2026-2027 Training Courses available for public registration (delivered online)
Next course date: Tuesday, 24 November 2026
This foundational training course for social impact and stakeholder engagement practitioners helps build confidence, AI literacy, and ethical grounding to responsibly and effectively use AI for common social impact functions including research, data analysis (qualitative and quantitative), stakeholder engagement, evaluation, SROI, and report preparation.
Who it’s for
· Social impact professionals
· SIA & social safeguard practitioners
· Community & stakeholder engagement specialists
· Local government staff
· Projects or organisations within the infrastructure, energy & development sectors
Core learning topics:
Common AI terms & capabilities
AI tools and use cases for social impact & stakeholder engagement functions
The strengths/limits of LLMs
Basics of prompt engineering and agentic AI
Risks & ethical issues around AI & social impact
Responsible practice elements such as AI data use policies, informed consent, and data sovereignty considerations
Social impacts of AI data centres
Next course date: Wednesday 25 November 2026
This training workshop will bring practical guidance - through exercises in a group lab setting -to help practitioners build the ability to apply AI to common social impact and stakeholder engagement functions, using prompt engineering of Large Language Models (LLMs).
This will include:
developing a theory of change
stakeholder mapping and analysis
developing stakeholder engagement plans
monitoring & evaluation frameworks
data analysis (qualitative and quantitative), including of public comment datasets
SROI/social valuation, and
impact reporting.
Prompting guidance will be given for supporting social impact practice rigour and ethical considerations (including equity, inclusion, sovereignty, quality assurance and fairness).
Frameworks for critically assessing the quality of AI outputs will also be provided.
Who it’s for
Social impact & social safeguard professionals
SIA practitioners, evaluators
Community engagement specialists
Local government staff
Social impact practitioners that want to further apply practical AI skills (prompt engineering)
Organisations/ project teams building internal AI capability in the infrastructure and development sectors
Next course date: Thursday 26 November 2026
The aim of this course is to equip social impact & stakeholder engagement practitioners with the understanding of, and ability to design, basic multi‑agent systems and orchestrated workflows that automate and scale complex social impact research, data analysis, SIA, evaluation, and reporting tasks.
Risks and ethical considerations for using agentic AI in social impact measurement & stakeholder engagement practice will also be a focus.
Note: This course provides general guidance rather than specific AI agentic tool set-up technical training. This is so the content is accessible to participants that may only have access to free AI platform subscriptions.
Who it’s for
Social impact & social safeguard professionals
SIA practitioners, evaluators
Community & stakeholder engagement specialists
Local government staff
Practitioners that want to develop more advanced AI application skills, beyond foundations and prompt engineering basics
Organisations in infrastructure & development building internal AI capability
You’re in good company
Past training attendees have included people employed in local government, energy companies, infrastructure projects, consultancies and regional organisations.
This includes organisations like the City of Moreton Bay, Clear Horizon, Stockland, Queensland Hydro, SPREP, SEC Newgate, Worley & Social Value Malaysia.
We also have a promotional arrangement for our training programs with the Social Impact Measurement Network of Australia (SIMNA), providing 25% discount off the standard registration fee for SIMNA members.
Private/ Corporate team training options are available. Contact office@socialimpax.com.au for details.
What attendees say about our training courses
“Was fantastic”
— Training attendee“I loved this course!”
— Training attendee“Very supportive for social impact practitioners”
— Training attendeePast training & webinar topics
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3 x online courses offered:
L1 - AI Foundations for social impact measurement & practice
L2 - AI Prompt engineering for social impact professionals
L3 - Designing & Using AI Agents and Orchestrated Workflows for Social Impact Measurement & Practice
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Social Impax training series, 21 April 2026
Online training (public registration)
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Social Impax training series, 2 June 2026 - SOLD OUT
Online training (public registration)
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FutureSteps, Lendlease, Skilling Workshops
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Engagement Institute Infrastructure Working Group
Webinar (session for members)
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Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) &Pacific Network for Environmental Assessment (PNEA)
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PowerHour series by Engaged Outcomes, supported by Powerlink & WindLab
Webinar (open registration)
PowerHour Virtual Forum - “Understanding Impact and Legacy” Engaged Outcomes
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Asia Foundation's USAID and AUSTRALIA MEKONG SAFEGUARDS PROGRAM
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Dentsu Satori Week, Asia Pacific region
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Satori Week 2023: Sustainability
AI Use in Social Impact Measurement & Practice: 2026 Survey Results
