Adaptive Leadership
**This WiBF Webinar offers CPD Points (1 pt)**
Fiona Robertson unpacks Adaptive Leadership—a transformative framework designed to help leaders and organisations navigate the complexities of today’s ever-changing world. Developed by Ronald Heifetz, Marty Linsky, and others at the Harvard Kennedy School, the core idea is to enable leaders to address challenges that do not have straightforward, technical solutions and instead require new learning, innovation, and collaboration.
In this webinar we will discuss what makes adaptive leadership special including:
- Focus on Complex Challenges: Unlike technical problems, which have clear solutions and can often be resolved by an expert, adaptive challenges are complex and involve changing people’s values, beliefs, and behaviours. Adaptive Leadership equips leaders to tackle these kinds of problems effectively.
- Encourages Experimentation: Adaptive Leadership emphasises a willingness to experiment, take risks, and adapt strategies based on what works, rather than relying on established methods that may no longer be effective.
- Mobilises People: Adaptive leaders engage and mobilise their teams and stakeholders to co-create solutions. They guide people through the discomfort of change by addressing resistance and creating a shared vision for the future.
- Builds Resilience: It fosters resilience by encouraging leaders to focus on learning, growth and agility, rather than being paralysed by uncertainty or fear of failure.
- Emphasises Emotional Intelligence: Adaptive Leadership requires self-awareness, empathy, and the ability to manage relationships effectively. Leaders must be attuned to their own emotions and those of their teams, fostering trust and open communication.
- Challenges the Status Quo: It encourages leaders to ask difficult questions and confront deeply held assumptions that might be limiting growth or innovation.
Key takeaways:
- • What is Adaptive Leadership
- • What makes Adaptive Leadership so special
- • Resources for further study
**Certifier Info:
Financial Education Professionals PTY LTD Registered Training Organisation (90725) | ABN 51 096 944 062 Suite 704 Level 7 70 Castlereagh Street Sydney NSW 2000 | +61 2 9233 2000
ANZ Brisbane
The Future of Work – Hosted by WiBF, ANZ & UQ – SOLD OUT
Overview
Join Co-Hosts ANZ and UQ for a cocktail event, joined by a panel of experts to discuss the Future of Work in Queensland.
The Future of Work in Queensland event, hosted by ANZ and UQ, is shaping up to be an insightful night. Our panel of experts will delve into the essential skill sets required to thrive in your career over the coming years. Don’t miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights and prepare for the future of work in QLD.
Key topics for discussion include:
- · Valuable skills that are currently in short supply.
- · The impact of AI on the workforce.
- · Strategies for pivoting in your career.
- · Date: Tuesday, 18 February 2025
- · Time: 4:00 – 6:30pm (AEST)
- · Venue: Brisbane CBD – Customs House, 399 Queen St
- · Dress Code: Business Casual
Join us for drinks & canapes and the opportunity to network with fellow professionals in the Banking and Finance Industry.
Please note, the event has now reached full capacity. If you can no longer attend, please email Hayley at connect@wibf.org.au to let us know.
Financial Wellness: Navigating Superannuation and Investments
**This WiBF Webinar offers CPD Points (1 pt)**
We’ll explore the key elements of financial wellness, including how to align your investments with your values and life goals, improve your superannuation for long-term security, and avoid common financial pitfalls. With a focus on the unique challenges women face, we’ll provide practical strategies to help you build stability and confidence in your financial future. This session blends expert insights with actionable advice, empowering you to take control of your money and create the secure, fulfilling life you deserve.
- • Importance of Financial Wellbeing: What makes someone financially ‘well’? How does poor financial wellbeing impact women and what can you do to improve your own situation?
- • Invest in your Ideal Life: The top considerations to ensure you invest correctly for your values and big life goals.
- • Stability & Security through Superannuation: Haven’t checked your Super in a while? We will cover how to ensure your money is invested correctly for you, to give you long-term security and peace of mind.
- • Common pitfalls and simple smart strategies: Learn what to avoid and the steps you can take, no matter your age or income, to secure a brighter financial future.
This webinar will give you an introduction to the Masterclass Financial Wellness: Navigating Superannuation and Investments.
