employers on the NSW Institute of Teachers’ Initial Teacher Education Committee; participating in the planning and implementation of the Smarter Schools National Partnerships on Teacher Quality and Low Socio Economic Status Communities. Diane also represents the Department on various interagency committees including the Department of Premier and Cabinet’s Workforce Consultation Group.

Jan Ellis
Department of Premier
and Cabinet, SA
Jan is the Director of the Office for Ethical Standards and Professional Integrity, within the Department of the Premier and Cabinet in South Australia. The Office supports the statutory functions of the Commissioner for Public Employment, promotes ethical behaviour and establishes and maintains employment frameworks and planning for the SA Public Sector, a diverse workforce of more than 90,000 people.
Jan has a Masters in Public Sector Management and Administration and has worked in public sector human resources and related fields for more than 15 years. Prior to joining the Department of Premier and Cabinet two years ago Jan was the corporate human resource manager for the Department of Education and Children’s Services in South Australia.

Bridget Ransome
City of Marion, SA

Cameron Tyrrell
Office of the Commissioner
for Public Employment, NT