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2025 Leadership Awards Ceremony

28 Aug 2025Melbourne Museum

Making the difference – recognising exceptional design and delivery across the public purpose sector.

About the event

Celebrating teams and organisations in the public purpose sector

IPAA Victoria’s Leadership Awards play a critical role in connecting, empowering and celebrating Victoria’s public purpose sector by recognising and acknowledging outstanding leadership, and these prestigious Awards honour the excellence and innovation of teams and organisations working in or alongside the Victorian public purpose sector, including community organisations, academic institutions, private firms, and all levels of government: Commonwealth, State and Local.

The 2025 Awards theme is ‘Making the difference – recognising exceptional design and delivery across the public purpose sector’. This theme celebrates the broad, cross-sector work that delivers significant and lasting benefits to the community.

Join us for a 3-course sit-down dinner Thursday, 28 August, as we celebrate our Award winners and finalists at the Melbourne Museum, a contemporary architectural icon located opposite the Royal Exhibition Building in the heart of Carlton Gardens.

Finalists across all five Leadership Awards categories can be viewed on our Awards page, and voting for the People’s Choice Award has closed. We are pleased to announce we had over 780 votes across the five categories.

2025 Award categories , winners and finalists

The Leadership Award categories aim to celebrate the broad work of the public purpose sector that has a significant impact on the community, both now and into the future.

Better Outcomes Through Regulation & Innovation Award

Smart approaches to regulating, for a better community and stronger economy

Communicating with Impact Award

Delivering public value through communication excellence 

Designing Services for People Award

Placing people at the centre of public services 

Developing Evidence-Driven Policy Award

Excellence in complex policymaking 

Implementing Aboriginal Self-determination Award

Empowering Aboriginal communities to achieve long-term change and improved outcomes

People's Choice Award

All finalists will be considered for the People’s Choice Award

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Event gallery 2025

IPAA Victoria reserves ownership of the photographs at the Leadership Awards ceremony 2025 and published on our website and in the event gallery. Photos can be downloaded and shared on social media for personal and organisational usage. Please credit IPAA Victoria when using these images. Not for commercial use.