top of page

Chelsea Shaw

Global Strategic Workforce Planning & Skills Manager

QBE Insurance

Chelsea Shaw is the Strategic Workforce Planning Manager at QBE. With a background in strategic human resources, workforce analytics and organisational transformation, Chelsea leads initiatives that shape the future of work across the enterprise.


In 2025, she has led the development of QBE’s AI Workforce Strategy, a forward-looking framework that integrates human-AI collaboration into workforce planning, job architecture, and leadership enablement. Her work empowers leaders to use data-driven insights to inform strategic decisions and align workforce initiatives with emerging technologies. Chelsea holds a Master’s degree in Human Resources and Employment Relations and is a certified AHRI practitioner. She blends academic rigour with practical leadership and consulting expertise, driving capability building across the talent lifecycle.


Passionate about building resilient, inclusive, and future-ready workforces, Chelsea continues to shape the future of work through innovative, people-centered strategies.

SESSIONS

Day 1

11:40

AI Pilots Panel: What Worked, What Didn’t, and What’s Next

  • Practical use cases that lifted productivity, recruitment, retention and engagement

  • Turning AI Pilots into real workforce value

  • Redesigning roles in an AI-augmented workplace

  • Balancing efficiency gains with employee morale and wellbeing – is AI reducing burnout or creating new pressures and complexity?


Chelsea Shaw, Global Strategic Workforce Planning & Skills Manager, QBE Insurance

Nick Farhan, Director People, Culture & Talent, Infrastructure Australia

Greg Newman, Principal People Analytics Partner, Rio Tinto

CONTACT US

Level 12, 2 Bulletin Place, Sydney NSW 2000
Phone: +61 2 8378 4334
Email Us

Terms and Conditions | Privacy Policy

© 2026 Aventedge. All rights reserved.

Aventedge

Aventedge acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands where we live, learn and work. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.

The Aboriginal Flag
The Torres Strait Islander Flag
CPD approved event logo
bottom of page