ELIAS WA

ENGAGING LEADERS
INNOVATING ACROSS SECTORS

COLLECTIVE LEADERSHIP PROGRAM

HOSTED BY
In collaboration with other
organisations including
CUSP (Curtin University
Sustainability & Policy
Institute)
 Why is this a critical time
to strengthen collective
leadership across society?
Our collective journey in the 21st Century faces enormous challenges that are unprecedented in
their magnitude and complexity. So, the question we must consider is: What is still missing to
achieve a vision of a prosperous, thriving and healthy Western Australia for all?

The 21st century is characterised by With our outdated paradigms, we find

disruptions, uncertainty, and ambiguity ourselves again and again creating collective
at an unprecedented scale. It allows us to results that bring us further from what we
enjoy new frontiers of technology, access truly desire, no matter how well-intentioned
to information, and increased productivity. we started out.
On the other hand, we are also faced
Envisioning a prosperous, equitable, and
with rising anxiety and depression; an
sustainable world for us and our future
unaffordable cost of living for many; state
generations requires us to go beyond fixing
debt; and an uncertain future for our
problems. It calls on us to reimagine our
place, our land, our children and future
ways of living, working, and being; to find
generations, among many other unintended
and actualise new models that serve the
consequences of progress.
good of the whole. It requires innovation
At the same time, our ability to respond and creativity to emerge out of profound
to these challenges – our existing legal transformations at all levels of society.
infrastructure, institutions, education model,
leadership capacity – are falling behind.

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About ELIAS WA
The Centre for Social Impact at
The University of Western Australia
(CSI UWA) in association with
the Presencing Institute (USA)
is hosting ELIAS WA – a tri-sector
collective leadership program
that brings together leaders
from government, civil society
and the corporate sector to shape
new futures.

We need to develop the ability to collectively address urgent

and complex issues. It’s critical that we develop these skills
between government, civil society and the corporate sector.
This program takes us through a co-design process around
complex issues. We learn through doing and prototyping the
change we wish to see.
We believe this program will play a critical role in Western
Australia’s ability to take a coordinated, collaborative and aligned
approach to the social, economic and environmental challenges
we are facing.
The foundation of the ELIAS WA program was designed by
Dr C. Otto Scharmer and Dr Peter Senge in collaboration with
their colleagues in Indonesia. It draws from their schools of
thinking: The Fifth Discipline by Dr Senge which, for almost
three decades, has been heralded as the leading strategy for
organisational development in the 21st century; and Theory U
by Dr Scharmer which introduced to Dr Senge’s work the critical
importance of awareness in building the leadership capacity to
address the challenges we are facing. This program has been run
in partnership with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in
Indonesia and China. We now have the unique opportunity to work
with the Indonesian faculty to deliver the program here in WA.

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 The Distinctive Features
of the ELIAS WA Program
This program is focussed on refining skills and capacities while putting
them into practice. Our time together will be spent generating impact,
not just talking or learning about what should be done.

Tri-sector participants. The program World-class faculty members drawn from

offers the rare opportunity for leaders to local and international networks delivering
build authentic relationships with those similar programs around the world.
beyond their own organisational and
Design and methods are based on tested
sectoral boundaries.
and acknowledged globally-validated
Beyond problem solving. ELIAS WA concepts and tools for leadership learning
builds capacity in co-creating the future and innovation.
that really matters, allowing leaders to
Network of distinguished alumni.
move beyond reactive problem solving.
Participants will be able to become part
Profound learning experiences of a wider network of alumni from similar
through a combination of interactive programs in Indonesia and China.
sessions, immersive experiences and
real-world action learning across personal,
professional and societal levels.

This program follows the model of the MIT partnership program ELIAS, and the IDEAS
Indonesia and China programs. For over 10 years this program has run in Indonesia with
a track record of leading profound innovation. We are excited to have two of their core
faculty co-leading our program here (see pages 9-11).

