Board Skills

with Helga Svendsen

Helga is an experienced facilitator, coach, and mentor who has helped hundreds of people step confidently into governance roles through her Board KickStarter Program.

In this interactive session, Helga helped members:

• Understand the difference between governance and management

• Explore what skills boards really need, both technical and emotional

• Identify their own strengths and where you’d like to grow next

AI Skills

with Tim Allen

The AI Skills Lab module is all about understanding what it means to build confidence with AI -  not just accumulate more tools, tricks, or technical know-how. For many of us, AI feels overwhelming, intimidating, or overhyped, but it doesn’t have to be. This session is designed to demystify AI and show you how small, human-centred habits can make it a powerful part of your everyday work and life.

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Led by our expert, Tim Allen, National AI Skills Director for Microsoft Australia & New Zealand, we explore why AI represents a new kind of shift, one that isn’t just technological but behavioural. We look at the mindsets that make AI easier to adopt, the common blockers that hold people back, and the practical steps anyone can take to move from curiosity to capability.

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You’ll also reflect on your own relationship with AI: where you feel confident, where you feel unsure, and what “above average” might look like for you in an AI-powered world.

By the end, you’ll walk away with a clearer sense of how to start (or deepen) your AI journey, how to prioritise what matters, and how to build skills that will continue to grow long after the tools evolve.

Identity shifts

with Amanda Sheroff

Relocation, whether overseas or interstate, doesn’t just change your postcode, it reshapes your routines, relationships, work, and sense of self. Many accompanying partners find themselves thinking, “Who even am I here?” while juggling everyone else’s needs.

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In this Lab, we explored identity shifts through the lens of life transitions and career change with USA based psychologist Amanda Sheroff, unpacking:

• What identity actually is (beyond job titles and labels)

• Why moving countries, states, or communities can trigger a profound identity wobble

• How grief, homesickness and “cultural bereavement” can show up

• The difference between belonging and fitting in

• Practical ways to feel more grounded, intentional and “yourself” again

Agentic tools

with Liz Jamieson

What if tools could quietly do the heavy lifting, creating space for work, ideas or income to grow? There’s an agent for that! 

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In this ellora. Lab our expert, Liz Jamieson, Founder LJ People, introduces agentic tools: practical AI systems that can handle admin, organisation, and repetitive thinking to transform your home, hustle, and career.

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Designed specifically for our globally mobile community, this session explores how agentic tools can open up time, energy, and opportunity whether you’re starting something new, exploring a side project, or simply wanting life to feel less overwhelming.

Personal philosophy

with Geoff Huegill

Through an honest, conversational Lab. Geoff shares his remarkable comeback journey and his personal philosophy, Kairos.

We unpack how personal philosophy creates stability through identity shifts, what elite sport teaches us about pressure and resilience, and how to translate high-performance tools into real life.

This session is about redefining what’s possible, learning from someone who has done it at the highest level.

Amplify your voice

with Monica Bhatia

Delivered in partnership with LinkedIn, this ellora. Lab explores how to use LinkedIn to build visibility, credibility and career momentum through relocation and transition.

In a practical, conversational session, Monica Bhatia (LinkedIn) shares how to shape your professional narrative, strengthen your profile, and engage your network to create opportunity.

Together, we unpack what it means to show up online and how small, consistent actions can help you stay connected to your career, your network and your sense of professional identity, wherever you are in the world.

Personal brand

with Zoë Hayes

After building brands for Google, Bonds and Berlei, Zoë Hayes now works with people in transition to build their personal brand.

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This is a practical, conversational Lab. where Zoë reframes personal brand, not as visibility or self-promotion, but as clarity. She shares how to reconnect with your professional identity when titles fall away and context changes, and how to translate your experience into language that feels both clear and usable.

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Together, we unpack why it becomes harder to talk about yourself during periods of transition, and how to move beyond old labels to articulate what you bring now, creating confidence, stronger conversations and new opportunities.

Dual careers

with Yvonne Quahe

Careers don’t operate in a vacuum and in globally mobile lives, that becomes even more obvious. One opportunity shifts everything, and before you know it, one career is moving forward while the other is quietly reshaping, pausing, or stepping back.

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Our expert for this Lab. is Yvonne Quahe, drawing on the core themes from her book Who’s Career? Yours, Mine, or Ours? to unpack the realities of navigating dual careers. Not just the visible decisions, but the hidden dynamics underneath: the assumptions, trade-offs and patterns that can leave things feeling out of balance over time.

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This session explores the tension between individual ambition and shared decision-making, the impact of stop-start careers and identity shifts, and why many professionals opt out before opportunities even begin. It’s not about getting it “right”. It’s about understanding what’s really going on and having better tools to navigate it together.

Goal setting

with Kristen Lunman and Natalie Ferguson

We often wait for the right moment to start: the new year, the new month, the Monday that finally feels ready. But in reality, it's the small, imperfect action taken today that moves things forward more than any perfect plan made for tomorrow.

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Our experts for this Lab. are the Founders of Powrsuit, Kristen Lunman and Natalie Ferguson, introducing a simple process to break big goals into small, doable actions, build momentum through consistent progress, and work through the roadblocks that inevitably show up along the way.

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This session focuses on setting meaningful goals in a new environment, creating a clear plan to move towards them, and staying accountable when motivation dips or things don’t go to plan.

CV writing

with Victoria McLean

A CV is often the first impression you make, but for many globally mobile professionals, it can be surprisingly difficult to capture the full story.

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Career breaks, relocations, portfolio careers, volunteering, consulting work and non-linear paths can leave even highly accomplished professionals wondering how best to position themselves for what's next.

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Our expert, Victoria McLean, is the Founder and CEO of Hanover Talent Solutions and an internationally recognised CV writer, career coach and personal branding expert. She has helped thousands of professionals around the world translate their experience into compelling career stories that open doors.

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In this session, Victoria shares practical strategies for creating a CV that reflects your value, communicates your strengths and positions you for future opportunities, wherever your career journey has taken you.