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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 […]

**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

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

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

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

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

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

Through disrupting the idea of who is a leader, and re-thinking how we identify differing goals and values in a system, we now introduce a series of cybernetics principles that will allow us to translate these themes into skills for leading change: Feedback Connections (Perspective) Plurality Synergy Cybernetic principle: Feedback Central Idea: In order to

Cybernetics is way of understanding systems with a focus on relationships and dynamics between humans, technology and physical environments. Cybernetics acknowledges that systems are complex and comprise a myriad of feedback loops that inform the way those systems operate, fluctuate, and change (or learn) over time. Cybernetics is an ancient idea8 that was given new

Re-framing purpose. Central Idea: Leading change requires understanding the system’s goals and underlying values (its politic). We cannot lead effectively in the 21st century without a pivot to purpose; without surfacing hidden goals and values, and using this insight to reframe purpose and action. When talking about systems that are characterised by multiple goals, we