employee assistance professionals conference 2015

Diversity, Inclusion andDiscrimination:

EAPs and Social Responsibility

EAPAA 24th National Conference13 - 14 August 2015Pullman Hotel Melbourne on the Park

www.eapaa.org.au

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Employee Assistance ProfessionalAssociation of Australasia (Inc)

EAPAA 24th National Conference • 13 - 14 August 2015 • Diversity, Inclusion and Discrimination: EAPs and Social Responsibility

General Information

Conference Venue and Pullman Hotel Melbourne on the Park | 192 Wellington Parade, Melbourne

Accommodation Special discount conference rates have been organised at the Pullman Hotel.

$219 per room - single / twin / double | Breakfast $25pp

Bookings are to be made through Margaret Reid Pty Limited.

Please complete and return the following registration form.

Conference Dinner Thursday 13 August 2015 | 7.30pm

The Bohemian Bar & Restaurant | 35 Dukes Walk, South Wharf, Melbourne

PD Points Members are reminded that the Australian Psychological Society (APS) has previously

endorsed all conference professional papers for credit towards ongoing professional

development and PD points for ongoing registration. APS no longer provides specific

endorsement but we are assured that our high quality papers will once more meet

this standard.

Conference Organisers Margaret Reid Pty Limited

2/303 Penshurst Street Willoughby NSW 2068 Australia

P 612 9882 2688 | M 0412 092 005 | F 612 9882 2648

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The EAPAA Executive wishes to thank the following sponsors for generously supporting this conference

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Thursday 13 August 2015

9:00am OFFICIAL WELCOME

Dr John McManus | President, Employee Assistance Professional Association of Australasia Inc. (EAPAA)

Senior Psychologist - Partner Owner, Mind & Matter Consulting

9.10am Keynote Address

Kate Jenkins | Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commissioner

10.00am Family violence and the workplace

Fiona McCormack | Chief Executive Officer, Domestic Violence Victoria (DV Vic)

The impact of family violence is not limited to the home. As five national surveys indicate, family violence affects

work performance and has implications for Australian businesses. Fiona will discuss current evidence on the costs

of family violence and ways in which businesses can lead on this issue and circumvent potential negative impacts.

10.45am M O R N I N G T E A

11.15am War zones & battlefronts: Effects on Muslims living and working in our shared community

Zaahir Edries | President of the Muslim Legal Network (NSW)

From the building of The Ghan railway connecting north to south Australia, to the establishment of the Islamic

Museum of Australia, Muslims in Australia have contributed to the social make up and workforce in Australia for

generations. Zaahir Edries explores the effects of the post 9/11 experience of Muslims in Australia, the rise of

Islamophobia and the search for a 'new' Australian Muslim identity. Zaahir speaks through his experience as a

migrant, student, solicitor, advocate, citizen and Muslim growing up in Australia.

12.15pm L U N C H

DIVERSITY, INCLUSION AND DISCRIMINATION CASE STUDIES

1.15pm Driving diversity and inclusion at Corrs: A practical guide

Annette Hughes | Partner and co-chair of Corrs’ Diversity Council, Corrs Chambers Westgarth Lawyers

Corrs Chambers Westgarth is a premium independent commercial law firm. Corrs recognises the value and

importance of diversity and inclusion and is firmly committed to creating an inclusive culture that fosters,

supports and celebrates diversity. Joint Partner and co-chair of Corrs’ Diversity Council, Annette shares the firm’s

Diversity strategy and discusses key initiatives and practical measures which are assisting the firm in creating a

more inclusive environment and driving outcomes.

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Thursday 13 August 2015 continued

2.00pm Diversity Case Study

Martin King | GM for Human Resources, Coca Cola Amatil (NZ) Ltd

Martin leads and inspires the NZ HR team to make CCANZ one of the highest engaged workforces and most

attractive employers in NZ. Martin is passionate about making Coke a diverse and inclusive workplace, in which

employees thrive no matter their makeup, and where people are free from bullying, harassment and discrimination.

2.45pm A F T E R N O O N T E A

3.15pm

Aboriginal Employee Assistance - Integrating an EAP approach with an aboriginal well-being framework

Rachel Johnson, David Kurnoth | Larrakia Nation

John G McManus | PhD I Partner, Senior Psychologist, Mind & Matter and President, EAPAA

Larrakia Nation is Darwin's leading Aboriginal organisation. They are attempting to put into place an EAP that

incorporates best practice standards with the assistance of EAPAA. They are seeking an approach that integrates

culturally appropriate models and strategies of intervention as well as traditional aboriginal cultural dimensions

and healing approaches. Rachel, David and John discuss their endeavours in spanning mainstream psychological

interventions with the assistance of EAPAA standards and guidelines as a baseline for service provision with

Aboriginal healing approaches.

