Event and meeting management

Summary of expertise:

Extensive experience in organising, managing, and facilitating conferences, forums, workshops, management meetings, public meetings, field excursions, and other events and activities.

Organising and facilitating the Regional Knowledge Strategy workshops for the Land & Water Australia Knowledge for Regional NRM Program. This comprised 23 pilot region workshops involving 12-50 participants in five regions across Australia, and then 12 Regional Knowledge Leaders training workshops involving 8-20 participants in capital city and regional locations across Australia.

Organising and convening a series of biodiversity conferences including the 1998 WWF South-East Queensland Rainforest Recovery Conference and the 2000, 2001 and 2002 Southern Queensland Biodiversity Conferences. These conferences stimulated significant conservation activity, for example the 1998 WWF South-East Queensland Rainforest Recovery Conference led to the establishment of one of Australia’s first multi-species recovery planning projects, the South-East Queensland Rainforest Recovery Project.

Organising and delivering a series of five property management planning workshops for 30 Oxley Creek Catchment landholders, and a series of five property management planning workshops for 15 Helidon Hills landholders. These workshops trained the landholders in the use of the Living in the Lockyer Property Management Planning Kit.

Facilitating three workshops involving 20 landholders to develop the Upper Ma Ma Creek Rainforest Restoration Project.

Establishing a 12-person Threatened Species Recovery Team comprising scientists, government representatives and community members, and convening a series of six Recovery Team workshops to prepare the Biodiversity Recovery Plan for Gatton and Laidley Shires, South-East Queensland 2003-2008.

Convening a Biodiversity Investment Forum involving 40 participants to explore the introduction of ‘markets for ecosystem services’ in the Lockyer Catchment.

Establishing a 15-person multi-stakeholder Reference Group and convening six Reference Group workshops to prepare the Natural Resource Management Strategy for Crow’s Nest Shire, Queensland as part of the award-winning Holistic Natural Resource Management of Crow’s Nest Shire Project, Queensland (‘Project Green Nest’).

Convening three community workshops involving 60 people to develop a project funding proposal for the Stockyard and Upper Flagstone Sub-Catchments Management Project.

Convening two public meetings of 80 participants and 16 workshops of 8-50 participants as part of the preparation of the Sustainable Management of the Helidon Hills Management Plan in the Sustainable Management of the Helidon Hills Project.