Rising Leadership Program

The Rising Leadership Program is designed to develop mid-career professionals from all sectors and industries, and equip you with the tools and frameworks to become authentic, courageous and effective leaders.

The experiential Program includes cohort-based learning; experiential by design. Participants advance together through the Program with personal and collective learning, reflections and action.

Over the six-month Rising Leadership Program, you will explore a variety of themes through collaborative discussions and unique leadership experiences, specifically tailored to your journey as a leader. This Program provides you with invaluable access to some of Western Australia’s most insightful leaders, as they share their leadership journeys with candor under ‘Chatham House Rule’.

By embarking on the Rising Leadership Program, you will strengthen your leadership skills and broaden your perspectives, alongside a cohort who have been carefully curated to ensure diversity of thought and experience.

“The Rising Leadership Program provided me with the opportunity to reflect on my professional and personal journey, both past and future, and helped me better understand how I could be more effective and impactful through my actions. Rising also provided me with an incredible network of people that I can now call on for guidance.” – Regan Ashley | Senior Project Manager, Vital Images, Rising Leadership Program Graduate

Learning Outcomes

The Rising Leadership Program focuses on developing both the inner and outer game of courageous and authentic Leadership – inner thoughts and emotions and the outer actions at work.

You will receive frameworks, tools and relevant resources.

The Program has 3 foundation pillars:

Leading Me

• Understand who you are as an authentic leader
• Identify and build on your existing strengths
• Create helpful habits to lead with courage, wellness and to flourish

Leading Us

• Inspire people and teams to achieve performance goals by focusing on outcomes over output
• Apply human-centered leadership strategies and tools, such as coaching and feedback
• Gain confidence and capacity to lead teams through complex challenges

Leading Together

• Increase your ability to drive positive change and new ways of working
• Create collaborative networks and relationships to advance your organisation’s purpose
• Improve your ability to influence and make an impact

Program Overview

The Rising Leadership Program is uniquely structured with carefully designed immersive cohort learning experiences.

Set over 12 unique leadership Experience Days, the Rising Leadership Program combines collaborative group work, opportunities for reflection and diverse experiences with respected WA leaders. Each Experience Day typically runs from 9:00am to 4:00pm and include refreshments and lunch.

Throughout the Program, you will consolidate your leadership learnings by working in groups on a Community Project. These Projects allow you to share your combined skills, expertise and time with a WA not-for-profit organisation, contributing to a range of important strategic outcomes within the sector.

Alumni Network

Following completion of the Program. you will join a strong and influential network of over 1200 Leadership WA Alumni. This network comes together regularly to continue to grow and learn, and to give back by contributing to Leadership WA’s Skillsbank initiative, where Alumni share their expertise and time to support social impact activities across WA, making a real and meaningful difference in the community.