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Inspired leadership for the greater good

Summit 1 July 2021

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We all have a part to play in this changing world. Every new day provides the opportunity to lead for the greater good.

 

Our events

Our summits (one-day events), leadership labs (deep learning workshops) and web-based ‘eSeries’ programs offer a wide-range of perspectives and opportunities to be inspired and to connect.

We showcase courageous trailblazers from Australia and around the globe who will motivate, challenge and prepare you to become the leader you want to be.

Whether you are from the government, corporate, education, or not-for-profit sector; a leader or leader-to-be; we welcome you to join our community.

Our mission, vision and values

Our mission at Newday Leadership is ‘Inspired leadership for the greater good’.

Our vision for 2030 is to be the professional community of choice for 5000 leaders for the greater good. Newday Leadership helps to bridge the corporate social responsibility gap by connecting corporates with wonderful not for profit organisations and projects.

To date, half Newday Leadership profits have funded opportunities for people to attend the summit who otherwise could not.

 

Our values – We welcome diverse voices, experiences and perspectives. We celebrate the power of connection and the opportunity this creates for transformative action for the greater good. We embrace our responsibility to make choices that improve society and the environment for all living things.

Our team

Katrina Webb OAM, Founder and Director

Matthew Wright-Simon, Engagement and Community

Mike Worsman, Video Storytelling

Our Advisors

Dr Gill Hicks, Founding Director M.A.D. MINDS

Dr Fiona Kerr, Neural and Systems Complexity Specialist, Neurotech Institute

Professor Magda Nenycz-Thiel, Mars Professor of Marketing

Mickey Kumatpi O’Brien, Cultural Educator and Kaurna Elder.

Kate Berry, People, Performance and Culture Expert

David Griggs, Public Speaking Coach Speakers Studio

 

Newday 2021 Summit leaders (more to be announced)

Zach Mercurio Ph.D.

Author, purposeful leadership and meaningful work researcher

Zach Mercurio, Ph.D. believes everyone is built for purpose, desires meaningfulness, and deserves dignity in work and life. He is an author, speaker, consultant, and researcher specializing in purposeful leadership, meaningful work, mattering, and positive organizational development.

Zach wrote "The Invisible Leader: Transform Your Life, Work, and Organization with the Power of Authentic Purpose" to provide individuals, leaders, and organizations with the tools to activate their purpose and create cultures where everyone matters. It was praised by Arianna Huffington as "a compelling book filled with powerful stories, cutting-edge research, and practical tools that show us how to lead with purpose."

In his work with over 100 global companies, non-profits, schools, and universities around the world, Zach helps forge purposeful leaders and provides practical tools to cultivate positive organizational and team cultures that enable more meaning, motivation, and well-being.

Zach writes regularly on his blog and newsletter, and his thoughts on purposeful leadership, mattering, and meaningful work have been featured internationally in media outlets such as Forbes, Psychology Today, Inc. Magazine, The Huffington Post, and Thrive Global.
More about Zach

Taryn Brumfitt

Body Image Movement

Taryn Brumfitt is an internationally recognised keynote speaker and the fiercely passionate thought leader behind the Body Image Movement.

Best-selling author and director of the inspiring social-change documentary, Embrace, Taryn’s global crusade to end the body dissatisfaction epidemic has seen her recognised by the United Nations Women, Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls and the Geena Davis Institute.

Taryn’s determination to shift the way the world thinks about themselves and their bodies has the support of many high profile personalities including Olivia Newton-John, Rosie O’Donnell, and Ashton Kutcher, who famously praised her activism as being "good for the world".

Whether it’s becoming General Electrics’ highest rated speaker, or having her talk at Google HQ in Silicon Valley live streamed to every Google office in the world, Taryn remains humble, proud, and eager to make the biggest impact the world has ever seen on body image and self-love.

Named alongside Beyoncé and Emma Watson in Germany’s Brigitte magazine’s ‘Woman of The Year’, Taryn’s positively infectious voice and powerful message has reached over 200 million people, via the likes of the L.A Times, Washington Post, The Doctors, Good Morning America, The Project, Australian Story, The Today Show and Sunrise.

Taryn lives in Adelaide but spends most of her time at 35,000 feet. She is a two-time marathon runner, lover of life and people, Mum to three children and proud Foundation board member for the Hutt Street Centre.
More about Taryn

Peter Baines

Hands Across the Water

Peter Baines OAM, developed his unique leadership style by leading international identification teams into Indonesia and Thailand following acts of terrorism and the 2004 South East Asian Tsunami. He would go on to work in the counter terrorism area of Interpol, spent time with the United Nations Office of Drug and Crime and also worked in Saudi Arabia and Japan after natural disasters hit those countries. But it was his work in Thailand that brought the biggest change. After meeting the children left orphaned by the Tsunami, Peter felt compelled to act and founded an Australian charity called Hands Across the Water which has gone on to create opportunities for hundreds of children across Thailand.

