Future-Focused Leadership Program | Monash Corporate Education Short course

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Gain essential leadership skills and a recognised credential

This transformational one-year program, a collaboration between Monash Business School and global business content hub WOBI, will strengthen your ability to lead effectively in today’s dynamic business environment.

Your learning journey begins at the two-day WOBI World Business Forum in Sydney in November 2024, and encompasses various modules of learning over the next 12 months, concluding in November 2025.

By completing four assessments and an individual work project, you’ll earn a recognised credential – a Professional Certificate of Business (Executive) – accredited by Monash University, enhancing your qualifications and demonstrating your commitment to professional growth. Significantly, you will accumulate 12 credit points that can be applied towards further study at Monash, opening doors to advanced education opportunities.

The Future-focused Leadership Program takes a flexible, blended learning approach, with a combination of online, in-person and self-paced learning designed to accommodate work commitments and your busy schedule. You’ll engage in an intimate learning experience with a small cohort of likeminded professionals, fostering meaningful peer connections, collaborative learning, and valuable networking opportunities. The curriculum will refine your leadership capabilities in critical areas such as self-leadership, innovation, change management and digital transformation strategy.

You will customise your learning experience to align directly with your career goals and aspirations through practical workplace projects tailored to your role and industry. This will allow you to apply your newfound knowledge and skills directly to real-world challenges, driving tangible results and advancement opportunities on your professional journey.

Location

World Business Forum:

ICC Sydney 14 Darling Dr

Sydney NSW 2000

Modules 1–4: Online

Fee

$9750 (excluding GST)

Monash alumni and staff receive a 10% discount

Registration and more information

To register your interest, click here:

For a detailed discussion, contact our team today

P: +61 03 9903 1300

E: mbus-corporate-ed@monash.edu

Who should attend

This program is designed for individuals in mid-level management positions across all industries who seek formal leadership training to advance their careers to higher leadership roles.

Progression to further studies

Successful completion of this course may provide a pathway to the Graduate Certificate of Business (Executive) (B4002), subject to satisfying the appropriate entry requirements. Credit may be granted towards other Faculty of Business and Economics postgraduate courses upon successful completion.

Timeframe

WOBI World Business Forum

Including introductory workshop

Face-to-face

13–14 November 2024

Module 1: Self-leadership

Online

February – March 2025

Assessment 1:

Video presentation

Submitted online by late April 2025

Module 2: Innovation

Online

May – June 2025

Assessment 2: Case study/video presentation

Submitted online by 27 June 2025

Module 3: Leading Change

Online

late July – September 2025

Assessment 3:

Video presentation

Submitted online by early October

Module 4: Digital Strategy & Transformation

Online

October – November 2025

Assessment 4: Case study/video presentation

Submitted online by 21 November 2025

Individual workplace project

Self-paced

Ongoing throughout program

Your learning experience

The program begins with the two-day WOBI World Business Forum in November 2024 and encompasses four eight-week online learning modules over the next 12 months.

You’ll engage in self-directed learning via our online learning platform, augmented by four one-hour live ‘reflection hub’ group sessions with our expert facilitators (one session per module). To achieve your Professional Certificate of Business (Executive), you’ll satisfactorily complete four assessments throughout the year, and an individual workplace project.

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The 2024 Forum’s outstanding line-up of presenters includes, among others:

• Andre Agassi (High Performance)

• Jacinda Ardern (Diversity & Empowerment)

• Nouriel Roubini (APAC & the Global Economy)

• Anne Chow (Leadership)

• Gary Hamel (Strategy)

See the full 2024 WBF agenda.

Program modules

MODULE 1

Self-leadership

February – March 2025

In this eight-week module you will:

• begin with a pre-recorded WOBI leadership masterclass

• undertake the Self-leadership curriculum via our online learning platform, with self-guided resources, tools and activities to support you

• engage in self-directed peer learning sessions encouraging you to share ideas, stretch your thinking further and gain diverse insights

• participate in a reflection hub – a 60-minute online group coaching session with your facilitator, to reflect on the learnings and support transferring acquired knowledge to your role.

Even the best leaders can find it challenging to stay grounded, especially in an increasingly turbulent operating environment. It can be too easy to lose yourself in this instability, so it’s important to get a clear sense of what drives you as a leader.

In this uniquely personal exploration of leadership, we’ll do just that – diving deep into your energy levels, obstacles and emotional states so you can lead and inspire others with steadiness and positivity, no matter what’s going on around you.

Each module component will be grounded in contemporary theory but quickly move to a personal exploration of the topic. You’ll learn simple frameworks and techniques you can immediately apply.

You’ll develop the critical skills to:

• understand the importance emotions play in a healthy and productive workforce

• clarify your deepest values and understand how they inform your leadership practice

• unlock your own “immunity to change” in order to continue your professional growth.

These skills will accelerate your ability to:

• build the personal resilience contemporary leadership demands

• extend your repertoire of power and influence

• better lead and support your people and teams as they adjust to a different and constantly changing ‘normal’.

MODULE 2

Innovation

May – June 2025

In this eight-week module you will:

• begin with a pre-recorded innovation masterclass

• undertake the Innovation curriculum via our online learning platform

• engage in self-directed peer learning sessions

• participate in a 60-minute live online reflection hub.

Why do businesses still struggle to achieve the practices and benefits of innovation? Because despite the focus we put on it, innovation is primarily driven by organisational thinking and cultures, or an understanding of how you ‘do’ innovation across all levels of an organisation. For leaders, it can be hard to cut through the noise and figure out what needs to happen to make meaningful progress in day-today operations.