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“It’s given me more
perspective and has
been very helpful
and useful for my job,
as it’s my challenge
to transform the
government and
to deliver public
services better.”
SUYOTO NGARTEP MUSTAJAB
HEAD OF BOJONEGORO
REGENCY INDONESIA

“It’s an absolutely
awesome experience.”
RUBEN HATTARI
DIRECTOR OF CORPORATE AFFAIRS
OF MICROSOFT INDONESIA

“A very unique approach

of understanding human
reality...the U process
allowed me to experiment
with the bank as it is
undergoing a major
transformation.”
FELIA SALIM
FORMER VICE PRESIDENT DIRECTOR,
BANK NEGARA INDONESIA (BNI)

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 The Learning Journey

21 FEBRUARY 2019
2-3 JULY FINAL
ORIENTATION WORKSHOP WORKSHOP
Non-Residential, UWA
Learning Space 1 & GRADUATION
Guided Action Learning Non-residential,
UWA, WA
Learning Space 5
Guided Action
8 JULY Learning
INTENSIVE DAY
Non-residential, WA
Learning Space 2
Guided Action Learning 28 NOVEMBER
PROTOTYPING
LAB 2
19-20 JULY Perth CBD, WA
SOCIAL IMPACT Learning Space 4
SUMMIT Guided Action
Non-residential, UWA, WA Learning

18-19 OCTOBER
PROTOTYPING LAB 1
Perth CBD, WA
17 AUGUST Learning Space 3
SENSING Guided Action Learning
JOURNEY 2-5 SEPTEMBER
Non-residential, WA
DEEP DIVE RETREAT
Residential, WA

The dates above are for face-to-face commitments

throughout ELIAS WA, however please note that there
are other commitments in between these dates,
including webinars, self-paced learning, and team work.
Check for updated details at www.impactlabsWA.com

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How does the ELIAS WA
Program create the impact
we wish to see?

Cross-sector
network allows
for innovation at a
systems level

IMPACT
Prototyping Immersion
solutions, supported learning where you are
by a network of putting into practice
practitioners everything you
are learning

Content covered for applied learning in practice

• Case studies: Collective leadership in
practice (stories from high-level tri-sector
international leaders)
• Frameworks and principles for facilitating
profound innovation
• The world today: exploring global and
local challenges with insights from
area experts
• Tools and methodologies to drive
profound innovation
• Systems thinking
• Leading systems change
• Design thinking
• Societal and social design
• Understanding mental models
• Building learning labs
• Theory U
• Prototyping
• Causal loop analysis
• Developing holistic and varied intelligence
• Developing awareness-based leadership

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 What you take away

PERSONAL
You will develop your ability to lead
collectively in our complex and
rapidly changing world.

ORGANISATIONAL
You will gain tools and skills
to transform your organisation,
to increase its agility, and to
overcome silos.

CROSS-SECTORAL
You will build networks and
meaningful partnerships to strengthen
your capacity to create the changes
you wish to see.

SYSTEMIC
You will develop tools and the
capacity to transform society.

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The Faculty
Dr Ben Chan
Dr Ben Chan is a Senior Presencing Practitioner. Together with Dr Scharmer, Dr Senge and Frans Sugiarta,
in partnership with MIT, he has co-designed the MIT IDEAS Indonesia (tri-sector leadership) Program.
He has lectured on Entrepreneurship and Business Creation at Singapore Management University. Dr Chan
is also the Executive Director of the International Science Enterprise Centre, a resource where young
entrepreneurs come to learn and practice the HeartWare of Entrepreneurial Leadership.

Bradley Chenoweth
Bradley brings more than a decade of engagement with the Presencing Institute and as Senior Consultant
with Dialogos International in Boston. He’s worked globally as an organisational consultant, executive
coach, mediator and lawyer. His work at interfaces of conflict offers a unique understanding of risk,
innovation and change in human systems; assisting senior leadership groups develop their knowledge
of each other in order to create new ways of doing business. Bradley teaches system transformation and
dispute resolution in professional, undergraduate and post-graduate programs. He is Visiting Fellow to
The University of Western Australia and the Australian National University, where he is Director of the
Centre for Dialogue.

