Water Leadership Program

Program Overview

Designed to build your capacity to continually develop as a water industry leader over your career, this ten-month program features a balance between academic and real-world approaches to learning. This program is offered part-time over ten months and includes;

• 2 x face-to-face intensives in Brisbane
• mentoring activities with experienced water industry executives
• 1 to 1 coaching sessions with specialist leadership coaches who work in the water sector
• a mix of face-to-face and online delivery modes
• the use of individual leadership development plans
• the use of leadership-focused case studies from the water sector

The Benefits

The program helps emerging leaders to strengthen their skills in:

• initiating and driving change
• implementing more integrated and sustainable water management practices
• leading high-performing, cross-boundary, multidisciplinary teams
• exercising influence across various organisational boundaries
• strategically building and using social networks
• anticipating, planning for, and using ‘windows of opportunity’ to drive change
• using various influence strategies and models of change.

Benefits for employers

Research indicates that networks of skilled water leaders are a major factor in driving change and helping water organisations meet the complex challenges of the 21st century. According to the feedback gathered from participants in the last three rounds, we conservatively estimate that organisations fully funding staff to participate should see a positive return on investment in less than one year (on average).