Higher Education Women in Leadership Workshop
20th - 21st, March 2025 / Sydney, AU
OVERVIEW
• Identify your key strengths and areas for growth
• Learn to respond to pressure in positions of management
• Enhance your communication skills to maximise influence
• Unpack practical takeaways and build a personalised action plan
TRAINER
Dr Karen Whittingham
Karen is one of Australia’s leading executive management development specialists who has worked with thousands of executives to transition them into senior leadership roles quickly and effectively. She is an organisational psychologist passionate about people’s success and facilitating their careers to rise. She teaches organisational psychology at UNSW and works with ASX listed companies and large public sector organisations to drive engagement, inclusion, and performance.
Leadership Expert & Executive Coach
Impact Psychology Pty Ltd
AGENDA
Workshop
Leadership foundations for women in Higher Education
- Defining your strengths and key development areas
- Understand where you are in your career journey
- Establish your goals for leadership progression
Change management in a hybrid environment
- The VUCA environment (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous)
- Tertiary Education challenges in a VUCA world
- Responding to pressure in positions of management
Managing people's performance
- Performance conversations in an academic context
- Explore four primary principles for managing performance
- Provide feedback that drives engagement and collaboration
- Utilise coaching models for goal setting and performance management
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Dr Karen Whittingham Leadership Expert & Executive Coach Impact Psychology Pty Ltd
Workshop
High level communication, influence and negotiation
- Develop your communication strategy - style, structure and substance
- Stakeholder engagement
- Know your audience’s expectations
- Effectively managing up and how important it is to do it differently in academia
Conversations that build trust to communicate your vision
- Communication skills to maximise influence
- Understand other people's motivations and emotions
- Manage emotions for positive and assertive communication and relationships
- Trusting yourself and your decisions as a professional
Strategic thinking and career progression
- Unpack practical takeaways and build a personalised action plan
- Workshop key skills and strategies to implement back in the office
- Share approaches to move your career forward
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Dr Karen Whittingham Leadership Expert & Executive Coach Impact Psychology Pty Ltd
GROUP DISCOUNTS
PRICING
Value Plus
Ends December 20
SAVE UP TO $700
Super Saver
Ends January 17
SAVE UP TO $500
Early Bird
Ends February 05
SAVE UP TO $300
VENUE
Sydney, Australia
