Industry Engagement & Relevance
Overview
Industry engagement under the Standards for RTOs 2025 is no longer satisfied by a once-yearly survey — it requires demonstrable, ongoing relationships that genuinely shape your training products and delivery. This briefing covers what compliant industry engagement actually looks like in 2026, and how to build engagement systems that meet the Standards while delivering genuine value to your industry partners.
What you will learn
- Engagement practices that go beyond the once-yearly survey
- How to evidence that engagement actually shapes training products
- A simple cadence that keeps industry voice in delivery and assessment
- How engagement quality affects audit outcomes
Who should attend
- Compliance Managers and Heads of Training
- Industry Liaison and Business Development leads
- Lead Trainers maintaining industry relationships
- RTO Managers responsible for engagement evidence
Facilitator
Angela Connell-Richards
Angela Connell-Richards founded Vivacity Coaching & Consulting in 2009 and has spent more than 15 years helping RTOs turn the messy reality of compliance into systems that actually work. She facilitates four of the five Vivacity event series, holds a Master of Business, and is the author of The Governance Shift and 8 Critical Drivers to RTO Success. She does not facilitate from theory — every framework she shares has been used to solve a real problem for a real client.
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