This webinar is for Australian Local Government Staff only.
Local councils across Australia and New Zealand face an intensifying challenge: expanding community services amid acute skills shortages and tight fiscal constraints. To build true resilience, councils must look inward to their most vital asset—their workforce.
Join us to move past the tech hype and discuss the practicalities of driving a sustainable council. We will explore how leading local governments are shifting away from fragmented legacy systems to unified platforms that put human-centered AI at the core. Discover how a single, trusted source of data allows organisations to streamline routine workflows, drive operational efficiency, and dramatically improve the employee experience.
Key Discussion Themes
• The Workforce Evolution: Practical strategies to bridge critical skills gaps, navigate demographic shifts, and build a modern workplace culture that attracts and retains top public sector talent.
• Responsible AI in Action: How embedding AI directly into your core platform automates administrative burdens, allowing staff to focus on high-value community outcomes.
• Navigating Portfolio Complexity: How a unified view of your people data provides the real-time insights and analytics-based decision support needed to maintain service excellence.
• Peer-Led Success: Insights into how councils are leveraging modern cloud technology to break down operational silos and support staff through continuous change.
Who Should Attend: This is a must-attend session for local government executives, CHROs, HR/People directors, and ICT leaders focused on modernising operations, achieving process excellence, and empowering their workforce.
About the Presenter:
Esther Monks
Industry Advisor, Public Sector & Healthcare, APAC
Workday
Esther is an Industry Advisor with Workday, supporting the Public Sector and Healthcare industries across the APAC region. As a chartered accountant, Esther’s had a diverse 20-year career spanning finance, strategy, and transformation roles.
Esther is passionate about creating a sustainable future and is particularly interested in aligning organisational strategy to day-to-day decision making.
Her current role allows her to support organisations to evaluate their digital transformation decisions, and bring Workday’s global experience to the region, solving key challenges the industries are facing across workforce and sustainability.
