The Interconnected Leader - 2024

It's time for a new kind of leadership.

Now more than ever, we find ourselves in a world of conflict and separation. Traditional approaches to business, economics, and leadership no longer serve us. 

To create the Next Economy, we need leaders who draw intelligence from their head, heart and senses: those who know how to follow their inner compass to chart the course and successfully navigate the contradictions and complexities of leadership.

Through experiential enquiry, this Deep Dive has been designed to equip changemakers with a toolkit of mindfulness and somatic leadership practices to enable them to lead more naturally and integratively. By tapping into our collective wisdom, we'll cultivate aliveness, openness, coherence and courage in ourselves, our organisations and society.

What you'll learn

During these eleven weeks, we will explore some of today's cultural, social, and environmental challenges. We'll delve into why our organisations and communities so often generate outcomes that no one wants and how we can shift both ourselves and the systems around us.  

The Interconnected Leader will introduce you to tools, practices and frameworks that support you in deepening your understanding and awareness of the dynamics and structures around you and in your own thinking and how they bring about issues from a leadership and management context. We do this through exploring ideas of paradox, complexity and the emerging future. 

The Interconnected Leader offers a more hands-on, interpersonal, collaborative, and transformative learning setting than you may have previously experienced in online programs.  ‍

Walk away with the skills to:

• Effectively chart a course in a complex and unpredictable world
• Uncover your natural, authentic style and innate wisdom
• Unleash compassion, courage and creativity
• Develop leadership capabilities in connection and collective intelligence
• Enhance well being

Areas of Focus:

Course material will highlight the latest science, leadership modalities and techniques to explore the many facets of interconnection, including:

• Body and mind as an intelligent, integrated system
• Feminine and masculine leadership styles and wisdom
• Science-based neuroplasticity and habit formation
• The social ecology of interconnected leadership
  

It will also offer important insights into the interpersonal neurobiology of our body-mind connection to notice and apply the language of our entire somatic and emotional spectrums to generate solutions for ourselves, others and the environment.

Who is this for?

This program is tailored for leaders in decision-making positions and organisations and communities seeking deep understanding and valuable techniques to navigate the complexities of leadership with courage and authenticity. The skills you'll build in this course will empower your personal leadership and equip you to lead others beyond conflict – individual identities, cultures, and ‘us' vs. ‘them' mindsets – towards regenerative new solutions. 

Structure

This 11-week Deep Dive offers alternating weeks of facilitated focused learning and small group experiential gathering, to bring a unique blend of self-reflective, interactive and guided processes to clarify what interconnection means to you and to others. This knowledge and practices can then be brought into our organisations and communities.  

There are 6 facilitated focused learning sessions and 5 small group experiential gathering sessions.

Dates

• Week 1: Thursday 19 September, 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm AEST - Module 1 - Facilitated session
• Week 2: Thursday 26 September, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm AEST - Introduction to Interconnected Conversation Pod
• Week 3: Thursday 3 October, 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm AEST - Module 2 - Facilitated session
• Week 4: Thursday 10 October, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm AEST- Interconnected Conversation Pod 
• Week 5: Thursday 17 October, 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm AEST - Module 3 -Facilitated session
• Week 6: Thursday 24 October, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm AEST - Interconnected Conversation Pod
• Week 7: Thursday 31 October, 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm AEST - Module 4 - Facilitated session 
• Week 8: Thursday 7 November, 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm AEST - Interconnected Conversation Pod 
• Week 9: Thursday 14 November, 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm AEST - Module 5 - Facilitated session 
• Week 10: Thursday 21 November, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm AEST- Interconnected Conversation Pod
• Week 11: Thursday 28 November, 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm AEST - Module 6 - Facilitated session

About your program hosts:

Tamsin Jones and Michael Bartura bring their diverse experience to building capacity in leaders across the world. Tamsin and Michael work with leaders in guiding them to cultivate the creativity, courage and power urgently required to create real, lasting and conscious change in the world around us. 

