ALPMA wishes you a safe & happy holiday break! We are closed after 20 December and back on 6 January 2025.

Member Connect | What does transitioning people back to work look like at your firm?

Event Recording

2 June 2020

Topic	Operational Management
Type	Event Recording
CPD	1 - Practice Management and Business Skills
	1 - New Zealand CPD

Pricing	AUD $27
Full Member	Free
Online Member	Free
Affiliate Member	Free
Associate Member	AUD $13.50

Proudly Supported By

ALPMA NSW / ACT Committee Member, Joanne Luxa, hosts an online discussion with a panel of experts on the many considerations of transitioning back to the workplace.

Discussion points:

1) Human & business elements
Leonie Green of Corvus Group explores flexible and adaptable working as the touted keys to running a successful and sustainable business. What do we need to do to adapt in this environment? How do we bring our teams with us on this journey and put us in the best position to come through this stronger than before?

Sarah Rey of Justitia Lawyers discusses employment law, common sense considerations and recommendations as a consequence of the plan to return to work.

Justine Alter of Transitioning Well discusses transitioning issues and considerations. In addition to the practical considerations, it’s essential for organisations to consider the mental and emotional impact that this transition brings. Factors such as return from parental leave, those transitioning in to early retirement, those transitioning back from illness and others. An understanding of transition will be explored as well as considering what it means to be transitioning into ‘sustained disruption’ or the ‘next normal’.

2) Self-Management
Leonie Green explores self-management and how we manage ourselves through this period as it sets the tone for our teams. Tips and traps in self-management that can help during times of high stress and uncertainty.

Sarah Rey and Justine Alter, business owners, share what they put in place for their own self-management as well as their partners, managers, team leaders and staff as they prepare to return back to work for their businesses.

Provided by

Leonie Green

Director at Corvus Group

Leonie worked in private practise as an employment and industrial relations lawyer before moving into human resources, and in particular organisational design and culture change. Leonie launched her consulting practice, Conscious Workplace, in 2014, and co-founded a multi-disciplinary practice, Corvus Group Australia, in 2017.

Leonie has a Masters in Workplace and Employment Law from Monash University, and is an Accredited Mediator, Organisational/Leadership Coach, and an active member within the Association of Workplace Investigators’ Australian chapter.

Leonie’s work has long been about improving the workplace experience for everyone (employer and employee alike) and facilitating the conversations and changes required to move forward with clarity and greater purpose. Leonie’s work varies from mediation, to coaching, workplace investigations, facilitated workshops and consulting on workplace culture and change.

Justine Alter

Co-Founder & Co-Director at Transitioning Well

Organisational Psychologist

Justine is a registered psychologist with a Masters in Organisational Psychology. She specialises in supporting organisations and their people to navigate the challenges where life and work intersect. With over eighteen years experience in transition coaching, short term solution focused counselling, and training, in 2011, Justine went on to co-found Transitioning Well.

Transitioning Well is a leading organisation that works with forward-thinking companies to support employees through work-life transitions including, parental, work-life, and mature-age.

Justine uses primarily a structured, solution focused and outcome based approach with individuals, managers and HR. She is results orientated and builds rapport easily at all levels of organisations, utilising her sound relationship building and listening skills. Having three children and transitioning back to work after each child, she is passionate about the need for work/life integration support.

Sarah Rey

Managing Partner at Justitia Lawyers & Consultants

Sarah Rey is the managing partner of workplace-relations law firm Justitia. Her practice is focussed on State Government agencies, local government, education and professional services. Sarah and Justitia have been recognised by Doyle’s Guide as one of Victoria’s leading employer-focused Victorian employment lawyers and law firms in 2020. Justitia has received awards including “Law Firm of the Year” from the Law Insititute of Victoria and the Sir Ken Robinson Award for Workforce Flexibility by AHRI.

As a Director of the Association of Workplace Investigators in the US, she has been instrumental in creating the Australasian chapter.