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Our sixth Newday Summit was sold out again.

Our wonderful speakers and activators included – Jean Oelwang, Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, Dr Sukhbir Sandhu, Damon Gameau, Darren Hill, Dr Neralie Cain, Youth Opportunities Young Leaders, Jack Kanya Buckskin, Magda Nenycz-Thiel, Bel Ryan and Tashi Sherpa. And it wouldn’t be a renewing Newday without our massage partner, Aurora Hub Practitioners, our yoga teacher Linda Carofano, our play activators Erin and Graham from Lead with Play and the team from AFLMax.

Thank you to our event partner Beyond Bank, livestream partner SA Power Networks, charity partner Youth Opportunities and our creative partners, Give Media, Rodeo and Catherine Leo Photography. We are also grateful for the support of event technical partners AV Plus.

Our once again sold out Summit brought 10 incredible speakers and two unique activators who took the audience through a spectrum of emotions. From the heart-wrenching stories of change-maker Peter Baines OAM; the inspiring insights of the purpose-master Zach Mercurio; the courage and wit of body image movement leader Taryn Brumfitt; the staggering journey of Tim Jarvis AM; and so many other stories of purposeful leaders in action, the Newday Summit was packed with goodness.

We also worked with our Sydney-based activator, Danling Xiao to install her extraordinary art installation Wasteland Renewed. 900+ balls made from marine plastics and inspired by a food waste story. Inside hundreds of them are hidden Newday Summit ‘purposeful pledges’ for people and planet.

The COVID-19 pandemic forced so many of us to reconsider what is most important in life. While Newday absolutely love bringing large groups of people together in person, we had to reinvent what Newday meant to us in 2020.

Teaming up with some of the the most in-demand leaders and speakers in Australia and globally, we adapted and curated a compelling and deliberately practical series of supported online leadership sessions to help our Newday Community and their teams lead for the greater good.

Our ‘Reimagining Leadership’ eSeries, started on 1 July and include a 75 minute eSeries each week for 6 weeks. We had 300 people join us virtually, with 10 speakers from across the world. From our survey feedback, we received a 4.4/5 rating. View the program.

We worked with the team at Muso Magic to create this wonderful video – We are all in this together.

6 weeks. Develop new habits. Adapt to uncertainty. Lead for the greater good.

At this Newday Leadership Lab, Professor Magda Nenycz-Thiel shared what marketing science is teaching us about brand growth. A combination of a talk, Q&A and practical exercises, the lab left attendees 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.

Thank you to Holidays of Australia and the World and Professor Magda for their contributions to the Newday Leadership Lab.

Newday 2019 was once again a sell out. 9 speakers and even a Newday song and choir this year.

The summit raised $2000 for our charity partners Youth Inc. and Jodi Lee Foundation by attendees purchasing the plants and items from the Newday store.

Wellbeing is an important component of Newday. Seated massage was once again provided by Paul and the team at Massage Life, lunch time yoga was provided by Linda Carafano and this year for the first time we had art therapy by Bel Ryan.

Newday also subsidised 50% of the cost for 63 bowel cancer screening kits!

Supporting social enterprise is just one way we help lead for the greater good at Newday. At the 2019 summit we also help launch Youth Inc. LENDyards. This amazing result means the team from Youth Inc. can now work with new clients with their handmade recyclable lanyards, which reduces the ecological footprint of future events and begin to transform this part of the events industry.

With great compassion, infinite wisdom and a spontaneous, refreshing and humorous style of teaching, Shyalpa Tenzin Rinpoche shared with us how to:

1. Create calm in busy and stressful times
2. Seize the moment, to live with clarity, kindness and genuine understanding
3. Understand our selves and lead authentically
4. Positively transform our way of being in everyday life.

What an incredible newday Leadership Lab with Dr Fiona Kerr — ‘Harnessing the capacity for human connection’.

So many learnings. Here are just a few…

• We get the brain we shape by paying attention to what we think is important.
• We build brand new brain forever. What fires together wires together.
• We change each other’s brains for better or worse? It’s a gift and a huge responsibility.
• The brain grows with human connection, new challenges, adequate sleep, exercise in nature and good gut health.
• Stress and the release of cortisol stops brain growth.
• Napping in the afternoon (20mins) helps to improve cognitive performance.
• Organisations that value and have high levels of human connection develop great trust, empathy, shared values, can reframe negatives easier and are more creative and productive.
• Good adaptive leaders have a clear passionate vision, have strongly held values, have pragmatic optimism, they take the time it takes, they value human connection and know how to use technology for good.
• Distraction stops Abstraction. Disconnect, look up and absorb the view.
• Humans love oscillating together. That’s why we go to newday Leadership Labs. We absolutely need the chemicals that we get when we are together to feel connected and a strong sense of belonging.

Read more about Fiona’s work at her website.

Watch Fiona at newday 2018

Newday Leadership Summit was once again a great success.

It sold out three weeks before and included an incredible line up of speakers — The Passion Activator Shivani Gupta, Dr Tshering Lama from Nepal and Phill Nosworthy to name a few.

Imagery — Catherine Leo Photography

Following the resounding success of the inaugural Newday summit in July 2017, the first Newday Leadership Lab was held in November 2017 to capitalise on the significant shifts that took place for many of our guests and help them to take the next step towards leading for the greater good.

The theme Speaking to Lead was brought to life by David Griggs, one of the foremost speaking coaches in the world. A graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), David has worked as a theatre actor, director and teacher. He has also had extensive experience in the corporate sector managing a family manufacturing business. This unique background comprising business and theatre experience informs an approach that emphasises performance and engagement so that each word spoken resonates with audiences and brings the speaker’s vision to life.

David designed the session for every Newday leader, not just public speakers, and guided participants towards becoming more aware of the impacts – both good and bad – of what comes out of their mouths.

The landmark leadership event quickly garnered interest from the non-profit, public and corporate sectors alike, thanks to its line up of remarkable speakers, which includes 2005 London bombing survivor, Dr Gill Hicks, social entrepreneurs, Jane Tewson, Roger Antochi, Steph Lorenzo and Mike Worsman; humour advocate, Tim Gard; as well as Katrina Webb.

The event received excellent feedback, with 75% of participants rating it 9 or 10 out of 10, and 99% rating it 7 or higher.

Imagery — Catherine Leo Photography