Clear Leadership
Transform your leadership, self-reflection, emotional intelligence and communication skills
Through this four-day short course, you’ll learn how to lead in a way that creates real alignment around decisions and full commitment to your team’s purpose.
Combining research, tested theory and our unique experiential learning method, this outstanding course will challenge you to go beyond your comfort zone and interact in entirely new ways.
Critically, you’ll return to your role with the skills to fully engage your people, foster true collaboration at work and handle difficult conversations with ease.
In the words of one graduate:
The Clear Leadership program is, without a doubt, the best leadership program I have ever experienced or worked with. I gained significantly more self-awareness and acquired powerful and practical skills which have resulted in much clearer communication in my work and personal relationships. Living the principles of Clear Leadership has now become a way of life for me.
— John Sautelle, BA. LLB, Director, Performgroup International Australia
2026 dates
Clear Leadership will run face-to-face over four days. Sessions will run on the below dates.
- Thursday 13 August
- Friday 14 August
- Thursday 27 August
- Friday 28 August
Location
Monash Conference Centre, 30 Collins St, Melbourne.
Course fee
$4,682
Monash alumni and staff receive a 20% discount.
- Monash staff: Contact us to receive your discount code.
- Monash alumni: Visit the Alumni portal to access your exclusive code.
Save on staff training with our Professional Development packs
Ready to plan your team's future? We've got short courses that suit all your needs.
Through our Professional Development packs, you can pre-purchase short course seats at discounted partner rates.
Who should attend
Executives, directors, managers and anyone in a senior change-agent or consulting role looking to build strong leadership skills and collaborative relationships to get work done.
Digital badging
Upon successful completion of this short course, you will be awarded a digital badge to share with your network. Find out more about digital badges.
Clear Leadership will teach you powerful communication skills that allow you to:
- Ensure the people you lead feel fully engaged in real partnership with you, enhancing all aspects of team and organisational performance.
- Create an inclusive environment where everyone can learn from the team’s collective experience.
- Turn conflicts into positive learning experiences.
You’ll learn how to cut through the interpersonal ‘mush’ that causes partnerships to fail and gain a new, unique perspective on the personal choices leaders need to make to sustain true collaboration at work.
The course focuses on the four key areas of:
The aware self: Raising your awareness, on both a cognitive and an emotional level, of your sense-making process, and of the variety of different experiences possible in any situation.
The descriptive self: Teaching you how to make your experience and sense-making clear to others in a non-threatening and relationship-enhancing way.
The appreciative and the curious self: Giving you the skills to encourage others to be descriptive, to fully understand their experience, and avoid the kinds of reactions that stop people from telling you their truth.
- Conflict and earning in partnerships: Cementing your ability to lead organisational learning conversations and showing you how to use these skills to reduce unproductive conflict in your partnerships.
How you'll learn
Over four days, you’ll participate in a series of interactive and experiential sessions, working with peers on issues pertinent to your leadership challenges. Experience success in real interpersonal encounters (not role plays), making it possible to take these skills back to your role. Each session builds on the next, culminating in the development of skills to lead conversations that increase effectiveness and collaboration in the workplace.
Learning journey
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Day 1 THE AWARE SELF |
Day 2 THE DESCRIPTIVE SELF |
Day 3 THE CURIOUS AND APPRECIATIVE SELF |
Day 4 INTEGRATING THE SKILLS AT WORK |
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INDIVIDUAL Program induction Access online content to prepare for the program. |
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GROUP Face-to-face workshop Facilitator-led session, which blends the best of theory and practice, held at Monash Business School. |
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INDIVIDUAL Guided reflection Self-led reflection work to embed the learning and the application of these in your own workplace context. |
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Aviva Berzon
Associate
Qualifications
- Master of Leadership and Management, Organisation Dynamics (NIODA)
- Bachelor of Laws with Hons (Monash University)
- Bachelor of Arts - Communications (Monash University)
- Admitted to legal practice (Supreme Court of Victoria)
Accreditation/Instruments
The Leadership Circle (TLC), CCL Assessments - Benchmarks, Executive Dimensions, Prospector, Skillscope, 360 By Design (CPP Asia-Pacific), MBTI Step I and Step II, FIRO Instruments, Accredited Executive Coach, Level 1 and 2 (Institute of Executive Coaching and Leadership), Accredited Mediator (LEADR).
Experience
Aviva specialises in the areas of leadership, organisation dynamics, change and influential communication, with a particular interest in supporting change through working at the individual and system level.
Aviva has a passion for developing leaders who can lift performance and shift culture through building inclusive, energised and psychologically safe workplaces. Able to work at the individual and group level, Aviva often blends both approaches to ensure lasting shifts in mindset and behaviour.
Aviva moved from legal practice into consulting, facilitating leadership programs and providing executive coaching to a broad mix of public and private sector clients, including Department of Defence, Victoria Legal Aid, Telstra, CitiPower, NOVA Entertainment, RACV, Adairs, Ngai Tahu New Zealand, BHP, NAB and RHB –the third largest financial services group in Malaysia.
Having worked in consulting and in-house Learning & Development roles, Aviva was most recently the Associate Director of Learning Consulting at Melbourne Business School. Aviva brings real world management and leadership experience, combining subject matter expertise and business nous to deliver practical and relevant solutions, bringing her empathy and insight into what will make a real difference.
Aviva’s engagements usually start with a discovery process to diagnose learning and leadership needs, and Aviva always seeks to partner with her clients to create solutions that respond to their unique context and needs.
Aviva is an engaging facilitator who develops deep relationships and warm connections. She brings energy and passion for working with others, and approaches each engagement in a spirit of collaboration and possibility.