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Modules

Explore what you'll learn in our Executive Leadership Program.

Build world-class expertise

Tap into expert knowledge across 9 modules during our Executive Leadership Program. The program focuses on building capabilities by experimenting with new concepts and tools to enhance your personal and professional impact on your teams and the broader ecosystem. You'll develop world-class expertise that empowers you to make a lasting significance within your organisation and, more broadly, the state.

Module structure

Learn locally with two face-to-face days each month over 4 months (modules 1–4) at UQ Brisbane City, our premium inner-city location for professional development. Then, take part in an intensive week-long residential experience at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School (modules 5–9). Enjoy a welcome dinner on the night of your arrival.

Launch event

  • Afternoon – Formal launch: impact learning groups and program induction
  • Evening – Leadership: the power of doubt (includes light refreshments)

Module 1: Purpose, value and innovation

  • Day 1 – Framing the opportunity: understanding the challenge
  • Evening – From value-destruction to value-creation
  • Day 2 – Innovation for value creation

Module 2: Leading for high performance in complex environments

  • Day 1 – Building and nurturing high performance organisations
  • Evening – Creative tension
  • Day 2 – Leadership vices and virtues

Module 3: Stewarding trust in complex environments

  • Day 1 – Stewarding trust in complex environments
  • Evening – Leveraging trust to development commitment to change
  • Day 2, morning – Ancient wisdom for stewarding trust
  • Day 2, afternoon – Creating change through smarter communication

Module 4: Building organisations that thrive in uncertainty

  • Day 1 – Building high reliability into your organisation
  • Evening – Creating a resilient culture
  • Day 2 – Strategy that connects

Module 5: Rethinking the future

  • Morning – Plausible futures
  • Afternoon – Scenarios

Module 6: Rethinking system

  • Morning – Rethinking system performance
  • Afternoon – Rethinking system design
  • Evening – College choir performance and Balliol College dinner

Module 7: Rethinking delivery

  • Morning – How big things get done
  • Afternoon – How big things get done
  • Evening – Impact learning groups

Module 8: Redefining self as leader

  • Morning – Speaking truth to power
  • Afternoon – Your leadership narrative
  • Evening – Ashmolean Museum tour and dinner

Module 9: Putting people at the centre

  • Morning – Humans at the centre
  • Afternoon – Humans at the centre

Finale: Presentations and graduation

  • Morning – Learning syndication
  • Afternoon – Graduation
  • Evening – Celebratory dinner

About the program

Learn world-class capabilities with our UQ and Oxford Executive Leadership Program.

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Facilitators

Learn from leading experts at UQ and Oxford University's Säid Business School.

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