First Peoples Leading — Changemakers
A challenging and insightful program for experienced senior leaders and executives.
Course Overview
This program is targeted at the top echelon of First Nations leaders in government, community and corporate to collectively elevate the current and emerging generation of executive changemakers. FPL Changemakers is unique in that it is non-sector specific, strengths based, and focussed on harnessing the collective knowledge and experience of the program team and participants.
FPL Changemakers creates a safe and innovative space for collaboration, excellence and the foundations of a professional network that will evolve with participants throughout their leadership journey. The FPL Network is already more than 200 strong across Australia — join us and thrive!
The program is delivered both online via live video stream and face to face. Delivered over 12 weeks, the program is centred around 2 x 2 day workshops and 2 x 2.5 hour online workshops, comprehensive e-learning resources, intra-sessions tasks and activities and 1:1 executive coaching. The program includes accommodation and meals for the residential components.
Program features
Highly experienced and respected First Nations facilitators and presenters
Evidence-based best practices from current research and lived experience in leadership
Topic and industry experts
Relevant and contemporary case studies
Valuable networking opportunities and events
First Peoples Leading Team
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Nicole Major
Thirriwirri | Bundjalung
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Jason Ardler
Thirriwirri | Yuin
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David Major
Thirriwirri | Yuin-Maneroo
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Glenn Ball
Executive Central
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Sally-Anne Ross
Executive Central
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Rachel Ardler
Thirriwirri | Yuin
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Paul Garcia
Executive Central
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Melissa Ellis
Thirriwirri | Yuin/Dunghutti
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Melissa Clarke
Thirriwirri | Ngarrindjeri
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Trent Brickle
Thirriwirri | | Palawa
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Melissa Hamilton
Thirriwirri | Wiradjuri
What You Can Expect
2 x 2-day face to face workshops
2 x expert-led online Workshops
6 x 1:1 executive coaching sessions
Extensive online learning materials
2 x networking events
First Peoples Leading — Changemakers is a program tailored for First Nations people who are experienced people leaders and executives
Learning Outcomes
Define and align purpose, values, aspiration and ambition
Understand your own unique operating style and that of your team and how this contributes to team performance
Understand how to maintain your resilience and lead with dignity and authenticity
Understand how to communicate for influence and impact
Establish and maintain professional networks
Workshop One (in person)
What Is Leadership
Authority vs Leadership
Managing the Authority Role
Self Awareness
Presence
Vulnerability and Authenticity
Hungers
Driving Performance
Team Effectiveness
Nurturing the Careers of Others
Workshop Two (online)
Staying Diagnistic
Case in Point Leadership
Leadership Challenge
Workshop Three (in person)
Impactful Leadership
Change Leadership
Change Resistance
System to Ecosystem
Pressure and Presence
The Third Space
Tough Conversations
Workshop Four (online)
Opportunities and Challenges
Networking
Brand
Leading the Way
Who This Program Is For
Experienced First Nations senior leaders or executive looking for great impact.
Leaders who want to become part of the strenght based and supportive leadership network across Australia.
Leaders looking for contemporary, innovative and impactful tools and coaching.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Changemakers wanting a culturally safe and innovative space for collaboration, excellence and professional networks that will evolve with your leadership journey.
What Our Participants Say
"I was incredibly lucky to be selected by the NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment to take part in the Thirriwirri First Peoples Leading program. Over the past three months I had the privilege to share and learn from other First Nations leaders from both private and government sectors. We laughed, we cried, and we learnt an almighty lot about how to lead with purpose, resilience and authenticity. It was an experience that I will take with me through the rest of my career.”
Sienna Coleman
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“For Aboriginal leaders, the social and moral obligation that comes with community leadership is life-long. Those who lead, who have authority, must care for and look after those who come behind.”
— Senator Patrick Dodson
Our Vision
“Our aspiration is not just to create great First Nations leaders, but to create great leaders, full stop! Purposeful leaders, equipped with the agility and confidence to respond adaptively and with dignity to the unprecedented complexity and pace of change currently experienced by our communities and organisations.”
David Major & Jason Ardler — Co-Founders of First Peoples Leading
Upcoming Program Dates
Contact us to discuss your interest and eligibility, or to request an invoice
First Peoples Leading is a partnership of
Executive Central and Thirriwirri
Thirriwirri is a 100% Aboriginal owned and operated organisation formed for the purpose of supporting First People communities and others to build the confidence, capabilities and connections to work together differently to achieve improved outcomes. The Directors of Thirriwirri have a combined 40 years senior executive experience, leading multi-disciplinary teams, strategy and reform across a range of complex policy areas.
Executive Central is at the forefront of leadership development, executive coaching and business consulting in Australia and the Asia Pacific region. We partner with leaders in the corporate, public and not-for-profit sectors to work through their biggest challenges and realise their greatest opportunities. Executive Central was formed in 2004 to deliver pragmatic leadership, coaching and consulting solutions designed and delivered by experienced consultants from C-suite backgrounds.
Some of the organisations we work with
Acknowledgement of Country
We pay our respects to Elders and community leaders, and those leaders that came before us, who for millennia have maintained the world’s oldest surviving cultures and who have made it possible for us to do what we do. We acknowledge the strength and innovation of our young people, the leaders and Elders of the future.
We acknowledge our families, who have always supported us to dream big and who continue to support us as Thirriwirri evolves.
We also pay respect to the non-First Nation people we work with who share our vision for an empowered, prosperous and culturally assured First Nations Australia.