Today, Peter has a successful consulting business building engagement through corporate social responsibility and presents across the globe to major corporations and governments on Leadership. He is the author of two books, Hands Across the Water, and Doing Good by Doing Good which provides a blueprint for building experience led engagement programs with a focus on shared value.

In January 2014, Peter Baines was recognised in the Australia Day honours with the awarding of the Order of Australia Medal for his International Humanitarian work. In 2016 he received the Most Admirable Order of Direkgunabhorn awarded by the King of Thailand for his devotional services to the Kingdom of Thailand.
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Adirupa Sengupta

Common Purpose

Adirupa has been working in the leadership development space for over 20 years. She has a passion for developing talent and connecting people from different backgrounds. She has extensive knowledge and experience of working across different countries, cities and cultures to help leaders learn to cross boundaries in order to tackle complex problems.

As the Group Chief Executive of Common Purpose Charitable Trust, she works with major organizations and institutions around the world. Adirupa grew up in India and read for an MPhil in International Relations at St. John’s College, Cambridge. She is also an alumnus of the Harvard Business School’s High Potential Leadership Programme.
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Tim Jarvis AM

Scientist, adventurer and author

Tim Jarvis AM is an environmental scientist, author, adventurer and public speaker with Masters degrees in environmental science and environmental law. He is committed to finding pragmatic solutions to major environmental issues related to climate change and biodiversity loss.

Tim has undertaken unsupported expeditions to the world’s remotest regions, including to the South Pole, high Arctic and across the Great Victoria Desert, and is well known for his historically authentic recreations of the Antarctic survival journeys of heroic era explorers Sir Douglas Mawson and Sir Ernest Shackleton.

His environmental project 25zero aims to raise awareness of climate change by focusing on the world's disappearing equatorial glaciers. Tim is the founder and leader of The Forktree Project, a native revegetation and rewilding project on South Australia’s Fleurieu Peninsula, and is Global Ambassador and Governor of environmental NGO WWF and a Vice President of Flora and Fauna International.
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Danling Xiao

Mundane Matters

Danling Xiao pursues her passion in creativity and entrepreneurship with a strong focus on human-centred design and sustainability. Danling has dedicated her work to her design practice Mundane Matters as well as various clients including SMEs, government organisations and tech startups.

Since her fruit and vegetable sculptures on Instagram became a global viral success in 2015, Danling has been voicing relentlessly for sustainable living. She collaborates with talents of diverse expertise, from tech experts to hands-on builders and makers, to achieve greater social good together. In 2018, with the support of City of Sydney Art & About, Danling launched Wasteland, a 24-metre tall installation made from marine debris to raise awareness for plastic waste and circular economy. Wasteland inspired her to launch Re/Co in 2020, an online delivery service for household cleaning products in reusable packaging, aiming to reduce plastic waste, household chemical pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.

Most importantly, Danling enjoys her morning yoga, meditation, books, food and late afternoon walk - self love and nourishment is her top priority.
More About Danling
Vicky Welgraven

Vicky Welgraven

Respectful relationships champion

Vicky Welgraven is a proud Adnyamathanha woman from the Northern Flinders Ranges of South Australia. She has worked in the Public Sector for the past 26 years working in both federal and state government where she has held a number of key positions including managing staff and teams.

Vicky is a champion of those impacted by domestic and family violence, promoting gender equality and respectful relationships. Through her work as a White Ribbon Australia Community Partner and as a Director on the Our Watch Board, she seeks to address power imbalances leading to gender-based violence.

Vicky is also a member of the South Australian Premier’s Council for Women where she plays a part in providing leadership and advice to the Premier and the Minister for Human Services to ensure the interests and needs of women are at the forefront of the South Australian Government’s policies and strategies.

In 2019, Vicky was a Finalist for the Winnovation Awards in the Innovation & Intrapreneurship within Government Category for her innovative approaches to Reconciliation, Aboriginal history / culture; promoting gender equality, respectful relationships and an end to domestic and family violence.

Vicky is also a passionate Advocate for Reconciliation where she served as a board member on the Reconciliation SA Board for the past 6 years. In 2019 she was appointed the ‘First South Australian Aboriginal Woman’ as an ‘Australia Day Ambassador’. Where she generously volunteers her time to visit regional and metropolitan areas across SA to embrace communities, share insights from her varied lived experiences, and reflect on who we are as nation and celebrate our diversity.

