Charles Kovess

Australia’s Passion Provocateur; Author: Passionate People Produce, and Passionate Performance, and co-author of “The 7 Heavenly Virtues of Leadership”.

27 November (2.15pm – 4.15pm) including afternoon refreshments

ABOUT THE MASTER CLASS
In this Master Class, Charles Kovess will inspire you, enthuse you, envision you, provoke you and teach you strategies and mechanisms that will increase your ability to take responsibility for your future and the planet’s future.

Times continue to change but how do you want them to change? If you don’t take responsibility, you will be leaving the future to others to create, and that is a bigger risk than doing nothing!  Yet it certainly takes passion and courage to stand up and be responsible. When you choose to take responsibility, you can experience a life that is both fulfilling and generates outstanding results!

Key outcomes and issues to be covered include:

• Understanding the pressure to conform and be like others, rather than to take responsibility
• Identifying the specific pressures in society that seduce you into a ‘no responsibility’ mindset so you can resist them
• Exploring ways to adopt a philosophy and principles to guide your behaviours and decision-making when the future arrives and you need to select from difficult choices
• Understanding the difference between accountability for the future and responsibility for the future
• Aligning your passion for a future that you want and your day-to-day decision-making
• Strategies to access the courage you need to take responsibility
• How to maintain your initial momentum when the blocks arrive to stop you
• Linking your actions to take responsibility with sustainable business success in an uncertain future.

Roger La Salle

Roger La Salle is a professional engineer, a director of a number of companies and a successful business entrepreneur. Roger developed and documented his special way of thinking, now referred to as Matrix Thinking, in the four books he has now written based on this simple but effective approach.

27 November (2.15pm – 4.15pm) including afternoon refreshments

ABOUT THE MASTER CLASS
Learn the secret to business building and how to mitigate the single biggest risk in business.

This is an interactive session that will have you thinking on your feet, innovating, finding a new understanding of business. Why people buy things and how business works. You will come to embrace and understand the one single biggest risk in business.

It is guaranteed that somebody in this session will conceive a patentable new product or service less than 4 seconds once the challenge is laid down and the methodology applied. And the material is takeaway for you to use at your leisure to build your business.

Key outcomes:

• What is innovation and Why Innovate?
• What is the consequence of failure?
• Why does anybody purchase anything at all – there’s only one reason.
• What is the biggest risk in business – how can we remove that risk?
• What is “coupling” in business building and how does that improve outcomes?
• Do I have a good idea – a simple exercise will tell you.
• What is an opportunity – is there a method of finding one – Yes it’s easy.
• How does Matrix Thinking work to get everybody thinking together but “outside the box”.
• How to embed this “outside the box thinking” into your business as part of its culture.

Tim Dalmau and Jill Tideman

Tim Dalmau has worked for the last 34 years as a consultant. He is one of Australia’s foremost management consultants, the author or co-author of an extensive selection of books and other publications. Jill Tideman has 24 years experience in facilitating sustainable change in public and private systems in Australia, the UK and the USA.

27 November (2.15pm – 4.15pm) including afternoon refreshments

ABOUT THE MASTER CLASS
This Master Class starts from the proposition that we need to fundamentally re-think the nature of the relationship between organizations and corporations and their social, economic and physical environments. Very few of us on the planet would continue to believe that the world exists for our exploitation, but equally few have a clear picture of what a sustainable future would actually look like; sustainable in social, economic and physical terms.

Nor can many of us articulate clearly whatever pictures of the future we do have would ask of us in terms of change: change on all levels from the most superficial of how we behave through to the who we are as persons, our core identity as individuals.

Far less of us have put together a framework of what both of these conversations might mean for our own leadership of organizations and corporations, and the leadership by others of these same institutions.

You will take away from this Master Class:

• A clear framework that allows you to distinguish how ready an organization is to work effectively in a contradictory and chaotic future
• A framework for the type of leadership that will foster such organizations
• Clear questions to guide your own choices about how to lead and influence best for that future and an ethical framework to support these choices.
• A process for making these choices yourself and for helping others make them

Come to this workshop if you are curious, wish to see alternative perspectives, have your thinking challenged and understand what the future will ask of you and other leaders into the future.

Jon Duschinsky (Canada)

Jon is an observer, a thinker and a cage rattler. He thrives by constantly looking at the world around him, thinking about it and using these observations to drive new and creative thinking that challenges the status quo. He is the CEO of The Conversation Farm, a global agency that develops ideas to change the way people think about problems.

27 November (2.15pm – 4.15pm) including afternoon refreshments

ABOUT THE MASTER CLASS
Today, companies and charities find themselves fighting to sell their products and services in the same way as they have done for the last 40 years – by entertaining us.
And it’s not working.
You cannot out-entertain people anymore. You cannot out-shock them anymore. So how do you communicate your business or your cause? How do you connect with people when the power-base has shifted and they don’t need to listen to you anymore?
In a world dominated by peer-to-peer and social innovation, he will challenge you to look at your business differently and find ways of talking about it that will make others talk about you.

You will leave this session inspired, ready to get out there and understanding:

• How to out-intrigue, rather than out-entertain your audience and how this will help you rapidly grow market share
• The importance of giving people something intelligent that gets them thinking
• How to equip others to talk about you and become advocates for your organisation