Do you want to be a more inspiring and effective business leader?

Do the following statements resonate with you?

• You already have an established business that is doing well enough, but you are spending too much time working in the business being reactive
• You have ideas about the future of the business but have not formulated these into strategic priorities and expected outcomes
• You are spending time working on tasks and resolving issues that others should be doing
• You are struggling to get the full involvement and potential out of your people
• You are frustrated by your teams not performing, or being collaborative
• You feel that your work life is not harmonious, and you are not prioritizing your wellbeing and life satisfaction
• You may be missing out on key family events due to work.

If some or all of these apply to you - you are not alone!

Are you ready to do something to alleviate these issues?

For many businesses, a focused, aligned approach with effective leadership will be a better way of solving challenges or lifting performance than a more radical and disruptive transformational approach.

Small changes can make a big impact!

You already know that the international context has rapidly changed.  Do you have the skills to navigate the business to thrive in the future?

• Lifting your leadership skills and confidence has a positive impact on your business metrics – reflected in better sales, customer satisfaction, productivity, operational efficiency and work quality and satisfaction.
• A collaborative and high achieving work team can allow you more time to:
  • Think strategically for the business
  • Focus on your personal relationships and wellbeing.

Are you and your business set to thrive in the post pandemic environment?

When did you last reflect on and refocus your leadership skills?

Many - maybe most - business leaders do not give priority to their own growth or improving their leadership practices. Sometimes, but not always, there are good reasons for this.

But, if you want to lift the performance of your people and the business, the first place to start is yourself!

As Gandhi states ‘You must be the change you want to see’.

It is hard to be objective about ourselves. We often don’t know where to begin with our own leadership development.

We have the experience and the expertise to support you to refocus and optimize your leadership skills and practices to make a greater personal impact, set up teams for success, and foster business excellence.

What has shaped my interest in leadership and the design of the ‘Leadership Arena’ program?

Over the past 20+ years working in Organizational Development, and Change Management, I have helped hundreds of leaders to enhance their self-leadership and leadership of others.

Coaching and working in many organisations, I have seen firsthand the benefits of effective leadership and that of leadership development, as well as the negative impacts of poor leadership.

My experience in leadership development grew exponentially when I was leading an initiative at the University of Auckland to develop and implement a Leadership Framework.

This was to guide the behaviours of both academic and professional staff of over 6,000 full time equivalent staff.

This initiative involved looking at what was happening with leadership development in forty-one top universities internationally. In addition, I reviewed what the key players in leadership were saying and doing in the leadership space – and continue to do so.

For example, the Centre of Creative Leadership; Zenger and Folkman; Development Dimensions International; INSEAD and so on.

From there, I was responsible for the design and delivery of nine leadership programs and the annual staff capability development program with approximately 200 workshops per year.

My role at the university included the development and support of Academic Heads/Chairs – specially to prepare them to step up and lead multi-million dollar departments/schools with hundreds of staff.

In recent years, I also contract to Prosci-ANZ as a Master Instructor and Senior Change Advisor. I facilitate the range of Prosci programs in New Zealand and Australia, including the internationally recognized three-day Change Management Practitioners Program.

Business leaders that employ less than 300 hundred staff comprise over 90% of businesses in most countries. Leaders of these businesses often do not have access to an aligned and integrated approach to their leadership development!

This is where the Leadership Arena program can enhance your leadership skills and practices – at the entrepreneurial level.

Every business owner should also be a business leader!

How will the Leadership Arena program support you to be a more inspiring, effective leader?

This 12-week online self-paced program is designed for leaders from existing businesses (with a minimum of 10 employees) to enhance the way you think and perform as a leader. Envision a better future for yourself and the business as you will:

• Gain greater insight into your personality type and your strengths
• Develop a work-life approach for wellbeing and life satisfaction
• Align your business purpose, processes, and performance to provide clarity and direction
• Leverage your interaction skills to coach and develop capable people
• Create high achieving teams that thrive on collaboration
• Foster accountability to deliver results
• Create an adaptive and engaging culture
• Apply a Leadership Practices Framework to guide your leadership actions.

The seven online Modules build on each other, and contain pragmatic, practical learning activities for you to apply to your business and personal life.

These modules will be released at specific intervals so that you have time to apply them in the business, and you do not feel overwhelmed.

The two-weekly peer group coaching calls (90 minutes) will provide a safe and supportive place to explore your thinking and behaviours so that your future actions reflect your strategic intent for your business and personal life.

What are the additional program benefits?

• Researched and curated leadership activities and templates in each module to save you time and resources.
• Complimentary access to the ‘Business Planning for Improvement and Innovation’. This is a six-module program in the Leadership Hub that will show you how to do business planning that is collaborative and forms the basis of your policy and quality system.
• MBTI Personal Impact Assessment so that you can leverage your unique strengths and interactions.
• Application of the Leadership Practices Framework to your business, so that you can apply the suite of leadership practices and actions.
• Six months continued access to the Leaders’ Lounge community so that you can continue to share your progress with your peer group.
• As an alumni of the Leadership Arena program, you will get a 30% discount on all future workshops and resources purchased.

Our Guarantee: 

After completing Modules 1 and Module 2 it is 100% Risk Free

After completing Modules 1 and 2, if you think for any reason that you will not benefit from participating in the Leadership Arena development program, I will return your payment.

If you have completed your MBTI Impact Assessment, the refund will be less the cost that will have been paid to the assessment provider.

Click here to see what Maurice Curtis, Professor of Neuroscience said about a leadership course Melanie designed and facilitated.

NOTE: The Leadership Arena is only open for new registrations twice per year.

This program is not for everyone! There are three things you will need to succeed in this program:

1.  Courage: To step forward to reflect on where you are and where you would like to be

2. Commitment: To think, behave and work differently

3. Capacity: To make the time to reflect, learn and refocus your leadership practices for at least two hours every week for 12 weeks.

As the program content is about applying practices to enhance your current leadership, it is not suitable for aspiring managers.

The Leadership Arena is designed for business leaders who have a minimum of five years leadership experience and ten employees or more.

Participants could be business owners or leaders within an organization. You will join other business leaders who share the same intention to be a more effective leader and make a greater positive impact on those around them.

If you are not sure about your fit with the Leadership Arena Program, please email us at [email protected] and we will find a mutually suitable time for a conversation.

I look forward to seeing you inside the Leadership Arena!