You are invited to a half-day workshop hosted by Collaboration for Impact.

The purpose of this workshop is to provide an opportunity for us to come together to learn, connect and share wisdom and experience, riffing off what is happening internationally in place-based systems change.

The half day workshop will include pre-recorded interviews with international guests:

Julian Corner
Julian is the CEO of Lankelly Chase and he says this is his "opportunity to support a growing movement of people who are grasping the opportunity of difficult times to imagine a very different system and to act boldly to achieve it". He worked in the UK Government's Social Exclusion Unit where he led work on reoffending by ex-prisoners.

Kelly Bates
Kelly is a social changer, nonprofit civic leader, and lawyer who for more than twenty years has led advocacy, organizing, racial justice, and women’s organizations promoting collaboration, equity, and civic engagement, both locally and nationally. She seeks each day to develop the heart, skills, and mindset to be a facilitative leader and civic innovator for progressive movement building across the country and in communities. She is the President of the Interaction Institute of Social Change.

Julie Diamond
Julie is an author, executive coach and international leadership consultant. For over 25 years Julie has been at the forefront of creating transformational learning and leadership solutions across a range of sectors and disciplines, from graduate degree programs to leader development programs. Julie’s research and work with leaders has focused on the problems of power— the ways power is expressed and how it impacts culture, interpersonal dynamics, decision making, and leadership ability. Her latest book Power: A User’s Guide, dives into the problems and promises of being in position of power.

Eric Martin
Eric is the Managing Director of Adaptive Change Advisors (ACA), whose mission is democratise leadership – putting leadership tools that drive change into the hands of anyone who drives positive outcomes. He has served in an advisor, speaker or leadership trainer role at many organisations including the Rockefeller Foundation, Google, Microsoft, Verizon, US Business Council for Sustainable Development, the White House Presidential Personnel Office, United Nations Innovation Network, World Bank, Patagonia and USAID.

You will have an opportunity to be in small groups to discuss what you are hearing and considering its relevance and application in Australia.