Is Power a Dirty Word?
Event description
What comes to mind when you think of ‘Power”? Throughout our life, whether personal, organisational or community, we bump into power in multiple ways, and it’s often difficult and unwelcome. Power can easily become a dirty word. But is it? Can we harness power in helpful constructive ways? A critical question for those of us in helping roles!
Join our special guests, ODA member Sabine Simmonds and Lily Cubrilo, to grow your understanding that power is an innate human dynamic and how it plays out in organisations. Come along and explore the barriers to the effective, ethical use of power, and how we might leverage our power for the greater good of ourselves, each other and the organisations we serve.
Please join us to be challenged and inspired during this hands-on session with two terrifically experienced practitioners.
Our special guests:
Sabine Simmonds, Strategic Leadership Advisor, Thought Partner, ODA Member
Sabine has over 30 years direct commercial experience working in the UK, Europe, Asia and Australia. She is deeply committed to creating a legacy of supporting people and organisations to become sustainable, enabling them to thrive in a rapidly evolving & disrupted world.
Grounded and calm, Sabine creates a safe, compassionate space with a leader for difficult and vulnerable conversations that lead to profound inner transformation, enabling clients to view challenges from entirely new perspectives. She helps leaders and teams become unstuck; empowering them to learn critical, adaptive skills and transform their business and bottom line results.
Sabine is a trusted advisor who brings clarity, wisdom, understanding and authenticity to her client interactions. She encourages her clients to bring their ‘whole person’ to the business challenges they face, find meaning in their experiences and supports them to make bold, courageous changes.
Her clients include c-suite executives and senior leaders of global and ASX listed in the engineering, energy, resources, aged care, professional services, insurance, banking & finance, FMCG sectors as well as state and federal government departments.
Lily Cubrilo, Founder, KiWhole Consulting
Over a 25+ year journey of practice and study Lily has combined systems theory, new sciences insights, change best practice, adaptive organisation strategy with individual and group facilitation and has developed a robust framework that supports leaders and teams to create innovative and self-sustaining improvements in organisational effectiveness, profitability and growth.
Lily began her career as an Electrical Engineer, which gave her an understanding of the importance of precise thinking, effective systems design and refinement that is simple and appropriately emergent. In practice – realising that the systems alone were not adequate to delivering sustainable performance improvement she became fascinated by the question “How do you best create the conditions for effective and breakthrough change?” This question has led to an ongoing journey of learning, studying, applying, apprenticing and mastering that continues to build her repertoire of change strategies that are not only effective but for the people that work with her – life changing at both a professional and personal level.
Lily brings to clients an approach and a framework that helps them navigate today’s rapidly shifting landscape in a way that is relevant and helpful. She also helps companies in a range of industries to create the strategies, structures and skills needed to guide them through organisational change processes. Lily’s aim is always to empower the organisations and people, facilitate the learning of effective change strategies and leave the organisation more capable than before.
Lily has worked as a change facilitator, mentor, individual coach, systems designer and developer, trainer and facilitator. Lily has worked with companies of all sizes, with corporate clients including Meridian Energy, Allianz Australia, Optus, Accolade Wines, Incitec Pivot, Great River City Light Rail, Snapper, Commonwealth Bank, Worley, Coca-Cola Amatil, Thiess, Contact Energy, Origin Energy, Leidos, Lynas Corporation, VF Corporation, AXA, AAP Reuters, St George Bank, DBS Bank Singapore, Kwong On Bank Hong Kong, Meadow Lea/Goodman Fielder, Minter Ellison Lawyers and AAMI. Government Clients have included Medicare, Queensland Treasury Corporation, Department of Education, and Department of Planning NSW.