Leadership Course: Leading with Strategy

This strategic leadership course focuses on the central role of strategy and purpose in creating high impact ways of working. In the ever-evolving landscape of local government, effective leadership is essential to drive positive change and deliver sustainable outcomes for communities. This leadership course is designed to empower current and aspiring leaders with the strategic acumen required to navigate the complexities of government administration successfully.

The course will immerse you in the world of strategic leadership, equipping you with the knowledge and skills to formulate, implement, and adapt strategic plans that address pressing local challenges. Through a blend of practical insights, case studies, and interactive discussions, you will gain a comprehensive understanding of the strategic decision-making process specific to the public sector.

The course teachings are based on evidence and rigour, drawing on cutting edge theory and practice relating to leadership development. The program encourages self-reflection in relation to your leadership development with the workshop closing with a self-reflection ‘check-out’ exercise.

Duration	One session (8 hours in total)
Dates	Thu 3 July 2025 (class open for enrolments soon)
Venue	UTS City Campus
Time	9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Cost	$698 (GST free)

Course content

This strategic leadership course will cover the following topics:

Exploring the challenges of strategy vs being strategic
Strategic proficiency and adaptive challenges
Possibilities based approach to strategy
Design thinking and innovation process
Problem discovery
Solution discovery.

Learning outcomes

As a result of this strategic leadership course, you will:

develop the skills of strategic leadership
learn a suite of strategies to empower others to achieve
learn about and use design thinking processes to approach complex strategic challenges
be able to actively contribute to the development of collective and collaborative leadership within the council.

Delivery style

The leadership course uses a blend of presentation, discussion, case in point teaching, consultation in pairs, group exercises, individual take-away tasks to put into practice learnings in the workplace. This training approach allows you to work through concepts introduced by the presenter in an application-focused teaching environment. You will challenge your understanding of the concepts and consider their application once back in your individual workplace.

About the presenter

Tish Creenaune is a Senior Manager at the Institute for Public Policy and Governance. Tish is a highly regarded and experienced public sector executive with over 30 years working in the education and training, innovation, communities and social policy fields as a policy planner and strategic project manager leading change projects and reform. She has worked closely with senior officers in government agencies and Government Ministers in leading the implementation of policy and delivered on social, innovation, community and educational outcomes through influencing a diverse range of stakeholders.

Tish was the founding Director of the Catalyst Lab Innovation Program, the first NSW education innovation lab leading the exploration, design and scaling of innovative education ideas and incubator for innovation in education, providing a structured process to trial and prototype new ideas. She is a skilled facilitator in leadership growth and development, design thinking and innovation: developing and customising innovation processes and methodologies to solve for complex problems.

Course prerequisites

This leadership course has no prerequisites and is open to all members of the public. The course is one of five leadership courses in our Leading in Local Government series. Select the combination of courses from the list below that will meet your learning needs.