3.45pm

Cultural diversity, inclusion and organisational responsiveness

Liz Pennington | CEO Vitae NZ

Liz will share the two year journey and challenges Vitae have faced at a strategic and operational level as the

organisation honours its commitment to being culturally inclusive and respectful. From the boards role in

governance responsibilities and setting of strategic direction to the staff and management teams roles in

‘making it real’ within business annual planning, staff development and capability building and the day to day

service delivery to clients in an increasingly multicultural context. Liz will share the opportunities and challenges

and the ‘hands on ‘stories of building responsiveness across the organisation.

4.15pm FORUM | When the rubber hits the road:

What an EAP professional does in the face of discrimination and prejudice?

Chair | Kash Thomson | Psychologist & Consultant, YES Psychology & Consulting

5:15pm Sessions conclude for the day

7:30pm CO N F E R E N C E D I N N E R The Bohemian Bar & Restaurant | 35 Dukes Walk, South Wharf, Melbourne

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Friday 14 August 2015

9:00am Supporting transgender people in the workplace

Dr Graham Neilsen | Specialist Sexual Health Physician, Private Practice Brisbane

• Introduction to sexual orientation and gender identity, and issues for transgender people in the workplace

• Advice for employers on how to best support a transgender person in the workplace

10:00am Helping dads in the transition to fatherhood

Timothy O'Leary | Social Worker with Masters in Couples Therapy / Grad. Diploma in Parent-Infant Mental Health

Why is it that some new dads thrive while many others feel unprepared for the challenges of parenthood and can

even experience post-natal depression? Tim explores the research into men's experiences of fatherhood, and

offers practical ways to help dads to overcome their challenges as new dads so that they not only feel better in

themselves, but for the benefit of their family.

10.45am M O R N I N G T E A

11.15am Women, work and the menopause: Breaking the silence

Professor Gavin Jack | Department of Management, Faculty of Business & Economics, Monash University

Women over 45 years of age form a significant proportion of the workforce in many industries, notably healthcare

and social assistance, retail, and education and training. By the age of 51 years, the majority will have transitioned

through menopause, with many continuing to experience symptoms, including hot flushes and sleep disturbance

post-menopause. Yet there is a silence on women’s experience of menopause in the workplace, and little attention

given to how organisations can best support women’s health and well-being in this regard during transition.

Does the menopause actually affect women’s engagement at work, their job satisfaction, commitment to the

organisation and intention to leave? Do all women experience problem symptoms of the menopause that affect

their work? Are there positive stories associated with careers and lives in organisations after menopause? Which

aspects of the organisational environment and corporate culture make women’s experiences better or worse?

This presentation will answer these questions based on a research project conducted last year with women working

in three universities in Australia. In addition to an overview of the key findings, the presentation will focus on

drawing out specific implications for professionals with responsibility for Employee Assistance Programs, and

broader considerations for HRM, OH&S and equality and diversity practice.

The presentation will set out an agenda for strategies to support and promote the participation of midlife female

employees in the workplace, situating menopause as part of a broader health and well-being concern of

importance to Australian employers.

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Friday 14 August 2015 continued

1.15pm The Age of Reason

Chris Waters | (D.Psych), Principal Consultant, Catalyst ODP

There has been a lot of talk about older workers needing to keep working. After all, how is the nation going to

support all of those baby boomers if older workers leave the work force? This is the topic of government policy, it

gets mentioned in the recent Trans-generational report put out earlier this year, makes the headlines at HR

conferences, blogs, podcasts and newspapers. But is it as simple as saying we need to work longer? What about

age discrimination in the workforce? Are some industries better suited to keeping older workers on the pay-role?

Do older workers want to keep working? Do businesses want to employ them if they do? How are older workers

affected by these issues and how do they cope with them? These issues will be explored in this presentation and

the relevance to EAPs will be highlighted using a series of case studies.

2.15pm #GenY: The rise of the Gen Y generation and what this means for EAPs

Oliver Brecht | Psychologist Consultant, Insight Elite Performance Psychology

Susie Rydderch | Consultant, Insight Elite Performance Psychology

With Gen Ys beginning to make their presence felt in the professional world, the issues and stressors they perceive

to be the most important and most pressing will begin to influence the way EAPs are utilised and influence what

issues most commonly present to an EAP service. Today Gen Y's biggest stressors and fears are ones they can’t

touch and possibly even ones we can’t see. Gen Y is the next wave to hit the shores of the EAP, so EAP providers

need to be prepared.