In this module, we’ll go beyond the buzzword to understand what innovation can look like across your business and the cultural shifts needed to achieve it. We’ll unpack the frameworks and principles of practical innovation, the tools to uncover opportunities, and the steps you can take as a leader to nurture innovation at work.

You’ll develop the critical skills to:

• understand what innovation means in modern business

• learn about the factors that contribute to an innovation culture

• assess opportunities in your own business and what gets in the way.

These skills will accelerate your ability to:

• explore the frameworks that contribute to effective innovation

• learn how to uncover innovation opportunities for your customers and your business

• reflect on the role you can play as a leader in fostering innovative behaviours.

Program modules

Leading Change

late July – September 2025

In this eight-week module you will:

• begin with a pre-recorded change management masterclass

• undertake the Leading Change curriculum via our online learning platform

• engage in self-directed peer learning sessions

• participate in a 60-minute live online reflection hub.

Great leaders know that change is not just constant, but crucial. And in a landscape where the pace of change can be overwhelmingly rapid, the need for great leadership at all levels becomes more important than ever.

This module will challenge you to develop the skills to become a change leader and design a change roadmap to guide your people through uncertainty.

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“Personally I feel energised for sustainable … successful change, appreciating the relationship between change and project management.”

– Past participant feedback on Leading Change

You’ll develop the critical skills to:

• deepen your awareness of your own personal responses to change

• understand the science of change and why it can be so challenging.

These skills will accelerate your ability to:

• build an adaptable and flexible change leadership toolkit

• create your change roadmap and learn to positively influence your team.

MODULE 4

Digital Strategy & Transformation

October – November 2025

In this eight-week module you will:

• begin with a pre-recorded strategy masterclass

• undertake the Digital Strategy & Transformation curriculum via our online learning platform

• engage in self-directed peer learning sessions

• participate in a 60-minute live online reflection hub.

As we confront the challenges of a post-pandemic world, businesses turn to digital solutions to connect with their customers. But being truly competitive is less about ‘doing digital’ and more about ‘being digital’.

This module is designed for leaders seeking a meaningful approach to digital transformation, who eschew the concept that there is one way to successfully transform. It asks you to interpret the context your organisation exists within, uncover meaningful opportunities to shift the way you and your people create customer value through digital, and to be in the driver’s seat of your organisation’s digital change journey.

The curriculum explores an approach that is anchored in customer and business insight, that enables you to articulate an informed digital strategy, and helps you to establish a clear path for execution.

You’ll unpack the practical necessities that help change occur within your business, as well as the mindsets you’ll require as a leader to begin modelling the organisational behaviours that are critical to digital transformation, through:

• understanding the megatrends and shifts occurring and how they might impact the digital experience

• critically analysing how digital shifts are affecting your business

• understanding the purpose for engaging customers and staff on the digital transformation journey

• articulating a digital experience vision and strategy

• defining a digital transformation roadmap that will guide you on your journey

• exploring the role you play as a leader in enabling digital change to occur.

“To be brutally honest it’s made us sit up and look at our business without the blinkers on.”

– Past participant feedback on Digital Strategy & Transformation

Meet your facilitators

SELF-LEADERSHIP

Cameron Houston

Program Lead, Monash Corporate Education

For more than 25 years Cameron Houston has helped organisations develop purposeful leaders and implement effective organisational change through his work as a practising leader, educator, facilitator and executive coach.

Cameron has held senior and general management roles with National Australia Bank and Foxtel and knows what it is to be responsible for driving operational performance and leading organisational transformation. As an educator Cameron taught Leadership and Change Management within the Australian Graduate School of Management’s Executive MBA for seven years and then spent another nine years in Executive Education with Melbourne Business School.

Cameron is a high impact educator who brings a deep body of knowledge and a great love for learning that translates to lasting change for the individuals with whom he works. His approach draws on contemporary theory but remains firmly grounded by his real-world organisational experience.

Cameron holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Melbourne), Master of Business Administration (UNSW), Master of Education (Melbourne) and Grad. Cert. Org. Coaching (Swinburne).

INNOVATION; DIGITAL STRATEGY & TRANSFORMATION

Marque Kabbaz

Program Lead,

Monash Corporate Education

Marque Kabbaz has two decades of experience as a creative strategy and business design lead, building both brands and businesses for some of Australia’s largest organisations. He’s committed to redefining the way that creativity and strategy are valued as core business processes.

Marque has worked with people and businesses across all sectors, from financial services to FMCG, CPG, retail, mining, pharmaceuticals, automotive, energy and government. And while he is proficient in design thinking, agile methodologies, behavioural economics, business design and strategy, he’s more interested in uncovering the core challenge, and designing the right strategy to solve it.

Marque never accepts the easy way if the hard way gives better results. He’s insatiably curious, and a bit of a tech geek, has a degree in Behavioural Psychology, and is relentlessly people-focused.

Meet your facilitators

LEADING CHANGE

Mathias Grüttner Associate, Monash Corporate Education

Mathias is a business storytelling consultant with more than 20 years of experience. He is the managing director of Napica, an international consultancy firm that specialises in soft skills within strategy implementation, change management, leadership and decision-making.

Mathias has trained CEOs, executives, mid-level managers and specialists around the world in how to frame, present and communicate their ideas in a way that achieves their desired outcome. He has also designed corporate storytelling initiatives, created purpose statements and helped implement strategies for major international companies. Among the organisations that have benefited from Mathias’ assistance are Novo Nordisk, Maersk, IBM, Vestas and Velux.

In addition to his consulting work, Mathias has taught rhetoric, communication, leadership, management and strategic innovation at top universities in Northern Europe. He has also been an external examiner at five universities.

Mathias holds a master’s degree in rhetoric from the University of Copenhagen.

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