**Certifier Info:
Financial Education Professionals PTY LTD Registered Training Organisation (90725) | ABN 51 096 944 062 Suite 704 Level 7 70 Castlereagh Street Sydney NSW 2000 | +61 2 9233 2000
WiBF & NAB Event, supported by LinkedIn: Women Leading Wealth – MELBOURNE
WiBF is proud to offer an invitation to join us for an exclusive networking event at NAB Place. During this lunchtime event, we will bring together women leaders in Private Banking, who will share their top tips and experiences on excelling in a career in Private Wealth. Whether you’re starting out on your Private Wealth career journey, or stepping into a leadership role, this event is for you.
Please note; This event invitation is open for female leaders only. Spaces are limited, so please only register for this event if you meet the invitation criteria.
What to expect
During this invitation-only event, you will hear from five leaders who are paving the way for future talent in NAB Private Wealth and JBWere. Our inspiring speakers will share top-tips and advice on creating legacy standard careers, and delivering the best for clients.
Come ready to engage, connect, and empower one another as we embark on our own career journeys.
- – Date: Thursday 29th May
- – Time: networking from 11:30am, panel discussion from 12:00pm – 1:30pm
- – Location: NAB Place, Customer Lounge, Level 11, 395 Bourke Street, Melbourne VIC
- – Dress: Business / Smart Casual
- – Light food and refreshments will be provided
If you have registered for the event and can no longer attend, please email connect@wibf.org.au to advise.
Crafting Your Personal & Professional Brand Strategy
Masterclass date: Thursday 7th August 2025
**This WiBF Masterclass offers 1 CPD Point**
Personal brand effectiveness is achieved through clear, succinct and authentic key messages built around a methodology of “who” and “what” people represent so they can illustrate their authenticity, purpose and position in the market.
This session is a deep dive into how to build your personal and professional brand and covers:
- – Critical tips to establish your unique brand and authenticity
- – Understanding the difference between a business brand & a personal brand
- – Living your brand, the way you need & want
Focus Areas:
- – Helping managers and leaders build their personal and professional brand and network
- – Enabling people to better manage and understand the impact of their behaviour and habits to ensure improved relationships
- – To help drive better and more effective conversations more simply and easily making communication clearer
Join us for a facilitator lead in-depth Masterclass, focused on crafting your personal and professional brand strategy
Date: Thursday 7th August 2025
Time: 9:00am to 11:30am AEDT
Location: Zoom Meeting
https://sandbox11.websitetesting.co/program/crafting-your-personal-professional-brand-strategy/
AI in Finance: Trends, Tools, and Culture Shifts
Masterclass date: Thursday 24th July 2025
Embark on a journey into the dynamic world of Artificial Intelligence with our comprehensive guide to understanding the various AI tools shaping the technological landscape in the banking & finance industry. This session will cover the following areas:
In this 2.5 hour interactive and informative Masterclass, Will Liang will cover the following areas:
- – Most recent innovations in AI
- – The benefits and potentials
- – The risk and concerns
- – Understanding essential AI tools and large language models
- – How to prepare yourself and your organisation in the age of AI
Join us for a facilitator lead in-depth Masterclass, focused on AI in Finance: Trends, Tools and Culture Shifts
Date: Thursday 24th July 2025
Time: 9:00am to 11:30am AEDT
Location: Zoom Meeting
https://sandbox11.websitetesting.co/program/ai-in-finance-trends-tools-and-culture-shifts/
Financial Wellness: Navigating Superannuation and Investments
**This WiBF Masterclass offers CPD Points (1 pt)**
Masterclass date: Thursday 8th May 2025
As a finance professional, you’re likely to already understand the importance of strategic money management—but what about your own personal financial wellness? Women in Australia are likely to earn less and have disrupted work patterns – seeing many retire with significantly less money than men whilst, on average, living longer…Meaning that money needs to stretch further. How can you ensure you set yourself up to be financially stable and secure?
In this session, we’ll break down:
- · Importance of Financial Wellbeing: What makes someone financially ‘well’? How does poor financial wellbeing impact women and what can you do to improve your own situation?
- · Invest in your Ideal Life: The top considerations to ensure you invest correctly for your values and big life goals.
- · Stability & Security through Superannuation: Haven’t checked your Super in a while? We will cover how to ensure your money is invested correctly for you, to give you long-term security and peace of mind.
- · Common pitfalls and simple smart strategies: Learn what to avoid and the steps you can take, no matter your age or income, to secure a brighter financial future.
This session blends expertise with practicality, empowering you to refine your financial strategy and focus on your financial goals with confidence.
Join us for a facilitator lead in-depth Masterclass, focused on how to navigate superannuation and investments.
