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.
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.
As expectations rise from communities, regulators and decision-makers, organisations are being asked to move beyond well-intentioned engagement toward practice that is clear, consistent and credible. To do that, we need...
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The latest Advocacy Update from Marion Short, CEO, Engagement Institute is live — covering key submissions, partnerships and policy work shaping engagement across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.
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We recently asked our network a simple question: What will be the biggest engagement challenge in health in 2026? The answer was clear. System reform and policy change came out...
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 Melbourne and brings together engagement practitioners, community development practitioners, communications and marketing professionals and academics to engage, learn, share and network.
When: Monday 27 October – Wednesday 29 October 2025
Where: Grand Hyatt, Melbourne
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.