This topic will look at Gen Y through the lens of client, practitioner and also wider society to look at what the Gen Y

population is experiencing in modern society what they perceive to be the biggest issues for them as individuals

and for mental health. The topic will then expand out to look at whether or not people are more stressed in

modern society compared to previous times, or are the stressors just changing shape and they have become

better at voicing their complaints.

3.15pm A F T E R N O O N T E A

3.45pm FORUM | How can EAPs effectively influence their client companies and what lessons are on offer?

Chair | Julie Crawley | Director, EAPworks (NZ)

5:00pm Conference concludes

Kate Jenkins | Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commissioner

With 20 years' law experience, Kate Jenkins was appointed Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human

Rights Commissioner in 2013. Prior to this role she was lead partner of Herbert Smith Freehills' Aus-

tralian discrimination, equal opportunity and training practice.

Kate is the Board Vice President of Berry Street Victoria - the state's largest independent child and

family welfare organisation. She is also a member of the Board of Heide Museum of Modern Art and

holds honours degrees in Law and Arts.

Fiona McCormack | CEO, Domestic Violence Victoria | www.dvvic.org.au

Fiona McCormack is CEO of Domestic Violence Victoria, the peak body offering family violence

services for women and children in Victoria. DV Vic provides political advocacy on behalf of and in

partnership with its member organisation for violence prevention, systemic change and

enhancement of systems.

Most of Fiona’s working life has focused on issues affecting women and she represents the

family violence sector on statewide and ministerial committees. Highlights of her work include pre-

senting in Shenyang as part of the China-Australia Human Rights Technical Cooperation

Program and to the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Most of all she enjoys working with and learning from, the

courage and wisdom of other women.

Zaahir Edries | President, Muslim Legal Network NSW | www.muslimlegalnetwork.com

Zaahir is qualified as a solicitor in NSW and was admitted to practice in the High Court of Australia.

He holds a Bachelor of Legal Studies from Murdoch University and a Masters of Law and Legal

Practice from the University of Technology, Sydney. Before studying law, Zaahir undertook study

as an electrical engineer and spent some time working in the telecommunications industry.

He began his advocacy career in youth work whilst a teenager in Perth. This passion developed

during his legal career with early exposure to family law, welfare and criminal fields, interests

which later led him to complete a Masters in International and Humanitarian law.

In private practice Zaahir managed matters in areas of employment and industrial relations law, intellectual property infringements

as well as individual and corporate insolvency. Zaahir represented his clients in the Fair Work Commission, Federal, the Federal

Circuit and Supreme Courts as well as various ad-hoc tribunals. Zaahir has also worked pro-bono in community legal centres.

Zaahir advocates for his profession and community by serving as 2015 President of the Muslim Legal Network (NSW), the largest

representative body of Muslim legal professionals in NSW and an organisation he helped found in 2009.

Zaahir is often asked to speak at public events and universities on matters of diversity, inclusion and the Muslim experience in

Australia from a migrant perspective. He is called upon to comment on law reform and assists in submissions to the Australian

Parliament on matters relevant to the Muslim community and more broadly on civil liberties in Australia.

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Annette Hughes | Commercial Litigation Partner, Corrs Chambers Westgarth | www.corrs.com.au

Annette Hughes is an experienced Commercial Litigation partner at Corrs Chambers Westgarth,

where she leads the firm’s Fraud, Corruption and Bribery group as well as its Product Liability Prac-

tice Group. Annette’s areas of expertise include regulatory compliance and investigations, product

liability, and commercial disputes, litigation and appeals. Her experience spans the various courts of

Australia and America, including the High Court, as well as arbitration and mediation. She sits on

Corrs’ Executive Leadership Team, chairs its Diversity Council, is the Lawyers’ Weekly Female

Partner of the Year and is rated one of Australia’s Best Lawyers by the Australian Financial Review

peer review in Litigation, Class Actions, Product Liability (also Product Liability Lawyer of the Year), and Regulatory practice.

Martin King | General Manager of HR Coca-Cola Amatil NZ (CCANZ)

As a member of the New Zealand Executive, Martin leads and inspires the NZ HR team to ensure

that CCANZ’s workforce is highly engaged and that CCANZ is one of the most attractive employers

in NZ. He is passionate about building Coke into a diverse and inclusive workplace where employees

thrive no matter what their makeup, and where people are free from bullying, harassment and

discrimination. Backed by some 18 plus years’ HR experience and now at the top of the HR game in

one of New Zealand’s best places to work, Martin is a committed, innovative and commercial HR

leader setting the pace for other businesses to follow.