Date: Thursday 8th May 2025
Time: 9:00am to 11:30am AEDT
Location: Zoom Meeting
https://sandbox11.websitetesting.co/program/financial-wellness-navigating-superannuation-investments/
Thriving Teams in Tricky Times – Cultivating Resilience & Psychological Safety
**This WiBF Masterclass offers CPD Points (1 pt)**
Masterclass date: Thursday 10th April 2025
How do you create an environment where your people thrive – individually and as a team – especially when things go wrong? Let’s face it, disruption is a part of our day-to-day work, so before your team gets to crisis point, learn how to manage the common human challenges of working as a team, such as how to handle mistakes, failure, and stress responses that can lead to accidental unkindness and frustration. What’s more, in a world that is increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA), this level of uncertainty can take its toll on even the most motivated of individuals, and disengagement, defensiveness and distrust can creep into even the most well-established teams.
In this hands-on workshop, you’ll be equipped with the tools, practices, and confidence to steer your team through the storms of adversity.
From ‘Black Box Thinking’, tapping into ‘Struggle’ and ‘Kindful leadership’, to ‘Growth vs Fixed mindset’, you’ll come away with a new appreciation of what it takes to cultivate a culture where individuals thrive at work and together as a team to deliver a thriving performance – whether in calm seas or the thickest of storms.
Who should attend? People who lead and manage a team – no matter how large or small – with the desire to build a thriving team culture of psychologically safe, resilient and motivated individuals. This is also perfect for intact teams to begin building a shared understanding and culture of psychological safety.
This session will cover:
- – Discover the four key elements for thriving teams.
- – Create a Psychological Safety Checklist for practical improvement.
- – Identify next steps for fostering resilient, growth-minded individuals and teams.
- – Develop a mindset that turns mistakes into learning opportunities.
Date: Thursday 10th April 2025
Time: 12:30pm to 3:00pm AEDT
Location: Zoom Meeting
https://sandbox11.websitetesting.co/program/thriving-teams-in-tricky-times-cultivating-resilience-psychological-safety/
Delegate Like a Productivity Ninja – Empower Your Team, Reclaim Your Time!
Masterclass date: Thursday 13th November 2025
Did you know that by optimizing the way your people delegate, you can build an organisation of thinkers? Delegating and doing it brilliantly empowers your team members to think and to problem-solve in new and innovative ways. Suddenly you are building a culture of thinking, engaged, motivated problem-solvers, rather than a culture of overloaded, responsibility-burdened managers.
This Masterclass shares the Productivity Ninja® approach to brilliant delegation, helps us see how our delegation style can affect others, and reveals the unstoppable personal and wider benefits of delegation to reclaim time and reshape the culture to create an organisation of thinkers.
This session will cover:
- – Take a fresh look at what stops you delegating and find ways to overcome this.
- – Plan what great delegation will look like in the future and in detail, so you can leave the session ready to put learning into action.
- – Take the time to consider the strengths of the people around you and allowing for better delegation to the right people.
- – Learn how to prioritise, Ninja-style, to ensure we’re all working on the right things!
Join us for a facilitator lead in-depth Masterclass, focused on delegation, and prioritisation
Date: Thursday 13th November 2025
Time: 9:00am to 11:30am AEDT
Location: Zoom Meeting
Overcoming Perfectionism and Imposter Syndrome
Masterclass date: Thursday 6th March 2025
Being a perfectionist and a people pleaser is a painful way to live and work. Nothing is ever good enough, especially one’s own performance. When perfectionists win, to them it feels like a loss anyway. “I could have done better,” they tell themselves.
Can you relate to this? Are you feeling exhausted and on the cusp of burn-out? If you’re ready to break free from perfectionism and people-pleasing, this WiBF Masterclass is for you!
In this transformative session we will:
- – Explore the concept of perfectionism and distinguish between healthy striving and unattainable perfection.
- – Identify the origins of perfectionistic tendencies and recognise common triggers that fuel perfectionist behaviour.
- – Examine the psychological and emotional toll of perfectionism, including stress, anxiety, and the fear of failure.
- – Explore how these behaviours can affect career progression, mental health, and overall job satisfaction.
- – Join us for a facilitator lead in-depth Masterclass, focused on overcoming perfectionism and imposter syndrome.
Date: Thursday 6th March 2025
Time: 9:00am to 11:30am AEDT
Location: Zoom Meeting
https://sandbox11.websitetesting.co/program/overcoming-perfectionism-and-imposter-syndrome/
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