Monash Leadership Development (NEW)
Deepen your strategic impact and deliver results
Navigating the complexities of leading an organisation or business division demands a sophisticated, nuanced approach. The effectiveness of senior leaders in driving change, executing strategy and fostering collaboration across business units is crucial to an organisation’s success.
Regardless of their industry, senior leaders must bridge strategy and results with a broad perspective, strategic mindset and high levels of resilience.
This five-day short course is specifically designed for senior managers responsible for leading other leaders.
Through a powerful blend of group learning, personalised coaching and applied practice, it will equip you with the critical capabilities needed to lead in dynamic, high-stakes environments.
These include:
- The balancing of leading strategies and structures with managing people and tasks, developing a future talent pipeline and working with key stakeholders.
- Adaptive leadership – refining and adapting your personal leadership style for greater effectiveness and awareness of impact.
- Strategic leadership – setting and achieving strategic goals with clear vision, purpose and direction.
- Change leadership – managing day-to-day and long-term change.
- Boundary-spanning leadership – navigating relationships across departments, cultures and stakeholder interests.
- Aligning teams for success – creating shared purpose and collaboration within your team.
Grounded in contemporary research and delivered by expert educators, Leadership Development is both highly practical and evidence-based. Join a cohort of experienced leaders in a short course that challenges thinking, inspires growth and delivers impact where it matters most.
2026 dates
Leadership Development will run face-to-face over five days from 19 – 23 October 2026.
Location
750 Collins Street, Docklands
Course fee
$8,250
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
This course is ideal for senior leaders who have a reasonable span of control, even within a small team. You are responsible for leading other managers and are looking to take your leadership capabilities to the next level.
Digital badging
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be awarded a digital badge to share with your network. Find out more about digital badges.
Leadership Development is comprised of five content-rich modules:
Leading Self in a Dynamic World
- Integrating leadership and management in executive roles.
- Understanding your own personality strengths and blind spots.
- Adapting behaviours to meet the personality preferences and motivations of others.
- Increasing awareness of how current leadership affects colleagues.
- Defining leadership behaviours to experiment with, practise and develop.
Leading and Aligning Teams
- The purpose of teams and work groups.
- Building psychological safety and accountability in a team.
- Creating and leading team purpose and goals.
- Building team norms aligned with purpose and goals.
- Identifying and understanding communication styles in teams.
- Enhancing feedback and team communication for collaboration.
- Leading constructive conflict and inclusion for team decision-making.
Leading Adaptive Change and Systems
- Leading and addressing technical and adaptive challenges.
- Leading and following responsibly within a system.
- Leading and influencing across boundaries: building collaboration for complex and interdependent business challenges.
- Defining and applying boundary-spanning tactics.
- Leading change and transitions: engaging commitment and managing resistance.
- Meeting the psychological needs of others for successful change.
Reframing Conflict and Building Resilience for Growth
- Adapting your conflict and negotiation style for the situation.
- Building stress management and resilience for growth.
- How to lead in times of stress and crisis.
- How to use learning from key life experiences to coach and mentor.
Leading What's Next
- Defining leadership purpose, values and actions for growth.
- Aligning development goals with your leadership purpose and values.
- Integrating your course experience and insights into your next leadership phase.
- Setting a targeted development pathway for continued leadership growth.
- Establishing and engaging your developmental support team.
Stage |
Format |
Timing |
Details |
| Preparation activities | Online | Four weeks prior to group intensive sessions |
Attend online program introduction and briefing with faculty and cohort Complete online personality profile, 360-feedback assessments and two-hour online individual debriefing consultation. |
| Group intensive sessions | In-person | During program | Leading Self in a Dynamic World One-day seminar |
| Group intensive sessions | In-person | During program | Leading and Aligning Teams One-day seminar |
| Group intensive sessions | In-person | During program | Leadership Adaptive Change and Systems One-day seminar |
| Group intensive sessions | In-person | During program | Reframing Conflict and Resilience for Growth One-day seminar |
| Group intensive sessions | In-person | During program | Leading What's Next One-day seminar |
| Coaching | Individual | Four weeks and eight weeks post-group intensive sessions | Individual coaching for 60 minutes × 2 Undertake leadership action learning assignment |
Martin Boult
Associate
Martin has worked as a psychologist, manager, consultant and researcher in the field of executive leadership and organisational psychology since 1998. He started his career as a clinical neuropsychologist and transitioned to organisational consulting with private and public sector businesses in Australia and internationally.
Martin partners with leaders individually and in groups to help them enhance their leadership, psychological awareness, team effectiveness and career progression. He specialises in supporting leaders to develop their executive interpersonal skills, address team dynamics, lead people of different personality styles, lead change initiatives, increase emotional resilience, facilitate conflict management, and prepare early-career managers for senior leadership.
Martin is regularly engaged by executive leadership teams and boards to help them achieve business objectives by aligning their leadership, strategy and cultural norms. He delivers customised solutions for diverse organisations from finance, media, health, government, professional services, transport, scientific and technical sectors. He creates psychologically safe learning environments where people can challenge assumptions and make constructive changes.
Martin is an associate faculty member of Executive Education and MBA programs in Australia and overseas. With a reputation for engaging audiences with practical insights about human psychology, Martin’s work is featured in national media, podcasts, international conferences, corporate events and online learning forums. His clients value his ethical, professional and fun facilitation style, frequently entrusting him with ongoing engagements. He focuses on using evidenced-based ways to improve his clients’ lives by integrating his experience working with leaders and teams from diverse cultures and his ongoing research on leadership, team performance and workplace well-being.
Martin has a Doctorate in Psychology from the University of Melbourne. He draws on his previous experience as a clinical neuropsychologist, business manager, the latest research and his deep expertise of eighteen years as a master certification trainer for a suite of world-renowned leadership and psychological assessments, including The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®️ Step I and II), EQ-i®️ 2.0 emotional intelligence, Center for Creative Leadership 360-Assessments, FIRO-B®️ Interpersonal skills, Workplace Big-5 profile, 16PF®️ profile, CPI-260®️ Personality Assessment, the Strong Interest Inventory.