Future Leaders Program
From Expert to Example.
Are your future leaders ready to lead? Most people step into leadership because they’re good at their job. Nobody shows them how to lead themselves first, let alone others.
The Future Leaders Program builds the foundations: knowing how you show up, giving and asking for feedback, building trust without a title, and running your week on purpose.
Who it's for?
High-performing team members and new leaders that others already look to, with or without the title. They’re ready to step up, but don’t yet have the know-how or the confidence.
It’s a good fit when:
- You’ve got a strong performer you’d like to move into leadership
- Someone has just been promoted and is still doing the job, not leading
- Your people go to someone for help, and you want to grow that
The shift: from expert to example
Until now, they’ve been valued for their own work. As a leader, people start watching how they work, not just what they produce. Before anyone can lead others well, they need to lead themselves: their mindset, energy and behaviour.
What they walk away with
- Knowing their style, and how to adapt to the people around them
- Asking for feedback, and giving it so it lands, using the PEER model
- Building trust and influence without authority
- Emotional intelligence, a resilient mindset and healthy boundaries
- A personal operating system for their priorities and time
- A start on helping newer team members grow
What's covered
Know Yourself
- the shift from expert to example
- leader of the future
- your DiSC style and adapting to others
- your leadership shadow
- active listening
- accountability
Lead With Others
- emotional intelligence and mindset (with Diana Edwards)
- leading through values
- trust and influence without authority
feedback: asking for it and giving it - your personal operating system
helping others grow
How it works
- Pre-work (2 to 3 hours online): the leadership self-assessment, Workplace DiSC, and a kick-off conversation with their manager
- Two days in person
- Three practice cycles of three weeks: a short online module, a challenge in their own team, a post to their group, and a group coaching call
- Online graduation: each participant presents what’s changed. Managers are invited.
- The same pre-work
- Six live workshops of 2.5 hours, fortnightly, 9:30am to 12:00pm AEST, with a practice challenge between each one
- Online graduation, with managers invited
Assessments included
- Workplace DiSC: how they prefer to work and communicate, and how to adapt to others
- Leadership Skills Self-Assessment: at the start and at graduation, to show the shift
2027 dates and investment
In person, Sydney City
- Pre-work from 15 February
- Thursday 4 and Friday 5 March
- Graduation 20 May
Online
- Pre-work from 19 July
- Tuesdays 3, 17 and 31 August, 14 September, 12 and 26 October
- Graduation 9 November
Prices are per participant and include the assessments. A $300 + GST deposit secures a seat, with the balance due.
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What participants say
Average rating, February 2026: 9.4 out of 10.