Equipping you with a toolkit of mindfulness and somatic leadership practices to help you lead more naturally and integratively while navigating complex systems.
Over eleven weeks, we will explore some of today's cultural, social, and environmental challenges. We'll delve into why our organisations and communities so often generate outcomes that no one wants and how we can shift both ourselves and the systems around us.
The Interconnected Leader will introduce you to tools, practices and frameworks that support you in deepening your understanding and awareness of the dynamics and structures around you and in your own thinking and how they bring about issues from a leadership and management context. We do this through exploring ideas of paradox, complexity and the emerging future.
The Interconnected Leader offers a more hands-on, interpersonal, collaborative, and transformative learning setting than you may have previously experienced in online programs.
“This course helped me deeply reflect on my self-identity and purpose, not only as a professional, but as a community member, a friend, a partner, and general being on this earth. It has expanded my understanding of true leadership, and put me on a path to confidently step into my next chapter” – Emma 2025
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Now more than ever, we find ourselves in a world of conflict and separation. Traditional approaches to business, economics, and leadership no longer serve us.
To create the Next Economy, we need leaders who draw intelligence from their head, heart and senses: those who know how to follow their inner compass to chart the course and successfully navigate the contradictions and complexities of leadership.
Through experiential enquiry, this Deep Dive has been designed to equip changemakers with a toolkit of mindfulness and somatic leadership practices to enable them to lead more naturally and integratively. By tapping into our collective wisdom, we'll cultivate aliveness, openness, coherence and courage in ourselves, our organisations and society.
"The Interconnected Leader Deep Dive was one of the most truly unique learning experiences I have had in my life. I felt like I was part of a wonderful community of interconnected humans from all walks, ages, work types". - Sarah, 2024
This program is tailored for leaders in decision-making positions and organisations and communities seeking deep understanding and valuable techniques to navigate the complexities of leadership with courage and authenticity. The skills you'll build in this course will empower your personal leadership and equip you to lead others beyond conflict – individual identities, cultures, and ‘us' vs. ‘them' mindsets – towards regenerative new solutions.
“The course really helped me to comprehend what it means to lead at a deeper level. It helped me to be more comfortable in a proverbial liminal space, where I am seeking to learn more than to act.” – Mark 2022
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– Otto Scharmer
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This 11-week Deep Dive offers alternating weeks of facilitated, focused learning and small group experiential gathering to bring a unique blend of self-reflective, interactive and guided processes to clarify what interconnection means to you and to others, and how they can be brought to your organisations and communities. Our learning sessions run from 4-7pm, and conversation pods run from 6-7:30pm.
Course material will highlight the latest science, leadership modalities and techniques to explore the many facets of interconnection, including:
It will also offer important insights into the interpersonal neurobiology of our body-mind connection to notice and apply the language of our entire somatic and emotional spectrums to generate solutions for ourselves, others and the environment.
“The Interconnected Leader program helped me to be braver, to shift old habits of thinking and take up more space as a leader” – Melinda 2024
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With a background in organisational strategy, gender lens investing, and leadership development, Tamsin has advised the Premier of South Australia and gone on to co-create several global initiatives including the inclusive innovation hub Workshop17, TheBoardroom Africa, and The Rallying Cry—shifting capital at the intersection of gender, nature, and climate.
Tamsin holds an MBA from the University of Oxford, where she was a scholar at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. She brings a deep commitment to inner work and outer change, helping leaders navigate complexity with clarity, care, and courage.
Michael has a rich and versatile background in Therapy, Education, Business as well as Training & Development including 12 years as a therapist, 17 years as a senior manager in business and not-for-profits and over ten years leading, training and coaching individuals and groups internationally.
He is an associate of the Asian Leadership Institute which drives senior executive programs backed up by neuroscience. With more than 20 years of Transformational Leadership experience his work has helped a diversity of Managers in four continents to learn and grow themselves as well as inspire growth in their teams and organisations.
Michael’s coaching incorporates an evidenced-based process of unpacking and then retooling/resourcing the way you see the world and how your thought processes will better serve you.
Having trained in various modalities across the mind-body spectrum and more recently in the science-based Positive Neuroplasticity, Michael now runs his own Life & Leadership coaching and training outfit.
A passionate and experienced governance professional, Mele-Ane’s work explores the intersection of cultural wisdom, purpose-led business, and the “next economy,” and believes in the immense power of storytelling for change. Mele-Ane holds an MBA from Oxford, where she was a fellow of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. She also has an LLB/BA from Monash University.
Mele has over 20 years of experience reporting to Boards and Board sub-committees with over 13 years of experience as a non-executive Director of Boards. Her experience spans ASX-listed companies, not-for-profits and for-purpose organisations across a wide range of sectors.
$2,500 + GST
B Corp concession rate: $2,250 + GST
NFP and Registered Charities: $2,000 + GST
If you are a leader experiencing systemic and/or financial barriers to participation, please reach out and talk to our programs team.
- Otto Scharmer
We do not offer refunds, however if you have purchased a ticket to an event and are no longer able to attend, please email us 2 weeks before the event date and we will be happy to transfer you to another event of equal value.
If you require Auslan Interpretation, please contact us at programs@smallgiants.com.au at least 2 weeks prior to the course. We will be very happy to arrange this for you.
We’d love to hear from you. Please email us at programs@smallgiants.com.au
Small Giants Academy commits to taking action that contributes to reconciliation and healing, and specifically to supporting Indigenous business, voices and issues. In understanding the importance of having Indigenous participation in our programs, reduced rates are available to First Peoples in Australia and those who identify as Indigenous throughout the world.
We do not offer refunds, however if you have purchased a ticket to an event and are no longer able to attend, please email us 2 weeks before the event date and we will be happy to transfer you to another event of equal value.
If you require Auslan Interpretation, please contact us at programs@smallgiants.com.au at least 2 weeks prior to the course. We will be very happy to arrange this for you.
We’d love to hear from you. Please email us at programs@smallgiants.com.au
Small Giants Academy commits to taking action that contributes to reconciliation and healing, and specifically to supporting Indigenous business, voices and issues. In understanding the importance of having Indigenous participation in our programs, reduced rates are available to First Peoples in Australia and those who identify as Indigenous throughout the world.
Small Giants is located on the traditional lands of the Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.
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