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Go Engineering backs the WASMA Resources Leadership Summit 2026
As a Sundowner Sponsor of the WA School of Mines Alumni Resources Leadership Summit, our team spent a day on what modern leadership in the resources sector actually looks like — and came away with plenty to think about.
Go Engineering was proud to be one of the Sundowner Sponsors for the WA School of Mines Alumni (WASMA) Resources Leadership Summit 2026 — and it turned out to be one of the most worthwhile days on the industry calendar.
The Summit set out to redefine what leadership means in the resources sector, and it delivered. The program was informative, engaging and, importantly, very well executed: a full day of substance rather than platitudes.
Events like this are a useful reminder that leadership in mining and resources is not standing still. The pressures on operations, on teams and on the people running them keep shifting, and the qualities that separate a good leader from an average one — creativity, adaptability, resilience — have never been more relevant.
Four themes ran through the day:
- Being creative— making room for innovative thinking rather than defaulting to how it has always been done.
- Being adaptive— staying effective in an industry that changes underneath you.
- Building resilience— in yourself, and just as importantly in your teams.
- Leading as a "Titan"— with vision, empathy and confidence.
One line from the day stuck with the team:"A futurist doesn't predict, it pays attention."That is a fair summary of what good leadership looks like in a technical business — paying attention to what the data, the site and the people are actually telling you, well before it becomes a problem.
Beyond the sessions, the Summit was a genuinely good opportunity to connect across the industry and talk about where mining is heading, how leadership is changing, and why good people in strong teams remain the single biggest determinant of a project's outcome.
And it was not all serious. The Brickman session proved two things: you really cannot go wrong with a LEGO play session, and mining professionals remain fiercely competitive no matter what is put in front of them.
A big thank you to the organisers for putting together such a valuable event. We are already looking forward to the next one.
Representing Go Engineering on the day were Cornelius Hattingh, Alston D'Lima, Bosco Ahn, Matthew Cook and Yasmin Walter.
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