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As Seen: Australian Rural Leadership  October 16, 2025 Australian Rural Leadership Foundation, Australian Rural Leadership Impact, Leadership Development Summit What does leadership development look like when tensions related to ideology, evidence epistemology and values collide? That’s the central question for this year’s Leadership Development Summit, to be held in Canberra from 8 – 10 December 2025. The three-day […]

How do we find the courage to challenge tradition — and reimagine leadership for a world defined by complexity, interconnection, and constant change? Leadership, as many of us learned it, was built for another era — an age of certainty, linear progress, and hierarchical control. It was a model that centred the heroic individual: the

School leaders today are navigating an environment more complex than ever before. In classrooms and communities across Australia, the challenges are mounting: Rising student disengagement and absenteeism. Deepening inequities in access to resources and outcomes. Growing pressure on teachers, with recruitment and retention crises. The demands of digital transformation and AI reshaping learning. The broader

Episode 8, A Purposeful Edge: Leading in Uncertainty “If we want to shape the future, we need to be willing to lose a little skin in the game.” In the final episode of A Purposeful Edge: Leading in Uncertainty, Dr Peter Collins is joined by Rob Scott, CEO of Wesfarmers and former Olympian, to explore

By Sarah Jenkins, Menzies Leadership Foundation Flattening the hierarchy is easy. Rebuilding the connective layer of leadership is the true test of resilience in 2025.  Leadership is often imagined as a pyramid: vision at the top, action at the base, and a critical middle layer translating between the two. But in 2025, that middle is

At the heart of leadership lies the power of lived experience. In Trading Desks for Campfires, Frances Mayall, Head of Marketing and Communication at Good Return, reflects on her journey to the Dampier Peninsula to witness the Maganda Makers program in action. What she discovered was far more than a field trip — it was

Episode 7, A Purposeful Edge: Leading in Uncertainty “The future is a choice. And it’s ours to make — if we lead with science, courage and care.” In this episode of A Purposeful Edge: Leading in Uncertainty, Dr Peter Collins is joined by Dr Megan Clark AC — trailblazing scientist, university chancellor, and Space Agent

Artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing with unprecedented speed, moving from theoretical promise to everyday reality in our courts, businesses, and communities. Its impact will be profound, not only in how we work and live, but in how we understand truth, fairness, and human dignity. The critical question before us is not what AI can do,

School leaders today are navigating an environment more complex than ever before. In classrooms and communities across Australia, the challenges are mounting: Rising student disengagement and absenteeism. Deepening inequities in access to resources and outcomes. Growing pressure on teachers, with recruitment and retention crises. The demands of digital transformation and AI reshaping learning. The broader

By Sarah Jenkins, Menzies Leadership Foundation In a grievance age, leaders are not remembered for the volume of their messages, but for the fairness of their actions. Walk into almost any public forum in 2025, a town hall meeting in regional Australia, a corporate all-staff briefing, a climate rally, or even a school assembly and