Expressions of interest are open
Think. Challenge. Share. Learn. Act.
The Regulatory Clinic is a multidisciplinary, high-trust space for people doing the difficult work of regulation. Bring a live question. Test it against three complementary practitioner lenses and the experience of peers. Leave with clearer choices and a practical next move.
Three practitioners · More than 90 years of combined experience · Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand · Every session held under the Chatham House Rule
Scenes from earlier practitioner conversations in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.
The case for it
Regulatory problems rarely arrive neatly packaged. Law, policy, operations, behaviour, risk, politics and public value overlap. Advice from a single discipline can sharpen one part of the picture while missing the rest.
We established The Regulatory Clinic to bring practical experience, multiple perspectives and peer intelligence around the same question. It creates the conditions for regulators to examine what is really happening, challenge the way the issue has been framed and identify what deserves attention next.
Not a prescription handed down from the stage. A disciplined conversation that helps you see more before you act.
What’s said in the room does not need to stay in the room. In fact, because The Clinic operates under the Chatham House Rule, you can (and will likely want to) use the insight, you just cannot reveal (or attribute) the source.
Who this is for
The Clinic is built for people carrying regulatory responsibility day to day and who rarely get the chance to step back from it.
How the Clinic works
Surface the issue, its context, the signals that matter and the assumptions shaping how it is currently understood.
Examine the challenge through several practitioner and peer lenses. Test the framing, expose blind spots and identify where deeper attention could make a difference.
Strengthen the available options, connect the right experience and expertise, and settle on a next step you can act on.
Format · What you will do
Deliberately small: each cohort is limited to 18 participants.
Day one
10:00am – 6:00pm
Followed by dinner together with a guest speaker.
Day two
8:30am – 3:00pm
Closing with next moves you can carry back.
Mixed modalities
Writing · Talking · Sharing meals · Movement · Reflection
Preparation
Bring a regulatory issue that matters to you: the bottom or top drawer idea, challenge or problem you haven't had the time to unpack and resolve.
Process
Explore the framing of your issue, the methods you have used and the tools at your disposal, then develop a proposed action that turns energy, excitement and new insight into tangible next steps.
Output
A proposed action or set of next steps, with a six-week group check-in (online) after the workshop to see where you have landed and what you have reflected on.
Capability · Capacity · Confidence
Capability to see and frame the issue.
Capacity to work it with others.
Confidence to make and explain the next decision.
What to expect
A combination of professional and psychological safety that lets you be brave: to share, unpack and explore challenges, test assumptions and open up options.
Space and time to think about you as a regulatory professional: advancing regulatory practice, ensuring effective regulatory delivery, and achieving the outcome your organisation was set up to deliver. Providing you with room to loosen the knot you bring to work on.
Through the experience of your peers and three practitioner lenses, you unpack your challenge and clarify the next right move.
What's in it for you
That your problem, issue, challenge or opportunity is probably not unique to you. As your regulatory peers are likely carrying a similar challenge in a different context, and what they have attempted may well apply to you and your regulatory agency or organisation.
Use the space and peer perspectives to reframe your regulatory problem, understand its scale and gain clarity.
Leave with clear next steps and tangible progress on a challenge that matters to you.
Create a new cohort of regulatory peers, with different perspectives that support you as part of the broader regulatory profession.
What to expect
Small-group, semi-structured working sessions for regulatory leaders and practitioners. The Clinic provides the questions, scaffolding and three complementary practitioner lenses. Participants bring live experience, evidence and problems worth working on.
The balance is deliberate: informed challenge, candid peer exchange and enough structure to move beyond discussion.
This is not a lecture, and talking at you. Or a webinar, with networking tacked on. It is a working conversation.
Initial conversations are being shaped for Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Dates, locations and formats will be shared first with people who register their interest.
Three practices. One clinic.
The Regulatory Clinic brings together three independent practitioner-advisers with complementary experience across regulation, enforcement, strategy, capability, governance, facilitation and applied foresight.
With Purpose Solutions
Strategist, facilitator and regulatory adviser who works with executives, leadership teams and boards. Adam brings more than 25 years across environment, sustainability, compliance and regulation, with particular depth in behaviour change, governance and complex group work.
LinkedIn profile for Adam Beaumont (opens in a new tab)
RECAP Consultants
Regulatory practitioner, executive, academic and adviser with more than 35 years across regulatory and enforcement practice. Grant’s work focuses on regulatory capability and capacity, networks, collaboration and the language of regulation.
LinkedIn profile for Dr Grant Pink (opens in a new tab)
Fathom Practice
Regulatory strategist, certified strategic foresight and applied-complexity practitioner with more than 30 years across New Zealand government. Rob works at the intersection of strategy, governance, sense-making and better decision-making under uncertainty.
LinkedIn profile for Rob Warner (opens in a new tab)The practices behind the Clinic
Each practice remains an independent business.
Questions
If your question is not here, ask it in the form below or email us. We would rather answer it than have you guess.
It's highly likely you've already spent far in excess of two days on the issue or problem you're wanting to discuss. Having the ability to discuss it in a focused, structured way, to go deep rather than skim the surface, with fellow practitioners will likely be one of the best investments you make.
The short answer is no. To keep administration simple and ensure places are confirmed immediately, registrations for The Regulatory Clinic are processed through TryBooking and paid by credit card at the time of booking.
Unfortunately, no. We cannot offer refunds due to the planning and administrative commitments made once a booking is confirmed. However, you may transfer your booking to another participant in exceptional circumstances.
Within four to six weeks of the Clinic, we will host an online group check-in to reflect on where participants have landed, what they have learned, and how their thinking or actions have evolved since the session.
We use expressions of interest to shape cities and dates. Registered participants will be contacted in March 2027 about the Q2 2027 Clinic, and we will come back to you with the detail you need before you commit to anything.
No. Registering is an expression of interest, not a booking. There is no payment and no obligation. You can withdraw at any time by replying to any email from us.
Your registration fee covers the Clinic curriculum, lunch on both days and the Day 1 dinner (excluding alcohol). You are responsible for getting there: your own flights, accommodation, ground transport and any meals outside the Clinic curriculum.
Regulatory leaders and practitioners from across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, in a cohort limited to 18 people i.e. 3 tables of 6. We build each cohort so participants can speak candidly, which sometimes means holding places apart for people from the same organisation. For this reason, we limit participation from any one regulator to 3 people.
Sessions run under the Chatham House Rule. You can use what you hear, but not attribute it. Anything you write in the registration form is seen only by the three convenors.
Yes. Bring one regulatory issue that matters to you: the top or bottom drawer problem you have not had time to unpack. You do not need a paper or a presentation.
Tell us about it when you register. We will consider whether a focused conversation, a diagnostic or a connection to the right practitioner is a better fit. We will not pretend every problem belongs with us.
Q4 2026 Clinic · Melbourne
Places are limited to a cohort of 18. Early bird rate is $3,520 including GST. Full rate is $4,510. Bookings are handled securely through TryBooking.
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In medicine, a hard case goes to a multidisciplinary team, not a single specialist. A regulatory problem deserves the same consideration and deliberation. The Regulatory Clinic’s Q4 2026 cohort is now able to book. Can't do Q4, register your interest for Q2 2027.
Timing
Book now for the Q4 2026 Clinic. The Q4 clinic will be held in Melbourne on 10-11 November 2026. Places are limited to 18 participants, and registered participants will be contacted in early October with further details.
Location and cost
Q4 Cohort will be held in Melbourne. Early bird rate is $3,520 including GST. Full rate is $4,510.