Dr Renu Burr
Dr Renu Burr has been a faculty member of UWA’s Business School since 1992. Renu’s extensive experience
and expertise in leadership development, system and personal transformation has been built over 30 years
of business leadership and academic experience. Renu has worked in senior management, consultant and
advisory roles to improve business and leadership effectiveness in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors
in Australia and overseas. She currently teaches Leadership for Social Impact at the UWA Business School,
as part of the MBA and the Centre for Social Impact UWA’s Graduate Certificate in Social Impact.

Dr Mike Mouritz
Dr Mike Mouritz is an urban development professional with more than 20 years’ experience in local and
state government, and in the private sector. He is passionate about developing and delivering urban
planning, development and regeneration strategies, with a keen focus on local economic development
and sustainability. Dr Mouritz has a solid track record in creating development frameworks that provide
investment opportunity and build local ownership. He has executive level experience in local and state
government – responsible for creating and building multidisciplinary teams involved in sustainability,
local economic development, urban renewal, property and communications.

Professor Paul Flatau

Professor Paul Flatau commenced as the Chair in Social Investment and Impact and Director of the Centre
for Social Impact at The University of Western Australia (CSI UWA) in December 2010. Paul has over 100
publications covering a broad range of fields including labour economics, the history of economic thought,
and the economics of social policy. He has made a significant contribution to the analysis of social and
economic outcomes, and the impact and cost-effectiveness of programs in a number of fields including
poverty, education, youth justice, unemployment, homelessness, and housing.

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 Dr John Stubley
John Stubley, PhD, is a professional creativity and health consultant. He helps individuals and groups unlock
their highest creative possibilities through tailor-made transformative processes. He has a PhD in English
Literature (Creative Writing); several qualifications in the health sciences; and a wide range of training and
expertise in various facilitation methodologies, including Theory U, gathered over many years working
around the world. His writing has appeared in numerous global publications, and been translated into
several languages. He currently runs a health clinic and creative consultancy. He is passionate about the
positive transformation of Western Australia through human creativity.

Katie Stubley
Katie is the Strategic Design Lead at the Centre for Social Impact at the UWA Business School (CSI UWA).
She is a lecturer in the centre’s Graduate Certificate for Social Impact on the themes of social impact,
entrepreneurship, systems innovation and design for social impact. Katie also designs and co-directs a
number of CSI UWA’s public engagement programs including their annual Social Impact Festival, as well as
Impact Labs. She has also been working as a Human-Centred Designer on a number of exciting innovation
projects. She is passionate about strategic design for systems change.

Guest Faculty
The Guest Faculty will join us for particular days of the program, or for online live-stream sessions.

Dr Noel Nannup
Dr Noel Nannup is a well-respected Nyoongar Elder. He is a known story teller and cultural guide, instructor
and mentor. Throughout Noel’s life he has worked to promote public awareness of the importance of caring
for the environment. His career has been dedicated to educating young Western Australians about the rich
cultural heritage of Aboriginal people and their lands; and, throughout that process, Noel has played an
active and leading role in reconciliation. Noel is the Edith Cowan University’s Lead Elder-in-Residence and
advises as ECU’s Cultural Ambassador.

Dr Otto Scharmer
Otto Scharmer is a Senior Lecturer at MIT and co-founder of the Presencing Institute. He chairs the MIT
IDEAS program for cross-sector innovation that helps leaders from business, government and civil society
to innovate at the level of the whole system. He is author of Theory U (translated into 20 languages) and
co-author of Leading from the Emerging Future, that outlines eight acupuncture points of transforming
capitalism. In 2015 he co-founded the MITx u.lab, a massive open online course for leading profound change
that has since activated a global eco-system of societal and personal renewal involving more than 100,000
users from 185 countries. With his colleagues he has delivered award-winning leadership development
programs for corporate clients, and co-facilitated innovation labs on reinventing education, health, business,
government, and well-being.

In-person on July 8

Kelvy Bird
Kelvy Bird has been working in the field of human development within organisational contexts since 1995,
with a focus on collaboration, innovation, leadership, and collective intelligence. Her joy is in harnessing
group creativity for projects that cultivate learning and connectivity. Kelvy also works as a visual facilitator,
supporting groups with live translation of content and dynamics into tangible images, to aid with reflection
and decision-making. Long-standing partners have included: dpict llc, The Value Web, MIT Exec Education,
Harvard Ed School, The Ashland Institute, Dialogos, and MG Taylor, as well as Fortune 500 and local
community organisations alike.

