LeaderSHIFT - Featuring Brené Brown - SYDNEY

The Leadership Advantage is Human
About this Event

LeaderSHIFT 2027 builds on the momentum of last year’s program, from survival to transformation, offering leaders a continuous journey focused on unlocking human potential and performance in a rapidly evolving workplace.

LeaderSHIFT 2027 explores what the future of leadership looks like and the skills required in a time of rapid change, uncertainty, and disruption. As pressure on leaders continues to grow, the program challenges leaders to move beyond caution and comfort and instead lead with clarity, courage, trust, and connection.

At the centre of the experience is Brené Brown, who reframes leadership as the ability to stay open and courageous under pressure. Alongside her, Liz Wiseman explores how leaders unlock greater performance, intelligence, and impact across teams. Leadership expert Tim Arnold brings practical strategies for navigating complexity and tension, helping leaders shift from rigid either/or thinking to more adaptive both/and leadership.

Together, these voices will equip you and your team with the mindset and practical tools needed to build resilient cultures, elevate performance, and lead people more effectively in an increasingly complex world.

Agenda

🕑: 09:30 AM
Welcome
🕑: 09:45 AM
Unlocking High-Performing Teams
Host: Liz Wiseman

Info: In this interactive session, Liz Wiseman will reveal the leadership practices needed to build a high performance culture where everyone contributes at their fullest. She will examine why managers often leave valuable talent untapped and how leaders can unlock the full intelligence and capability of their teams. Liz will provide tactical strategies that leaders can immediately implement to amplify team performance, inspire innovation, scale impact across the organization and create a culture where everyone contributes at their highest level - even in times of ambiguity, complexity and rapid change.

You will learn how to:

- Multiply intelligence and capability in teams
- Create ownership, initiative, and accountability
- Unlock human potential in AI-enabled workplaces
- Build high-contribution, high-performance cultures

🕑: 11:00 AM
Stretch Break
🕑: 11:15 AM
Courageous Leadership in Uncertain Times
Host: Brené Brown

Info: Brené Brown explores what happens to people and systems under sustained pressure, and why shutdown, certainty, and protection have become default leadership responses in complexity. This session reframes courage, trust, and emotional clarity as essential conditions for performance, connection, and better decision-making.

You will learn how to :

- Adopt the mindsets and behaviours needed to lead with clarity and accountability
- Move beyond reaction and performance, and instead build trust, discipline, and connection
-Stay open and grounded under pressure
- Create cultures of connection, resilience, and high performance

🕑: 12:45 PM
Lunch Break
🕑: 02:00 PM
Resilience and Results in a Complex World
Host: Tim Arnold

Info: Today's leaders are pulled in every direction by competing demands, unrealistic expectations and relentless change. Optimism or realism? Change or stability? High expectations or grace? The instinct is to pick a side, but the best leaders have learned to hold both. In this session, Tim Arnold unpacks unavoidable leadership tensions and introduces a practical, perspective-changing approach to move beyond Either/Or thinking and thrive in the face of complexity.

In this powerful session, you will learn how to:

Move from “OR” to “AND” thinking: Discover a simple yet powerful framework for shifting from divisive thinking to a mindset that leverages the best of both worlds
Unlock Diverse Perspectives: Learn how to work effectively with team members who hold different viewpoints, transforming potential conflicts into opportunities for innovation
Elevate Communication: Gain crucial insights on how to address tensions productively, fostering an environment where all voices are heard and value

🕑: 03:15 PM
Reflections and Actions
🕑: 01:30 PM
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