Interconnected Leader

Equipping you with a toolkit of mindfulness and somatic leadership practices to help you lead more naturally and integratively while navigating complex systems.

Start Date:
March 20, 2025
May 29, 2025
Duration:
10 Weeks
Format:
Online, alternating 1.5 and 3 hours per week
Cost:
$2,500 + GST
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Equality & Democracy
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Interconnected Leader empowers individuals to successfully navigate the complexities of leadership by integrating mindfulness and somatic practices into the way they lead – connecting with our inner wisdom to foster personal growth and build collective harmony.

It's time for a new kind of leadership. 

Now more than ever, we find ourselves in a world of conflict and separation. Traditional approaches to business, economics, and leadership no longer serve us. 

To create the Next Economy, we need leaders who draw intelligence from their head, heart and senses: those who know how to follow their inner compass to chart the course and successfully navigate the contradictions and complexities of leadership.

Through experiential enquiry, this Deep Dive has been designed to equip changemakers with a toolkit of mindfulness and somatic leadership practices to enable them to lead more naturally and integratively. By tapping into our collective wisdom, we'll cultivate aliveness, openness, coherence and courage in ourselves, our organisations and society.

Who is this program for?

This program is tailored for leaders in decision-making positions and organisations and communities seeking deep understanding and valuable techniques to navigate the complexities of leadership with courage and authenticity. The skills you'll build in this course will empower your personal leadership and equip you to lead others beyond conflict – individual identities, cultures, and ‘us' vs. ‘them' mindsets – towards regenerative new solutions. 

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What you'll learn

During these eleven weeks, we will explore some of today's cultural, social, and environmental challenges. We'll delve into why our organisations and communities so often generate outcomes that no one wants and how we can shift both ourselves and the systems around us.  

The Interconnected Leader will introduce you to tools, practices and frameworks that support you in deepening your understanding and awareness of the dynamics and structures around you and in your own thinking and how they bring about issues from a leadership and management context. We do this through exploring ideas of paradox, complexity and the emerging future. 

The Interconnected Leader offers a more hands-on, interpersonal, collaborative, and transformative learning setting than you may have previously experienced in online programs.  

Walk away with the skills to:

  • Effectively chart a course in a complex and unpredictable world
  • Uncover your natural, authentic style and innate wisdom
  • Unleash compassion, courage and creativity
  • Develop leadership capabilities in connection and collective intelligence
  • Enhance well being

Areas of Focus:

Course material will highlight the latest science, leadership modalities and techniques to explore the many facets of interconnection, including:

  • Body and mind as an intelligent, integrated system
  • Feminine and masculine leadership styles and wisdom
  • Science-based neuroplasticity and habit formation
  • The social ecology of interconnected leadership

It will also offer important insights into the interpersonal neurobiology of our body-mind connection to notice and apply the language of our entire somatic and emotional spectrums to generate solutions for ourselves, others and the environment.

The Curriculum & Structure

This 11-week Deep Dive offers alternating weeks of facilitated focused learning and small group experiential gathering to bring a unique blend of self-reflective, interactive and guided processes to clarify what interconnection means to you and to others and how they can be brought to your organisations and communities.

The course has seven facilitated focused learning sessions and four small group experiential gathering sessions called Interconnected Conversations.

Our learning sessions run from 4–7pm, and conversation pods run from 6–7:30pm

Week 1: Thursday , 20 March 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm AEST - Welcome: Emergent leadership in complex times (3 hours)

Week 2: Thursday 27 March, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm AEST - Introduction to interconnected conversation pods (1.5 hours)

Week 3: Thursday 3 April, 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm AEST - The leadership that matters most: self knowledge in systems (3 hours)

Week 4: Thursday 10 April, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm AEST - Interconnected Conversation Pod (1.5 hours)

Week 5: Thursday 17 April, 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm AEST - Rebalancing the dance of leadership between masculine and feminine (3 hours)

Week 6: Thursday 24 April, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm AEST - Interconnected Conversation Pod (1.5 hours)

Week 7:  Thursday 1 May, 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm AEST - Coherence in cycles of change: birth and death (3 hours)

Week 8: Thursday 8 May, 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm AEST - Interconnected Conversation Pod (1.5 hours)

Week 9: Thursday 15 May, 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm AEST - Leading with interconnection workshop (3 hours)

Week 10: Thursday 22 May, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm AEST- Interconnected Conversation Pod (1.5 hours)

Week 11: Thursday 29 May, 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm AEST - Stepping out with interconnected leadership (3 hours

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"The power of attention is the real superpower of our age. Attention, aligned with intention, can make mountains move."

- Otto Scharmer

Program Guides

Our guides bring their diverse experience to building capacity in leaders across the world. Tamsin, Mele-Ane, and Michael work with leaders to cultivate the creativity, courage and power urgently required to create real, lasting and conscious change in the world around us.

Tamsin Jones

Head of Programs Small Giants

Tamsin has a background in venture building and creating systems level impact. This has included influencing local and regional shifts to more inclusive and collective innovation and governance. Her passion is reigniting creativity, well-being and healthy growth in conscious leaders that can unlock collective intelligence towards decisions that bring our relationship to all living things into balance.

She is a strategic advisor to conscious CEOs, impact professionals, gender lens funds and women in leadership in the development of projects that sustain people and the planet.  Tamsin is also a regular contributor and advisor on leadership to c-suite networks.

Over the past two decades Tamsin has co-founded and advised a string of initiatives built on principles of inclusivity including the leading solution for board diversity across Africa, TheBoardroom Africa, The Rallying Cry to bring women business leaders for climate action on the frontlines to the forefront of global decision making and the Workshop17 inclusive innovation hub in Cape Town.  

