2026 Programme

Welcome to Country

From Governance to Game Day: The Chair to Performance Journey

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• How alignment looks at the top drives: uncover what approaches ensure boardroom, executive, and performance leadership are pulling in the same direction
• Turning strategy into action: learn from real examples how vision and priorities are translated into outcomes, what’s worked, what’s not
• Learning the Language: how deliberate rhythms, trade-offs, and conversations have impacted performance both in Australia and globally

The Art of Taking the Piss (Professionally): The Shepmates Approach

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The QB Way: Learning Environments for and from Young Talent

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• No matter which industry, if a young talented performer is starting to show the ability, potential and aspiration for higher performance levels, building a support structure around them is critical to their holistic development.
• We’ll look outside of sport to learn lessons from other talent development hotbeds, to compare and contrast how they nurture potential in their worlds.
• From mentoring and reflective practice, to creating pressure and learning from failure, this will be a blueprint on how to develop emerging talent.

Pressure Point: Training for Those Critical Moments

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• How do you train for critical moments in sport? How much is luck and intuition, and how much is training or immaculate judgement?
• It takes a certain type of person to keep calm under that intense pressure and thrive in these intense conditions – and usually the world’s best athletes are these types of people.
• We’ll hear from one of the world’s best performers on strategic thinking, trusting intuition and managing risk.

Q&A & Roundtable: Translating Insight to Practice

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• An opportunity to meet informally with speakers from across the day
• Ask the experts and go deeper on the key topics of the day
• A chance to share ideas, challenges and build on the on-stage conversations

The Future Work Force: Tactics for Leading Teams Today & Tomorrow

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• A key role we have as leaders is to help shape a healthy culture within organisations. To do this we need to have a clear vision of the culture we are trying to nurture, and we need to encourage people to speak up about what is getting in the way.
• We also need to aware of the different ways in which we as leaders can reinforce and help embed the behaviours we want to increase.
• So, what are Leaders getting wrong about employee motivation?

Welcome Back

City of Winners: Celebrating the Best of Brisbane

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• The ability for coaches to grow and evolve a team is fundamental in building success. But what are the key principles needed to nurture team growth?
• In this session, we will delve into those essential strategies with two elite coaches, champions of 2025 from the NRL and AFL, touching on the importance of creating safe and inclusive environments, fostering a sense of belonging, promoting a growth mindset, and achieving substantial progress through marginal gains.

Intent Meets Impact: Making More of Multi-Club Strategy

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• We all know there is no silver bullet or magic formula in creating winning environments. But there are people that are committed to making them.
• This is a definitive conversation with one of the world’s most influential performance architects.
• We’ll be uncovering what’s behind the greatest performance strategies from inception to execution.

Complexity 101: Seconds, Systems & Staying Ahead of Performance

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• We kick off Complexity 101 with Scott, a recognised global leader in the application of complexity and systems science approaches in sport.
• Scott’s background and expertise includes sport science, safety science, and human factors, applied across sport, defence, road safety, AI safety and outdoor recreation. As such, Scott brings a diverse set of cross-disciplinary skills and perspectives that directly translate to help solve some of sports most persistent current and future issues.
• This session offers practical tools for leaders and coaches to recognise hidden patterns within their performance, their teams and anticipate disruption and build adaptable performance systems.

Complexity 101: Seconds, Systems & Saving Lives

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• We go behind the scenes of one of Queensland’s most critical emergency service teams to discover how they operate inside the most complex and volatile environments, where clarity of action matters more than certainty.
• This decision‑making, system design and team communication that underpin safe, high‑quality care under extreme pressure.
• We hear from Stephen lessons from frontline medical leadership that translate directly into any field where humans must perform flawlessly when the stakes couldn’t be higher.