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:

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

  • Your boardroom key strengths and challenges – how you manage relationships and respond to stress in the boardroom, to do your best work.
  • Communication styles in the boardroom – how to navigate different communication styles.
  • Personality traits & board dynamics – a model to understand and respond positively and powerfully to others.
  • What motivates you as a board director – How understanding your motivations helps you make the right board career choices.
  • Getting clear on your board strategy – knowing what you want and where you can add value.
  • Defining your Board Director Value Proposition – Different from your executive positioning!
  • How you should approach social media as a board director – a balance between brand ambassador roles, and between authenticity and risk.
  • Purposeful and confident networking in board circles: The importance of your Elevator Pitch & Networking Strategy for board roles.

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 –