GROW. LEAD. INNOVATE.
This year’s conference will provide you with the skills, knowledge and insights to facilitate your journey to becoming a strong, informed and inspiring leader. Learn the importance of creating a healthy workplace culture and motivating your team for optimum performance.
- Cultivate a workplace culture of learning with personal development.
- Benefit from new skills, new ideas and new perspectives to support an individual's professional development.
- Provide your teams with the skills, knowledge and insights to facilitate their journey to becoming strong, informed and inspiring leaders.
- Create a healthy workplace culture and motivate your teams for optimum performance.
Given the change and general busyness around our region and businesses, it's more important than ever to be prepared and continuously operating at your highest potential.
What's your plans to promote team work, collaboration, soft skills building, and develop the art of communication? That's what our Professional Development Conference is for.
Instead of pushing through to make it happen, making mistakes or potentially endangering staff - why not take five, attend the region's Professional Development Conference and become prepared to positively encourage a peak performance management style.
This year's PD Conference is again hosted by our much loved national broadcasting personality Kat Davidson, and as part of the event, you will hear from two of Australia's leading keynote speakers, with Kate Munari and Ashleigh Paholek taking to the stage to share with you their respective stories, practical experiences and leadership lessons.
Kate Munari - Powerful Leadership
Kate will inspire you with real and raw stories from her time in Afghanistan. She will share strategies and techniques for empowering your team, decision making under pressure, positive mentoring, the power of accountability, and much more. Kate will uncover why great leadership truly starts and ends with your team.
Ashleigh Paholek - Unlock Peak Performance: Master Strategic Soft Skills, Elevate Communication, and Cultivate a Confidence Mindset that Empowers You.
Discover the powerful connection between confidence and peak performance as Ashleigh breaks down how mastering strategic soft skills can elevate your personal and professional life. Learn how effective communication leads to better relationships and outcomes and how cultivating a mindset that truly serves you can transform the way you live and work.
Other notable speakers for the engaging Breakout Sessions include Judy Porter, Rick D’Amato, Shannon Robert Gibbs, Maddy Avery, Maria Langford, Joe Bonanno, Deb Rae and Richard Wainwright.
For these final hours that the ticket box is open, we are offering a special deal for groups of five!
Who are the top five people in your business you'd like to send along to the PD Conference next Wednesday?
DATE: Wednesday, 22rd October 2025
TIME: 7.15am – 4.00pm
VENUE: Mackay Entertainment and Convention Centre
TICKETS: Member $210 | Non-member $260 | Group of 5 tickets $950
ONLINE TICKET BOOKINGS CLOSED: For last-minute tickets call Sonia on 0419 413 787
This incredible line up of speakers and day's itinerary wouldn't be possible without our event partners and sponsors supporting Resource Industry Network.
Resource Industry Network is the largest membership organisation in the Mackay Isaac Whitsunday and Bowen Basin Central Queensland region actively representing the unique interests of businesses operating across mining, manufacturing, engineering and METS disciplines. Resource Industry Network leads the resources sector from the thriving mining hub of Paget in Mackay. The RIN community is made up of product and service suppliers, including alliance businesses who support the resources sector. For over 20 years Resource Industry Network has served as the vital link to connect, develop and promote esteemed member businesses to industry professionals, commercial decision-makers, committee groups and government representatives. Join RIN today and receive discounts on event tickets, sponsorship or speaker opportunities, invitations to industry committee groups, social media exposure, advocacy support and more!