Growth Faculty - May 2023 Events

Every leader understands this delicate balancing act - to simultaneously generate better performance from your team, retain top talent and build the leaders of tomorrow - without inducing burnout.

In Elevate Your Team, entrepreneur, award-winning CEO and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Robert Glazer shares a proven framework to help teams and organisations build the capability of their people. 

Elevate Your Team is the playbook for a results-oriented, learning-driven culture that elevates its people to meet the company’s ever-changing growth needs. 

This is the manual for a new type of leader: one who builds a business by building people, not burning them out. 

During our May book club interview, Robert will share his framework of proven, actionable strategies that will help you up your game as a leader, help your team to reach their full potential, and most importantly build a new generation of leaders within your organisation.

"Elevate Your Team is a new way to think about culture and talent development. Learn how to play the long-game with your company culture and discover actionable steps to build your team’s capacity, help your people reach their full potential, and train the future leaders of your organization." - Dorie Clark, Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author of The Long Game and Executive Education Faculty, Duke University Fuqua School of Business

Robert Glazer is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Acceleration Partners, a global partner marketing agency and the recipient of numerous industry and company culture awards, including Glassdoor’s Employees’ Choice Awards two years in a row. 

Robert is the author of the inspirational newsletter Friday Forward, and a #1 Wall Street Journal, USA Today and international bestselling author of five books: Elevate, Friday Forward, How To Thrive In The Virtual Workplace, Moving To Outcomes and Performance Partnerships. He is a sought-after speaker by companies and organisations around the world and the host of The Elevate Podcast.

Information packed and highly practical, this live book club event is a must-attend for:

• CEOs and senior executives 
• Entrepreneurs and business owners
• Emerging leaders with responsibility for leading others
• Leaders who want to build their team to build their organisation

What keeps us going in times of stress and turbulence? It's not data, technology or productivity. It's the quality of our relationships. It's friends and colleagues we've spent time building trust with through vulnerable conversations, empathy, connection and care, especially when things are messy and uncertain. It's the connective tissue of our humanness.

Robust cultures, robust teams and robust leaders are all built by design, not by default.

In this new 90-minute, live virtual masterclass, Certified Dare to Lead™ facilitator, Kylie Lewis returns to help organisations understand why building psychologically safe workplaces is a critical step for high-performing teams.

“I think there’s a lot of latent untapped talent because people are not making it psychologically safe enough to get that talent and put it to good work.” -Amy Edmondson

High-impact, well-functioning teams don't just happen. They're built through relational intelligence.

They are cultivated in the everyday interactions between team members that either create or corrode psychological safety.

Thinking about your workplace:

• Is asking for help welcomed?
• Is there a willingness to help others?
• Is it safe to say 'I don't know' or 'I made a mistake'?
• Is diversity valued?
• Is challenging the status quo invited?
• How is risk and failure navigated?
• Are brave conversations about difficult topics upskilled for and engaged in?
• How do we recognise and navigate our competency edges?
• Do I feel included and that I belong?
• Do team members genuinely care for and connect with each other?

Kylie is a Certified Dare to Lead™ and Certified Daring Way™ Facilitator. These programs are based on the research of Dr Brené Brown. 

After a 20-year digital marketing career, she concluded that high-performing workplaces are a direct result of high-quality interpersonal relationships and a psychologically safe culture. 

Kylie holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons)(Psychology & Sociology) and a Masters in eBusiness and Communication. 

She is a serial tech entrepreneur and believes in the power of naps and that life is too short for ironing.

Information packed and highly practical, this masterclass is a must-attend for:

• CEOs and senior executives
• Entrepreneurs and business owners
• Emerging leaders
• Leaders who want to understand why building psychologically safe workplaces is critical for high-performing teams.

Constant disruption creates anxiety and stress. To survive and even thrive in this pressure-filled environment, individuals and organisations must increase their Adaptability Quotient (AQ).

From a business standpoint, AQ is the ability of your organisation to be agile and adjust its course in response to unexpected shifts in the marketplace. On a personal level, AQ measures your ability to react quickly and effectively to change.

In a new 90-minute masterclass with highly rated speaker and coach John Spence, learn what it takes to become more adaptable, agile and adjustable.

Learning Outcomes

In this session, you will:

• Examine how change impacts individuals and organisations
• Learn how to increase your AQ substantially
• Develop the skills required to recover from setbacks and keep going in the face of adversity
• Identify actionable steps to make your business fast, focused and flexible – it’s new competitive advantage

A very popular Growth Faculty speaker, John’s last masterclass was rated 9.5/10 by attendees. 

