Power and Leadership for Collaborative Change

Designed and delivered by Liz Skelton – Co-Founder & Chair, Collaboration for Impact with co-facilitator Kate Williams – Collaborative Change Practitioner, CFI.

Throughout the workshop series you will:
- Deepen your understanding and awareness of how to tackle your organisation or your initiative’s adaptive leadership challenges.
- Develop your personal and positional sense of power to use it more effectively. 
- Deepen awareness to be able to work effectively with diverse stakeholders.
- Learn how to build authorising conditions for collaborative change, so you have the people and power needed to effect change.
- Learn how to work with power tensions as they arise

Hosted by Collaboration for Impact.

Course details are on the website: https://collaborationforimpact.com/listing/working-with-power-in-collaboration/

  • Format

    Online delivery with live sessions by Zoom; supported by coursework

  • Dates

    18th and 25th May,

    9 am to 5 pm AEDT

  • Fees

    Per person + GST

    Standard $ 800
    Not-for-profit $ 690
    Group discount (bookings of 3+) $ 600

Meet the instructors

Liz Skelton
Co-Founder & Director, Collaboration for Impact

Liz brings unique specialist experience, skills and knowledge in leadership development to building collaborations to enable cross sector stakeholders to change the way their systems work to create positive social change.
With over 25 years’ experience leading social change, Liz began her career leading NGOS’s in Scotland and Australia before co-leading the establishment and growth of a national social leadership learning organisation Social Leadership Australia. As Principal Consultant she spent eight years working with leaders in community, government and businesses across Australia developing the theory and applying the practice of Adaptive Leadership to tackle their toughest challenges. Since 2014 she has been applying the practice of Adaptive Leadership to place and issue-based systems change working with First Nations leaders and other Australians to change their relationship with deep collaboration, extending this innovative practice to communities working collaboratively across Australia to achieve better outcomes.
Liz is an author and teacher of leadership for systems change, and has co-authored two books: "The Australian Leadership Paradox: What it takes to lead in the Lucky Country", with Geoff Aigner, published by Allen & Unwin in 2013, and “Lost conversations: Finding new ways for black and white Australians to lead together” launched in November 2014 co-authored with a group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous leaders. Liz is also a Lecturer with UNSW’s Centre for Social Impact's Masters and Graduate Certificate in Social Impact.

Kate Williams
Collaborative Change Practitioner, Collaboration for Impact

Kate’s experience spans diverse populations and geographies, centring on social and community-led change.

Skilled in facilitation, design and stakeholder engagement, Kate has led complex multinational projects through to nuanced, place-based initiatives. This has included building collaborations across multi-lateral institutions, government, not-for-profits, enterprise and community, and guiding processes that explore and enable new ways to respond to social challenges together.

Kate started her career in the international development field, leading World Vision International’s work in the youth livelihood space. Over six years she contributed to strategy, thought leadership, capability building, and the codification of practice. Her work in economic participation and climate-smart agriculture internationally led to her co-founding The Global Women’s Project in 2013 and the Foundation for Ecological Education and Design in 2019. Most recently Kate has been living in the West Kimberley Region of Australia convening First Nations Australians around community aspirations and community-led change, with a particular focus on community wealth building and women’s cultural leadership.

Kate’s approach to place-based social change is participatory, strength-based, adaptive, and highly relational. She is committed to walking alongside initiatives, ensuring that they are shaped by diverse perspectives and are community-driven and owned.