Rethink Change Conference 2026

Join us for Rethink Change 2026

Where Curiosity and Community shape tomorrow

Mark your calendars for your choice for three extraordinary days of learning and connection on:

Thursday 14 May (9am-4pm) add-on MASTERCLASSES

Friday 15 May (9am-5pm) RETHINK CHANGE CONFERENCE

Saturday 16 May (9am-4pm) add-on MASTERCLASSES

Sydney + Livestream options available

What you will experience

Rethink Change 2026 is not just a conference. It is a curated learning experience designed to stretch your thinking, sharpen your practice, and strengthen your network.

Across three days, you will experience:

• Inspiring keynote presentations from leading voices shaping the future of change

• Real-world case studies from complex enterprise transformations

• Practical tools and frameworks you can immediately apply

• Interactive workshops designed for deep skill building

• Evidence-based insights on AI, organisational design, adaptive leadership and change capability

• Candid conversations about what actually works in today’s environment of continuous change

This year’s theme, “Where Curious Minds Come Together”, brings together the topics change practitioners and leaders care about most. From AI-enabled change and enterprise transformation to human-centred leadership and organisational adaptability, the program blends strategic insight with hands-on practice.

You can design your own experience:

• Three curated content streams on Conference Day

• Livestream access to selected Conference presentations

• Two days of in-person Masterclasses for deep capability building

• High-energy networking with Australia’s vibrant change community

Whether you are new to change, a seasoned practitioner, building enterprise change capability, or leading transformation from the business, this event is designed with you in mind.

Join us in Sydney for maximum interaction and connection, or attend online for livestreamed Conference sessions.

Don't miss this opportunity to learn, share, and grow with a community that is shaping the future of change.

Come join us in-person or online.  

Your Rethink hosts 

Doug Wolfson & Janine Ellison

* To see the full schedule of presenters and sessions, please click here to visit our website.

A summary of the sessions from the Conference Day and Masterclasses below.

Please note that the livestreamed (online tickets) will give you access to livestream presentations only and these sessions are indicated with LV below. Details of all sessions are included on the Rethink Change website.

Pre-conference masterclasses (Thursday)

• Facilitating Workshops that Don’t Suck - Lynette Nixon

• Lean Change Tools Lab  - Louisa Vanderkruk

Post-conference masterclasses (Saturday)

• Building Adaptive Capacity in a World That Won't Slow Down - Gaby Pimstone and Allison Tsao

• Organisational Design: A Force Multiplier for Change Practitioners - Dr Beatrice Hofmeyr

Conference Day (LV indicates sessions that will be Livestreamed)

• Curiosity May Kill Cats, but it's a Superpower for Change Practitioners (LV) - Simon Banks

• Panel: Getting Ahead of Change Through Powerful Upstream Levers (LV) - Paul Ichilcik, Cath Ranken, and Melisah Feeney

• Creating Stability in an Environment of Continuous Change (LV)  - Dr  Luella Forbes

• From Value to Acceptability: Rethinking How Humans Actually Change (LV) - Dr  Samantha Rush

• A Radical Rethink of Change Fatigue and Leadership (LV) - Jenine Waters & Adrienne Bateup Carlson

• Less Friction, More Flow: How Change Managers Can Rewire Ways of Working to Achieve Program Outcomes (LV) - Katrina Jackson

• Change Crash Investigators Live! (LV) - Jennifer Zuber and Christina Morgan-Meldrum

• From 'Managing Implementation & Adoption' to 'Architecting Work and Culture': The new mandate for Change Leaders (LV) - Gareth Flynn

• Building the Enterprise Change Office with an Agile Mindset - Amy Leighton and Nichola Lowman

• Case Study: Trust, Adoption, Safety. Key Insights from Rolling Out an Enterprise AI Platform - Brenda Frith

• Permission to Pause: Having the Courage to Promote Strategic Stillness within Organisational Change - Haydn Thomas

• Beyond Employee or Contractor: Designing a Multi-Stream Career in Change - Joanne Martin & Robyn Greeves 

• Managed Chaos: Designing Enterprise Conditions for Change That Actually Lands - Karla Micallef

• Discovering Agile Change: Where the Neurodivergent Find Their Groove - Marco Di Santis

• Unleashing the Potential of AI with Change Management Data - Matt Dragun

• Now You See It: Making Your Change Comms Stick - Mel Loy

• Case Study: Agile Change on a Global Stage - Natasha Redman and Evan Tyson

• Adaptive Leadership in Times of Change - Sarah Stokes and Karina Smith

• The Sea of Green Illusion: What Change Managers Must Rethink about Readiness Reporting - Shiree Hart and Jo Warren

• The Role of Change Management in the Business Case and Program Mobilisation - Dr Temre Green