Details
Date: Thursday 17 & Friday 18 September, 2026
Time: 9am - 4pm
Where: Crowne Plaza Sydney Airport
Course overview
Strategic Public Leaders is an intensive short course for senior and mid-tier local government leaders to learn strategic skills.
- Level up your leadership: With strategic skills, you lead with more intention and confidence. Strategic leaders are goal-oriented and make consistent, intentional choices that move them in the right direction.
- Elevate your impact: Strategic public leaders rise above the operational overwhelm to see the bigger picture and move the needle on the most important stuff.
- Future-proof your career: Developing strategic skills involves a combination of communication, tactical and people skills delivering a higher return on investment.
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Who this is for
Strategic Public Leaders helps local government leaders who are experiencing challenges such as:
- Being overwhelmed by tasks, projects, and priorities.
- Caught in a reactive cycle of responding to ad-hoc problems instead of progressing key strategic projects.
- Becoming defensive and frustrated when interacting with elected members.
- Dealing with delays in delivering strategies, plans, and procedures.
- Having difficulty building engagement, purpose, and ownership with your team.
With strategic skills, you will lead with more intention and direction, even as you flex and respond to the ever-changing needs of your Council and community. By building your strategic skills, you can shift from a busy public manager to a strategic public leader.
Learning outcomes
In this two-day rapid intensive, get a grounding in core principles of strategic leadership for local government, along with a suite of practical tools and strategies you can apply for immediate progress.
Topics include:
- Strategic basics: Demystifying strategic thinking and planning frameworks.
- Role clarity: Drawing a line between governance and management.
- Bridging the gap: Aligning big picture strategy to daily operations.
- Decision-making: Planning, making, and evaluating quality decisions.
- Systems thinking: Solving tricky problems in complex systems.
Alicia’s training workshops are at the cutting edge of thinking for senior public leaders. Both inspiring and pragmatic, this training is designed to tackle limiting habits and behaviours while embedding practical skills.
At the end of this course, you will have the skills to:
- Apply strategic frameworks to align daily operations to big-picture strategy.
- Prioritise never-ending project wish lists with clarity and confidence.
- Elevate conversations with colleagues and Councillors from operational issues to strategic impact.
- Evaluate the quality of decisions effectively to improve buy-in and project success.
