
Workshops, Seminar & Lecture Topics

Collection Planning
Learn how to design structured collection strategies that align intelligence requirements with operational outcomes, ensuring resources are used efficiently and effectively.

HUMINT – Interviewing
Develop practical skills for conducting intelligence interviews, building rapport, and eliciting reliable and actionable information.

HUMINT – Source Management
Understand the principles of recruiting, managing, and assessing human sources while balancing ethical, legal, and operational considerations

Open Source
Gain the ability to leverage publicly available information from digital, social, and traditional media sources to enrich intelligence outcomes.

Intermediate Analytical Techniques – Futures Analysis (General)
Explore structured methods to anticipate emerging risks and opportunities, helping organisations prepare for uncertainty.

Intermediate Analytical Techniques – Scenario Generation
Learn how to construct and use scenarios to test assumptions, stress-test strategies, and inform long-term planning.
The below topics can be delivered online or in person. They can be run as half-day or full-day workshops depending on preference and audience. Prices start at Australian Dollar $2000 for an online half-day course.

Intermediate Analytical Techniques – PSYOPS
Understand the role of psychological operations in shaping perceptions, influencing behaviour, and integrating with intelligence assessments.

Intermediate Analytical Techniques – Indicators and Warnings & Pre-Mortem Analysis
Discover tools for identifying early warning signals, testing assumptions, and pre-empting failures before they occur.

Intermediate Analytical Techniques – Red-Teaming
Develop skills in challenging assumptions, testing vulnerabilities, and exploring alternative perspectives through structured red-team approaches.

Strategic Writing in Intelligence
Learn how to communicate complex intelligence clearly and persuasively through well-structured, purposeful written products.

Mastering Oral Intelligence Briefs
Build confidence in delivering concise, compelling, and decision-focused oral intelligence briefings for executives and stakeholders.

Evaluating Intelligence: Learning from Failure and Success
Examine real-world case studies to understand what works in intelligence practice—and how to learn from missteps to strengthen future performance.

Management and Building Capability
Develop the leadership skills and organisational tools needed to strengthen intelligence and regulatory capability.

Regulatory Performance Reporting: Better Practice and the Role for Strategic Intelligence
Understand how performance reporting, when supported by strategic intelligence, can drive accountability, improvement, and impact.

Investigations and intelligence – the Relationship
Explore how investigations and intelligence complement each other, and how integration strengthens outcomes across the regulatory spectrum.

Understanding and Managing Bias
Identify cognitive and organisational biases that affect analysis and decision-making, and apply strategies to mitigate their impact.

Contemporary Regulatory Practice – Foundation
A foundational program covering the principles, challenges, and modern approaches to effective regulatory practice.

The Design of Regulation
Explore how regulation can be purposefully designed to balance compliance, effectiveness, and innovation in diverse sectors.

Regulation in Democracies – the Rights of the Individual Re-examined
Examine the intersection of regulation, human rights, and democratic values, and the implications for fair and proportionate practice.

Regulatory Intelligence
Learn how intelligence enhances regulatory practice by identifying risks, shaping priorities, and informing interventions.

Theme-specific (e.g., Radicalisation, Gaming, etc.)
Specialised seminars that focus on unique regulatory and intelligence challenges within priority themes and high-risk domains.