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ED-TECH comes to Australia; Rising Team for Schools

The Menzies School Leadership Incubator and Silicon Valley software company, Rising Team are partnering to launch Rising Team for Schools, a platform designed to boost collective efficacy and create high-performing teams in schools. Principals and their teams can use the platform to track efficacy and build engaged, connected and successful teams. Despite significant investment in leadership development, the […]

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A champion for women-led Indigenous businesses and mentoring; Jaala Ozies

Jaala has lived in the Kimberley Region for most of her life. Her paternal connections are Djugun/Nyikina/Karajarri/ Gija. Her maternal connection is Nunukul (Qandamooka) and Taribelang (QLD). Jaala is the proud owner of two businesses: Walyara Barbershop and Kimberley Youth Mentoring and is featured in the latest edition of the Kimberley Jiyigas’ Sheros magazine, a stunning

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Transformative leadership education: a cybernetics-inspired approach

Building on previous sections that focused on what we need to learn to lead change, from a cybernetic viewpoint, this section will now bring in our insights from the Master of Applied Cybernetics, an experiment in transformative leadership education. It particularly focuses on the environment we need to create so that we can learn. Think

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Reflections of the 2022 Menzies Communications Intern, Ella Paine

Reflecting on my experience as Communications Assistant at Menzies Foundation, I am filled with an immense sense of gratitude and pride. I am grateful for the opportunity to work with an incredibly talented and dedicated team, led by CEO Liz Gillies and Sarah Jenkins, the Foundation’s Strategic Communications Manager, who served as my mentor throughout

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FEATURE: School leadership: Cultivating collective efficacy

**As featured in Teacher Magazine on 24th January 2023 – Authors: Jo Earp What will it take to strengthen the pipeline of educators to take on the complex role of school leadership and cultivate collective efficacy to improve outcomes for all students? That’s the challenge at the heart of the Menzies School Leadership Incubator. The looming retirement

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Systems change makers come together for maximum impact

In 2019, the Menzies Foundation Bushfire Appeal raised over $25,000, and matched by a grant from the Foundation, supported a collaboration with Dr Ariella Helfgott, now Director of Strategic Foresight in the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, South Australia, to explore citizen leadership in the context of disaster. Partnering with Anecdote International, the initiative

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Leadership movement for the ‘greater good’

The Menzies Foundation’s work in leadership highlights the increasing importance of reimagining leadership, such that Australians think about leadership, pivot to their purpose, and contribute to the greater good. There is significant evidence of high levels of distrust in leadership in the world today. An important challenge is to consider ways to reframe this conversation

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Sustainable financial structures for Indigenous women

The Menzies Foundation is delighted to announce a new collaboration between Trust Waikato (New Zealand), and Criterion Institute to explore blended capital models to support indigenous women’s enterprising and entrepreneurship. Supporting our work within the Indigenous Women Entrepreneur space and the Maganda Makers Business Club, this research will build a collaborative design process to identify

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Leadership is a condition of an organisation, not an individual

Building on these cybernetic principles that bring new insight to leadership, we now turn to considering groups of people, and where and how people organise, looking at traditional organisations, but also beyond, to new conceptions of organising units. This follows on from the idea that relationships within a system of organisation and dynamics between groupings

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Menzies Foundation Alumni makes headway in Cardiovascular Research

PhD candidate and Inaugural 2021 MedTech Actuator Menzies Scholar Julie Dao is making significant contributions to the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease. Miss Dao is currently completing her research into the mechanistic assessment of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid function as a preventative treatment for cardiovascular disease (CVD), particularly ischemic vascular diseases. Each year, MedTech

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Natasha Eskinja

Digital Communications Coordinator

Natasha is driven by a profound passion for both creativity and analytics, a synergy that fosters authentic storytelling in the digital realm with both innovation and integrity. 

Throughout her career, she has consistently integrated the overarching marketing and communications narrative with the emotional connections of audiences. She is currently pursuing a Certificate in Society and the Individual from Flinders University, furthering her exploration of human behaviour and the critical importance of connectedness between organisations, individuals, and communities.