Sarah Stokes/Karina Smith Cultivating an Adaptive mindset

Welcome Back CCX Sydney to our Events for 2026 from myself, Lydia, Sylvia and James and we are planning a bumper selection of speakers for the new year. Our Fourth event on June 16th will be a interactive workshop from our two speakers Sarah Stokes and Karina Smith who will speak to the proposition of cultivating an Adaptive Mindset

We will be again kindly hosted by our friends at Accenture Song. More details to follow soon on the venue location (Barangaroo)
IMPORTANT NOTE FOR THIS SESSION!
An Important detail is that due to gaining entry to Accenture we will need any CCX Member planning to attend this session to supply us with their First and Last name in advance of attending.
NOTE: On this occasion we will not be able to accept Members who do not supply these details. Many thanks CCX Sydney.

About Sarah and Karina's workshop
Interactive workshop: Cultivating an adaptive mindset for yourself and your work.
Now more than ever our capacity for change must meet the challenges we face at work and in the world. We know less about what the future looks like, so we need to be ready to face unknown whilst experiencing rapid change in the face of AI and other societal issues.

This interactive workshop will start by establishing an understanding of what it means to be adaptive, followed by an approach attendees can personalise to their circumstances. People in this community are often facilitators and agents for change, let's apply our design thinking methods to how we work as well as what we produce.

About Sarah Stokes
Sarah has over 25 years of experience in the world of experience design, including leading product design teams at Atlassian, Domain, and Westpac. She holds a Master's in Business Coaching and has coached design and product leaders for nearly a decade. Sarah is curious about how we harness our human skills in design. She’s spoken on a number of topics including influence, wisdom, feedback culture, cognitive bias and good listening.

About Karina Smith
Karina is an award-winning strategic and service design leader with over 30 years’ experience helping government and social enterprises navigate operational complexity. She
specialises in business improvement and service design, building the integrated systems and processes required to help large-scale organisations work more effectively and deliver measurable outcomes. Prior to her current work as a solo consultant, Karina was a Principal at Meld Studios, one of Australia’s most highly regarded and awarded service design consultancies.

Therefore don't miss out on a place at our first interactive workshop CCX Sydney event for 2026, as seats will be limited for this session.