Liz Pennington | BA Soc Sc, MN, Dip Tert TChg, Dip NPM

RCpN Registered Comprehensive Nurse Chief Executive, Tumuaki Vitae NZ

Liz was appointed as Chief Executive Tumuaki of Vitae in August 2013 and champions Vitae’s

National Workplace Wellbeing Team of staff and clinicians. She is supported by an experienced

senior management team.

Liz is a Registered Nurse with a Masters of Nursing from Deakin University and has worked in a

range of senior executive management roles in mental health, social and community development,

and as a senior lecturer in tertiary education. She has held senior roles in central government, within

the not for profit sector and as a clinician in mental health services. Liz has also served in voluntary

community roles - on local boards and committees and was a National Auditor / Surveyor of Social Services & National

Chairperson of the Anglican Care Network of New Zealand.

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Dr Graham Neilsen | MBS, Dip Ven, MM [Sexual Health], FAFPHM, FAChSHM

Sexual Health Physician Stonewall Medical Centre | www.stonewall.com.au

Dr Neilsen is a specialist sexual health physician and public health physician with extensive sexual

health experience in Australia and internationally (in Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe for some 18

years). He is currently working as the Sexual Health Physician at Stonewall Medical Centre in

Brisbane where he cares for almost 100 transgender men and women.

Dr Neilsen is President of the Sexual Health Society of Queensland and President of the Society

of Australian Sexologists (Queensland Branch). He is a member of both the World Professional

Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) and the Australia and New Zealand Association for

Transgender Health (ANZPATH). Dr Neilsen also serves on the Board of Directors of FPQ (Family Planning QLD) and the National

Committee of the Australasian Chapter of Sexual Health Medicine, which he also represents on the State Committee of the

Royal Australasian College of Physicians.

Timothy O'Leary | www.timothyoleary.com.au

Tim is a Social Worker and holds a Masters in Couples Therapy and a Graduate Diploma in Parent

-Infant Mental Health. He is an individual and couple therapist working in private practice in

Melbourne. Tim wrote Big Fatherhood - a handbook for new dads as well as The Relationship First

Aid Kit published by Hay House. He runs seminars for couples and consults on father-inclusive

practice.

Professor Gavin Jack | Department of Management | Faculty of Business & Economics Monash University, Melbourne

Gavin Jack is Professor of Management at Monash University. He teaches and researches in the area

of gender and diversity in the workplace. His presentation is based on a research project carried out

by a team from Monash, Yale and La Trobe Universities. More information about this study, and

menopause at work, can be found on the project website.

womenworkandthemenopause.com/

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Chris Waters | Principal Consultant Catalyst ODP

Chris Waters (D.Psych) is a psychologist with over 15 years’ experience in a range of professional

settings including general health, psychiatry, private practice, Employee Assistance Programs and

organisational consultancy. He started his psychology career as an EAP counsellor offering

psychological support to local businesses and government agencies in his home town of Ballarat.

Chris then became resident psychologist on a crisis assessment and treatment team with

Grampians Psychiatric Services. He later moved to the Health Psychology Department of a large

regional hospital and worked his way up to the role of to Senior Psychologist where he co-ordinated

a neuropsychology service that serviced the Grampians and Western Victoria.

After starting his own practice in 2006 he was invited by HR Managers and CEOs of local businesses to provide psychological

support for their employees. In response Chris founded Catalyst ODP, an organisational development service specialising in

workplace mental health.

Chris also provides consulting and psychology services to organisations and their employees through training, facilitation of

workshops and one-on-one support covering a range of personal and workplace performance issues. He has also presented at

conferences and workshops on professional development, coaching, stress management, employee engagement and one of his

favourite topics, the neuropsychology of emotion and behaviour.

Oliver Brecht | Partner & Consultant, New South Wales Elite Performance Psychology

Psychology has taken Oliver into clinical, organisational and sporting areas working with a range of

clients. He has been heavily involved as both a counsellor and EAP Manager and has gained a wide

variety of experience. He is particularly mindful of the influences and trends evolving from wider

society and how these will impact the workforce during the coming years.

As a Gen Y member, Oliver represents the link that organisations need in order to communicate

with and understand the next generation. His youth, enthusiasm and experience have enabled IEPP

to offer relevant and approachable support to their clients - he regularly helps jockeys across NSW

and the ACT. He has also worked extensively with players and coaching staff at the Sydney Swans AFL and Sydney Roosters NRL

clubs providing personal coaching and team development initiatives, and he has assisted in running psychology services for the

Melbourne Football Club via an IEPP partner in Melbourne.

Furthermore Oliver has worked on major culture enhancement and team development for a number of high profile clients

across Australia and has accreditation in the human synergistic suite of individual, team and organisational tools. Ollie is also a

Lifeline counsellor, donating his time to assisting those in need via telephone counselling.

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