When Good Policy Meets the Real World
Policy professionals are navigating complex environments, competing priorities and public scrutiny. Engagement skills can help policy teams design more informed, credible and implementable outcomes.
Welcome to the
Engagement Institute
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.
Skill up with the
Engagement Institute
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.
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Engagement Institute Calls for Safer, Culturally Responsive Engagement
Engagement Institute has made a submission to the Inquiry into Racism, Hate and Violence Directed at Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, calling for stronger culturally safe and trauma-informed engagement...
Introducing
EngageMark
Australia and New Zealand’s first certification and maturity assessment tool for the engagement sector developed by the sector to meet contemporary engagement standards.
Join us at our
Annual Conference
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
Engagement
Methods Tool
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.
