Our thought leadership work brings together diverse perspectives to generate new thinking and connect with key decision-makers and influencers.

Tapping into the knowledge of our Network, our aim is to motivate and inspire solutions for Tasmania’s most intractable issues and seize the plentiful opportunities available to our island home.

See below for a selection of our research and report outputs over the past decade.

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Facilitating Dialogue Through Leadership

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Facilitating Dialogue Through Leadership is a new discussion paper developed collaboratively by Tasmanian Leaders and the Tasmanian Policy Exchange at the University of Tasmania.

Written by Dr Frieda Moran, Angela Driver GTLP, Kym Goodes, Dr Toby Newstead, Professor Richard Eccleston, Gillian Biscoe AM Hon GTLP and Professor David Adams, the paper draws on insights from the 2025 Dialogue Leadership Lab to explore some of the forces constraining dialogue in Tasmania today, including polarisation, exclusion, risk aversion and political stalemate.

Combining lived experience, research and practical leadership insights, the paper examines how leaders can foster more constructive, inclusive and courageous conversations across workplaces, communities and public life, and identifies practical approaches to support stronger dialogue and collective action in Tasmania.

 

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Facilitating Dialogue Through Leadership

A discussion paper for Tasmanian Leaders and the Tasmanian Policy Exchange

A new discussion paper from Tasmanian Leaders and the Tasmanian Policy Exchange exploring how dialogue shapes leadership, trust and collective action in Tasmania. Drawing on insights from the 2025 Dialogue Leadership Lab, the paper examines the forces constraining dialogue and the practices that can support more constructive and inclusive conversations.

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Building Belonging Through Leadership

A discussion paper for Tasmanian Leaders

Authored by Dr Joseph Crawford, Building Belonging reveals that belonging isn’t a soft sentiment, it is the foundation of effective leadership. It shows how leaders can create cultures of safety, trust and shared purpose that help people and organisations thrive. 

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Leading in Complexity 2024: An Initial Enquiry in Tasmania

Leading in Complexity: an initial enquiry in Tasmania by Dr Aiden M. A. Thornton delves into the distinctive challenges and opportunities for developing leadership within the Tasmanian context.

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Leadership + Polarisation

This document presents the findings of a scan of members of the Tasmanian Leaders Network, capturing their experiences, observations and ideas about polarisation and how leadership can mitigate its negative aspects.

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Leading to a Brighter Future

COVID-19: Challenges, innovations, priorities and recovery for a new and better normal in Tasmania Read our report capturing insights and lessons from our Network during the Covid-19 crisis.

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Tasmanian Leaders Program Impact Study

In 2018 Myriad Research measured the impact of our Tasmanian Leaders Program on participants and Tasmania. The results were outstanding, revealing a highly interconnected, engaged, and motivated alumni network making significant contributions across all sectors

TLP Impact Study

Thinkbank

Thinkbank is a process that brings together members of the Tasmanian Leaders Network to generate innovative solutions through dialogue to pressing and complex issues facing our community.

Each Thinkbank is a process of at least six months of design and guided research to inform a two-day Thinkbank event. This process results in a stimulating and insightful public document and detailed set of actions to create real change in Tasmania. In this way, Thinkbank powerfully intervenes in public debate and policy decisions to create new and positive change for Tasmania’s future.

 

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2019: Our Place in the Sun: Harvesting Tasmania's Agritourism

The 2019 Thinkbank event ‘Our Place in the Sun’ explored key areas of opportunity for the Tasmanian agritourism sector. Prior to the event, each participant undertook interviews with Tasmanian agritourism businesses and collected information regarding agritourism policy and activities in other regions. Analysis of the interviews identified that support and collaboration are critical to both success and overcoming challenges. During the event, participants split into groups to define the issue and develop possible solutions of one of the following areas of opportunity for improvement in the Tasmanian agritourism sector: * Building resilience * Improving industry collaboration * Understanding the market

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2018: What Stops Us? – Small business: overcoming obstacles and seizing opportunities

In 2018 Thinkbank gathered for a two-day residential to rigorously discuss how to help small businesses improve. Drawing on interviews from over 130 businesses, Alumni worked through issues and opportunities for small businesses and debated what government could best do to assist. Two weeks later the candid deliberations were shared directly with the Tasmanian Premier, the Honourable Will Hodgman MP, at the annual Tasmanian Leaders event, the Premier in Conversation. Both events resulted in an insightful document called ‘What Stops Us? – Small business: overcoming obstacles and seizing opportunities’.

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2017: The Future of Work to 2040 - Implications for the University of Tasmania

The 2017 Thinkbank event explored the future of work in collaboration with the University of Tasmania. Over two days, participants honed in on five key areas with significant implications for the University and its future courses. The key areas were: people, technology, sustainability, skilled and unskilled workforce, and leadership. The spirited dialogue resulted in a substantive report.

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2015: Education – Working Together to Skill Tasmania

In November and December 2013, Alumni of the Tasmanian Leaders Program participated in a Thinkbank focused on education in Tasmania. Over four sessions and backed by interviews with stakeholders, the Alumni sought to better understanding the purpose of education and its contribution to the Tasmanian community. The aim of the in-depth process was to determine how to positively influence educational outcomes to benefit all Tasmanians.

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