Projects
Culturally Safe Leadership Program
3 Hour Interactive Workshops
This program responds to critical, contemporary questions that leaders concerned with equity and justice are asking about their own practice, their capacity to lead diverse teams safely and effectively and their commitment to an anti-racist approach in their leadership work.
How to Disagree Better - TEDxCastlemaine
One of the biggest lessons of 2024 was dealing with aversion to conflict, mine and other people’s. Avoiding conflict is a privilege that not everyone gets to enjoy. But sometimes, conflict is necessary for getting to the heart of what ails us. I spent a few minutes talking about how I learned to stop avoiding conflict, and just disagree better.
Diversity and Equity
Self-Guided Audit for Organisations
I developed this audit with input from my community of practice to assist organisations to operationalise equity.
Too often, people tell me that they don’t understand in practical terms what equity looks like in operational systems.
This audit uses tangible and measurable indicators to help people hone in on good practice and areas for improvement.
Creative Australia
Leadership Program Journal
I created this journal to accompany a group of arts leaders on a Creative Australia residential program to Indonesia in 2023, seeking to engender practices of mutuality, reciprocity and non-extraction. The journal is intended to provoke observations, thoughts and feelings, enabling insight and criticality to come to the surface.
In the words of writer Sandra Cisneros “I’m not as wise as my work, but I know if I take the writing deep enough, something larger and greater than myself will flash forth and illuminate me, heal me.” As we traversed these experiences, the journal formed part of each participant’s narrative, their personal history, and the contemplation of leadership that each brought to the residential.
Australia Performing Arts Forum
On the Future of Arts Leadership
This workshop explores a range of critical questions about arts leadership: Is our leadership narrative in danger of being consumed by notions of stress, strain and overwhelm? How can we speak about these real challenges while at the same time developing a consciousness desire and capacity for sectoral reform? Where can we turn to for models that challenge, uplift and extend?
One aspect of our leadership discourse that was temporarily suspended during the pandemic relates to the diversity agenda. We consider that it is time to reconnect with our ambitions to be more diverse, representative and equitable, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because in our search for answers about how to lead beyond our present challenges, we must remember that true diversity is about doing things differently.
Embedding different worldviews, practices, knowledges and sensibilities at the heart of leadership practice enables a forward vision that propels us into a new landscape – let’s begin the conversation with all of us together in the room, making space for all voices.
