Mini Leadership Labs

Lab A: Resilience in High-Pressure Environments

How do you keep people motivated when the pace is relentless? This session helps you sharpen the ability to make clear decisions in uncertain conditions, sustain your team’s energy, and remain composed when pressure builds.

Skills Learned: Decisive decision-making, stress management, sustaining team motivation, and role-modelling resilience.

Maree Wauchope, Chief Executive Officer, District Council of Barunga West

Lab B: Building Executive Presence and Self-Belief

Executive presence is critical for leaders who want to influence decisions and advance their careers. This lab will help you strengthen self-belief, communicate with confidence and authority, and position yourself effectively for progression opportunities while staying authentic to your leadership style.

Skills Learned: Strengthening executive presence, communicating with authority, building self-belief, and strategic self-advocacy.

Lyndal Denny, Chief Executive Officer, Women in Trucking Australia

Lab C: Leading Through AI

Being AI-ready is not just about technology, it is about leadership. This lab will help you understand how to introduce AI responsibly, support employees in leveraging it for their work, and lead with clarity as organisations adapt to the opportunities and risks of AI.

Skills Learned: Strategic decision-making, change leadership, communicating vision, and empowering teams through transformation.

Kirsty Mundy, Former Worldwide Sales Enablement Director, Microsoft; SA’s Premier’s Council for Women Member