Summit

Newday Leadership Summit 2023

If you know our Summits, you’ll know that the day is part festival, part wellbeing retreat and part world-class leadership 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.

We are beginning to work on our theme for this year’s Summit and will have news to share with you about this and some of our first outstanding leaders for the stage and our activated spaces.

Our speaker line-up will be announced in the coming months.

Newday will be:

1. An outstanding leadership development opportunity

2. An opportunity to thank your staff for their hard work

3. A wellbeing day

4. A unique offering for a team Christmas celebration!

No other conference or workshop you attend will be as life-changing or worthwhile. Our event on 2 November will give you the impetus and permission you have been waiting for to challenge the status quo and create positive impact; to become a person who embodies ‘inspired leadership for the greater good’.

The 2023 Newday Summit will be aligning its program to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. We are passionate about taking action to make the world a better place, and these goals provide an effective blueprint for doing so.

This is the must-attend event for you. 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.

Book your early bird tickets

If you or your organisation wishes to partner with us for the Newday Leadership Summit 2023, please contact us.

Explore previous summits

ReNewday Summit 2022

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.

Newday 2020: Reimagining Leadership eSeries

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.

Newday Leadership Summit 2021

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 Leadership Summit 2019

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.

Newday Leadership Summit 2017

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 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.