Bowls WA Club Forum
Bowls WA invites club executives and committee members to attend a day of information and knowledge sharing at the inaugural Club Forum on September 2nd 2022 at Cockburn Bowling and Recreation Centre.
This all day event will focus on the themes of Culture, Leadership and Inclusion and is a must attend event for clubs heading into the 2022/23 season.
Entry Cost is $50 per person with a two course lunch provided plus tea and coffee.
Book your place at the Bowls WA Club Forum here
If you are having difficulties registering please contact Aaron Delaporte Bowls WA 9340 0807
Registrations will close on Monday 29th August.
When you sign up for the forum an opportunity exists to ask any questions you would like covered at the presentations.
The day will begin with an Expo featuring around 20 information booths featuring a wide range of products and services specific to the bowls industry. Several Bowls WA sponsors will be in attendance plus other areas of interest including Lighting, Greens and other bowling club relevant organisations.
Those in attendance will have the chance to win raffle prizes with the small caveat that they need to visit over 50% of the expo booths to be in the draw.
Following the Expo Master of Ceremonies Clive Adams will open the official proceedings which will precede a number of presentations.
Jon Haines who has extensive experience in the sports industry most notably at AFL level with the WA Football Commission, Fremantle, North Melbourne and Gold Coast will talk about the importance of good Club Culture. Challenges that clubs may face, the importance of developing good people and how to harness that to make your club stronger both on and off the green.
For the past 20 years, Jon’s career has been characterised by leading cultural regeneration, building leadership capability and driving the execution of high performance behaviours Jon has recently returned home to WA following 4 years as the General Manager Football Operations at the Gold Coast Suns Football Club and has had senior leadership roles with fellow AFL clubs, North Melbourne and Fremantle. Jon has complemented his professional career with extensive tertiary study and has most recently been awarded a Churchill Scholarship Jon is the only person in Australia to be awarded a fellowship on this topic with the scholarship supporting an international study tour to better understand global best practice in character development and the subsequent relationship with leadership impact and cultural dynamics. This elite sport experience, along with Jon’s professional and personal journey is driving the creation of a character based framework that will be supported with a unique experiential system and book (working title Rock Solid Character) in the middle part of 2022. The model has a specific focus on leaders in sport and is premised on three domains of character (performance, emotional and social) and their relationship with leadership, well being and cultural dynamics.
Matt Fulton as CEO SportsWest will focus on how your club can position itself to be a community leader organisation. The importance of forming strong relationships with your members, local community and local government which will in turn provide the foundations for long term club sustainability.
Matt is an experienced Chief Executive Officer, with a demonstrated history of working with diverse groups of stakeholders to deliver strategic outcomes that have a positive community impact. Having worked in large companies like Coca-Cola Amatil as well as within in the not-for-profit sector, Matt combines his diverse experiences and skillset to deliver key results, which is reflected in his proven track record in marketing, business strategy, stakeholder engagement, advocacy and leadership.
Matt is passionate about bringing the sporting sector together to harness the potential the industry has as a collective and is proud to lead an organisation that works to strengthen and support its members.
On a personal level, Matt has a passion for the benefits that sport brings to communities and is an avid spectator and participant but more importantly, loves watching his family being involved in a range of sports.
Kane Blackman the current President of the Leederville Sporting Club, CEO Good Sammy and Chair to the Ministerial Advisory Council on Disability. Listen to Kane talk about how through Inclusion and Community Support he helped transform an aging club to one that is now thriving, improving from 100 members to just under 1000 in only 18 months. Kane’s presentation will open your eyes to new ideas and thoughts on what a bowling club could be.
Kane is the Chief Executive Officer of Good Sammy Enterprises, a commercial business that delivers employment outcomes to a significant number of people with disability in Western Australia.
Kane has 15 years experience as a senior executive in financial services, disability care, government service delivery and the resource sector.
Kane holds the following board roles:
Chair, Ministerial Advisory Council on Disability
Deputy Chair, Rare Voices Australia
Non-Executive Director, Therapy Focus
Deputy Chair, Angelman Syndrome Association Australia
Member, Future Health Research and Innovation Advisory Council.
The presentations will conclude with a discussion around Club Culture with three panel members who bring a vast array of complementary knowledge.
Steve Glasson former Australian Bowls Coach and no 1 world ranked player will bring his first hand perspective on what it takes to form an elite team.
Steve Glasson OAM is one of the most recognised names in the sport of Bowls. A world singles champion he was the no 1 ranked Australian male bowler for a period of 8 years and subsequently transitioned to Australian coach for 10 years before retiring from the position in 2021. Glasson is credited as having set the foundations and subsequently developed a first-class culture among all tiers of High Performance squads and significantly raised the profile of the Jackaroos brand. Glasson is now a BCiB account manager. BCiB is heavily invested in bowls being both a Bowls Australia and Bowls WA sponsor, they provide a wide range of specialised insurance products as the leading insurance broker to the licensed bowling club industry throughout Australia.
Glenn Morley Manager Recreation with the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries will provide insight into the importance of club development from a State Government perspective. Adding to that the support they can provide clubs through grants and other available services.
Over 20 years’ experience working in the Sport and recreation industry in Australia and in the USA, in a variety of roles from coaching, club development, participation, high performance and now in active recreation with the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries .
Throughout this time key achievements have been the development of the Quality Club program, Club Coach Coordinator Program and Volunteer of the year program at the WA Football Commission, along with the delivery of the Top Club program through Sportswest and supporting the True Sport Campaign
He has also held volunteer board and Chair positions at national, state and club level, with a strong focus on building strong relationship and solid culture through the development of organisational capacity, business development and strategic planning.
Bowls WA CEO Ken Pride will provide an insight into how Bowls WA is supporting clubs with the release of our new strategic plan and why successful clubs are the cornerstone of the sport in WA.
Concluding the presentations we encourage attendees to network and share their experiences.
For any further information regarding this event please contact Aaron Delaporte Bowls WA Operations Manager aaron@bowlswa.com.au or 9340-0807
