Special Topics
We collaborate with other experts to bring our audiences specialist keynotes and workshops around Australia and beyond.
Take a look at our current offering of special topics.
NWC supports people to create meaning and value through work, both personally and collectively, with these specialist topics focused on the world we live in now.
Avoiding Random Acts of Digital:
Executing a value-adding, values-driven AI strategy
Keynote / Webinar / Roundtable presented by Lindsey Hershman, Managing Director AI Access and Julissa Shrewsbury, Managing Director, New Work Consulting
Who is this for? This session is for Board Directors and Senior Leaders tackling organisation-wide AI strategy and adoption seeking to enhance trust and transparency with their workforce and customers.
Overview: Lindsey and Julissa will share how to operationalise AI in your enterprise while building trust and transparency with your workforce and customers, to enhance productivity, employee engagement and customer experience.
Key Take-Aways:
Start with an intentional AI Strategy:
- Connect your strategy with organisational purpose and values
- Identify your highest value use cases to support strategy execution
- Discuss example AI use cases
Set strong foundations to Operationalise AI:
- Understand the current regulatory landscape
- Establish Board & Management alignment with clear Governance Framework
- Implement AI governance best practices to operationalise, establish guardrails along the AI lifecycle.
Succeed in AI Adoption:
- Engage, enable and manage risk to deliver value.
- Crucial elements of leadership communication and team engagement on the journey
- Brand and reputation considerations as you implement AI
Presentation fee: $3000 + GST
Who are you as a Board Director?
Shaping your board director identity and experience
Keynote / Webinar / Roundtable with Kate Woodley, Founder of Upboard Global and Julissa Shrewsbury, Managing Director of New Work Consulting
Who is this for? Aspiring, new and existing board directors who seek an intentional approach to shaping their board director experience.
Overview:
A board career can be very rewarding, and today we are seeing a diverse range of professionals taking advantage of this, which is great news for business.
Yet, as they navigate their careers, common challenges for directors include:
- Landing board roles when you are new or ‘different’
- Gaining the types of board roles you want
- Quickly establishing credibility and trust in the boardroom as a new board member
- Building strong relationships with the Chair and the CEO
- Getting along with challenging personalities in the boardroom and being heard
- Bringing a competitive ‘edge’ to the boardroom, responsive to changing times
Having a clear understanding of your identity as a board director will influence your board career and your board experience.
Key Take-Aways:
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How you see yourself as a Board Director – with Board Coach & Psychologist Kate Woodley |
How others see you as a Board Director – with Leadership & Director Brand Expert Julissa Shrewsbury |
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Presentation fee: $3000 + GST
Bring It:
Develop Professional Authority
When you address your limiting beliefs, imposter syndrome and fear of the path unseen… you are free to find your inner resources and channel confidence.
When you clarify the value you bring at work, define your personal brand and learn how to communicate with authority, you will project confidence and stand out as a leader in your field.
A keynote, webinar, workshop or full program
with psychologist, author and media commentator Dr Marny Lishman and New Work Consulting’s Managing Director Julissa Shrewsbury
Participants will:
- consider the importance of personal leadership
- break down barriers to their achievement
- foster internal confidence
- define what sets them apart at work
- learn to communicate their value and elevate their professional image, in person and online
- discover tools for communicating with confidence and authority
Typical outcomes participants report:
- increased overall confidence day-to-day
- willingness to put a hand up to try new projects or activities
- ease in speaking with prospects and clients
- increased clarity in what they bring to stakeholders increased ability to communicate with confidence and build trust with clients
- improved self-image
- improved personal presentation
- stepping up into more challenging roles
- growth in client base
- increased personal income or sales
The Bring It model
to develop professional authority includes:
© 2018 Dr Marny Lishman & New Work Consulting Pty Ltd
Book the 1 hour information-rich overview seminar.
And an applied and actionable half day workshop.
Package rates available for multiple sessions.
Testimonials
“Through their ongoing program, the speakers highlight the importance of developing professional confidence and authority and provided a number of communication tips for professionals. It was an honour to host this launch event for the Bring It team and showcase the valuable work they do to a wider audience.”
– Kirstin Stewart, Partner at HLB Mann Judd –
“Great event. I found it very valuable and the Bring It model helps to reveal our gaps to allow us to be the best we can with our personal and professional lives.”
– Brad Dunn, Key Relationships Manager at Momentum Wealth –
“We can get so caught up in the busyness of work that we don’t check in with ourselves, or spend the time clarifying our purpose so we can bring the best authentic versions of ourselves to what we do. I am really pleased I invested in some ‘me’ time tonight and very happy I spent it being inspired by amazing professional women who know how to ‘Bring it’!”
– Jemma Green, Chief Innovation Officer at City of Canning –