Michael Connelly

Managing Director | B.Mus. (Honours) | Cert.IV Training and Assessment

Michael Connelly is an inspirational community development specialist.

For more than 20 years, Michael has managed change for national, state and regional not-for-profits, university student associations, corporations, state agencies and regional Councils across Australia.

Through CPR Group’s sport and community planning, funding and training projects, Michael is driving the innovation of not-for-profit governance to create happier volunteers and bring positive change to the sport and community development sectors.

As a professional speaker, Michael’s workshops and motivational presentations inform, inspire and energise. His planning and governance seminars are high-energy, entertaining, and they effect change that is embraced by participants.

Michael is skilled in policy analysis and development, strategic planning, investment attraction, public asset management, election management and returning officer duties, business cases and feasibility studies, and stakeholder and government relations.

With a focus on innovative systems, Michael has led the development of software solutions for asset management, meeting management and document and data management, as well as creative training programs.