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Leading Learning program: apply now

Deborah Burt, Director, People & Corporate Sustainability, Parsons Brinckerhoff, and Sydney Leadership 2007 graduate on the cover of the Leading Learning brochure

Leading Learning: The Purpose, Role & Practice of Leadership Development is a first for Australia: an intensive 6 day masterclass designed especially for senior professionals with responsibility for leadership and change.

Focusing on the act of leadership development as, in itself, a leadership challenge, Leading Learning is an opportunity to discover SLA's innovative and powerful approach to leadership development, which combines the Adaptive Leadership model taught by Professor Ron Heifetz at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government with rigorous community engagement. SLA teaches leadership with social purpose and it teaches Adaptive Leadership the way it is meant to be taught - hands-on, in real time.

Participants in our 2011 program reported a powerful and unexpected learning experience that delivered real, practical skills with immediate applicability. MORE >

Queensland Leadership 2012-13 Now Open

Queensland Leadership is Social Leadership Australia's flagship program to build the leadership capability of change agents from across the business, government and not-for-profit sectors in Queensland.

Offering an intensive year-long learning experience using the hallmark Social Leadership Australia model, which integrates the Adaptive Leadership model from Harvard with rigorous community engagement, Queensland Leadership will introduce you to a valuable network of peer leaders, expose you to unique and powerful new models of leadership, stretch your self-awareness and provide you with the leadership skills and resilience you need to make progress on the challenges you face.

Now in its fourth year, Queensland Leadership was modelled on the award-winning Sydney Leadership program, which has been running since 1999.

Program starts 19 September.

Applications close 9 July 2012.

Potential applicants and their employers are invited to one of five breakfast or lunch-time Information Sessions sessions from 5 June. MORE >

New Indigenous Leaders program now open

An initiative of the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA), the Social Leadership Initiative for Indigenous Leaders is an opportunity for Indigenous leaders and emerging leaders from all sectors of Australian life to come together and learn new ways to make progress on the issues that matter most to them, to their organisations and to their communities.

Read more and download the brochure and application form on our Social Leadership Intensive for Indigenous Leaders page.

New Educational Leadership program now open

This exciting new program targeted at senior educational leaders from across the nation—Good to Great—represents a new direction in educational leadership in Australia.

A partnership between the Queensland Education Leadership Institute (QELi) and Social Leadership Australia (SLA), its aim is to open up new ways of working to make real, enduring change on the issues that matter most to the future of Australian education; to create a social movement that empowers schools and school leaders to take back the debate and set future agendas for policy and investment.

The program will bring together a diversity of the best educational leaders in Australia to engage with industries, communities, systems and structures beyond the sector: to take a fresh, holistic approach to leadership and change the way we think about what it means to build great people and great communities. MORE >

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Adaptive Leadership Intensive Now Open

Cover of the Adaptive Leadership Intensive brochure Social Leadership Australia’s 4-day intensive will give you a grounding in our unique approach to leadership development, which integrates the Adaptive Leadership model developed at Harvard with 'hands-on' community engagement to deliver a powerful learning experience.

The cost of this residential program is $3,800 + GST, inclusive of all meals, accommodation and program resources. A limited number of partial scholarships are available for people in the not-for-profit sector.

“The program provided a systemic approach to tackle complex issues, whilst giving me an opportunity to step back, reflect, observe and synthesise my learning before returning to the workplace. I immediately transferred my learnings from the program not only into the workplace but also in my personal life."

— Jean Clendinning, Organisational Development Executive, Parsons Brinckerhoff MORE >