The Boardroom in the Bush Leadership Academy
What if you were a natural born leader?
G’day, I’m AJ. Welcome to a unique leadership wisdom school—and to a community of leaders gathered to serve and steward a thriving world together.
Leadership isn’t taught. It’s revealed. It’s a calling. The Boardroom in the Bush Leadership Academy blends executive education with nature’s wisdom and traditional elders’ teachings to help leaders focus on their calling.
Want to go deeper in your leadership journey? Go beyond the MBA and the classroom to the deeper essence that you were born with? Join our community of 60+ professionals unlocking their natural leadership talent. Our curriculum doesn’t just touch on business stuff—it can inspire renewed energy and new experiences through unplugging, imagining new ways of leading and connecting with peers, country and yourself.
It’s impossible to make sustainable change in an organisation without a corresponding change in the leader's beliefs, behaviour and philosophy. To create high performance and lasting results a leader must begin with their personal growth and human potential.
Our programs challenge the conventional, office-based trainings and instead brings leaders together, outdoors, in nature to reveal their own true nature.
The result is nothing short of magic.
More than a training program, our Boardroom in the Bush Leadership Academy offers you a unique and immersive program, deep transformation and a chance for you to unplug and get away from digital distractions. To allow the space and place for you to explore your innate gifts, tap into your true creativity and connect with like-minded souls.
For decades, leaders have been led to believe there is only one way to be successful – the driven, masculine, directive way. Working long hours, neglecting our personal life, competing with others, following the ‘only’ tried-and-true prescribed methods and getting caught in the overwhelm of majoring in minor things until they’re dead inside.
There is another way - a more natural way. And it works!
Let’s work together
There are several ways we can work together. It all depends on the level of leadership you and your people are at.
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Who I work with
From government agencies and departments to medium to large corporates, all over Australia and the world. Wherever there are humans working with humans, I’m there.
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Resources to help you make a shift
Feeling overwhelmed with your workload and struggling to make a strategic impact in your executive role?
Soft skills are going to be the most critical to develop over the coming decade.
Research shows that by 2030 2/3 of all jobs will be heavily soft skills focused.
Are you ready for that?
🤖 With the rapid advances in AI and our good friend ChatGPT, LinkedIn now offers you the ability to get parts of your profile written for you.
For directors and senior leaders, navigating through such periods of change requires more than just managerial acumen—it demands effective leadership to guide teams through uncertainty and ensure continuity of service delivery.
This article includes some of the essential strategies and techniques that leaders can employ to successfully steer their organizations through an organisational restructure.
Great leaders work on developing a blend of competence in the strategy, planning and technical skills AND they couple this with the coaching, communication, emotional intelligence and the softer, human skills.
Feeling overwhelmed with your workload and struggling to make a strategic impact in your executive role?
Imagine if I could show you how to elevate your leadership while achieving exceptional results, without working longer hours.
If you’re a government employee or manager and want to apply for a more senior role or pay grade increase, you need to position your skills and stand out amongst your peers without coming across as showing off or salesy.
This NAIDOC Week, Yakuway Indigenous Corporation is thrilled to announce the launch of the "Empowering Indigenous Men" project, thanks to a generous $15,000 grant from NSW Aboriginal Affairs. This initiative is dedicated to enhancing the mental health and wellbeing of Indigenous men in the Newcastle and Hunter Valley region through cultural immersion and support.
When we are busy as leaders it is easy to fall into the tell rather than ASK trap of communication.
This approach focuses too much on the leader’s view and opinion rather than engaging the needs and ideas the employee may have.
Read on for some examples of how to flip it and make it better.
Don’t want to be seen as a boss who:
Criticize colleagues in meetings with their peers
Aren’t respectful of others’ time
Demand unrealistic deadlines
Consistently canceling meetings with your direct reports
Then this article is for you…
I believe that the aggressive, push, push, bullying style of leadership is a dying breed.
Leadership of this kind in the public sector and organisations becomes draining for individuals and teams, and ultimately can cost a lot of time and resources.
If you have been bullied or experienced inappropriate conduct, it is important to respond quickly.
Have you ever been in a team with culture drift before?
Today I want to address how to identify it and how to get the team back on track.
I've had a few leaders reach out and ask - what exactly defines Servant Eldership?
This article outlines the basic premise of Servant Eldership and it’s foundations.
Unconventional leaders I know you sometimes feel alone.
If you've ever been told you're a bit crazy, too weird or you're a dreamer or you've just felt like you just don’t belong, I'm here for you. You're my kind of weird!
Servant Eldership is a path for the future. It’s a path of walking together, all people’s, the planet with purpose for a future that elders dreamt of seven generations ago.
Running a successful government department or team is about so much more than providing good services to the public or stakeholders. You might be a skilled specialist, but are your shoulders broad enough and your skills deep enough to carry a team of other professionals?
Have you ever considered how the challenges in your life are often blessings in disguise?
We've all heard the famous words 'I have a dream" and yet how many of us are living our dreams and making them a reality?