Culturally Conscious Leadership
Lead effectively in a culturally complex workplace. Build the self-awareness and practical skills to lead diverse teams, navigate conflict, and drive stronger business outcomes.
Culturally Conscious Leadership Overview
Develop a leadership approach that works in culturally diverse, real-world environments.
This program helps leaders understand and leverage their own cultural perspective to navigate practical leadership challenges including negotiation, trust, conflict resolution and team performance.
Rather than focusing only on understanding others, the program starts with you, building the self-awareness and capability to lead across difference more effectively.
Who Should Attend the Culturally Conscious Leadership?
Leaders and Managers
- Uncover how to leverage the cultural diversity of your team and yourself for better performance and as a competitive advantage.
- Strengthen relationships with external partners, including third-party suppliers and global offices, to maximixe business value.
HR Professionals and Recruiters
- Expand your knowledge of inclusion and organisational development.
- Discover how to optimise your organisation’s performance by unleashing your workforce’s full potential.
Leaders in Government and the NFP Sector
- Expand your impact on your organisation’s culture and talent development.
Policy Makers and Regulators
- Use creative and innovative cultural perspectives to inform policies and frameworks.
Board Members
- Understand the ways culture can contribute to the growth of your organisation.
Culturally Conscious Leadership Key Takeaways
Self-aware leadership
- Connect into and harness the power of your own cultural influences and heritage.
- Become a skillful and self-aware leader.
Lead diverse teams effectively
- Manage effectively in a culturally diverse world, starting with authentic leadership and an awareness of cultural diversity.
- Amplify your local or global team’s creative, collaborative and innovative capacities by recognising, decoding and harnessing diverse cultural influences of you and others.
Stronger negotiation and conflict skills
- Understand cultural logics which govern our assumptions of how cultural difference can affect negotiation and relationships.
- Manage conflict and problem-solve more effectively with clients, colleagues and stakeholders.
Culturally Conscious Leadership Topics Covered
Leading effectively in culturally diverse environments requires new approaches to communication, trust, and decision-making. Deepen your cross-cultural intelligence, communication skills and reflective practice with Melbourne Business School.
Authentic Leadership
Cultural Generalisations and Stereotypes
Hidden Styles of Trust and Information Sharing
Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
Relationship Management
Expand or Deepen the Capabilities of Your People
Develop cultural capability as a strategic leadership advantage.
Equip leaders with practical skills to strengthen relationships, lead diverse teams effectively, and improve workplace performance.
Volume booking discounts may be available for organisations registering multiple employees across a variety of our short courses over a 12-month period.
Program Enquiry
Every leader brings a unique cultural perspective to how they think, decide and lead. The question is: how do you harness that to lead more effectively and solve real business challenges? Answering that question is what this program is about.
Samuelson Appau
PROGRAM DIRECTOR AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MARKETING
Culturally Conscious Leadership Key Facilitators
PROGRAM DIRECTOR AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MARKETING
Samuelson is an Associate Professor of Marketing at the Melbourne Business School. Prior to joining academia, Samuelson worked in market research and brand consulting with Kantar Millward Brown in West Africa, advising clients such as Coca-Cola, Nestlé, Unilever, and Etisalat.
PROFESSOR OF MANAGEMENT, ASSOCIATE DEAN, RESEARCH
With a PhD in social psychology, Jennifer specialises in organisational behaviour, negotiation and people management, and conducts research into the ways in which power is used in the workplace.
Katrina Reynen-Woodward OAM
PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT
Katrina is a respected executive leader, coach and Board Chair with a career in education and global business management. Her core capability is the capacity to draw together the threads of complex and varied ideas into a cohesive summary to direct further action.
Culturally Conscious Leadership Sponsorships
A limited number of Scanlon Foundation Leadership Scholarships are available for eligible participants.
This is made possible thanks to generous sponsorship by:
Scanlon Foundation Research Institute aims to build a bridge between academic insight and public thought to support the advancement of Australia as a welcoming, prosperous, and cohesive nation.
Upcoming Sessions
This is a non-residential program. The program fee covers tuition and meals during the workshop.
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