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Intentional Leadership™: Foundations

A 12-week program plus a 4-month mentorship so you can lead teams with confidence.

Get equipped to manage and lead with confidence

Learn the practical core skills that will support your ability to manage with confidence. In this 12-week program, you’ll learn through an industry-leading combination of face-to-face learning, online study and leadership coaching that will give you the defining opportunities to develop your authentic leadership style.

Mapped development, measured success

Mapped development, measured success

We won't leave your development up to guesswork. We use 3 diagnostic tools to determine your baseline skills and behaviours before you begin. Afterwards, we measure your progress.

Learn to lead with confidence

Learn to lead with confidence

With a wealth of both industry and development experience, our facilitators will create a safe and rewarding environment, allowing you to learn and develop from a rich combination of content, your peers and self reflection.

Ongoing support in your role

Ongoing support in your role

During the program, your facilitator will provide personal coaching to support your development. After completion, you'll receive 4 months of mentoring to help you implement your new skills at work.

 

Hear how our 2020 Foundations participants transformed their leadership skills with our program.

 

What you will learn in this program

Moving up the career ladder into a managerial role should be an exciting time. But for many professionals this transition may be met with fear and a sense of overwhelming responsibility.

IML ANZ’s Intentional Leadership™: Foundations supports the transition from a technical specialist to management professional and intentional leader. The program is the foundation for equipping you with the core skills to take the first step into management with confidence and accelerate your career progression.

You will receive:
  • 6 face-to-face facilitated workshop days, once a fortnight
  • 2 one-on-one coaching sessions
  • 1-2 hours of online study per fortnight
  • 3 diagnostic reports (IML 360, DiSC and Genos)
  • 4 months mentoring post-graduation
  • 12-month access to IML ANZ's online learning portal
  • 1 year Membership with IML ANZ

Get the Foundations program guide

Download our guide to explore key learning outcomes, program structure, modules and past participant statements.








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October 5 - November 8

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Brisbane

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February 9 - April 20

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Hear our success stories

Deepali Laha
Project Manager, Universities Admissions Centre

“Foundations of Intentional Leadership™ taught me so much about myself, which helped me build better relationships with my team.
You might be surprised with the people you meet and the things you learn along the way, it has been a great journey for me.”

In-house programs

Our learning and development solutions can be tailored to your unique business needs. From bespoke in-house workshops, consulting services and longer transformational programs, we help corporate clients to drive specific outcomes for their businesses. Our expert team will partner with you to develop tailored leadership solutions for your organisation.

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Our facilitators put you first

Our programs are facilitated by our expert leadership facilitators who will guide you with their passion, expertise and wealth of industry experience.

Grant Withrington

Brisbane

Grant is a well-respected, engaging and energetic facilitator and coach who believes the secret to an organisation’s future lies in its ability to engage, empower and inspire its own greatest asset, its people. He uses his significant experience as a senior leader and change agent to help clients create a leadership culture that drives business results by harnessing the power of its people.

Grant has worked in a variety of industries and sectors, including defence, medical devices and diagnostics, customer service, sales and marketing. Grant has considerable experience working with client in government, private sector and not-for-profits organisations. He has a talent for engaging audiences from front-line workers to CEOs to bring about meaningful and lasting change. This combined with his drive to achieve sustained business performance through developing leaders and empowering people, ensures a solid return on investment for his clients. 

Lorraine Caruso

Adelaide

Over the past 12 years, Lorraine has partnered with organisations to strengthen their business capability and effectiveness across strategic planning and execution, governance structures, leadership development, operational capability, stakeholder alignment and engagement, improved systems and processes, transformation projects, and team development.  

Lorraine is also a lecturer, course coordinator, and facilitator for an MBA Program and Bachelor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship across subjects including organisational behaviour, leadership, strategic human resources, start-ups, and governance. 

She challenges the status quo to maximise performance, with specialised expertise in effective stakeholder collaboration and engagement, customer experience, financial business performance, and professional growth and development of teams.  

Marni Cook

Adelaide

Marni Cook has worked with businesses large and small across sectors including auto, pharmacy, health, fashion, convenience, department Stores, professional services and travel. Marni was Program Director at the Australian Centre for Retail Studies at Monash University, designing and delivering executive education programs for retail and wholesale businesses.  

More recently, Marni enjoyed a 5-year tenure as an Industry Professor at the University of Adelaide Business School and Program Director, Wine Business. Since 2006 Marni has worked as a consultant, advisor, educator, mentor and facilitator. Marni is passionate about developing the business acumen of industry professionals. A strong advocate of meeting industry needs through education, Marni has worked with a diverse client base, including Coopers, Yalumba, Caltex, Department of Defence, Myer, Red Cross, Repco, and Toyota. 

Cheryl Bowie

Auckland

Kerry Irwin

Sydney

Kerry is passionate about developing leaders and has designed and delivered programs and workshops covering all aspects of leadership development. She develops and implements strategies that transform people, teams and organisations, resulting in building high levels of confidence, fulfilment and passion in people. Kerry provides intuitive guidance in her individual coaching of leaders of every level in their life and career. Kerry has also worked extensively at an international level. Her style as a facilitator, coach and consultant is highly collaborative. Kerry has worked in many industries including construction, defence and pharmaceuticals. She has delivered numerous programs for IML ANZ including Foundations of Intentional Leadership™ and various tailored programs for organisations who are looking to make meaningful improvements in their leadership capability.

