Skills for a changing and increasingly complex world
Leaders are working in conditions that feel faster, messier, and harder to predict. Workforce constraints, digital disruption, climate risk, and rising expectations all add pressure. Complexity is now the everyday context for leadership.
Leading through Complexity is a five-session online program that builds practical capability for leading when there is no neat plan, no single right answer, and no clear authority line. Across five focused sessions you will strengthen how you lead self, relationships, and systems, and you will leave with a clear action plan you can apply immediately.
This program is for people who:
- lead teams, projects, services, or communities
- are working through change, uncertainty, or competing priorities
- need to influence across boundaries (not just within their role)
- want practical tools – not theory for theory’s sake
The program draws on Tasmanian Leaders’ enquiry into complexity in Tasmania, including the Leading in Complexity research led by Dr Aiden M. A. Thornton which proposes fourteen essential skills.
Dates
ONLINE: Wednesdays 24 June – 22 July 2026, 11.00 am to 1.00 pm
Meet your Facilitators
Angela Driver GTLP has been with Tasmanian Leaders since 2011, starting as General Manager and becoming CEO in 2021. She’s committed to developing leadership that’s grounded, inclusive and future-focused.
A graduate of the Art and Practice of Adaptive Leadership program at the Harvard Kennedy School of Executive Education in Boston, Angela holds a Brain Based Coaching certificate with the Neuro Leadership Institute and is also a Churchill Fellow.
She is energised by the challenges of complex systems and is committed to cultivating leadership that is equipped to make a lasting difference.
Dr Polly McGee is the Co-Founder of Disruptive Consulting (DISCO) and a trauma-trained neuroleadership designer, psychotherapist, author and speaker.
Polly specialises in translating complex human neuroscience into practical, accessible tools that leaders can apply immediately, blending deep clinical training with real-world organisational experience to make learning engaging and highly actionable.
Polly is also a core facilitator for the Tasmanian Leaders Program Residentials.
Dr Aiden M. A. Thornton is a complexity leadership expert, management consultant, psychometrics entrepreneur and street epistemologist. He holds an interdisciplinary PhD in leadership, complexity and cognition.
He is Adjunct Associate Professor of Complexity Leadership at Swinburne University of Technology’s School of Business, Law and Entrepreneurship. His work spans the theory, measurement, education and practice of complexity leadership, applying cybernetics, systems thinking and complexity science to leadership and its development.
Aiden is also the author of our report: Leading in Complexity 2024 : An Initial Enquiry in Tasmania
Katy Cooper is Co-Founder, Co-CEO, Chief Futurist and Designer at Disruptive Consulting (DISCO) and a certified futurist with more than 25 years of experience helping organisations and leaders prepare for multiple possible futures, innovate with purpose and shape positive futures for Tasmania.
Her work focuses on helping people and systems make sense of what is emerging, build alignment around what matters most, and shape positive futures for Tasmania.
Katy is also a core facilitator for the Tasmanian Leaders Program Residentials.
