ACENZ Workshop

ACENZ Pre-conference workshop

The pre-conference workshop is at an additional cost to conference registration. Learn more about our draft programme below. 

Wednesday, 7th August

  • Morning session (starts at 9:45am) - "Network Like An Animal" - the psychology and physiology that unlocks all the how-to's of peer to peer networking.
  • Networking lunch.
  • Afternoon session (ends at 4:40pm) - Personal branding, writing for engagement & leveraging LinkedIn.


The cost to attend the full day workshop is $650 and will include am/pm teas and a networking lunch. For Young Professionals who are not attending conference, a ticket to the workshop can be purchased at a discount for $450. For Young Professionals who are registered to attend conference, we have fully allocated all complimentary workshop places. If you are a YP registered to attend conference and would like to be put on a waitlist, please email [email protected].

The pre-conference workshop will be led by Ryan Ashton of AFQY. Read more about the programme below. 

Morning Session

Linkedin Training: from "Personal Branding" to "Social Selling" to "Content Creator" 

Whatever label you prefer, we have a core course based on Ryan the Lion's 12 years of Linkedin use, 11 years of Social Selling and the evolution and maturity of use.

  1. Profile to Personal Brand: Profile optimisation
  2. Learn the Platform, Leverage the Platform: whether it's a hammer or a computer, learning the tools of your trade properly enable your success.
  3. Writing for engagement: this business tool is about promotion and social is all about engagement.
  4. 5 Action in 30 Seconds:  how to wrap it all into your day with ease.

Afternoon Session

"Network like an Animal", called as such because, "We are all animals, we just forget this because we are educated, civilised and far from any other creature in the animal kingdom, but we are still animals and  that means our subconscious and limbic brain are fed by our senses which drives our behaviour."

Learn the simple aspects of psychology that stop us from conducting all the "How to's" that can be found online - this is the key to unlocking the simply described actions.

Hear how you can use physiology to enable your networking confidence and see it work for your networking success. Come and learn how and why this happens so you can override it with you pre-frontal cortex, where logic exists.