Presenters
Our Expert Presenters
ALLY NITSCHKE
Courageous Leadership in a modern world –
With a rapidly changing leadership landscape this session will work with leaders understand what is on the horizon for leaders and leading the future workforce. Leaders will investigate the 3 things they need to be doing right now to prepare for the next 3-5 years.
- 3 key pillars of Courageous Leaders
- Number one thing holding leaders back
- the 3-5 year leadership landscape
- Communication changes to make when managing your team.
- The biggest stumbling block to look out for.
Ally Nitschke (Pronounced N-ITCH-KEY)
Speaker, Author and Mentor, Ally Nitschke is known as a high-performance Leader, Managing director of Made For More a leadership & Communication practice aswell as the host of the Made For More podcast
Ally has been working as a leader and with leaders for more than 15 years, she now works with leaders and organisations to build their leadership, communication and change capability, specifically around Courageous Conversations.
Her approach to leadership has been described as ‘modern, fresh and uplifting’, Ally combines her years of real life leadership experience with neuro-science and linguistic expertise to cut through and get to the root cause of the problem.
KAREN HOLLENBACH
Using LinkedIn to Boost your Brand, Career and Attract Promotion.
- Learn how to write your LinkedIn Profile the right way with Karen’s proven checklist
- Understand LinkedIn etiquette and how to navigate LinkedIn more effectively
- Learn how to use LinkedIn to stay informed of industry news and trends
- Learn how to use LinkedIn to stay better connected to your professional community
Karen Hollenbach is an Independent LinkedIn Specialist Trainer and the Founding Director of Think Bespoke. With over 10 years LinkedIn training experience in Australia and beyond, Karen is ranked in the top 10 LinkedIn experts for Asia Pacific by the Social Media Marketing Institute.
She’s taught many individuals and organisations how to embrace LinkedIn as a tool for their career and business. She’s a regular trainer with General Assembly and has worked with organisations including Legal People, Monash Business School, RMIT, Melbourne University and many more, teaching the leaders, digital marketers and marketing communication teams the key success factors for LinkedIn Profiles and LinkedIn Company Pages to achieve their professional goals.
KISTIN GUNNIS
Valuing Your Worth
TINA DAISLEY
The Secrets to Engaging High Performing teams
Inspiring, encouraging and managing people is often the biggest challenge we face in business. Being able to harness a team is what differentiates poor managers from great ones. “In this highly practical workshop, learn about the real challenges leaders face in creating high performing teams and how you can build a highly functioning team in today’s dynamic business landscape.
Tina Daisley is a self-proclaimed warrior for positive leadership! She is passionate about working with individuals and businesses to not only get through change but to genuinely transform while building organisational and individual resilience. She works with businesses and individuals like you to emerge from change with super-charged courage, confidence and capability.
How does she do that? There’s no magic wand, no silver bullet. Through determined listening to understand and by leveraging her own experience, she provides support where it is needed, driven by the firm belief that we are all capable of positive transformation. It is all possible; long-term sustained leadership capability development, long-term sustainable transformation for improved business outcomes, engagement and culture.
VANDANA REDDY
Leading & Embracing Change
8o% of organisational transformation fails to deliver on the promises made. As a result, people are sceptical, and resistant because they dislike uncertainty or are suffering from change fatigue. This behaviour is not a good career move.
In this workshop, we will explore transformation from 3 perspectives:- the leader, the employee and an external implementer.
Takeaways:-
- Understand how Change impacts you
- How to help others with change
- The importance of an influential narrative
- Leading with Empathy
- Grit & Resilience
LEESA TONGOULIDIS
Reimagining Personal Career Success in a Climate of Uncertainty and Continual Change
Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity (VUCA) is here to stay. No matter what industry or sector you work in, we all need to show up differently, learn new skills and continually adapt. But how?
Takeaways
- Tapping into your Authentic Voice
- Letting go of “Othering”
- Reframing Mindsets and Attitudes
- Negotiating your Worth
Leesa Tongoulidis, Founder & Principal Human Art
Using the lens of an artist, Leesa and her team help individuals, leaders and organisations develop the skills, support and confidence needed to thrive in times of uncertainty.
Leesa has worked with hundreds of individuals from school leavers to CEO’s to help them reimagine their career, and improve their leadership skills. She has also led a diverse range of successful organisational change programs. With over 30 years in the field, she has become deeply attuned to the wide range of interplay between human experience, commercial and cultural realities that are critical to success. Her curiosity and love of learning has helped her to develop cutting edge solutions that leverage the latest in design thinking, neuroscience, heart based leadership. Leesa’s corporate career spans multiple sectors, including many top 20 ASX and multi-nationals across IT, Financial Services, Utilities, Government, Consulting, Managed Services, Recruitment, Education, Health and Telecommunications.
Leesa is a positive agent of change and is actively involved in shaping the future of work through public speaking events, volunteering and mentoring.
KAREN CHASTON
Embracing Change through Understanding Loss
We live in a world of constant change, yet most of us are adverse to change. The inability to change, progress, or grow can result in stagnation. Stagnation denies people and companies from realising their full potential.
Even with this understanding, many people fear change, mainly due to a lack of education regarding how to move beyond the fear of the unknown so that change can work for you.
It’s time for all leaders to understand the correlation between “loss, change and employee engagement.” As nothing so undermines organisational change as the failure to think through the losses people may face.
In this session the key learnings and takeaways will be:
- An understanding of the correlation between “loss, change and employee engagement’
- People don’t fear change, they fear the loss that change brings
- How to move beyond the fear of the unknown so that change can work for you
- There is no growth without loss and there is no change without loss
- Nothing undermines organisational change as the failure to think through the losses people will face
- How to assist your people to embrace change. To stop being afraid of what could go wrong and start being excited about what could go right.
- The 5-steps to moving beyond any kind of loss and creating your better everyday life
Karen Chaston is a business owner, beyond loss expert and international keynote speaker who has shared the stage with Marianne Williamson, Jamie-Lee Curtis, Valerie Harper and Dr Ellie Drake. She’s also an international bestselling author of nine books and numerous e-books.
She was a CPA, publicly listed company Chief Financial Officer, and senior manager in her corporate career for more than 25 years.
In July 2011, Karen’s life changed forever when her 27-year-old son, Dan, suddenly and unexpectedly passed away at her back door.
Within 15 months, she chose redundancy and began a personal, professional and spiritual journey culminating in becoming a beyond loss expert and co-founding The Chaston Centre.
Karen’s first-hand experience and her desire to find a better way to do loss – both personally and in the workplace- are the foundation for all the Chaston Centre programs.
When individuals embrace these concepts, they will easily move beyond any kind of loss and create a better everyday life.
When companies embrace these concepts, they unlock the people and profits connection. Ensuring that your people are always working at their best, valuing each other whilst providing the best possible customer experience and returns to the company.