The ECM® is a two-day, face to face, immersive learning experience, outlining how the Commonwealth prepares for, responds to, and recovers from any crisis. The ECM® brings together scenario work, community speakers, leading subject matter experts, the Australian Government Crisis Management Framework (AGCMF), the National Coordination Mechanism (NCM) and Crisis Appreciation and Strategic Planning Guidelines (CASP), to explore the concurrent, consecutive and compounding complex crises, in a National Context.
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8:00 AM - 9:00 AMParticipant Arrival and Sign-In and Refreshments
Flexible arrival time ready for 9:00am program commencement
9:00 AM - 9:10 AMWelcome to Effective Consequence Management (ECM®) Program
Joe Buffone – Deputy Coordinator General, Emergency Management and Response Group, National Emergency Management Agency
Joe Buffone PSM GAICD
Deputy Coordinator General, Emergency Management and Response Group at National Emergency Management Agency
9:10 AM - 9:30 AMSetting the Scene for Program
Barrington Centre introduction, program context and outline program objectives.
Rhonda Andrews
Managing Director of Barrington Centre
9:30 AM - 10:15 AMParticipants’ Roles and Objectives
Outline Participants’ roles and discuss Participants’ objectives.
Rhonda Andrews
Managing Director of Barrington Centre
10:15 AM - 10:45 AMMorning Refreshments and Opportunity for Networking
10:45 AM - 11:20 AMDiscuss Causes, Effects and Consequences in concurrent, consecutive and compounding circumstances
Joe Buffone PSM GAICD
Deputy Coordinator General, Emergency Management and Response Group at National Emergency Management Agency
11:20 AM - 11:25 AMBrief Break
11:25 AM - 12:50 PMPolitics and Crisis Management
Explores the political dimensions of any emergency; provides Participants with a framework for understanding the political ramifications of the decisions they make during an emergency.
Trevor Jones
Former Assistant Secretary Disaster Preparedness, Plans and Incident Management Branch in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
Mark Duckworth PSM
Senior Research Fellow, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Alfred Deakin Institute Fellow
12:50 PM - 1:35 PMLunch Break and Opportunity for Networking
1:35 PM - 2:35 PMAustralian Government Crisis Management Framework
Emergency Management Australia discusses Australian Government Crisis Management Framework (AGCMF) and the relationships between Commonwealth and States/Territories.
Joe Buffone PSM GAICD
Deputy Coordinator General, Emergency Management and Response Group at National Emergency Management Agency
2:35 PM - 3:05 PMNational Coordination Mechanism
Emergency Management Australia discusses National Coordination Mechanism (NCM) and how it fundamentally operationalises the AGCMF.
Joe Buffone PSM GAICD
Deputy Coordinator General, Emergency Management and Response Group at National Emergency Management Agency
3:05 PM - 3:15 PMParticipant Discussion
3:15 PM - 3:35 PMAfternoon Refreshments and Opportunity for Networking
3:35 PM - 4:50 PMExecutive Leadership
Participants have an opportunity to review their own Strategic and Consequence Management thinking and practices. Each Participant identifies areas for change and broadening their skill suite of strategic and consequence adaptability.
AC Kylie Rendina
Assistant Commissioner, Australian Border Force
4:50 PM - 5:00 PMDiscussion and Plenary Session
5:00 PM - 5:45 PMCanapés and Refreshments
5:45 PM - 6:45 PMEvening Event: Joe Buffone PSM GAICD ‘In Conversation With' AVM Stephen Chappell DSC, CSC, OAM
Joe Buffone PSM GAICD
Deputy Coordinator General, Emergency Management and Response Group at National Emergency Management Agency
AVM Stephen Chappell, DSC, CSC, OAM
Head of Military Strategic Commitments at Australian Air Force
Day 2 (June 13, 2024)
8:00 AM - 8:30 AMParticipant Arrival and Refreshments
Flexible arrival time ready for 8:30am program commencement
8:30 AM - 9:30 AMOpening of Day Two and Day One Reflections
Joe Buffone PSM GAICD
Deputy Coordinator General, Emergency Management and Response Group at National Emergency Management Agency
Rhonda Andrews
Managing Director of Barrington Centre
9:30 AM - 9:50 AMScenario Session: Setting the Scene
Briefing to Participants about a hypothetical crisis demonstrating ‘catastrophic situations.’
Joe Buffone PSM GAICD
Deputy Coordinator General, Emergency Management and Response Group at National Emergency Management Agency
9:50 AM - 10:20 AMMorning Refreshments and Opportunity for Networking
10:20 AM - 11:50 AMPanel: A Community Perspective of Major Crises
Examining the impact of major crises on communities from the perspective of those who have been directly affected by them with emphasis on how crises can affect a Community. To examine the causal relationships between the responsibilities held by Commonwealth officers and how they lead to direct impacts on the ground with Communities.
Jemima Richards
Tony Thompson
Founder RecoveryWise of RecoveryWise
11:50 AM - 12:30 PMLunch and Opportunity for Networking
12:30 PM - 1:30 PMConsequence Management for Industry
Development of processes to embed and inject consequence thinking into policy development and crisis response.
Amelia Shaw
Government Relations Manager - Resilience at Woolworths Group Limited
1:30 PM - 2:00 PMReflection and Open Discussion
Opportunity to discuss as a Participant Cohort how the learnings out of Modules 9 and 10 can be directly applied and achieve tangible results.
Participants apply the learnings from this morning’s briefing to a hypothetical crisis demonstrating ‘catastrophic situations.’ This hypothetical stretches Participant thinking beyond normal constitutional arrangements and requires innovative, dynamic, and agile Whole of Government responses across Commonwealth, State/Territories Departments and Agencies.
Caitlin Bell
Assistant Coordinator General, National Coordination Mechanism Branch at National Emergency Management Agency