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Inspired leadership for the greater good

9 November 2022

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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 co-director

Matthew Wright-Simon, Host and co-director

Mike Worsman, Video storytelling

Our Advisors

Dr Gill Hicks, Artist and leader

Dr Fiona Kerr, Neural and systems complexity specialist

Professor Magda Nenycz-Thiel, Professor of Marketing

Mickey Kumatpi O’Brien, Cultural educator and Kaurna Elder

Kate Berry, People, Performance and culture expert

David Griggs, Public speaking coach

Durkanhai Ayubi, Writer and advocate

Why Newday

Newday 2022 line-up to date

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

Author, Speaker + Consultant

Alex is the global programs director at 4 Day Week Global, a nonprofit devoted to bringing the 4-day week to the world. Its trial programs in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere have been the subject of international attention.

His work has been written about in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Financial Times and the Guardian.

Alex is the author of four books, including Shorter: How Working Less WIll Revolutionise the Way Your Company Gets Things Done; Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less; and The Distraction Addiction. Together, these books have been translated into more than twenty languages.

At Newday, Alex will speak about the 4-day week, the future of work, and how deliberate rest makes creative careers more productive and sustainability. Alex consults with companies and individuals who want to learn how to over-perform without overworking.
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Sukhbir Sandhu

Executive Director of CWeX

Associate Professor Sukhbir Sandhu is the Executive Director for the Centre of Workplace Excellence (CWeX) at the University of South Australia. The environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues that she researches include both local challenges (e.g., reducing single use plastic waste in South Australia, reviving regional areas in Australia through circular economy) and global challenges (e.g. working with farmers in developing countries to protect ecosystems, driving sustainability in multinationals).

She has contributed to alleviating these complex ESG problems by becoming a “boundary spanner” – publishing in top tier management journals and in highly-ranked practitioner journals, ensuring that her work simultaneously impacts academics and practice. Her work has appeared in leading outlets such as the Administrative Science Quarterly and Harvard Business Review. She has also published three best-selling books on ESG.

Associate Professor Sandhu’s work has been featured in more than 80 newspaper and magazine articles (including The Australian Financial Review, The Australian and The National Geographic), in podcasts, the ABC, SBS and in the Adelaide Writer’s Festival.

At Newday, Sukhbir will share her latest research on how to be a wise leader (“From Knowledge to Wisdom”). Never have we expected more of leadership—and never have we been so disappointed. In a world where change is the only constant she will discuss how leaders can restore and renew their organisations by focusing on wise leadership to address wicked problems.
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Dr Neralie Cain

Sleep Doctor

Dr Neralie Cain is the Director and principal Clinical Psychologist at NLC Psychology. Over the past 15 years, she has developed a special interest in psychological treatments for insomnia and other sleep problems, and in her clinical work she has applied this knowledge to help individuals from the age of 2 to 92 to learn to sleep better.

Neralie has given presentations at local, interstate, and international conferences and workshops, and has authored a number of peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters in the areas of child and adolescent sleep.

In 2019 she completed her PhD, investigating the use of sleep restriction therapy as a transdiagnostic intervention for insomnia and anxiety in middle childhood.
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Matthew Wright-Simon

Newday co-director and emcee

Matthew Wright-Simon is delighted to be working with the Newday Leadership team, working alongside Katrina in curating and designing and hosting summits, labs and our recent eSeries. As he has done since 2018, Matthew will link the intimacy of what's shared with the big picture and the events that shape our lives as leaders.

Matthew's purpose is to creatively stimulate, facilitate, engage and activate people to contribute to positive social, environmental and economic impact – and to have a lot of fun in the process!

Matthew's diverse commercial work with engagement consultancy, Ecocreative, is informed by his roles in thought leadership, philanthropy and conservation with TEDxAdelaide, the Awesome Foundation and Landscape Partnerships, an environmental NGO he co-founded several years ago.

In 2019, Matthew co-founded Double Denim, a sustainable textiles social enterprise that benefits a women's homelessness service. This is one of several social enterprise ventures he helps lead, complemented by his role on the board of the South Australian Social Enterprise Council peak body. In 2019-20, Matthew was voted as one of Pro Bono Australia's Impact 25 for his contribution to social and environmental advocacy and enterprise in Australia.
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Magda Nenycz-Thiel

Professor

At this Newday Leadership Lab, Professor Magda Nenycz-Thiel will share what marketing science is teaching us about brand growth. A combination of a talk, Q&A and practical exercises, the lab will leave you with ideas on what to stop doing and how to approach brand growth in a different and evidence based way.

As Industry Growth Professor at UniSA, together with a research team at the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute for Marketing Science, Magda focuses on applying discoveries to improve the ways that growth investments are made within organisations. Newday understands the value in Magda's strategic thinking (she is one of our trusted advisors).

Magda’s core areas of expertise are category and industry growth, e-commerce and neuromarketing. Her work has been published widely including in international research journals and she is also the author of two chapters in the best-selling book How Brands Grow Part 2.
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Tashi Sherpa

International Mountain Guide and Leader

Like many who grew up in the Khumbu (Everest region), Tashi comes from a long line of mountaineers. His grandfather died tragically in an avalanche and despite the risks Tashi’s father followed into the family business working on ascents of Everest and many other peaks.

Tashi however started out on a different path before succumbing to the call of the mountains. He was a buddhist monk for 14 years where he specialised in being a medic at Kopan monastery in Kathmandu and received a degree in community health work.

Life in the mountains was a natural fit for Tashi. He started guiding treks in 2007 and three years later he moved on to the big mountains. Since then he has summited and guided Mt. Everest seven times, Ama Dabalm, and Baruntse, and led trekking peak climbs of Island, Mera, Pachermo and others. Tashi is a certified professional International Mountain guide with a Diploma in Mountain and an Instructor of Nepal Mountaineering Instructor Association. At Newday, Tashi will discuss leadership lessons from a buddhist monk to leading people to the top of the world.

(Please note: Tashi's confirmation is based on his visa being granted to Australia)
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Katrina Webb

Silver 2 Gold

Katrina Webb is recognised and acknowledged for her unique athleticism and outstanding success as a Paralympic athlete. She has won Gold, Silver and Bronze medals in athletics at three Paralympic Games. She was the first torch bearer to enter the Olympic Stadium for the Opening Ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games and in 2006 Katrina was selected to present on behalf of the International Paralympic Committee to the United Nations in New York. To add to this she has walked the Kokoda track and has trekked to Basecamp Everest. In 2012 & 2016, Katrina was selected as one of two Paralympians Ambassadors for the International Paralympic Committee at the London, Rio & Tokyo Paralympic Games. Due to her own experience in dealing with a disability and a desire to help others, Katrina is a passionate humanitarian. She currently organises leadership treks to Nepal including Everest Basecamp, raising funds for the health, education and protection of children in Nepal.

Katrina is an international speaker, leadership and personal mastery consultant, trainer in wellbeing and resilience, a physiotherapist and also the founder and director of Newday.
More about Katrina

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.

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Partners

Newday Leadership has an unique opportunity for your organisation to partner with us. 

If you or your organisation have an alignment with the vision and values of Newday, please contact the Newday Team and they will send you the New Leadership Partnership Prospectus.

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, 2019 and 2021.

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

See all previous events (and alumni)

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The Newday Leadership blog provides inspiration to lead for the greater good. Whether you're a business or individual, these articles are an invaluable resource to help you create positive change, and make your mark.

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