This never-ending thirst for learning by people within our profession is something that continues to amaze me. Our profession is coming out of a tough few years in business and yet our professional development program (PDP) and conference numbers have never been stronger. The AMSRS Winter School last month comprised of eight different workshops and they were all near sellouts. We work hard at AMSRS to continue to innovate and improve the scope and quality of professional development and my thanks always to PDP gurus Bob White and John Scott for their great work in improving things constantly.

I recently watched an interview with Lindsey Buckingham, legendary guitarist and male lead singer of the musical group Fleetwood Mac, during which he was asked how the band had remained so popular for so long, despite all the turmoil, drugs and rock and roll lifestyle. He responded by saying ‘if you are any good at all you know that you can do better’.
And maybe that is the reason we continue to come to together to learn.

Long live our thirst for learning and wanting to do better. It will assure us a role in the future of business.

We have another opportunity to learn coming up with Conference 2011 being held at the Hilton Hotel in Sydney 7-9 September. There is an amazing line up of speaker and papers: six keynote speakers including Sheila Keegan and Matt Church; seven invited speakers including Iggy Pintado and the amazing Caz Tebbutt; interwoven amongst a host of fantastic papers written by our members from around Australia. The icing on the cake will be Dr Karl’s breakfast hangover cure session on the final morning and Wil Anderson’s closing session. Conference Chair Suz Allen and her committee have done a wonderful job again this year so if you have not already done so, check out what’s in store at http://amsrs2011.sb4.com.au/