Shannon Cooper

Melbourne

Shannon has a knack for seeing how people could be, but also the skills and disciplined approach to actually help them realise this potential. His refreshing, energetic, and interactive approach has been known to empower employees, thrill customers, and embolden entire organisations. His bespoke training solutions and people-centred philosophy mean clients receive hand-crafted solutions based on sharp observations, honest conversations, and fresh thinking. Shannon has worked with big and small teams, single and multi-site businesses helping lead big-impact leadership programs. His high energy workshops and presentations delight audiences while his invigorating training methods help unshackle powerful ideas and foster lasting organisational change. He has achieved success from the Board Room to the shop floor and from the Head Office to the site shed.

Kerry Anne Cassidy

Brisbane

Kerry Anne is a leadership life-changer, empowering leaders to thrive, with courage, conviction and can-do. Having helped over 50,000 leaders to transform their lives, teams and organisations since 1996, Kerry Anne's passion is in challenging leaders to own their unique design, identify their superpowers and gifts and become the change they want to see in their own lives. Her philosophy is simple: the brain with the problem is the brain with the solution. With confidence being the number one challenge facing leaders and fear of failure a close second, her programs skilfully stimulate, engage and challenge the thinking of her leaders, developing the skills necessary to help them to solve personal, business and team problems and step up into their very best selves. As an award-winning facilitator, Kerry Anne has worked across an extensive variety of industries within public, not-for-profit and private sectors. These include industries as diverse as public administration, oil and gas, customer service provision, aviation, telecommunication, health, IT and retail.

Jacqui Perkins

Brisbane

Jacqui Perkins is a highly skilled facilitator, speaker and coach, with many years of leadership experience in the corporate world. Jacqui’s ability to connect and establish genuine relationships with the personnel of the companies she represents, and the participants in her programs, have won her high praise, appreciation and industry awards. She delivers engaging and entertaining programs and uses a combination of highly interactive videos, practical coaching assignments and customised leadership resources. Her colourful and lively style, her commitment to being ‘with you all the way’ and determination to ‘keep it real’ guarantee a memorable and transformative experience.

Mark Jones

Brisbane

Mark has over 20 years of experience in corporate and military training and facilitation. Mark focuses on assisting organisations to lead the change they aspire to rather than attempting to manage it.  

Mark works with some of Australasia’s largest corporations facilitating leadership programs and assisting these organisations through the change process. Mark has significant experience in working in remote and often dangerous environments. 

Coupled with his extensive immersion in regional cultures he brings a level of cultural understanding second to none. He has significant experience in the Indo Pacific, developing and delivering culturally appropriate training in project management, leadership, team development, work prioritisation, communication and health and safety. 

Matthew Byrne

Sydney

Matthew’s experience includes working with executive managers to align their personal strategy to corporate strategy, developing leadership styles and strategies that enable executives to identify and leverage value through thought leadership. He has an ability to solve complex organisational problems through identifying core problems/stumbling blocks and transform obstacles into inspirational opportunities. Matthew has worked extensively with executives across a wide range of industries and sectors. He has worked to enhance performance with senior managers in education, resources, energy and utilities, eco-tourism, marketing, finance and banking industries among others. He is also the Program Director of the Australian Graduate School of Management’s flagship General Managers Program.

Alan Burton

Sydney

Alan is a specialist in enhancing leadership capability and developing positive organisational culture. He has extensive experience in all aspects of generalist human resources and a proven track record of building capability and engagement for leadership groups and their teams. Alan uses coaching and group facilitation methodologies and is a skilled negotiator and project manager. He has worked with a wide range of organisations in engineering, manufacturing, fast moving consumer goods, shipping and defence industries both in the UK and in Australia. He is pragmatic and business focused but driven to help people fulfil their aspirations. Alan works with openness and inclusivity, engaging individuals and groups and relishes the challenge of new contexts, new industries and new people.

Rupert Bryce

Brisbane

Rupert Bryce has over 15 years’ experience in leadership development, human resources, consulting and coaching. While he has worked with most top 50 ASX companies he loves exploring new industries and new contexts. Rupert’s highly developed coaching skills have helped many employers fulfil their commitment to achieve greater employee performance and engagement, developing strategic thinking skills with high potential employees. Highly result oriented and solution focused, Rupert has a reputation in delivering innovative , engaging and highly effective leadership programs that lead to significant return on investment and value for the individual. Rupert uses evidence-based psychological tools and solution-focused coaching to build thinking skills, insight and self-awareness in his clients. 

Jon Dunning

Auckland

Jon is a transformer of leaders, teams and workplaces and a facilitator of growth, development and change. He has extensive private and public sector experience in operational delivery, organisational change, personal performance and team development in Europe, USA, Australasia and the Far East. His energetic and collaborative facilitation style is both supportive and challenging. He likes to encourage innovation, creativity and opportunistic change management. In New Zealand, Jon has led significant change projects and activities in the public sector including merging the Auckland City and Auckland Regional Councils and rolling out a new customer-centric culture program across 44 sports and leisure centres in 2017. He has consulted with, and led training in, contexts as diverse as intellectual disability services, Fire and Emergency NZ, glasshouse horticulture, and the NZ Police service. Jon was also involved in prisoner rehabilitation and fostering the potential and independence in those with intellectual disabilities.

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Speak to one of our consultants and we’ll create a bespoke option for enhanced leadership, better engagement and long-term professional excellence in your organisation.

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