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About

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

Newday Leadership is not like other leadership organisations. Everything we do is in support of the mission of connecting people with ‘inspired leadership for the greater good’. 

We invite extraordinary people to share what it means to be a ‘Newday leader’ – a person whose motivation goes beyond the individual. 

Experiences that enable understanding of who we are and why we do what we do will always enhance our power to take action that makes a difference where it matters.

Our events and programs

At Newday Leadership we bring together inspired leaders to share their valuable insights on leadership trends, the power of purpose, and the issues and achievements impacting communities and our planet.

Our annual Summits (one-day events), leadership programs and leadership labs (deep learning workshops) offer a wide-range of perspectives and opportunities to be inspired, learn and 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 an aspiring, emerging or established leader from the government, corporate, education, or not-for-profit sector, we welcome you to join our community.

Our mission and vision

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 tenets of leadership excellence

We carefully consider what individuals and organisations seek and also what they don’t typically find. Our programs and events activate our five tenets of leadership excellence.

  • Global change
  • Wellbeing and resilience
  • Cultural awareness
  • Social responsibility
  • Diversity and inclusion.

We are dedicated to supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and intentionally curate our programs and events to celebrate leadership and action that brings these goals to life.

 

Meet the team

Katrina Webb

Newday Leadership Founder + Co-Director

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.
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Matthew Wright-Simon

Co-director

Matthew Wright-Simon is co-director of Newday Leadership. He works alongside Katrina in curating, designing and hosting leadship summits, labs and an acclaimed six-part video e-series in 2020, only weeks after the Covid-19 pandemic was declared. He is very excited to be co-facilitating Inspired Leadership 2023, a newly-launched regenerative leadership program for regional leaders.

Matthew is a strategist, facilitator and storyteller. His purpose is to creatively engage and activate people to contribute to positive social, environmental and economic impact. He has led hundreds of impact projects and a purpose-driven enterprise for more than 20 years.

Alongside and prior to his role with Newday Leadership, Matthew’s diverse commercial work with award-winning 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.

Matthew has been involved as a founder and has helped lead several social enterprise ventures and currently holds a board position with the South Australian Social Enterprise Council, the state peak body.

Matthew is a passionate advocate for wild places and nature, something he regularly connects with as an enthusiastic trail and ultramarathon runner.

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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Sophie Horwood CPM, MAICD

Newday marketing and communications

Holding a Master of Marketing, Sophie Horwood is a marketing and communications specialist.

As a Certified Practising Marketer with the Australian Marketing Institute, Sophie has worked in both large and small organisations, across a range of industries including financial services, not-for-profit, and health and wellbeing.

With over 10 years’ experience advising industry super funds on marketing, brand, communications and engagement strategies, Sophie’s strong track-record of delivering outstanding and impactful business results is evidenced by a plethora of marketing industry awards.

It was during her time in financial services that she carved a niche as a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) specialist. This strong passion for diversity and inclusion, sustainability, gender equality, Indigenous affairs, and community partnerships aligns with her values-based and purpose-driven approach to business and life.
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Advisors

Dr Gill Hicks

M.A.D for Peace

Gill is a powerful and thought provoking communicator, challenging us to think deeply about the relationship we have with the world around us, with each other and importantly hold with ourselves.

Her vital work, particularly in countering violent extremism, became her focus after she was left severely and permanently injured from the actions of a suicide bomber in the co-ordinated terrorist attack on London’s transport network in July, 2005.

Prior to the bombings, Gill was a respected figure within the fields of Architecture, Design and the Arts in London. As Publisher of Blueprint, the contemporary culture magazine, she established herself within the world renown British design scene. She later went on to be Founding Director of The Dangerous Minds Design consultancy and then Head Curator at the Design Council.

‘Designing a sustainable peace’ has become the core focus to Gill’s body of work. Under the acronym for Making a Difference ‘M.A.D.’, Gill has created both an agency, a ‘think’ and ‘do’ tank, M.A.D. Minds and a creative business, Music Art Discussion, where she brings her performance and visual art together to express her wonder and observations of life.
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David Griggs

Speaking Coach

David Griggs is a successful speaker, speaking coach and business pitch consultant with a difference. He works with leaders, CEOs and other professionals to transform them into persuasive and inspiring speakers.

David’s unique feature is his 
combined experience in theatre and business. A graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), David has taught acting and drama as well as directed many fine productions for the
 Adelaide Theatre Group. He then went on to manage, grow and successfully sell a family-owned business.

David teaches public speaking skills drawing on the techniques of the professional actor, and helps business people access their ‘inner performer’. He has helped many individuals and organisations to achieve confidence, credibility and a competitive edge through more effective public communication. His technique is not just to help produce confident speakers; it is to allow you the freedom to inspire others.

