Build the leaders you need today,
and the ones your business needs next.
Strong leadership isn't luck. It's built, at every level, and it's what lifts team performance and culture across your business. The only question is where you start.
Plus ASIC, Carew Counsel, Learning Links, Meat & Livestock Australia, Mission Australia, Export Finance Australia, Governance Institute Australia, Swaab and more.
The cost of waiting
An untrained leader sets the ceiling for everyone who reports to them.
Around three-quarters of employees across Australia and New Zealand aren't engaged at work (Gallup, State of the Global Workplace). The single biggest factor in whether they are? Their manager.
See for yourself
Hear how we think about developing leaders
A few minutes with our founder, Trudy MacDonald, on how we approach leadership development.
Two ways in
The best development isn't the longest or the priciest. It's the kind that fits.
One you can book this month. The other we build from the ground up around your business. Pick the door that fits where you're at. Either way, the point is change that actually holds.
Start this month
Leadership Labs masterclasses
Live 60-minute sessions, one sharp topic each month with Trudy MacDonald. Come alone or bring the whole team, and book online.
See sessions and bookBuilt for your business
In-house programs
Designed and delivered for your organisation, for one senior team or company-wide. Shaped around the team you're developing, the capabilities that matter most, and where the business needs to be, now and next.
See how it worksLeadership Labs masterclasses
One topic. Sixty minutes. Every month.
Run live by Trudy MacDonald, one practical topic at a time. You leave with tools you use that week, not slides you file away.
Now in its 6th year, with 100+ sessions run and more than 3,000 leaders through the room.
For the individual leader
Grow real confidence in the hard part of the job, the difficult conversations, the tough calls, the people problems. You walk out with something you can put to work the next morning.
For the whole team
Develop your leaders together and you get one consistent way of leading. Stronger team performance, people issues sorted faster, and your high-potentials staying engaged.
Come for a single session, or build capability over time with a 3, 6 or 12-month membership. On your own or with the team, live or catch up on the recording.
Explore the topics
A new one every month, on rotation through the year. Click any topic to see when it's next running and book your place.
In-house programs
No two programs are the same, because no two businesses are.
Generic content changes no one. Every program starts with what's really happening in your business, then gets built around it. Never pulled off a shelf.
Leadership programs delivered for Amplifon, Beaumont Tiles, CAMMS, Education Horizons Group, ACRRM and Meat & Livestock Australia.
Discover
We get inside your business first. The real gaps, the pressure your people are under, where performance leaks.
Design
We shape the program around what we find. Your scenarios, your language, the capabilities that matter.
Deliver
Led by senior consultants who've run businesses themselves. No junior trainers, no reading off slides.
Embed
Where most providers stop, and we don't. Peer pods, manager check-ins and action planning keep it alive a quarter on.
Measure
We measure what changes in the business, not who showed up on the day.
Inside the room
This is what it looks like
Real leaders, real conversations, real work. A look inside the programs and sessions we run across Australia.
Proof
What changes when leaders are actually developed
Meat & Livestock Australia · Senior Leader Development
Two years embedding values and behaviours across MLA's senior leaders
We partnered with MLA over two years to build a tailored program for successive cohorts of senior leaders. Custom workshops, grounded in behavioural psychology, built self-awareness and aligned leaders with MLA's values and behaviours. Regular feedback kept the program relevant as their needs shifted, so it drove real cultural change and stronger organisational performance, not just attendance.
Legal · Leadership offsite
Hicks Oakley Chessell Williams
A tailored leadership retreat built a Leadership Charter and team norms for the firm's next stage of growth.
Watch the story →Industrial & logistics · Senior program
Stowe Australia
The Apex program embedded a new Leadership Capability Framework across the top 25 senior leaders.
Watch the story →Recruitment · Leadership session
Hays Asia Pacific
CEO and People & Culture Director on a session that gave leaders tools they used immediately.
Watch the story →In their words
"You have lit a fire in some of our really long-standing store managers and I am so happy to see them reinvigorated and inspired. The feedback has been amazing."
Sophia SokolovHead of Sales, Swarovski
"Everyone said you were the best speaker they had ever seen. The feedback from our members was so positive about the practical and powerful takeaways."
Kelly BeaumontCEO, Leaders for Impact
"Practical and implementable. Humble and warm. Direct and thought provoking. Kind hearted and engaging."
Ben GouldsonClifford Gouldson Lawyers
"Great practical insights and models for dealing with real world problems."
Mitchell HowardCooler Pty Ltd
"Really engaging. Lots of useful tools and strategies."
TenilleFoundations Care
Meet the team
Our development experts
Trudy MacDonald
Founder & Managing Director
Runs every Leadership Labs masterclass, live. A multi-award-winning speaker and organisational psychologist by training, with 400+ workshops delivered to Australian CEOs and teams.
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Tamara Kavalec
Strategic Principal Consultant & Executive Coach
25+ years leading people and businesses, including as COO and CEO. Delivers in-house programs and executive coaching across every industry we work in.
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Rachel Nelson
HR Manager, HR On-Demand Lead
15+ years of trusted HR advisory, from Fair Work compliance to complex workplace matters. Leads our ongoing HR On-Demand support nationally, and runs our Manager 101 lunch and learns for managers and employees.
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Fair questions, straight answers
Who are these sessions for?
Can I send my whole team to a masterclass?
How is this different from any other online session?
How much is a masterclass?
What if I can't make the live session?
We ran leadership training before and it did not stick. Why would this be different?
What does an in-house program cost?
Not sure which option fits?
Put a number on it
What is turnover actually costing you?
Every resignation carries a cost, and weak leadership drives more of them than anything else. Move the sliders to see what it's worth in your business each year.
Not sure what to set the replacement cost to? Use these as a guide.
Frontline and entry-level roles.
Mid-level and professional roles.
Managers, specialists and senior leaders.
Ranges based on SHRM and Gallup benchmarks. Australian estimates commonly land between 50% and 150% of salary depending on role and industry. An indicative figure from your own numbers. The point isn't the exact dollar. It's that better leadership is the single biggest lever on whether good people stay.
Close the gap. It does not close itself.
Start this month with a masterclass, on your own or with the team. Or open a conversation about a program built for your business. Either way, you stop leaving leadership to chance.
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