OCM Skills Academy

Governments across Australia are acutely attuned to the need to build a future-ready public sector workforce with strong digital, leadership, and policy capabilities.

Our OCM Skills Academy is a strategic initiative designed to help meet that need.

We deliver tailored, practical, and future-focused learning experiences for agencies and people to lead with confidence, adapt to change, and deliver better outcomes for communities.

Agile Procurement & Supply Chain

Governance, Risk & Compliance

Strategic Leadership & Change

Innovation & Service Design

Data-Driven Decision Making

Cultural Transformation

Why the OCM Skills Academy?

The OCM Skills Academy is built on a comprehensive capability framework that equips public sector leaders and teams to thrive in complex, rapidly changing environments. We focus on six core pillars;

Agile procurement & supply chain
Governance, risk & compliance
Strategic leadership & change
Innovation & service design
Data-driven decision making
Cultural transformation

Each pillar is supported by practical learning pathways, experiential programs, and coaching designed to embed new behaviours and deliver measurable impact. By combining deep sector expertise with proven methodologies, we ensure capability uplift translates into sustained organisational performance and better outcomes for communities.

Together, we deliver progress that matters on...

Deep public sector expertise

With decades of experience across local, state, and federal government, OCM brings unparalleled insight into the challenges and opportunities facing public institutions. Our practitioners are seasoned experts in procurement, governance, risk, compliance, infrastructure delivery, and organisational transformation.

End-to-end capability development

From strategic planning and cultural uplift to digital transformation and service innovation, we support the full lifecycle of capability building. Our programs are grounded in real-world experience and designed to be immediately applicable in complex public sector environments.

Customised pathways

The Academy offers modular, scalable learning tailored to your needs; building procurement acumen, enhancing leadership capability and embedding agile and ethical decision-making frameworks.

Co-designed for impact

We partner with clients to co-create learning journeys that align with strategic goals, foster innovation, and build internal capacity for sustained success. Our approach blends facilitation, coaching, and experiential learning to drive real behavioural change.

Proven delivery

We have delivered successful capability uplift programs across Australia, including in infrastructure procurement, digital health, organisational redesign, and sector-wide transformation.