Emotional Leadership Development Course - Melbourne CBD

Become a Certified Emotional Culture Deck Leadership Practitioner!

This 1-day course is designed to enhance leadership development by equipping leaders with the tools to understand and manage emotional drivers and dynamics within themselves, their people and their teams. The course focuses on developing emotionally aware leaders who can effectively foster a positive workplace culture. Participants will engage in practical activities that promote self-awareness, team cohesion, and emotional intelligence, all grounded in The Emotional Culture Deck framework.

• Focus: Train leaders to build & establish the emotions necessary for organisational and team success.
• Approach: Top-Down & Leader-Led
• Benefits: Develop stronger leadership skills, enhance emotional intelligence, and create a thriving workplace culture.

Unleash Game-Changing Leadership

In today’s fast-paced and complex business environment, the ability to lead with emotion is more critical than ever. The ECD Emotional Leadership Development Course is designed to transform the way leaders understand and harness the power of emotions to foster a more dynamic and responsive workplace.

Who Should Complete This Course

Our ECD Specialist Courses are designed for a diverse range of professionals who want to enhance their leadership capabilities, craft emotional cultures, and drive meaningful change within their organisations. They are ideal for:

• Organisational Leaders and Managers: Whether you’re a senior executive, mid-level manager, or team lead, these courses offer essential tools to manage and enhance your team’s emotional culture. You’ll learn strategies to foster a motivated and engaged environment, boosting both performance and job satisfaction.
• HR Professionals and Team Leads: If you oversee workplace culture, these courses provide practical strategies to shape emotional experiences. HR professionals and team leads will discover how to nurture emotional intelligence, manage emotions, and build a supportive, inclusive workplace that aligns with organisational goals.
• Change Management Specialists: For those guiding organisational change, understanding emotions is vital. These courses offer skills to manage and influence the emotions that affect change acceptance or resistance. Learn to develop strategies that overcome emotional obstacles and support positive transitions.
• Anyone Looking to Improve Emotional Intelligence and Leadership Skills: Emotional intelligence is key to success. These courses are ideal for anyone aiming to better understand emotions, enhance leadership skills, and build effective teams. Perfect for emerging leaders, coaches, or consultants, our courses equip you to lead with empathy, resilience, and confidence.

What You'll Gain From This Course

Emotional leadership isn’t just about understanding emotions—it’s about using them to shape the way you lead, connect, and create impact. This course provides a practical, hands-on approach to emotional intelligence in leadership, giving you the tools to strengthen your leadership style and foster a thriving team culture.

By the end of this course, you’ll have learned how to:

• Lead yourself with emotional awareness by setting emotional intentions and understanding your emotional drivers.
• Build stronger emotional connections with your team by fostering trust, empathy, and open communication.
• Establish the emotions your team needs to thrive and craft an intentional emotional culture that drives performance.
• Navigate difficult conversations with emotional intelligence, creating a safe environment for honest and constructive dialogue.
• Understand the ripple effect of emotions and how your actions as a leader influence the emotional climate of your organisation.
• Apply practical tools and frameworks, including emotional check-ins, leadership workshops, and the Leadership Canvas, to enhance emotional engagement.
• Reflect on your leadership journey and continue to develop your emotional leadership skills beyond the course

This isn’t just another leadership course—it’s a step toward becoming a more intentional, emotionally aware leader who can inspire and drive meaningful change.

Why Complete This Course

By completing the Emotional Leadership Development Course, you’ll earn the ECD Emotional Leadership Practitioner Badge, signifying your understanding and ability to apply emotional leadership principles in your work.

Upon completion, you’ll receive:

• ECD Emotional Leadership Practitioner Badge – A digital credential to showcase your achievement.
• Exclusive access to Practitioner-only resources to support your leadership journey.
• Recognition within the ECD Community as a certified practitioner.
• A pathway to further certification, including becoming an ECD Certified Consultant.

What You Can Do as an ECD Emotional Leadership Practitioner:

• Use The Emotional Culture Deck and tools inside organisations to help teams shape their emotional culture.
• Introduce and facilitate emotional leadership conversations in your workplace or with clients
• Apply emotional intelligence strategies to build stronger teams and improve leadership effectiveness.
• Integrate ECD tools into your coaching, training, or leadership development programmes.
• Share what you’ve learned with colleagues, clients, and teams to create real impact.

Why This Matters:

This course is more than just training—it’s a step toward mastering emotional leadership. Whether you’re leading a team, coaching leaders, or working as a consultant, this certification provides a structured, practical approach to creating real impact through emotional intelligence. Take the next step in your leadership journey—earn your ECD Emotional Leadership Practitioner Badge and start leading with intention.

Course Inclusions

On-the day:

Refreshments will be provided (water, morning and afternoon tea) PLUS each participant will receive an ECD Course Toolkit, which includes all the printed tools from the course, a physical badge and certificate, and an Emotional Culture Deck.

When you enrol in our ECD Specialist Courses, you gain more than just knowledge—you receive a toolkit of valuable resources designed to support your growth and success both during and after the course:

• Certificate of Practice: Upon successfully completing the course, participants will receive a certificate that acknowledges their achievement. This certificate not only serves as a formal recognition of their commitment to learning and development but can also be used to showcase their newly acquired skills to colleagues, clients, and employers.

• ECD Specialist Course Badge: Participants will earn an ECD Specialist Course Badge, highlighting their new skills and status as an ECD Certified Practitioner. This badge is a symbol of expertise in applying The Emotional Culture Deck principles. It can be proudly displayed on professional profiles, such as LinkedIn, to enhance personal branding and credibility.

