Influential Leadership

Influential leadership begins with understanding who you are and how you bring your leadership to life.

This program helps you explore the beliefs, behaviours and capabilities that shape your impact, and gives you practical tools to build stronger and more meaningful relationships at every level.

What to expect

The central purpose of leadership is to enable other people to achieve their mission. Inspiring and effective leadership starts with a deep understanding of your identity, values and mindset, and how these influence the way you relate to and guide others.

This transformational program gives you the time and structure to reflect on who you are as a leader and what drives your behaviour. You will explore your self-beliefs, personal barriers and aspirations, and consider how these influence your ability to lead with clarity and confidence.

The learning experience includes peer to peer coaching, reflective practice and experiential exercises that deepen your insight and help you translate self-awareness into practical action. Each element is designed to strengthen your relationships, increase your influence and support meaningful growth. By the end of the program, you will have a clearer sense of your leadership identity and a personalised plan for continuing your development.

Is this program for you

This program is recommended for leaders and team members managing competing priorities where negotiated outcomes are required.

What you will explore

By the end of this program, you should be able to:

Understand the foundations of personal leadership, including identity, values, mindset and purpose
Apply behavioural strategies that support effective self-leadership
Identify leadership values and purpose and align behaviour accordingly
Develop a personalised and action focused leadership development plan with input from the facilitator and peers

Where this program can take you

This highly experiential and individualised program explores:

Leader identity and how you see yourself as a leader
Self-leadership, including personal barriers, negative thoughts, fears and developing a winning mindset
Values and purpose, and how leadership extends beyond organisational boundaries
Power and influence, and how to inspire others to achieve their mission
Relational leadership and the importance of effective relationships.

About the Facilitator

Jenny Hoffman

Jenny Hoffman is a leadership development practitioner and executive leadership coach who has been introducing individuals and organisations to design thinking for more than ten years. She is a certified facilitator of the ExperienceInnovation and ExperienceChange workshops developed by ExperiencePoint and IDEO and was one of the first people in Western Australia to be trained in this prestigious suite of programs. These workshops combine practical tools with the design mindsets that support creative problem solving and leading change.

Jenny focuses on individual and collective leadership development and cultural transformation. She works across the public, private and not for profit sectors and brings a strong evidence based approach to her programs. As a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School program on the Art and Practice of Leadership Development, she designs and delivers customised leadership development programs that draw on adaptive leadership, leadership maturity frameworks and contemporary thinking in leader development.

Jenny is also a faculty member of the UWA Business School where she teaches several leadership units in the Master of Business Administration program.