We unpack how to create connections across cultures and enable Belonging for Everyone Equally in Australia in 2023.

Explore The Brain Science of Bias and the Psychology of ACT Theory to create Inclusive Behaviour and Belonging.

• How we move Beyond Bias to Behaviour and Belonging

• Explore your Privilege, degree of Inclusion and Wellbeing

• Identify 3 actions to create Belonging for Everyone Equally

Now that we've been experimenting with #HybridWork rhythms and routines, the conversation is turning to Culture.

• How do we RETAIN it or better still, IMPROVE it?

• What type of #leadership optimises culture and performance?

• What role does #PsychologicalSafety play?

It’s a new year and many teams will be calibrating their team focus and priorities.

The question on many leaders minds, is how can I support my team to move from Performing to Thriving and Innovating and take advantage of the opportunities disruption naturally creates?

• What are the rewards for teams who Ignite Innovation?

• What stage of Maturity is your team currently at?

• What are the characteristics of Leaders whose teams Ignite Innovation?

A new year creates an opportunity to refresh and re-energise strategy. Without alignment and commitment from the top team to the frontline - where it matters most - they languish and under perform relative to their potential.

It is as true of #Diversity #Equity and #Inclusion strategies as it is for any other high value business strategy.

• How do you create a message that resonates for Frontline Leadership, where we know fatigue (and fear) is common?

• Will your Frontline Leadership create a flourishing D, E & I Strategy in 2022?

If I were to offer you a solution to the following list of Workplace Challenges, would you believe it were possible with the very SAME approach?

A solution to:

• The #Great Resignation,

• Dramatically increase in #Innovation,

• Significantly reduce #Discrimination and/or #Harassment.

A way to:

• dramatically increase #Employee Engagement and #Customer Service,

• reduce the negative impact of work on #mental health,

• increase team effectiveness and effort.

Today’s leaders are better than ever at supporting Wellbeing, providing tools and permission to manage wellbeing.

There is also an opportunity to go 1 step further and ACTIVELY CREATE Wellbeing and Belonging through everyday TEAM-TALK.

• What are the 4 Everyday Leadership Behaviours which INTEGRATE Wellbeing and Business Performance into your team??

• How can you perform them in the HYBRID environment?

Perhaps like me, when you read the AFR article highlighting Australian men are suffering from Gender Fatigue, you concluded it’s more a matter of Will, than Skill.

As we’ve been on this journey for some time now, and climate change is literally coming faster to Australia than Gender Equality, perhaps fatigue is to be expected.

• What is the source of the Fatigue and the Fear?

• And how can commitment be reinvigorated?

Feeling Fatigued?

Yet, looking for a way to ensure your team leave 2020 feeling they are a valued member of a thriving team, in one of the toughest years on record?

• The answer may lie at the intersection of research on Wellbeing and Psychological Safety.

The World’s Greatest Workplace Experiment continues to offer unique opportunities to capitalise and create not just a diverse workforce which is fit for today’s world, but also a high performance culture.

• But how do you do that exactly, and achieve it consistently?

There’s huge competitive advantage for early adopters of the Hybrid Workplace.

By retaining talent and attracting a diverse workforce, performance and productivity can be increased, together with team happiness, wellbeing and belonging.

40% of Australians are currently reviewing their professional priorities for 2022 - and with 64% willing to leave without an alternative position - leaders have only a small window of opportunity to demonstrate they are capable AND committed to becoming 21st Century (Hybrid) Leaders!

• How did this Happen?

• What can we Expect?

• What is the Key to creating High Performance Hybrid Teams?

The expression in retailers’ eyes yesterday was different.

“This was our last hope” she said - as we both had tears in our eyes.

Just last week I predicted we’d need 3 key skills in 2021. It turns out I needed to put Grit and Resilience into action earlier than I’d anticipated and found myself urgently asking:

• how do you actually DO, ‘grit and resilience’?

• How do you recharge your mental and emotional reserves when the very plans you’d made to do just that - crumble?

As having a vaccine, doesn’t mean we are all vaccinated and our old world will not be returning any time soon - if ever…

What type of leadership will capitalise on the opportunities 2021 presents?

Dan Price of Gravity Payments is an example of a Conscious Collective Leader.

In 2015 Price took a million-dollar pay cut to institute a $70,000 minimum wage (which more than paid for itself in productivity and innovation).

What lessons can you take away from this modern entrepreneur with purpose?

How well is Cultural Fit providing you with a future source of competitive advantage?

What is the right balance between fitting in sufficiently to have an effective voice, and being sufficiently different to MAKE a difference?