• Online Toolkit Access: Each participant will gain access to a comprehensive online toolkit tailored to the specific course they are attending. These toolkits are packed with practical resources, including templates, guides, worksheets, and exercises that are essential for implementing the strategies and techniques learned during the course. These tools are designed to help participants apply their new knowledge effectively within their organisations.

• Community Access: Participants will enjoy 90 days all-access pass to our exclusive online community, where they can continue their learning journey. This community provides a platform for networking, sharing experiences, and seeking advice from peers and seasoned ECD-Certified community members. The ongoing support and resources available within this community help reinforce the course content and foster a collaborative learning environment, encouraging continuous growth and development.

Why This Matters:

These offerings are designed to ensure participants leave the course not only with new knowledge but also with the tools, recognition, and support needed to apply their learning effectively. From digital credentials that boost professional profiles to practical toolkits that facilitate on-the-job application, participants are fully equipped to apply what they learn within their teams and organisations.

Post-Course Support

To help you get the most out of your ECD Specialist Course experience, you have the option of a range of post-course support designed to reinforce learning and ensure a smooth transition from the course to the workplace.

1. Post-Course Group Coaching Session:

After completing this course, you will be invited to attend a group coaching session. It’s a chance to share your experiences, explore new ideas, and seek clarity on any challenges or uncertainties you might face as you apply the course skills and principles in your organisation.

2. Optional Post-Course Challenge:

To keep the momentum going, we offer an optional post-course challenge tailored to your specific course. This challenge encourages participants to apply their new skills and insights in real-world situations. It includes a series of practical tasks and reflective exercises designed to deepen understanding, encourage continuous learning, and foster behavioural change within your team.

3. Future ECD Investment Discount:

As part of our commitment to your ongoing development, we offer a 50% discount on all future purchases of physical Emotional Culture Decks for your team. This makes it more affordable to expand your toolkit and continue building emotional culture awareness throughout your organisation, ensuring that the principles and practices you’ve learned are accessible to every corner of your workplace.

These post-course support options are designed to provide continuous learning and support, helping you to maximise the impact of your investment in The Emotional Culture Deck and the learning experience you embarked on.

Better workplace culture starts with the F word. Feelings.

Most organisations underestimate the influence emotion has on their culture and leadership. But as a leader, you know that when engagement and morale improve, so do productivity and employee retention. The Emotional Culture Deck adds a powerful tool to your belt for enabling conversation, human connection, and bottom-up culture change.

Increase engagement and morale

The emotional culture of an organisation influences employee satisfaction, wellbeing, burnout, teamwork, and even hard measures such as financial performance and absenteeism. But organisations (and leaders) often don’t talk about emotion. Many lack confidence in their relational skills.

Have the right tools on hand to help your organisation thrive

The Emotional Culture deck helps you flip leadership and culture conversations. It’s a simple card game toolkit that helps leaders uncover what truly motivates their people and map desired team culture. As empathy, connections, and trust develop, results go up - and your people's advice proves its value yet again.

Drive human conversations about what really matters in the workplace

Traditional leadership development is broken and doesn’t work because it either neglects or glosses over the crucial element of human motivation – emotion. The ECD flips traditional leadership development and training on its head.

This ECD Emotional Leadership Development Course will be presented by Lorissa Garcia

Lorissa Garcia is a Coach and Facilitator working at the intersections of leadership, culture and strategy. 

Lorissa is energised by bringing conversations about emotions to workplaces (wherever they may be), from individuals to small teams, sub culture teams within larger organisations, influencers and leaders all the way to the boardroom table. 

Since becoming an ECD Certified Consultant, Lorissa had used the deck to coach leaders and emerging leaders, HR leaders and teams, startup founders, service designers, and companies in media, advertising, NGO, government and education. 

As a Specialist Elephant Rider, Lorissa has completed more than 25 workshops and group sessions using the Emotional Culture Deck, and countless sessions with coaching clients. She is one of only a handful of Specialist Certified Emotional Culture Deck consultants in the world. 

Lorissa can't wait to meet you and take you through this course to become an ECD Emotional Leadership Practitioner! 

Some kind words from participants of Lorissa's past workshops...

"Oh I just loved the "Have a play workshop" I attended today with Lorissa. It was such fun having a go with the cards in person and together as we worked through some handy ways to bring the ECD to life, I particularly loved the sharing of ideas and experiences in the room, bouncing off each other. I can see so many ways I can use this in my new workplace and I can't wait to get started." - November 2022 Participant

"I attended the Have a play workshop today with Lorissa in Melbourne to gain more confidence around using the deck. I got heaps of value out of it. Loved the structure. Lorissa delivered/facilitated the workshop beautifully. There were some great conversations happening in the room which showed what was possible with the deck. Will definitely recommend to anyone seeking to add more to their toolkit to encourage emotional literacy!" - November 2022 Participant

What is The Emotional Culture Deck?

The Emotional Culture Deck (ECD) is the number one game in the world for better workplace culture designed by riders&elephants.

Used by over 400,000 people in over 55+ countries, it is a uniquely powerful way to create human conversations about what really matters in the workplace. 

The game facilitates face-to-face human conversations about what matters. It nudges vulnerability. Builds empathy. Creates connections and fosters trust within teams.

It's the ultimate card game toolkit for more successful and human workplaces.