Bringing leadership themes into collaborative action

Leadership Labs are invitation-only, one-day intensives that bring together Tasmanian Leaders graduates and other contributors to explore issues that matter to Tasmania’s future.

They are designed to deepen understanding, spark fresh thinking and identify where leadership can make the greatest difference. Each Lab creates space for informed discussion, new perspectives and practical action.

If you have an idea for a future Lab topic, or would like to partner with us on an issue that matters to Tasmania, please get in touch.

If you are an alumnus of Tasmanian Leaders and want to be involved, please express your interest.

Finding Opportunity in Constraint

Friday 11 September, 9.00 am – 4.00 pm | Launceston

Tasmanian Leaders participants wearing high-visibility vests walk through an industrial setting with equipment and materials in the foreground. Text asks, “What if some of our limits are also our advantage?” and promotes the Leadership Lab in Launceston on 11 September.

Every Tasmanian leader knows the limits: small population, tight budgets, competing priorities, an island that’s close and hard to reach all at once.

This year’s Leadership Lab asks a different question: what if some of our limits are also our advantage?

Wise leadership finds opportunity in constraint. 

Bringing together cutting-edge leadership research with your own lived, on-the-ground experience of leading here, we’ll map what’s really shaping leadership in Tasmania right now — and work out where each of us, at whatever level or lever of leadership we hold, has genuine agency to act. You’ll leave with a clear next step, from wherever you stand. And together we’ll map the opportunity in constraints for Tasmanian leaders. 

Alumni are invited to register for this Lab by emailing tania.harvey@tasmanianleaders.org.au

Alt text: Tasmanian Leaders participants wearing high-visibility vests walk through an industrial setting with equipment and materials in the foreground. Text asks, “What if some of our limits are also our advantage?” and promotes the Leadership Lab in Launceston on 11 September.

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