SESSION

SESSION

Building our workforce through inclusion

April 19, 2024

Start: 9:30 am

End: 10:00 am

With the support of Teletrac Navman, the ATA has run a diversity program since 2020. It’s the right thing to do. And we know that attracting employees from non-traditional backgrounds is a key to fixing the industry’s workforce shortage. 

We are refreshing the program. In this session we’ll share a sneak peak of the new program featuring— 

  • Sarah James, ANZ Marketing Manager for Teletrac Navman Teletrac Navman, the program’s major sponsor since 2020. TN provides customisable solutions to support and scale fleet management for the industry. 
  • Leon Coningham, Head of SBS Inclusion Program, Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), has helped develop the SBS Inclusion program in collaboration with leading universities, national peak bodies, diversity specialists and people with lived experience. The program is currently used at more than a hundred Australian companies including Telstra, Bupa, the Commonwealth Bank and Woolworths. 
  • Caitlin Barlow, a Business Development Manager at JATEC Transport, a past ATA Diversity Champion and participant in the Volvo Iron Woman program.