Connect with local government professionals from across Australia to share insights, spark ideas, and strengthen information management practices at our upcoming Community of Practice meeting.
Join your local government peers for a morning of practical insights, discussion and networking, proudly sponsored by Leadership Through Data.
State Records NSW and Museums of History NSW Update | Martyn Killion
Hear the latest updates from State Records NSW and Museums of History NSW and what they mean for local government records and information management.
From Gut Feeling to Governance: Measuring What Matters | International Focus Presentation featuring Michael Haley and Carol Stainbrook
Discover how meaningful metrics and benchmarking can demonstrate the value of information governance. Explore ways to assess maturity, identify gaps and communicate performance—without needing deep analytics expertise.
Managing the Fear Factor with AI in EMPOWER | Jacqueline Stockwell, Leadership Through Data
Make sense of AI through simple language and everyday examples. Joined by her daughter, Jacqueline explores how clearer understanding builds confidence and how good records, information and data support responsible AI use.
Interactive Panel Discussion
Join local government records and information professionals for a practical panel discussion exploring how the role is changing, whether we are focusing on the right priorities, and what helps councils strengthen information governance and drive meaningful improvement.
Connect with colleagues over morning tea and take away fresh ideas to strengthen your practice.
11:15am – 12:05pm | Interactive Panel Discussion facilitated by Jade Reed, featuring:
Bianca Lovett, Manager Customer and Information Services – Parkes Shire Council
Colin Cunningham, Coordinator Business Information – Burwood Council
Claudio Becerra, Records and Information Management Coordinator – Campbelltown City Council
Take away practical insights, fresh ideas and valuable connections to strengthen records and information management in your organisation.
Level 2 Queen Elizabeth Grandstand
Carnegie Stage
Royal Randwick Racecourse, Sydney, NSQ





Executive Director, State Records NSW and Executive Director, Records, Archives & Collections, Museums of History NSW

Executive Director, Cohasset Associates
The digital age rushes forward, demanding information governance (IG) across myriad electronic platforms. CAROL STAINBROOK, Executive Director of Cohasset Associates’ consulting practice, responds to these demands with expertise and innovation. Her ongoing consultation with Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Box, Dell/EMC, IBM, and others, has facilitated an evolution of retention, preservation and disposition capabilities in their solutions’ designs. Collaboration with these tech giants informs Carol’s thinking in her work, particularly when clients employ technology to resolve IG related problems. Her 20 plus years of experience enables IG implementations for domestic and multi‐national clients that support business goals, increase information value, improve compliance, and mitigate risk. Carol deftly deciphers her clients’ operational paradigms, technology complexities and regulatory challenges, achieving IG results her clients can measure. As a thought-leader, Carol is an author, and a frequent speaker on information-centric topics.
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www.cohasset.com
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www.linkedin.com/in/carol-stainbrook-08715993/

CEO & Founder, Leadership Through Data
Jacqueline Stockwell is a Published Author, a multi award-winning dyslexic entrepreneur and the CEO & Founder of Leadership Through Data.
Jacqueline Stockwell empowers and inspires information leaders across the world to be heard and change their messaging, focusing on themselves and putting professional development at the heart of what they do. She is changing the way information management training is delivered globally. Her business, Leadership Through Data, is all about amazing training and presentations - capturing the attention of the audience and ensuring that the time people spend is worthwhile and useful because their time is very important. Jacqueline's goal is to present information in a language that people can relate to, remember with storytelling and visual images, have fun, but most importantly, give them something that they can apply to their benefit. As an international public speaker, with every presentation she delivers, people can expect to be inspired, motivated, move their bodies, do fun things, but most of all, learn and be inspired.
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www.leadershipthroughdata.com
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/jacquelinestockwell/
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@https://x.com/Leadershiptd

Secretary, Global Information Consortium
Michael Haley, MBA, IGP is currently a SVP, ERIM for M&T Bank in Wilmington, Delaware. Michael served for over 20 years as a Principal Consultant with Cohasset, As a Principal Consultant with Cohasset, following a career in the insurance industry.
Michael helped clients assess their IM programs, prepare continuous improvement roadmaps, leveraging technology (e.g. M365) to facilitate appropriate handling of all information. He develops cost-effective and practical solutions, breaking down complex issues to effect simple solutions.
Michael has been on the Board of ARMA International since 2016, serving as Treasurer and, most recently, as President. Michael is also serving on the Executive Board for the Global Information Consortium.

Senior Project Officer – Local Government, State Records NSW
Jade Reed has 18 years’ experience in records and information management and technology in local government. Currently on secondment from Hunter's Hill Council to State Records NSW, Jade works with councils across NSW to improve information management capability, strengthen governance and support practical, sustainable change. She is passionate about helping organisations get more value from their information and deliver better outcomes for their staff, customers and communities.

Executive Director, State Records NSW and Executive Director, Records, Archives & Collections, Museums of History NSW
Martyn is the Executive Director, Records, Archives and Collections at Museums of History NSW and Executive Director of State Records NSW. Martyn has nearly 40 years’ experience in the NSW public sector. This includes a long association with the State Archives Collection and extensive government experience, particularly in the areas of culture and the arts, having worked in a number of roles at Arts NSW (now Create NSW) and in cultural institutions.
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