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Leadership in an age of fragility. For many years, leadership thinking has centred on the idea of resilience. Shock. Adaptation. Recovery. Return. But many leaders are beginning to recognise something different. Some systems no longer bounce back the way they once did. They continue functioning — but with less capacity, less trust, and less margin […]

The Menzies Leadership Foundation and Global Voices have selected Arya Moodley, Ashton Shurey and Pooja Zinzuwadia to represent Australia at the United Nations General Assembly Sixth Committee in New York, 5–9 October 2026. The Sixth Committee is the principal forum through which the General Assembly considers questions of international law. It is where states debate

Australian health and medtech innovation has enormous potential, but too often the pathway from early promise to global scale remains difficult to navigate. HESTA’s anchor investment in Synthesis Capital marks an important step in strengthening the capital pathways, specialist support and ecosystem conditions needed to help high-potential ventures grow.  Synthesis Capital has been established as

At a time when leadership is too often measured by visibility, authority or influence, Charlotte Ree’s recent reflection in The Weekend Australian Magazine offers a timely reminder of something more fundamental: leadership begins with knowing what we stand for.  Values are not soft ideals or words we place on a wall. They are the principles

What guides leadership when compliance is no longer enough? In Episode 4 of Purpose: Leading into the Future, Michael Saadie — CEO of JBWere and Head of NAB Private Wealth — explores the relationship between leadership, judgement and responsibility in environments where decisions cannot be reduced to policy or process alone. Set against the backdrop

What does leadership demand when affordability becomes a daily pressure formillions of families? In Episode 3 of Purpose: Leading into the Future, Callum Smith — Chief Commercial Officerat Kmart Australia and New Zealand — explores what it means to lead at the frontline ofeconomic pressure, where decisions about price, supply chains and customer value shapeeveryday

When responsibility shifts, but authority does not. Leadership has not disappeared.It has relocated. Across organisations, communities, and civic life, leadership work increasingly falls to people who were never formally given the role — and rarely given the authority to match. This shift is often described as the rise of distributed or collective leadership. In practice,

What does leadership demand when every decision carries human consequence? In a time of rising complexity, economic pressure and growing strain on essential systems, leadership is no longer defined by performance alone. It is defined by judgement — the ability to make decisions where every option carries cost. In Episode 2 of Purpose: Leading into

“Place shapes purpose — and purpose can reshape place.” When Bayan Yazdani talks about regional Australia, he is not speaking from a distance. He is speaking from Darwin — a city that knows something about existing at the edge of national attention, and about the gap between how policy is made and how it lands

“Leadership is standing beside those who are most unseen by the system.” When Kaylee Neil talks about the law, she speaks with the measured clarity of someone who has sat across from it on behalf of others — not in a courtroom, but in the quiet, often overwhelming moments when a woman tries to understand