Education Session (online webinar)

How to become a family-inclusive employer?

To support Australian employers understand how to become a more family-friendly workplace, we offer free webinars throughout the year. These online education sessions deepen employers’ understanding, knowledge and capability on how to be a family-inclusive employer.

The change that occurs when an employer improves its family-friendly capability impacts workplace culture, employee’s work-life wellbeing and the wider economy.

Our facilitators are experts in family-friendly policies and practices, and have trained thousands of Executives, HR/DEI practitioners and Business Leaders. They share their expertise and leading practice on flexibility, parental leave, family care and family wellbeing.

Guest Speaker - KPMG

Our guest speaker will be Lainie Cassidy, Director – People & Inclusion at KPMG.

As long-standing advocate of all things family-friendly, KPMG have a lot of experience to share about their journey to becoming a certified Family Inclusive Workplace. Lainie will share with us:

• What the outcomes and impact of Family Inclusive Workplace certification at KPMG have been including the actions they took to make it happen
• The critical success factors for KPMG’s family friendly workplace achievements
• Key tips for organisations thinking about becoming a certified Family Friendly Workplace

In this session, we will cover the following:

• What is a family-friendly workplace?
• Why it matters – the business case, benefits and return on investment
• An overview of the National Work & Family Standards
• What are leading family-friendly policies and practices?
• What is the Benchmarking Assessment?
• A step-by-step guide on what’s involved in the certification process
• Q&A time 

Join hundreds of employers – including Commonwealth Bank, Deloitte, QBE, Novartis, Randstad Australia, Microsoft, AGL, PepsiCo, Volvo and more – and be a part of creating a more family-friendly Australia.

Supported by the Family Friendly Workplaces Founding Partners: