Leading at the Edge Symposium

Explore the cutting-edge of leadership with global insights and local relevance to support your leadership in an era of constraints.

Thursday 11 September 2025 – Friday 12 September 2025, Crowne Plaza Hobart

Ever feel like you’re at the edge – pushing your leadership limits, juggling competing demands, and making do with less? What if these moments were not barriers but invitations to rethink, experiment and lead differently?

Leaders today are expected to achieve more with less: fewer resources, tighter budgets, and growing demands on their time. Capacity is stretched, expectations are rising, and the space to pause, reflect, and reset feels out of reach. How do we find opportunity in these challenges, turn pressure into progress, and lead in an unpredictable world?

The Leading at the Edge Symposium will provide an opportunity to step back from the edge, to pause, consider, learn and grow. Gain strategies to manage complexity, create real impact, and sustain yourself and your team under pressure. This event will explore how we develop antifragility, by expanding our resilience to embrace the tension of constraints as a catalyst for innovation.

Why attend?

Come to refresh your practice with new tools or to gain a powerful step up if you are early in your leadership journey.

Proudly presented by Tasmanian Leaders, the powerhouse behind the acclaimed Tasmanian Leaders Program, the Leading at the Edge Symposium delivers a world-class leadership experience to your doorstep.

This year’s symposium builds on past events by unpacking the real-world constraints leaders face daily. If you’re tired of feeling stuck, this event will equip you with the mindset and strategies to break through barriers and lead with impact.

Strategies to thrive under pressure and maximise limited resources.
Insights from top experts in resilience, adaptive leadership, and innovation.
Frameworks for strategic prioritisation in fast-paced environments.
A chance to step back, recharge, and gain perspective with like-minded peers.

Who is it for?

The Leading at the Edge Symposium is for leaders, professionals, and changemakers who are facing increasing demands with limited resources, including:

Senior executives and elected officials

Young professionals and emerging leaders

Managers, HR and L&D practitioners

Industry and community representatives

Public sector and not-for-profit professionals

Entrepreneurs and business owners

Community change-makers

Educators, trainers and coaches

Speakers

Headlining the 2025 line-up is Jack Manning Bancroft, founder of AIME and IMAGI-NATION, author of Hoodie Economics, and featured on the ABC’s Australian Story and Conversations. Over two decades he has built a mentoring movement across 52+ countries, and his work has been recognised with the Australian Human Rights Medal and the youngest-ever honorary doctorate from UniSA.

We can’t wait to introduce Jack to Tasmania and connect his thinking with our local conversations and challenges.

Alongside Jack, an outstanding group of expert speakers will deliver thought-provoking, practical presentations, conversations and panels to help you lead in an era of constraints.

Meet the Speakers

Symposium Program Out Now

We are delighted to release the full program for our Leading at the Edge Symposium in September.

This year, we’ve brought together an outstanding group of expert speakers for thought provoking and practical presentations, conversations and panels to help you lead in an era of constraints.

Don’t miss Tasmania’s premier annual leadership event.

Download the Program

Ready to step to the Edge?

What you’ll gain

Through keynote presentations, panel discussions, and hands-on workshops, at the 2025 Leading at the Edge Symposium you will gain:

- Practical tools to strengthen your ability to manage stress, and support your team in an era of constraints.

- Insights from top experts in resilience, and adaptive leadership.

- New perspectives and strategies to reframe current challenges and uncover opportunities.

- A chance to step back, recharge, and exchange ideas.

When and Where

Held at Crowne Plaza Hobart on Thursday 11 9.00 am – 5.00pm and Friday 12 September 7.30 am – 9.00 am.

Your investment includes the full-day symposium and networking event on Thursday evening. You can also choose to purchase tickets for an optional facilitated debrief breakfast on Friday.

Book your place today

The quality of presenters Tasmanian Leaders can gather at their symposiums is a great reason to attend. I find myself at the end of it all full of thoughts, energy and curiosity from the carefully cultivated program. That I get to also speak with a diverse collection of people from across the state at the table and in the breaks makes this an easy recommend for me. – Stephen Hill, 2024 Participant