Monash Professional Development

Professional Development

The more you learn, the more you can make change to the world around you. Study a Monash professional development course and be more.

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To lifelong learners and leading organisations, don’t just be ready for change in your industry, BE the change. Take on a Monash University professional development course and be more.

Why Professional Development at Monash University?

  • Current and future focus

    No matter what you learn, when you study with Monash you'll gain essential, interdisciplinary skills to keep you at the forefront of new possibilities.

  • Expertise

    Delivered by world and industry-leading experts and academics our programs combine rigorous, evidence-based theory with deep industry experiences and partnerships.

  • Customisation

    Co-create programs to target specific needs and opportunities within your organisation and industry; delivering measurable outputs tailored to them.

  • Reputation

    Our global reputation for education and research excellence ranks us in the world’s top-50 universities. We're 37th in the 2022-23 US News and World Report Best Global Universities Rankings and 44th in the 2023 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.

Our impact
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Solving complex problems through design thinking

“The course’s templates were brilliant because they helped us to organise all our ideas and gave us processes for thinking, big and small.”

Nat Vega, Design Thinking participant

Differentiating between empathy and compassion to avoid burnout

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“Empathy can accidentally turn into empathic distress whereas compassion is actually protective for healthcare worker wellbeing”.

Dr Debbie Ling, Lead Course Presenter

Lead the future of healthcare

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“This is a once in a lifetime opportunity. There will be key leaders in health who stand out because they think differently, see the health system with fresh eyes, and take the action that is so desperately needed to create fundamental change. And those leaders will reshape how the future of healthcare operates, impacting many future generations."

Anna Byrne, Partner, NeuroPower Group

A collaboration for best-practice regulation

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In collaboration with Better Regulation Victoria, Monash University ran a micro-credential to support regulatory staff across Australia, make an important contribution to our regulatory outcomes, and maintain Victoria’s reputation as a leader of pragmatic regulatory reforms.
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