Groups within the community based on role, level, function or topics of interest. Our main two Forums are the Country Leadership Team Forum and the HR Team Forum.

Address the specific challenges our members face via one on one or team coaching, keynote speaking at conferences, and the design and delivery of tailored cultural development programs.

“I realized the purpose of life is about pursuing happiness, and that sustainable happiness comes from making others happy” Yuan said. Creating happiness is also a philosophy behind work culture at Zoom.

For over 20 years Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School Amy Edmondson has been researching what high performing teams from around the world across multiple industries do differently. The number one success variable based on the teams she and others such as Google have studied is what Amy calls 'psychological safety', i.e. creating an environment where people feel safe to take interpersonal risk.

This one attribute is positive emotion, not to be confused with ‘positive thinking’ which has actually been shown to be detrimental to performance and well-being in many contexts.

Peter Hartcher, political and international editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Peter provides his perspective on the year ahead for both domestic and regional issues impacting doing business in Australia. 

Liz Wiseman, NYT and WSJ best selling author, co-creator of Oracle University, Thinkers50 2013-2021, Founder & CEO, reveals four pathways for leaders to become multipliers, amplifying the smarts and capabilities of the people around them.

Discuss with Dr Cathy Foley, Australia’s Chief Scientist, how to work with the scientific community to uncover new opportunities, bring innovation into your local market and take them to the world.

Abundance or oblivion? How has the rapid rise of generative AI changed your perspective about the future? One thing is for sure, the relationship between man and machine is only getting stronger. Dr Andy Walshe has been at the forefront of human machine research and application since 2006, investigating how technology can fast track elite performance with individuals, teams and organisations ranging from DARPA, USA Olympic teams, and numerous global corporations. Prior to this Andy was the High Performance Director at Redbull training extreme athletes and artists to perform and create at levels beyond what they thought were possible.  

Discussion about uncertainties ranging from the changing nature of industrial relations, the uncertainty of the geopolitical landscape, ongoing concerns about cost-of-living pressures and more.

Join Megan Reitz, Professor of Leadership and Dialogue at Ashridge Executive Education UK, and 2021 #1 ranked Thinker in Thinker50, as she explores with us what needs to be said, and how we can better hear what needs to be heard.

During this Abundium Masterclass with Fred we will explore four of those challenges: disengagement, disorganization, disinformation and disillusionment. In Fred’s disarmingly calm yet provocative way we will discuss ‘why your job is not your job’, ‘why a leader has no followers’, and the notions of ‘response-ability’ and ‘success beyond success’. Ultimately, Fred will share his solution to these challenges we face drawing on his life’s work and research from his days as a Professor of Economics at MIT to now.