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.

Jaki Virtue, Chief Operating Officer, Soul Patts

Lab B: Building Authentic 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.

Penny George, Director of Corporate Affairs, AstraZeneca

Lab C: Leading Inclusion with Impact
Inclusive leadership requires confidence, capability and the courage to challenge bias. This lab will show you how to build equity into everyday decision-making, create belonging across diverse teams, and set the tone for a culture where everyone can contribute and thrive.

Skills Learned: Building inclusive cultures, addressing bias, fostering equity, and empowering diverse teams.

Dr. Ashley McGrath, Chief Executive Officer, CEOs for Gender Equity

Lab D: Leading High-Performing Teams

What separates good teams from great ones? This lab explores the leadership practices that create accountability, trust and sustained performance. You will learn how to lead effectively through conflict, address underperformance and bring out the best in diverse teams.

Skills Learned: Building trust, fostering accountability, and resolving conflict to sustain performance.

Daniela Aubrey, Executive Manager AI and Automation Roadmap, nbn Australia