MENZIES FOUNDATION
SYSTEM ENTREPRENEURS
STRATEGY + APPROACH + PRACTICE + EVALUATION + IMPACT
MISSION
Menzies Foundation aspires to raise the profile and importance of ‘outstanding’ leadership by encouraging Australians to reflect on leadership, build their leadership capability and act for the ‘greater good’.
MISSION
The Foundation supports leadership platforms which facilitate the exploration, understanding, and codification of approaches to leadership.
Our efforts to examine various dimensions of leadership from diverse perspectives reinforce the Foundation’s commitment to identifying the essential leadership qualities and attributes required for effective leadership in both the Australian and global contexts.
This important work supports our leadership movement as we share these insights with the Australian and Global community; contributing to the leadership discourse.
Pivot to Purpose
The legacy of Sir Robert Menzies, Australia’s longest-serving Prime Minister, continues to inspire us today. Menzies’ leadership qualities included integrity, a clear sense of purpose, strong values, a deep respect for all Australians, and pride in our nation. Menzies dedicated his life to service for Australia.
At the Menzies Foundation, we support leadership initiatives that address issues crucial to Australia’s future. Our work recognises the significance of purpose as a foundation for any leadership journey. Purpose and the elucidation of the values and principles that underpin it, provides direction, meaning, and a framework to identify goals and actions that anchor leaders and orient them toward the greater good.
Purpose is crucial for developing the essential attributes of leadership, including resilience, empathy, adaptability and provides the foundation from which to navigate the challenges of an increasingly complex, global, tribal, and digital world.
Menzies Foundation Team
Menzies Foundation Board
Peter Jopling AM KC
Naina Subberwal Batra
Kathryn Greiner AO
Harvey Kalman
Catherine Liddle
Rachael McLennan
Tony Surtees
Samuel Richards
Matt Tyler (LOA)
History
During its first 40 years, the Foundation awarded scholarships to support outstanding young Australians to pursue their interest in the law, engineering, medicine, allied health and more. Throughout this time the Foundation made several significant grants to support medical research.
The Foundation is proudly non-partisan and as such, our strategic platforms aspired to ensure that Sir Robert Menzies legacy as a leader continues to inform and influence the development of a contemporary understanding of outstanding leadership. This is inspired by the seminal role played by Menzies in Australia’s post war emergence as an independent nation. Like our namesake, the Menzies Foundation is dedicated to endorsing leadership initiatives that tackle pertinent issues relevant to Australia’s future.
Like all leaders, Sir Robert Menzies experienced success and failure, him many notable achievements were punctuated by moments of uncertainty and discouragement. One of the key attributes of great leaders is how they face adversity. Menzies used the setbacks and moments of introspection to leader, grow and ultimately become a leader who inspired the nation and was respected by all, irrespective of political persuasion.
Sir Robert Menzies embodied many of the leadership qualities that remain important today. Integrity, purpose, strong values a regard for all Australians and pride in our nation provided the strong core from which he devoted his life to service.
Please consider joining The Leadership Pledge to raise the profile and importance of outstanding leadership as we encourage Australians to reflect on leadership build their leadership capability and act for the greater good.
Menzies Foundation Annual Report
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