Event - Breakthrough Leadership Conversations

Lead conversations that shift people, performance, and the system around you

A foundational program in the EMCC-accredited Systems Leadership Practitioner pathway—equipping leaders with the presence, dialogue capability, and systems awareness required to influence meaningful change.

  • In-person immersive workshop
  • Follow-up peer supervision
  • Counts toward EMCC Practitioner accreditation

Why This Program Matters Now

The leadership shift – modern leadership is no longer just about direction and delivery.  Leaders must:

  • Navigate complexity and competing expectations
  • Balance performance, wellbeing, and culture
  • Influence thinking, behaviour, and relationships across the system

Leadership conversations are now systemic interventions.

This program builds the dialogue intelligence and presence required to lead effectively in this environment.

What Makes This Different

From coaching skills → to systems leadership capability

Participants learn to:

  • Listen beneath the surface to detect patterns shaping behaviour
  • Work with both individual insight and wider team/system dynamics
  • Shift conversations from transactional problem-solving to relational meaning-making
  • Apply influence intentionally—knowing when to inquire, challenge, or direct
  • Create conditions where ownership, clarity, and commitment emerge

This is the foundation layer of systems leadership practice.

Breakthrough Leadership Conversations

April 30, 2026 All Day Event National Trust Centre, Observatory Hill National Trust Centre, Upper Fort Street, Observatory Hill, NSW, 2000, Australia, $1,250.00 – $1,500.00 In person

Program structure

Date

  • Thursday 30 April 2026, 9:00am to 5:00pm, in person at Jenkins Hall, Lane Cove National Park
  • Group Peer Supervision Session – 90 min follow up online session.

Pricing

  • Standard pricing: $1,500 ex GST
  • Early bird pricing: $1,250 ex GST until 9 April

Who Is This For?

  • Leaders seeking deeper influence, engagement, and alignment
  • Practitioners expanding from coaching skills to systems leadership
  • Organisations building leadership capability that strengthens culture, wellbeing, and performance

Outcomes

  • Lead conversations that generate insight and ownership
  • Strengthen relationships and collaboration
  • Balance human and performance outcomes
  • Influence thinking and behaviour across the wider system

What You Will Learn

1. Core Dialogue Capability

  • Deep listening and clean questioning
  • Surfacing the real agenda behind conversations
  • Expanding awareness without taking over responsibility
  • Matching leadership stance to context and need

2. Systems Intelligence in Conversation

  • Seeing behaviour in context, not isolation
  • Recognising patterns across teams and relationships
  • Balancing performance and wellbeing through dialogue
  • Using conversation to stabilise or shift system dynamics

3. Leadership Presence

  • Working from head, heart, and gut
  • Creating psychological containment and trust
  • Holding courageous and developmental conversations

Program Experience – Immersive learning with immediate application

  • Full-day in-person workshop
  • Demonstration and structured practice
  • Proven EMCC-aligned coaching framework
  • Follow-up peer supervision session
  • Access to learning resources and reflection tools

Participants leave able to apply the conversation immediately in real work contexts

Beyond the Course

Your learning doesn’t stop at the end of the workshop. The program includes:

  • 90-Minute Peer Coaching Session: A follow-up group session to deepen your application of course concepts in real-world contexts.
  • Access to Learning Resources: Ongoing access to our platform, reflective journaling prompts, and curated reading materials for continued growth.

Transform Your Leadership Approach

Are you ready to elevate your leadership to the next level?

Step 1 of the Systems Leadership Practitioner Pathway

This program is the entry point to Leading Well’s EMCC-accredited development journey.

Pathway overview

Step 1 – Breakthrough Leadership Conversations

Foundational dialogue, presence, and systems awareness.

Step 2 – Leading Human Systems (advanced program)
Embedding systems intelligence across teams, culture, and organisational performance.

Together, these form the Systems Leadership Practitioner accreditation pathway.

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This work reminded us of the power of systems intelligence and gave us the structure and support to go deeper. It’s hard work, but it’s the right work.

We chose to use the Well@Work diagnostic alongside our existing tools because we wanted to go beyond surface-level engagement metrics and uncover what was really happening beneath.

What we found was a different kind of insight that helped us name invisible patterns, validate some of our long-held intuitions, and gain a shared language to bring those conversations into the open. The systemic lens built into Well@Work made a huge difference. While other tools tell you what is happening, Well@Work helped us understand why. And that distinction from symptom to source was exactly what we needed as a growing, purpose-driven organisation navigating change.

Catalina Lopera
Global Director or Wellbeing & Workplace
Who Gives a Crap

Meet the facilitator

Vanessa founded coaching and consulting firm Leading Well on the belief that leadership and wellbeing belong together. Through her extensive experience in leadership, Vanessa has found that companies that thrive and deliver long-term sustainable performance ensure they also attend to the wellbeing of their people.

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Breakthrough Leadership Conversations

April 30, 2026 All Day Event National Trust Centre, Observatory Hill National Trust Centre, Upper Fort Street, Observatory Hill, NSW, 2000, Australia, $1,250.00 – $1,500.00 In person

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