About this episode

This episode explores the impact of shared leadership through real-world stories and practical lessons on collaboration and trust-building.

What happens when leadership is shared, not centralised? Impact at scale requires collaboration across governments, business, philanthropy, and communities. This episode explores real-world stories of distributed leadership, including Indigenous and citizen-led approaches that demonstrate how collective leadership can create more just and sustainable outcomes. Listeners will hear practical lessons on building trust, sharing power, and mobilising diverse groups towards common goals. Key Themes & Talking Points: The value of distributed leadership across sectors. Indigenous and citizen-led models as exemplars of collective leadership. Building trust and partnerships to drive systemic change. What collective leadership teaches us about the future of leadership development. With Toby P. Newstead from University of Tasmania and Jack Manning from AIME and Liz Gillies from Menzies Leadership Foundation

People in this episode

Guests: Dr Toby Newstead, Jack Manning Bancroft, Liz Gillies

Topics covered

• collective leadership
• distributed leadership
• collaboration
• Indigenous leadership
• citizen-led approaches
• trust building
• systemic change

Keywords

• leadership
• collaboration
• trust
• Indigenous
• citizen-led
• systemic change
• sustainability

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Tasmania, AIME, Menzies Leadership Foundation

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