POST-SUMMIT WORKSHOP | Thursday, 28 November 2024
AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP: MAXIMISE YOUR IMPACT WITH AUTHENTICITY
Overview
In today’s challenging economic climate, strong, authentic leadership is crucial to navigate uncertainty and lead teams effectively. Many leaders still feel compelled to conform to outdated ideas of what a ‘good leader’ looks like, often losing touch with their own unique leadership style. This workshop will help you break away from those limiting stereotypes and unlock your full potential as an authentic leader – leading to stronger teams, better organisational performance and long-term success.
Led by Dr Ellen Joan Ford, a TEDx speaker and award-winning leadership expert, this workshop will provide practical, research-backed tools to embrace your authentic leadership style. Through interactive exercises and actionable strategies, you’ll learn how to create stronger team connections, drive performance, and foster more inclusive workplace cultures. You’ll leave with specific techniques to overcome common challenges like imposter syndrome and external pressures, ensuring you can lead confidently in any situation.
Designed for senior leaders and aspiring executives, this workshop offers tailored solutions to your leadership challenges. Dr Ford draws on her wealth of experience across the military, corporate, and academic worlds, delivering insights that have transformed teams and organisations globally.
Key Learning Objectives
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Leverage your authentic leadership style for success: Align your values with your leadership approach to drive innovation, agility, and stronger organisational outcomes.
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Foster an inclusive, high-performance culture: Learn how inclusive leadership boosts productivity, collaboration, and team performance.
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Boost employee engagement and retention: Discover how authenticity increases loyalty, motivation, and long-term retention.
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Gain actionable insights from real-world examples: Apply strategies from leadership in high-stakes environments like corporate crises and military operations.
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Build stronger, high-performing teams: Foster unity and empowerment through authentic leadership for improved execution and job satisfaction.
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Lead with confidence and impact: Align your values with your actions to lead with greater confidence and influence.
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Foster trust and inclusivity: Learn how authenticity strengthens trust, enhances inclusivity, and improves team dynamics.
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Leave with practical tools for immediate impact: Implement real-world strategies right away to boost team performance and organisational success.
Facilitator
Dr Ellen Joan Ford
Leadership & Future of Work Expert
Ellen Joan Ford
Dr Ellen Joan Ford is terrifyingly ambitious about changing the working world, for the betterment of people and organisational performance. She is passionate, authentic and speaks from the heart with warmth, enthusiasm, fun and humour.
As a leader, researcher, international speaker (incl TEDx), facilitator, consultant and Mum, Ellen draws on her research and practical experiences and has helped multiple corporate and government organisations improve their inclusive leadership capabilities and workplace culture. Ellen’s research and commercially smart ideas to improve the working world have been published globally.
Ellen served ten years in the NZ Army as an Engineer Officer, has led soldiers on operations around the world, led teams in the corporate sector, has completed her MBA and PhD focused on leadership, and is the co-author of a nation-wide leadership project for New Zealand’s largest sector; Food and Fibre. She was part of a volunteer team that evacuated 563 people from Afghanistan to New Zealand. Ellen is the Kiwi Bank New Zealander of the Year - Local Hero, Person of the Year - Manawatu Standard and a Sir Peter Blake Leadership Award recipient.
Ellen is deeply passionate about improving the working world for the mutual betterment of people and organisational performance, and has used her research and leadership experiences to start the #WorkSchoolHours movement (and has written the book) and develop her Belonging Autonomy Purpose leadership model.
Agenda
8:30
Registration and Morning Refreshments
9:00
Session 1: Debunking Outdated Leadership Stereotypes
How traditional leadership views were formed
Why these outdated definitions still linger and why we struggle with authenticity
Practical strategies to unlock your authentic leadership potential and drive organisational success
Real-Life Case Study: How Ellen’s leadership on military operations around the world shaped her views on authentic leadership
10:30
Morning Tea
11:00
Session 2: Embracing Diverse Leadership Approaches to Drive Results
Understanding the value of different leadership approaches – reviewing research and real-world examples from corporate and government sectors where diverse leadership styles have delivered outstanding results.
How inclusive leadership enhances performance, collaboration, and innovation
Practical Frameworks for Leadership: Learn how to apply Ellen’s ‘Belonging, Autonomy, Purpose’ model to foster an inclusive, high-performing work environment.
12:30
Networking Lunch
1:15
Session 3: Embracing Your Authentic Leadership Style
Identifying the barriers that hold you back
How your authentic leadership style benefits you, your team, and your organisation – unpacking the ROI of authentic leadership and how it can improve employee engagement, retention and bottom-line results
Practical tools to align your leadership with your values for greater impact
Develop a personalised action plan to bring your authentic leadership style into your daily practice.
2:15
Session 4: Leading with Confidence and Authenticity for Organisational Success
Letting go of external pressures and imposter syndrome
Leadership in High-Stakes Situations: Learn from Ellen’s experience leading military evacuations and large corporate teams and apply these lessons to your organisation.
Building the confidence to lead authentically and foster trust within your teams through a culture of trust and openness
Strategies to cultivate an inclusive and high-performing workplace culture
Final Takeaway: Ellen’s #WorkSchoolHours movement and its relevance to creating flexible, human-centric work environments.