Our Summit’s high calibre program of brilliant speakers and activators will be augmented with many other sensory delights, including opt-in massage; music and art therapy; physical activities (like yoga and kung fu from recent years); our popular pop-up book and gift shop; and of course, delicious food and drink. This year’s theme is one for our times: Connection.

Every relationship we value is built on connection. In leadership, the ability to connect is an almost magical capability, one that we are so excited to explore throughout our Summit.

So many people hear about our Summits after they’ve happened and wish they made the commitment to come. Whether you are an aspiring, emerging or established leader from the government, corporate, education, or not-for-profit sector, we invite you to join us. You can also join us even if you don’t consider yourself a leader – yet. We welcome everybody to a Newday Summit.

Why the Summit is a must-attend event

Newday Summit 2024 will be:

• a genuine embrace of diverse perspectives from many different leaders, including First Nations’ cultural knowledge
• an outstanding leadership development opportunity (with follow-up resources sent to every participant)
• a chance to network with leaders from almost any sector you can imagine (and the option to stay behind to share a drink or two)
• a memorable way to thank your teams, your board members or your clients for another year of work together
• a wellbeing day (with many options for physical activity)
• a chance to reset and reenergise for the final two months of the year
• a demonstration of how celebrating diversity and inclusion brings leadership perspectives to life (we cater for all abilities)
• fun, joyful and uplifting
• an experience that could change your life (we’ve heard this from many people over the years).

An inspired new partnership

We see boundless opportunities to embrace ‘inspired leadership for the greater good’. That’s why we’re proud to announce an exciting new partnership with AFL Max – a spirited organisation bringing Active, Fun Learning (AFL) to leadership and education.

We have plenty more to share about who will be bringing inspiration to our stage and spaces on 31 October. We can hardly wait!

Register now https://events.humanitix.com/newday-leadership-summit-2024

If you know our Summits, you’ll know that the day is part festival, part wellbeing retreat and part conference. Our Summits feature a high calibre program of brilliant interactive speakers and activators and many other sensory delights, including our opt-in massage, yoga and art therapy, our popular pop-up shop and of course delicious food and drink from the events team.

This year, our Newday program is being carefully curated to respond to the invitation set by this theme, and bring both wisdom and wonder to the experience of everyone who shares the day.

Whether it’s the search for deep understanding and meaning, the beauty of curiosity and awe, the exploration of theoretical and practical knowledge, or the pursuit of universal ‘truth’, Newday is set to capture hearts, and free minds.

Here’s how Newday can ignite wonder and wisdom in your life, whilst inspiring and advancing your leadership potential:

• nourish your wellbeing, expand your connections, and inspire new ways of looking at the world, so you can lead with greater impact
• advance your cultural awareness, intelligence and understanding to new heights
• increase your knowledge on a diverse range of concepts and challenge preconceived notions, enabling you to broaden your leadership perspective.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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