Industry Collective National Showcase | Employee Lifecycle

The employee lifecycle describes the stages an employee goes through during their relationship with your organisation, from the first contact to departure. It typically includes Attraction, Recruitment, Onboarding, Development, Retention and Separation. Managing each stage effectively helps organisations improve performance, engagement and retention, reducing turnover and recruitment headaches.

In this workshop, we will explore 4 of the components:

Attraction
Recruitment
Onboarding
Cultural Integration & Retention

The event will be run in a storyboard format with each presentation flowing onto the next, with the presenters being part of our IPA Collective program, bringing together leading industry experts from around Australia.

Agenda:

8:00 am | Registration
8:15 am | Event starts
- Acknowledgement of Country
- Introductions
8:30 am | Font & Swatch
- Attraction is the first stage of the employee lifecycle. It focuses on how an organisation positions itself to appeal to potential employees. This includes employer branding, reputation, company culture, values, career opportunities, and the way roles are promoted.
9:15 am | Fuse Recruitment
- Effective recruitment focuses on finding candidates with the right skills, experience, and cultural fit, ensuring the organisation builds a capable workforce while providing a fair and positive candidate experience.
10:00 am | Morning tea
10:30 am | Humanly Resourced
- Onboarding is the process of integrating a new employee into the organisation. A strong onboarding experience helps new hires feel welcomed, understand expectations and culture, and become productive and engaged more quickly.
11:15 am | Unfold
- Retention focuses on keeping employees engaged, motivated, and committed to the organisation over time. This relies very much on supportive leadership, wellbeing, and a positive workplace culture.
12.00 pm | Lunch
1:00 pm | Breakout group exercise
1:30 pm | Q&A Panel
2:00 pm | Networking and Close

Our Presenters:

Font & Swatch is a specialist Branding Agency born in 2010. Kristin joined the team as a Principal in 2016. He holds a Bachelor of Business from ACU and Master of Commerce from Sydney University.

Kristin is a Presenter, Podcaster, Branding Specialist and a tragic cricket and football fan. He has three amazingly talented daughters and a wonderful life partner in Sarah.

Font & Swatch executes Branding, Identity and Creative Design projects for organisations of varying sizes and complexity. Their rich client list includes the likes News Corp Australia, FIFA, TGI, CBA and the RAAF to name but a few.

Melissa Kennedy is the National Manager, Manufacturing & Operations at Fuse Recruitment. She started her recruitment career in 2014 as a Scientific Recruitment Consultant, working with FMCG and pharmaceutical organisations, and has since built expertise across manufacturing, supply chain and logistics, and life sciences.

Melissa sees effective recruitment as the combination of strong industry knowledge and genuine relationship-building. By understanding market trends, role requirements, and business challenges, she helps clients make informed decisions while guiding candidates through a transparent and respectful hiring process. She believes that a positive candidate experience is just as important as technical skills, creating better alignment, engagement, and long-term retention.

At this event, Melissa will share practical insights on balancing skills, experience, and cultural fit to build high-performing teams, while protecting employer brand and delivering people-focused recruitment outcomes.

Suzie Stitt is the Managing Director of Humanly Resourced and a passionate advocate for getting the people side of business right from day one. With postgraduate qualifications in Human Resources Management and a degree in Psychological Science, Suzie works closely with manufacturing, construction and operational businesses to ensure the employee lifecycle is effectively managed at every stage, including transforming onboarding from a tick-and-flick process into a powerful driver of safety, engagement and retention.

Known for her practical, straight-talking approach, Suzie brings real-world experience through both an operational and technical lens, alongside deep people and culture expertise. When she’s not immersed in workforce strategy and culture, Suzie is a busy mum of two young boys and spends her spare time at the shooting range, running, or renovating and building houses. These passions reflect her hands-on mindset, love of problem-solving, and strong belief that solid foundations matter in everything we build, especially our people.

Steph Tramontin is a leadership coach, facilitator, and organisational development specialist with over 15 years’ experience supporting leaders, teams, and organisations to reach new levels of performance through leadership and culture shifts. As Head of Consulting at Unfold, she holds deep expertise in leadership development, culture transformation, and full-spectrum organisational change across utilities, Local Government, and corporate sectors.

Steph has designed and led leadership and change programs for national and global organisations, and is known for her ability to engage authentically at all levels. Her work centres on personal transformation as the pathway to organisational growth, helping leaders view challenges through multiple lenses, unlock collective potential and translate insight into action.

An experienced coach and facilitator, Steph holds qualifications in Human Resource Management, Facilitating Deep Transformation, and various Coaching and Leadership Assessment accreditations. Her practice is characterised by the right balance of challenge and care, delivered with warmth, presence and integrity.

Registration Details:

Registrations close 7 days before the event date.
Registrations are based on a "first-come, first-served" basis.
Please select the appropriate ticket type depending on your membership status.

Who should attend?
This is open to a broad range of business personnel, Site managers, Marketing managers, HR, Recruitment teams, Training managers or anyone interested in not only recruiting great people but retaining them over time.

When do I need to register?
Registrations close seven days before the event date.

Who can I contact for further information?

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