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The ACTIVATE Leadership Program Is Designed To Help You Challenge And Re-Frame The Assumptions That Prevent You From Exercising The Leadership You’re Capable Of.

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There’s a moment where you have to choose whether to be silent or stand up.

-Malala Yusafzai

It’s hard to imagine a better time to attend ‘ACTIVATE’, our three-day Adaptive Leadership program.

Our modern workplaces are characterised by growing tensions between the way we’d like to work, and the way we’ve learned to work. We tolerate these tensions because we don’t really know how to address them. Practices that have worked in the past, seem less effective now. Our frustration grows with our bosses’ inability to remove the obstacles that impede progress. We approach our work with skill and diligence, but it doesn’t seem to have the impact we crave. And we feel we have so much more to offer, if only we knew where to start. 

Perfect Program Participants

This program is perfect for you if you are:

  • Stepping Up: for pre-executives with high potential looking for the next leadership step.
  • Stepping Out: for technical and functional experts seeking to broaden their leadership repertoire.
  • Breaking Out: for experienced leaders seeking a new leadership edge.
  • Breaking Through: for middle or senior manager seeking progress on persistent organisational challenges.

Take control of your future, enter the fray with us and sign up for the ACTIVATE Leadership Program today.

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Program Overview

Over three intensive days, you will explore and develop your ability to engage effectively with complex challenges that defy your current levels of organisational know-how. Expertly supported by Harvard-trained facilitators, you will deepen your capacity to recognise and diagnose these challenges, and mobilise your organisation to engage in the learning needed to make progress beyond the current state of inertia.

You’ll Leave the Program With:

  • a heightened appreciation of the tension between your organisation’s internal operational efficiency, and its capacity to learn and change.
  • refined ability to recognise, diagnose and engage with complex challenges.
  • increased capacity for influencing and mobilising others in organisational learning.
  • focused and nuanced capacity for productive disruption and experimentation.
  • an enhanced range of personal deployment and resilience strategies.

Our facilitators, Don Lowe, Sarah Lowe, and Phil Shepherd, are all graduates of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Art and Practice of Leadership Development Program, with extensive experience in practicing or developing Adaptive Leadership across a variety of public, private and NFP organisations.

Don Lowe

‘The Provocateur’. With an adult lifetime in leadership development, Don has come to understand that a person’s defining achievements are invariably linked to the efforts of others. That’s why his professional focus has, over the years, gravitated towards helping people surface the challenges that are holding them back, and to get traction by mobilising, amplifying, and aligning their efforts with those of others. In the 19 years spent running his own Consulting company, Humanoeuvre, Don has helped professionals from all walks of life to break free from their organisational shackles and enter the leadership fray.

Sarah Lowe

‘The Mentor’. Sarah has been a senior executive, leader and coach for the past 20 years working in the commercial sector, delivering to private and public sector clients. As a senior executive, Sarah guided her large, nationally based, multi-disciplinary teams to breakthrough levels of achievement. Throughout this time, she faced just about every issue you could imagine. A dedicated learner, Sarah took on those challenges and joined her teams in the trenches as they learned, evolved and strengthened to sustain outstanding performance.  Her passion for individual and team growth is reflected in her engaging, personalised facilitation style. 

Phil Shepherd

‘The Transformer’. Phil is a highly experienced leader and dynamic facilitator who is deeply passionate about leadership and helping teams and individuals reach their full potential. His point of difference is a powerful ability to develop and deliver innovative and transformative leadership programs and workshops, that actually help leaders to return to their world and truly make a difference. Phil’s alumni are able to transfer their improved confidence and sense of self-efficacy into sustained leadership effectiveness in the workplace.

  • Adaptive Leadership underscores the primacy of individual and organisational learning as a means of moving from today’s efficiency, towards tomorrow’s relevance and effectiveness.
  • By reframing leadership as an intentional activity, rather than as a job description, program participants can access countless, previously inaccessible leadership opportunities.
  • ‘Slowing down to speed up’ is a powerful diagnostic mindset, allowing participants to step back from the immediacy of a complex challenge, engage multiple perspectives, and generate a variety of insights, any one of which might have the potential to move from inertia, to progress.
  • Leadership can be risky, involving the surfacing of uncomfortable contradictions our organisations have learned to live with, or compromises we are rewarded for ignoring, but which sustain our lack of progress.

Program Details

  • Dates: To Be Advised
  • Location: To Be Advised

Investment (Ex GST)

  • $3,975pp
  • $3,600 for NFP Participants
  • Your place is secured on receipt of your payment.
  • All payments are due 10 days before program commencement.

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What does the program include?

  • Three-day in-person program, from 8.30am – 5pm daily
  • Expert facilitation, featuring immersive, experiential learning techniques 
  • Introduction to the foundational Adaptive Leadership framework
  • Cohort networking and peer learning
  • Specialised focus on personal, real-world leadership challenges
  • Self-directed, peer-supported post-program extension
  • Individual development support options
  • Lunch, morning and afternoon tea provided daily
  • Program and administrative details will be sent to participants before the course

What is the cancellation policy?

  • Full refunds will be made for cancellations more than 30 days prior to program commencement
  • 50% refunds for cancellations between 15 and 30 days prior to program commencement
  • No refunds will be made for cancellations within 15 days of program commencement

What if I can’t make these dates?

  • Further dates will be announced for 2025 courses.

Our Testimonials

“Don has made a significant difference to the leadership and culture of the Audit Office. His work has been ground-breaking in changing some of the embedded practices and ingrained views held by some staff of the management and leadership team.”
Ajay SharmaAssistant Auditor-General, ACT Audit Office
“Phil has an engaging facilitation style and a unique ability to make people in leadership programs feel connected - connected to the content, peers and their own leadership. His stories and ability to flex his style means he readily reaches a range of people and their needs.”
Summer MerrieVictoria Police
‘Don and Sarah, you have such a skill with articulating the questions to promote meaningful conversation and knowledge when to keep ‘digging’ thank you.’
EvlynUGL
“I found Don and Phil’s knowledge and experience in leadership and facilitation a key part of the effectiveness of this program. They made the particularly emotional sessions feel very ‘real’.”
AngusPublic Safety Agency
‘Amazing work Don and Sarah. The workshop was beyond my expectations for sure, I honestly feel we grew better as a team and individuals’.
MattCrowdStrike
‘This was by far the best leadership workshop I’ve been involved in, and I look forward to future workshops with Don and Sarah’.
ParticipantCrowdStrike
‘Excellent facilitation from a team with exceptional human behaviour skills and understanding’.
Corina GlavanDefence
The workshop was ‘effective, motivating, insightful and engaging.’
LorriCrowdStrike
"Great workshop, skilled facilitators in Don and Sarah, I really liked the way that difficult topics were discussed"
ParticipantDefence
‘I valued your experienced and un-biased opinions in helping us see things from a different and much needed angle’.
ParticipantCrowdStrike
“Participating in the adaptive leadership program has been a profound experience. This program didn’t just teach me new strategies—it fundamentally reshaped my approach to leadership”.
KrysPublic Safety Organisation
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