Ilan Weil is General Manager of LV’s venue partner The Grand Hyatt Melbourne. He has had a long and varied career with Hyatt, including overseeing the establishment and running of hotels in South America and India. Here, he talks to LV’s marketing and communications manager Stefan Grun about the challenges and rewards of leading people across cultures and [...]
If you are like most people, you may have come here to learn a little more about the Williamson Community Leadership Program (WCLP). Perhaps you read about it in the newspaper, or more likely, had someone from your organisation recommend it to you, the way I discovered it. At a Christmas party some years ago, [...]
Professor Patrick McGorry is a leading researcher, clinician and campaigner for mental health care reform. He was also the 2010 Australian of the year. Professor McGorry has for many years demonstrated strong leadership, both within his sector and throughout the broader community, as he has fought for greater investment in and modernisation of the mental health care system. It has [...]
Susan Provan has been Festival Director at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival for more than 15 years. She has taken it from a fairly small, niche event to one of the biggest festivals on the international calendar. Recently, she sat down to chat with LV’s Marketing & Communications Manager Stefan Grun about the value of [...]
In October LV’s Marketing & Communications Manager Stefan Grun was privileged to be able to interview Julian Burnside AO QC, our country’s leading advocate in relation to Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers and the protection of human rights. In 2009 Julian was awarded an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for his work as [...]
2002 WCLP Alumni Matt Pfahlert recently spoke at LV’s Igniting Leadership Program. After his presentation he spoke to LV briefly about some of the highlights. Watch Matt’s 2:32 video on LV’s YouTube Channel: Between 1989 and 2005, Matt worked with ‘at risk’ young people and their families conducting a range of outdoor wilderness experiences focused [...]
In 2011 each Williamson Community Leadership Program (WCLP) participant is working on a group project. Ranjana Srivastava has captured the experiences of one of their recent Project Group meetings – group members are Ranjana Srivastava, Raj Singh, John Milkins, Chris Chant and Mark Febbraio: ——- We are the Victoria Walks group and we got together [...]
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