Old friends caught up, new friends were made and there was a buzz of excitement in the air this week at LV’s annual presentation dinner. LV’s graduates, Alumni, business partners and friends gathered in the sumptuous Savoy Ballroom to enjoy a three course meal from our new venue partners, the Grand Hyatt Melbourne. Former ABC [...]
Leadership Victoria (LV) Chairman Garry Ringwood is delighted to announce Richard Dent (WCLP ’04) will be LV’s new Executive Director. In front of 500 guests at LV’s Annual Presentation Dinner held on Tuesday 29th November at the Grand Hyatt Melbourne, Garry announced the 2004 Williamson Community Leadership Program (WCLP) alumnus would take on the role [...]
Follow us on Twitter at @LeadVic for LV updates and Leadership Learnings What happens when the organisation you’ve devoted years to goes bad, or is discredited? How do you move on, and find another job? There are strategies you can employ in potentially awkward job interviews, write career management experts Maryanne Peabody and Larry Stybel. [...]
Each year Leadership Victoria’s (LV) Williamson Community Leadership Program (WCLP) participants board a bus to Shepparton on a field trip dedicated to creating awareness and understanding of leadership issues arising in a regional context. The indigenous component of the trip, once a two-hour session, this year extended to a full day program ‘Towards Understanding’. The [...]
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 [...]
Each year Leadership Victoria (LV) hosts an End of Year Presentation Dinner – this is an opportunity to be inspired by the work of Williamson Community Leadership Program (WCLP) and ExperienceBank Leadership Program (EBLP) participants this year and to welcome another group of graduates into the LV Alumni group. This year, out guest speaker is Mr [...]
In May this year I joined Leadership Victoria (LV) in the role of Marketing & Communications Manager. I’m responsible for the branding, marketing and communications for the organisation, such as managing our website, our e-newsletters to Alumni and general subscribers, public relations, research, advertising and brochures. I get to work with an incredibly high calibre [...]
Follow us on Twitter at @LeadVic for LV updates and Leadership Learnings! We all make mistakes, but how you recover from a blunder can be the sign of a great leader. The world recently commemorated the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Former New York Fire Chief Dan Daly responded at Ground Zero and he visited [...]
This month’s WCLP program featured a field trip to Melbourne Water’s Western Treatment Plant in Werribee. Featuring a tour of the water treatment plant the day’s activities focused on the theme of Natural Capital and allowed the group to go beyond the usual discussion of single issue environmental concerns. The expert presenters covered a range [...]
Karma Currency Foundation CEO Ash Rosshandler cannot speak highly enough of Leadership Victoria Alumni Denis O’Hara (EBLP ’08). Without Denis, the newly minted not-for-profit would probably not be around today. “I don’t think we would have survived, to be honest,” he says. To date over $1,000,000 has been donated to not-for-profit groups through Karma Currency, [...]
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