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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.

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 over 1,000 elearning courses
  • 1 year Membership with IML ANZ

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IML ANZ’s renowned suite of programs can help you develop and refine your leadership skills at every career level.







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Location

September 1 - November 26

Melbourne

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September 1 - November 11

Brisbane

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September 2 - November 11

Sydney

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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.”

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.

Kerry Irwin

Sydney

IML ANZ Facilitator 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

IML ANZ Facilitator

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

IML ANZ Facilitator

Having helped over 50,000 leaders to transform their lives, teams and organisations since 1996, Kerry 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.

You will leave the session with a ready to use action plan to implement in the workplace.     

Rob Brennan

Melbourne

IML ANZ Facilitator

Rob Brennan is an executive coach, group facilitator and mediator. He has worked with extensively with Australian, state and local government clients. Within the private sector Rob has worked with major utility providers, universities, building and engineering enterprises. He has also worked in schools and the not-for-profit sector.

Rob has a reputation for bringing energy, enthusiasm and a practical focus to his facilitation projects. He uses experiential and highly interactive facilitation techniques. He has proven experience in the use of virtual technologies to conduct masterclasses, webinars and coaching sessions.

Book yourself or your team in today to learn how to improve your presentation skills.

Jacqui Perkins

Brisbane

IML ANZ Facilitator

Jacqui’s strength is her ability to achieve results by empowering and encouraging her learners to take risks, be bold and to always be curious. She combines real-life experience as a with in-depth knowledge and has work across many industries in both South Africa and Australia. Jacqui past has seen her leading a national sales team’s and as a consultant facilitating at Deloitte. Jacqui has facilitated a number of IML’s programs including with clients including GenTech Seeds, Easec Occupational Health, QUT, QBiotics and Trade and Investment Queensland.

Join us and get the coaching techniques you need to effectively support and develop your team.

Matthew Byrne

Sydney

IML ANZ Facilitator

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.

This will provide you with the processes to enable you to identify and evaluate specific situations quickly and to make more impactful decisions.

Alan Burton

Sydney

IML ANZ Facilitator

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.

Join us and get the coaching techniques you need to effectively support and develop your team.

Rupert Bryce

Brisbane

IML ANZ Facilitator

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 for innovative, engaging and highly effective leadership programs that lead to significant return on investment and value for the organisation. He uses evidence-based psychological tools, such as solution-focused coaching, to build thinking skills, insight and self-awareness in his clients.

Jon Dunning

Auckland

IML ANZ Facilitator

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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