“Three keys to success in business are focus, discipline and action.” – John Spence

John Spence is an author, international executive coach, professional development educator, virtual trainer, strategic planning facilitator, keynote speaker and developer of online learning programs. John is recognised as one of the top business thought leaders and leadership development experts in the world and was named by the American Management Association as one of America’s Top 50 Leaders to Watch along with Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google and Jeff Bezos of Amazon. As a consultant and coach to organisations worldwide, from startups to the Fortune 10, John is dedicated to helping people and businesses be more successful by “Making the Very Complex… Awesomely Simple.”

Information packed and highly practical, this masterclass series is a must-attend for:

• CEOs and senior executives 
• Entrepreneurs and business owners
• Leaders who want to become more agile in adapting to change.

Companies don’t need a broken culture right now. Unhappy staff and low levels of trust destroy teams. 

• Happy workers are 13% more productive, according to a recent Oxford University study. 
• But up to 80% of adults see work as something to be endured, not enjoyed.

Turns out, finding happiness and fulfilment depends not just on a healthy culture, but also from a deep understanding of your areas of working genius. 

The world’s foremost expert on organisational health and teamwork, Patrick Lencioni returns to Growth Faculty in 2023. He will share his fascinating research on the 6 types of working genius, and how organisations can create a culture that brings out the talent in their teams.

Patrick is the pioneer of the organisational health movement. His 12 books, which include The Five Dysfunctions of a Team and The 6 Types of Working Genius, have sold over 7 million copies and been translated into more than 30 languages. 

“Patrick was a very compelling speaker. His examples were very relevant, and there were practical tips that I can start implementing from today.” Meagan Quinlivan, Senior Manager, Product Intelligence, News Corp Australia (attended Patrick’s 2022 masterclass.)

In a 2 hour live virtual team event, Patrick brings his storytelling abilities to explain his 20 years of research on teamwork, leadership, culture and high performance. 

Access from anywhere this exceptional live and interactive session for executives and leaders, and their teams.

Patrick Lencioni is founder and president of The Table Group, a firm dedicated to providing organizations with ideas, products and services that improve teamwork, clarity and employee engagement.

Lencioni’s passion for organizations and the people who work in them is reflected in his writing, speaking and executive consulting. He is the author of twelve best-selling books with over seven million copies sold. After more than twenty years in print, his classic book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, remains a fixture on national best-seller lists. His most recent book, The Six Types of Working Genius: A Better Way to Understand Your Gifts, Your Frustrations and Your Team, was released in September 2022, and was designed to help people find joy and energy in their work. He is also the host of the popular business podcast, At The Table with Patrick Lencioni.

Information packed and highly practical, this Global Headline event is a must-attend for:

• CEOs and senior executives 
• Entrepreneurs and business owners
• Emerging leaders 
• Leaders who want to create a culture that brings out the talent in their teams
• Followers of Patrick Lencioni’s work on improving teamwork and employee engagement.

In today’s fast changing, and purpose-driven world, incumbent companies face a myriad of new competitors and startups with unique business models, products and services that threaten viability of their core business. 

Many large organisations lack the process, or don't allocate the time to systematically explore, intentionally design and rapidly test innovative ideas that could become a new business, resource saving process, or competitive advantage.  

In this new 90-minute live, virtual masterclass, Professor Kaihan Krippendorff, author of the critically acclaimed book "Outthink the Competition: How Innovative Companies and Strategists See Options Others Ignore" will walk through The Outthinker Process®, a step-by-step repeatable tool that business leaders, executives and teams can use to drive strategic innovation, shift mindset towards growth and create opportunities to stay ahead of the competition. 

“Kaihan shows that with a bold idea, anyone can change the world” – Mohammad Yunus

Kaihan Krippendorff has made a commitment to helping organisations and individuals thrive in today’s era of fast-paced disruptive technological change. Recognised by Thinkers50 as one of the top innovation thought leaders in the world and ranked by Global Gurus as a Top 30 Management Professional of 2022, Kaihan has unique ability to turn difficult concepts into easy-to-understand ideas and practical tools.  

Kaihan began his career with McKinsey & Company before founding two successful companies that he leads today. Outthinker is a strategy and innovation consulting firm specialised in building internal corporate communities with a common language, tools, skills, mindset, and process to think strategically and ensure a pipeline of innovation and growth options for the future.

• CEOs and Senior Execs 
• Entrepreneurs and business owners 
• Emerging Leaders with responsibility for leading others