Bek Smith

Mental Fitness Trainer

Bek Smith is on a mission to disrupt the way we approach mental health - and she's determined to do so without "fighting a battle" or "waging a war" against anything!

For three decades of her life, Bek lived with mental illness. At 17 she began her studies in psychology, and also discovered the powerful effect exercise had on her cognition and her mood. Whilst struggling through an eating disorder, exercise addiction, a diagnosis of bipolar disorder and PTSD, Bek concurrently completed her Bachelor of Science degree, worked as a psychology researcher, gained her Honours degree in Physiology and her Masters in Physiotherapy, commenced a successful clinical career and became a Reebok sponsored athlete.

Fast forward to the present day, and Bek now works as a psychological wellbeing advisor and educator, sharing the message that our diagnoses do not determine our outcomes, and that there is much more we can do to protect our mental health. Her approach to wellbeing is deeply human, highly relevant, and informed by her life experiences as much as it is by her qualifications. Bek is inspired to share the language and practices of mental fitness as a means to marry together her passions, address our epidemic of mental ill-health, and live out her purpose to elevate human consciousness.
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Bel Ryan

Art therapist and counsellor

Bel Ryan is fascinated by people, their stories, and how our experiences impact our lives. As a leading art therapist, counsellor, lecturer and director of Ignite Art Therapies, Bel is passionate about the power of using creativity to problem-solve, reflect, inspire and motivate.

Through her work and lived experiences, Bel has developed invaluable insights into grief, vicarious trauma and mental health. She is driven by her belief in "keeping things real’ and is passionate about fostering self-care for individuals as well as within teams and organisations.

Bel has been designing and facilitating programs for over 20 years, working extensively with vulnerable people in settings from schools, to health, to workplaces, to paediatric palliative care. Her distinct fusion of creative and experiential approaches positions her uniquely as a practitioner that cultivates (in herself as well as others) self-awareness, understanding, learning and empowerment.

Most recently, Bel’s focus has been on providing a safe space for leaders to consider how they can best lead for the greater good. She believes that we all need a space to be real and acknowledge our experiences, so that we can break through our barriers and realise true success, abundance, confidence, freedom and purpose.
More about Bel

Taryn Brumfitt

Appreciate the value and power that comes from having gratitude and living with perspective.

Peter Baines

It's what people do, not the position they hold that really makes the difference.

Danling Xiao

If we want to lead for the greater good for humankind, we must listen to people.

Adirupa Sengupta

We’ve got to find the leaders who can stand up, who want to be counted, who are willing to have brave, bold, courageous conversations, in order to be able to cross those boundaries, and make difference into a virtue.

Tim Jarvis AM

I see evidence, both good and bad in the way humans are impacting on the environment. I bring there stories back from my expeditions to try and effect positive change.

Bel Ryan

When we take off our masks, we find great wisdom in the challenge, vulnerability and acknowledgement of our humanness.

Zach Mercurio

Your purpose isn't out there waiting to be "found," it's right where you are waiting to be acknowledged.

Vicky Welgraven

Ultimately we can all make a difference. But first we must each be part of the solution.

Don’t miss this chance to change yourself, your impact on others and our world.

Seize the opportunity — become inspired, acquire new ideas and build valuable networks. We look forward to having you as part of the Newday community.

Newday Leadership Summit 2021
9:00am — 5:30pm
Thursday 1 July 2021
Adelaide Convention Centre, Panorama Room

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Partners

In 2020, for the first time we are expanding Newday to include partnership opportunities. This is a unique opportunity for your organisation and your teams to join us in inspiring leadership for the greater good. If you or your organisation have an alignment with the vision and values of Newday, please contact Katrina. Our partnership opportunities have the potential to go well beyond traditional event sponsorship arrangements.

Previous events

Our one-day events (summits), deep-learning workshops (labs) and social gatherings (soireés) connect, motivate and prepare the Newday Leadership community to lead for the greater good. We also have a lot of fun!

The inaugural Newday summit was held in July 2017 and followed by a sold-out summit in July 2018 and 2019. Leadership Labs in these years featured speaker coach David Griggs, humourist Tim Gard, and neural and systems complexity researcher, Dr Fiona Kerr. Once the Coronavirus pandemic hit in early 2020, we pressed pause on our annual leadership summit and pressed play of a new six-part eSeries in July and August.

Learn more about these exceptional people and other Newday Leadership alumni in our past events.

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