Advancing Professionalisation, Leadership and Integration. - Weaving Theory, practice and community together for a better future.The Emergency Management sector continues to evolve at a fast pace. There are calls for a more professionalised sector as well as more integration of fulltime Emergency Managers, volunteers and communities.What are the pathways within our sector that build knowledge, operationalize that knowledge, and place us on the road to success?It is critical that we understand how to apply the principles associated with the ‘R’s of Risk Reduction, Resilience, Readiness, Response and Recovery. The balancing of all these ‘R’s’ and creating the resilient and ready communities we so desire, whilst responding to and recovering from the ever increasing, intensifying and novel adverse events is what the sector faces today and into the future.Are we ‘fit for purpose’ and ‘fit for future?