Strengthening Industry Partnerships & Community Connections
Overview
Driver 4 — Industry Partnerships & Networking — is where RTOs build the external relationships that drive everything else: enrolments, work placement, currency, scope decisions, and graduate outcomes. This masterclass covers how to build genuine industry partnerships rather than transactional ones, including industry advisory groups, formal partnership agreements, community presence, and the relationship-management practices that keep partnerships alive year on year.
What you will learn
- How to map and prioritise the industry partnerships that matter
- A practical framework for sustained industry engagement, not one-off surveys
- How partnerships strengthen training products, placement and graduate outcomes
- Evidence-ready engagement records aligned to the Standards
Who should attend
- RTO CEOs, Owners and Business Development leads
- Heads of Training and Industry Liaison Officers
- Compliance Managers reviewing engagement evidence
- Trainers building employer and industry relationships
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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