The CIPS Queensland Committee welcomes all members and procurement professionals to this networking evening and presentation on supply chain challenges and how to prepare and respond to mitigate the impact of these disruptions.

The last few years have highlighted the importance of procurement and supply chains to organisations and society in general. There is nothing in our modern world that doesn’t rely on an effective supply chain. It is inevitable that events outside of our control will bring significant challenges to effective supply chain operations.

When: Thursday 7 September 2023

Where: Flight Centre Building- Rooftop-275 Grey St, South Brisbane, Queensland, AU, 4101

Time: 5:30pm - 8:30pm AEST

Come along to hear renowned practitioner, Brad Jeavons, and a panel of supply chain experts, discuss the importance of agile thinking in addressing supply chain challenges.

This event is a joint initiative between CIPS and the Supply Chain Logistics Association of Australia, enabling greater networking opportunities within the industry.

A huge thank you to Management Options Pty Ltd for sponsoring this event and providing food and refreshments during the evening.

Spaces are limited so register now to secure your place! We can't wait to see you there.

Speaker Details:

Brad Jeavons - Managing Director, iQI

Bio: Brad Jeavons is an organisation improvement leader whose purpose is creating a better future economically, socially and environmentally for generations to come. Brad believes through helping organisations improve and achieve Excellence using today's best practices. Brad support organisations in enhancing both top line and bottom-line performance while reducing their impact. He is an expert in excellence within front end sales, customer experience and marketing as well as operations and supply chain.

Brad is the host of the Enterprise Excellence Podcast, Academy, Community and YouTube Channel. This podcast shares knowledge from our world's experts in Organisational Excellence. The Academy provides certified education from our world's experts on current best practices. Brad also runs the Enterprise Excellence Community that is focused on bringing people together to help break their organisations out of the day-to-day whirlwind and sustain their excellence journeys.

Brad is an award-winning author. His recent book "Agile Sales" outlines how to apply Agile to Sales and Marketing to amplify customer experience and business performance. Brad is a Black Belt certified trainer and coach in Lean Six Sigma and an Agile Education Program Trainer globally.

Brad helps organisations directly define and achieve excellence journeys. Brad works with organisations across many differing fields – education, manufacturing, mining, agriculture, supply chain, technology, government and health. Brad has a unique capability at facilitating and coaching individuals and teams at all levels of an organisation to help them define their path and improvement approaches, creating empowerment, energy and commitment to achieving fast results. Brad has been trained by the founders of excellence models such as Enterprise Excellence, Sales, Agile and Lean.

Peter Lacey - Executive Director, Policy | Queensland Government Procurement - Department of Energy and Public Works

Bio: Peter is responsible for leading and managing the Queensland Government's centrally enabled, whole-of-government procurement policy function, focusing on frameworks, strategy, industry engagement, capability, and data and analytics. He is also the Queensland Government’s Senior Executive responsible for collaboration on the Elimination of Modern Slavery and co-led the Queensland Government’s COVID-19 Procurement Response.

Peter chairs the Strategic Procurement Special Interest Group for all Australasian Governments.

He is an experienced Queensland public servant and procurement professional, with over 30 years’ experience in change and category management. He has worked for range of Queensland Government agencies, including Health, Communities, and Energy and Public Works. He has also worked for the Commonwealth and in the not-for-profit sector. Peter is published in the fields of procurement risk management and strategic thinking.