Alumni Stories

Graduates from our open programs join our growing and committed network of Social Leadership Australia alumni. They are all exercising leadership in unique ways. SLA will be profiling our alumni as an ongoing activity. If you would like to have your profile included please let us know what you are doing by contributing to our Community Conversation.

Alumni Stories

Anna Rose, Sydney Leadership 2010

“I truly believe if everyone in Australia had the chance to get to the same level of maturity and self-reflection Sydney Leadership prompts, we’d be having a much saner discussion about climate change.” MORE >

Nathan Johnston, Queensland Leadership 2010-2011

Nathan Johnston, Queensland Leadership 2010-2011 alumnus, has brokered a partnership between an astonishing 26 organisations—from mining companies to agricultural groups, many competing over limited land—in an initiative to safeguard the quality of water flowing into the Great Barrier Reef. MORE >

Bruce Graydon, Queensland Leadership 2010-2011

“My role as a senior police investigator of child abuse was a noble one but I realised that I needed to become an unapologetic advocate for change… and that by doing so I would be able to help a lot more people.” MORE >

Doug Taylor, Sydney Leadership 2004

The success of the Woolloomooloo rough sleepers project meant reaching out to other organisations with different workplace cultures and nurturing a coalition with no defined leader. MORE >

Lisa Ryan, Sydney Leadership 2007

"Sydney Leadership was the most sophisticated program I have ever done for its capacity to really look at what makes a problem complex and what needs to change to address it." MORE >