Talking Point Breakfast Series - Leadership Development is Broken

Name: Talking Point Breakfast Series - Leadership Development is Broken
Start: 2025-03-18T08:00:00+1100
End: 2025-03-18T10:00:00+1100
Location: The Wheeler Centre

Tue, 18 Mar, 8am - 10am AEDT

The Wheeler Centre

melbourne, australia

Spring Point

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Event description

Leadership development is broken......and we need a fix it quickly!

Our first Talking Point for 2025 is a hard hitting look under the bonnet of current leadership development practices. It’s a warts and all examination of why leadership development is broken, and what fit-for-the-future (i.e. 2025 and beyond) leadership development must consider, and do differently.

What we’ll be examining:

WHY we think it's broken (and what the research says) and why that matters

WHAT forces are influencing the need for a radical rethink

HOW might we re-engineer our approaches?

Hear from our expert panel:

Drew Downie

Drew served as a Logistics Officer in the Royal Australian Navy for eight years before moving into senior roles with large organisations including KPMG, ANZ Bank, Aus Post, CGU, Telstra, and GE Capital to name several. Drew returned to full-time service with the Navy in 2016 and has successfully led organisational design, transformation and workforce continuous improvement functions during that time. Drew ceased full time service February 2025 but is currently an active reservist.

Luke Darcy

Luke is the co-founder of Aleda Connect, an organisation that aims to inspire connections and work with leaders across a diverse range of industry sectors including sport, education, media, social ventures and the arts.  Luke has a vision to create empowering leaders who engage in reflective practice and provide their teams with collaborative learning environments. Luke’s early career was forged in an elite sporting environment as an AFL player, and then more recently through an extended and highly successful media career.

As always we’ll have a great breakfast provided, great people to meet and network with, and a bunch of caffeine to get your day started!

We believe this is a critical inflection point for leadership development practices, so if you're interested or involved in leadership development we'd love to see you there!

About Spring Point

Spring Point is an award winning management consultancy, we work in the areas of culture, leadership, capability and transformation. By harnessing and connecting these areas, organisations are empowered to unlock performance – and that’s what we exist for.

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At Spring Point, we have a clear purpose:

To make organisations work better. For people, profit and the planet.

We do this by aligning culture to strategy through scaled behaviour change

Work matters. It matters to those doing it, and it matters to those you do it for. We believe that the potential of people and organisations to create profound change in themselves, others and for the customers and communities they serve, is untapped.

We exist to make that happen – to make organisations work better.

As a team, our backgrounds in organisational performance and behavioural science mean that we fundamentally believe in the need to co-design and partner with our clients to enable real change. Whilst we bring a clear point of view, delivered through an evidence-based methodology, our clients are at the centre of what and how we do things.

Our vision is to influence every Australian organisation to work, perform and be better and one of the ways we do this is by sharing the latest research and thought leadership through our Talking Point breakfasts and other business events.

http://www.springpoint.com.au