Tamsin is a proud trustee of The Flipflopi Initiative to end single use plastic in East Africa.

Tamsin is the Head of the Mastery of Business and Empathy (MBE) at Small Giants Academy.

Tamsin has a background in venture building and creating systems level impact. This has included influencing local and regional shifts to more inclusive and collective innovation and governance. Her passion is reigniting creativity, well-being and healthy growth in conscious leaders that can unlock collective intelligence towards decisions that bring our relationship to all living things into balance.

She is a strategic advisor to conscious CEOs, impact professionals, gender lens funds and women in leadership in the development of projects that sustain people and the planet.  Tamsin is also a regular contributor and advisor on leadership to c-suite networks.

Over the past two decades Tamsin has co-founded and advised a string of initiatives built on principles of inclusivity including the leading solution for board diversity across Africa, TheBoardroom Africa, The Rallying Cry to bring women business leaders for climate action on the frontlines to the forefront of global decision making and the Workshop17 inclusive innovation hub in Cape Town.  

Tamsin is a proud trustee of The Flipflopi Initiative to end single use plastic in East Africa.

Tamsin is the Head of the Mastery of Business and Empathy (MBE) at Small Giants Academy.

Michael Bartura

Leadership Coach

Michael has a rich and versatile background in Therapy, Education, Business as well as Training & Development including 12 years as a therapist, 17 years as a senior manager in business and not-for-profits and over ten years leading, training and coaching individuals and groups internationally.

He is an associate of the Asian Leadership Institute which drives senior executive programs backed up by neuroscience. With more than 20 years of Transformational Leadership experience his work has helped a diversity of Managers in four continents to learn and grow themselves as well as inspire growth in their teams and organisations.  

Michael’s coaching incorporates an evidenced-based process of unpacking and then retooling/resourcing the way you see the world and how your thought processes will better serve you.

Having trained in various modalities across the mind-body spectrum and more recently in the science-based Positive Neuroplasticity, Michael now runs his own Life & Leadership coaching and training outfit.

Michael has a rich and versatile background in Therapy, Education, Business as well as Training & Development including 12 years as a therapist, 17 years as a senior manager in business and not-for-profits and over ten years leading, training and coaching individuals and groups internationally.

He is an associate of the Asian Leadership Institute which drives senior executive programs backed up by neuroscience. With more than 20 years of Transformational Leadership experience his work has helped a diversity of Managers in four continents to learn and grow themselves as well as inspire growth in their teams and organisations.  

Michael’s coaching incorporates an evidenced-based process of unpacking and then retooling/resourcing the way you see the world and how your thought processes will better serve you.

Having trained in various modalities across the mind-body spectrum and more recently in the science-based Positive Neuroplasticity, Michael now runs his own Life & Leadership coaching and training outfit.

Mele-Ane Havea

A passionate and experienced governance professional, Mele-Ane’s work explores the intersection of cultural wisdom, purpose-led business, and the “next economy,” and believes in the immense power of storytelling for change. Mele-Ane holds an MBA from Oxford, where she was a fellow of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. She also has an LLB/BA from Monash University.

Mele has over 20 years of experience reporting to Boards and Board sub-committees with over 13 years of experience as a non-executive Director of Boards. Her experience spans ASX-listed companies, not-for-profits and for-purpose organisations across a wide range of sectors.

A passionate and experienced governance professional, Mele-Ane’s work explores the intersection of cultural wisdom, purpose-led business, and the “next economy,” and believes in the immense power of storytelling for change. Mele-Ane holds an MBA from Oxford, where she was a fellow of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. She also has an LLB/BA from Monash University.

Mele has over 20 years of experience reporting to Boards and Board sub-committees with over 13 years of experience as a non-executive Director of Boards. Her experience spans ASX-listed companies, not-for-profits and for-purpose organisations across a wide range of sectors.

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Your investment

What does Interconnected Leader cost?

$2,500 + GST

B Corp concession rate: $2,250 + GST

NFP and Registered Charities: $2,000 + GST

If you are a leader experiencing systemic and/or financial barriers to participation, please reach out and talk to our programs team.

FAQs and Details

Do you offer refunds?

We do not offer refunds, however if you have purchased a ticket to an event and are no longer able to attend, please email us 2 weeks before the event date and we will be happy to transfer you to another event of equal value.

Do you provide accessibility options?

If you require Auslan Interpretation, please contact us at programs@smallgiants.com.au at least 2 weeks prior to the course. We will be very happy to arrange this for you.

Got a question?

We’d love to hear from you. Please email us at programs@smallgiants.com.au

Indigenous and First Peoples

Small Giants Academy commits to taking action that contributes to reconciliation and healing, and specifically to supporting Indigenous business, voices and issues. In understanding the importance of having Indigenous participation in our programs, reduced rates are available to First Peoples in Australia and those who identify as Indigenous throughout the world.

Do you offer refunds?

We do not offer refunds, however if you have purchased a ticket to an event and are no longer able to attend, please email us 2 weeks before the event date and we will be happy to transfer you to another event of equal value.

Do you provide accessibility options?

If you require Auslan Interpretation, please contact us at programs@smallgiants.com.au at least 2 weeks prior to the course. We will be very happy to arrange this for you.

Got a question?

We’d love to hear from you. Please email us at programs@smallgiants.com.au

Indigenous and First Peoples

Small Giants Academy commits to taking action that contributes to reconciliation and healing, and specifically to supporting Indigenous business, voices and issues. In understanding the importance of having Indigenous participation in our programs, reduced rates are available to First Peoples in Australia and those who identify as Indigenous throughout the world.

Ready to transform your leadership? 

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