Tamsin Jones

Tamsin has a background in venture building and creating systems level impact. This has included influencing local and regional shifts to more inclusive and collective innovation and governance. Her passion is reigniting creativity, well-being and healthy growth in conscious leaders that can unlock collective intelligence towards decisions that bring our relationship to all living things into balance. 

She is a strategic advisor to conscious CEOs, impact professionals, gender lens funds and women in leadership in the development of projects that sustain people and the planet.  Tamsin is also a regular contributor and advisor on leadership to c-suite networks. 

Over the past two decades Tamsin has co-founded and advised a string of initiatives built on principles of inclusivity including the leading solution for board diversity across Africa, TheBoardroom Africa, The Rallying Cry to bring women business leaders for climate action on the frontlines to the forefront of global decision making and the Workshop17 inclusive innovation hub in Cape Town.  

Tamsin is a proud trustee of The Flipflopi Initiative to end single use plastic in East Africa.

Tamsin is the Head of the Mastery of Business and Empathy (MBE) at Small Giants Academy.

For more visit: www.tamsinjones.com/about-me

Mele-Ane Havea

A passionate and experienced governance professional, Mele-Ane’s work explores the intersection of cultural wisdom, purpose-led business, and the “next economy,” and believes in the immense power of storytelling for change. Mele-Ane holds an MBA from Oxford, where she was a fellow of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. She also has an LLB/BA from Monash University.

Mele has over 20 years of experience reporting to Boards and Board sub-committees with over 13 years of experience as a non-executive Director of Boards. Her experience spans ASX-listed companies, not-for-profits and for-purpose organisations across a wide range of sectors.

For more visit: https://www.linkedin.com/in/me...

Michael Bartura

Michael has a rich and versatile background in Therapy, Education, Business as well as Training & Development including 12 years as a therapist, 17 years as a senior manager in business and not-for-profits and over ten years leading, training and coaching individuals and groups internationally. 

He is an associate of the Asian Leadership Institute which drives senior executive programs backed up by neuroscience. With more than 20 years of Transformational Leadership experience his work has helped a diversity of Managers in four continents to learn and grow themselves as well as inspire growth in their teams and organisations.  

Michael’s coaching incorporates an evidenced-based process of unpacking and then retooling/resourcing the way you see the world and how your thought processes will better serve you.

Having trained in various modalities across the mind-body spectrum and more recently in the science-based Positive Neuroplasticity, Michael now runs his own Life & Leadership coaching and training outfit.

For more visit: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mindfulnesscoaching/

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Ticket information

Indigenous and First Peoples:

Small Giants Academy commits to taking action that contributes to reconciliation and healing, and specifically to supporting Indigenous business, voices and issues. In understanding the importance of having Indigenous participation in our programs, reduced rates are available to First Peoples in Australia and those who identify as Indigenous throughout the world.

For more information about Our Commitment to Indigenous Australia, please click here.

Concession Rate:

We offer concession rates to support those who are unemployed, studying or working for non-profits and B Corporations. Please check out using the concession ticketing option. 

Accessibility: 
If you require Auslan Interpretation, please contact us at events@smallgiants.com.au at least 2 weeks prior to the event. We will be very happy to arrange this for you. 

Privacy:

This program will be recorded. It may be shared after the live event to participants who have purchased a ticket to the program, but who were unable to attend due to unforeseen circumstances. The recording will be emailed to these participants as a link with an access code, expiring after 7 days. Participants who are provided with a link to the recording are asked not to share the link.

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About Small Giants Academy:

Small Giants Academy is a not-for-profit education initiative that – through our Programs and Storytelling – inspires and equips people to become leaders in what we call the Next Economy. Our belief in both inner transformation and systemic change guides everything we do.  

We envision a more just and inclusive global economy that supports human flourishing while living in harmony with the natural world.