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The Engagement Institute (formerly IAP2 Australasia) champions the world’s largest community of engagement professionals and seeks to promote and improve the practice of community and stakeholder engagement globally. As the home of engagement professionals, our mission has always been clear: to drive change through meaningful engagement – building trust, improving decisions and shaping better futures.
Explore the key themes emerging from years of member and practitioner input, and see how they’re informing Engagement Institute’s next steps.
Engagement Institute is undertaking an important advocacy initiative to support formal recognition of community and stakeholder engagement as a distinct profession in Australia’s occupational classification framework.
The Engagement Institute provides skills-based learning to people and organisations on what they need to know and do, so that they can successfully develop, deliver, and lead authentic engagement processes.
In this latest Advocacy Update, CEO Marion Short provides an overview of recent submissions, advocacy priorities and key initiatives, including planning reform, environmental law, conservation policy, the 2026 Census campaign...
New research from the European Commission's Joint Research...
How do you engage communities when views are...
The Engagement Institute nominations for the 2026 class of Fellows (FEI) are now open.
Applications are now open for the 2026 Resilient...
How do organisations move from reactive engagement to...
Building resilient communities starts with meaningful engagement. The Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience has released new companion resources to help practitioners select engagement approaches, navigate common challenges and evaluate outcomes—supported...
Australia and New Zealand’s first certification and maturity assessment tool for the engagement sector developed by the sector to meet contemporary engagement standards.
The Engagement Institute’s Annual Conference will be held in Brisbane and brings together engagement practitioners, community development practitioners, communications and marketing professionals and academics to engage, learn, share and network.
When: Tuesday, 27 October – Thursday, 29 October 2026
Where: Sofitel, Brisbane, Queensland
If you have completed one of the IAP2 Australasia Certificate of Engagement key training modules –Engagement Methods – then you might know and regularly use the Engagement Methods Tool. The Engagement Methods Tool is available for engagers.