David is the principal and founder of The Speakers Studio. He is Past President of the National Speakers Association of Australia, and has represented Australia on the board of the International Federation for Professional
 Speakers. In 2007, David was inducted in to The Australian Speakers Hall of Fame.
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Kate Berry

Chief People Officer at Discovery Holiday Parks

Kate Berry is known for her Human Resources expertise, leadership capability, strategic planning consulting skills and commercial acumen.

Prior to joining Discovery Parks as their Chief People Officer, Kate worked in Senior HR leadership roles within the AFL, Professional Services (PwC and KPMG), Retail and Hospitality (Peregrine and the Southern Pacific Hotel Group) sectors in various locations throughout Australia.

Key areas of expertise include Strategic Planning, Talent Management and Succession Planning, Mentoring of Women, Driving Change Programs, Managing Remuneration and Benefits Programs, Performance Management, developing High Performance Cultures and Corporate Governance. Over Kate’s working career, she has successfully lead teams of Human Resources professionals.

She holds a Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management, from Deakin University.

Kate is passionate about working with women in business to assist them to achieve their career aspirations and to succeed. She has successfully coached many women to build their personal brands, accept new opportunities to grow and develop, build their resilience and to focus on their overall wellbeing in order to be at their very best.

Kate is a current Board Member of the Royal Society for The Blind; a member of the South Australian Universities, Centre For Excellence Human Resource Management, Advisory Group and a Board member of the University of South Australia’s Business School Advisory Board.
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Mike Worsman

The Happiest

Mike Worsman is a writer, filmmaker and global adventurer who has spent the past decade capturing and sharing stories that could move people to chase a happier, more connected life that would better our world.

From city streets and remote tribal areas, to warzones and refugee camps, from the Ganges to Wall Street to Beijing, the people and the socio-political issues he explores have the power to change our world, and they already are. Mike's work has reached more than 126 million people from every country on Earth, through his organisation The Happiest.
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Dr Fiona Kerr

Humanist, technologist and complex systems thinker

Fiona is a world-renowned academic researcher, author, consultant and speaker. Dr Kerr is on a mission “to change the way we think about how we think.”

Fiona advises and works with organisations ranging from US Defense to Cirque du Soleil, with projects including how soldiers interact with autonomous systems in decision making, how to design multimodal gadgets which have a positive cognitive impact, and why face-to-face interaction with a nurse makes a patient heal better.
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Apart from directing The NeuroTech Institute, Fiona also holds positions as Research Fellow with the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), adjunct with the University of Adelaide Engineering department, advisor to global centre for modern aging, R4 Robotics and Curated, and vice chair of the Catalyst Foundation board.
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Mickey Kumatpi O’Brien

Cultural educator and advisor

Mickey Kumatpi Marratyu O’Brien is an Aboriginal person and descendant of the Kaurna (Adelaide Plains) and Narrunga (Yorke Peninsula) peoples. He has been providing cultural advice for many years and is a proud ambassador for the Kaurna people. His warm Welcome to Country is always a highlight at our summits.

Culture is an important part of Mickey's life and he honours the responsibility passed down to him by his father, well-known Kaurna elder, Uncle Lewis O’Brien, by incorporating culture into every Welcome to Country. He is truly valued as a Newday Leadership advisor.
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Magda Nenycz-Thiel

Professor

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.

Prior to her current role, Magda was Mars Professor of Marketing, a Chair funded by Mars Incorporated and she also led the Institute’s Mars Marketing Lab, a R&D initiative funded by Mars Incorporated from 2013-2016.

Magda’s core areas of expertise are category and industry growth, e-commerce and neuromarketing. Her work has been published widely including in the Journal of Advertising Research, European Journal of Marketing and Journal of Business Research. She is also the author of two chapters in How Brands Grow Part 2, “Building Physical Availability” and “Online shopping – is it different?”.

Magda is an Associate Editor at the Journal of Advertising Research responsible for the practitioners pieces corner.
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Durkhanai Ayubi

Writer and restauranteur

Durkhanai is an Afghan-born migrant to Australia. She is a restaurateur, running restaurants with an ethos of food as a means for sharing stories, breaking down barriers and reshaping narratives. She is also a writer, with opinion pieces in various publications nationwide and an editor and co-founder of an online magazine, Sultana's Dream, written by Muslim women from across Australia.

Durkhanai is an Atlantic Fellow for Social Equity – a global Fellowship which brings together change makers from across the world with a shared vision of advancing fairer, healthier and more inclusive societies. She is currently writing a book on food and migration.
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