In-person September 2-5

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The following guest faculty will join us online through live-stream sessions and webinars.

Peter Senge
Peter M. Senge is a Senior Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Founding Chair of
SoL, the Society for Organizational Learning, The Journal of Business Strategy (September/October 1999) named Senge one of the 24 people
who has had the greatest influence on business strategy over the last 100 years. The Financial Times (2000) named him one of the world’s top
management gurus, and BusinessWeek (October 2001) rated Senge one of the top 10 management gurus. Senge has lectured extensively
throughout the world, translating the abstract ideas of systems theory into tools for better understanding of economic and organizational change.

Darcy Winslow
Darcy Winslow is President, Founder and Faculty of the Academy for Systems Change. Darcy worked at Nike, Inc. for over 20 years holding
numerous senior management positions within the business and the Nike Foundation, including creating the Sustainable Business Strategies
division in 1999, Senior Advisor to the Nike Foundation and as General Manager for Nike’s Global Women’s Footwear, Apparel and Equipment
business. In 2008, Darcy founded DSW Collective, LLC, focusing on the alignment of organizational values and principles with the development
and implementation of practical yet aggressive systemic sustainable design strategies. The Collective consists of experienced practitioners in
sustainability, business strategy, leadership, facilitation, organizational development, change management, system dynamics, and culture.

Robert Hanig
Robert Hanig is a founding member of the Society for Organizational Learning and of RLH Consulting. He was formerly a partner with Dialogos
International, Vice President with Innovation Associates, and a VP at Arthur D. Little (ADL), where he led the Leadership Practice directing both the
companies’ public training offerings and in-house programs for clients focused on large system change. Prior to joining Innovation Associates,
Mr. Hanig was President of D.M.A., Inc., an international training company working at the leading edge of Personal Mastery and individual and
collective creativity. He has also held senior management positions at companies including Apollo Computer, High Voltage Engineering and
Erewhon Foods.

Hal Hamilton
Hal Hamilton founded and co-directs the global Sustainable Food Lab. The purpose of the Sustainable Food Lab is to mainstream sustainability
in global food and agriculture, and its projects are all aimed at practical supply chain tools and shared learning among peers. Hal’s career began
as a commercial dairy farmer in Kentucky where he led the development of the first formal alliance among tobacco farmer and public health
organizations. Hal has founded and directed a variety of rural development or leadership organizations, and was the Executive Director of the
Sustainability Institute founded by Donella Meadows.

Charles Holmes
Charles Holmes is a skilled facilitator and educator whose 20 years of experience have honed a passion for creating meaningful dialogue among
groups whose diverse opinions might otherwise work against a common understanding of potential outcomes and commitments to working
together. He has taught in business and executive programs in a number of Universities. He has also helped to establish a range of different
organizations, including the Learning Strategies Group at Simon Fraser University, the Cool North Shore Society (focussed on helping citizens
reduce their carbon emissions) and Training Resources for the Environmental Community. In all instances, Charles’ number one interest is helping
groups to see possibilities for what they might create together, to acknowledge, but not be constrained by the past, and to explore opportunities
for working in collaboration to create better futures.

Frans Sugriata
Frank Sugriata is Academic Director at Unity in Diversity. He completed the ELIAS Leadership Program at MIT Sloan School of Management, and
is the co-founder and designer of IDEAS-Indonesia. Focusing his interest on the Learning Organisation, Frans is a lecturer, coach and mentor for
a wide range of participants – from emerging to experienced leaders in many organisations in Indonesia and globally.

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Apply Now
We welcome fellows into this
program who are passionate
about addressing complex
problems, and driving positive
change. The program is designed
for experienced leaders; CEOs,
senior staff, and change agents.

We highly recommend that you attend with a thinking partner

from your organisation, or with a team. There is a team
discount available.

Contribution
Please note that scholarships are available for each sector.
Please also feel free to have a conversation with us for
more information on how we can support you.

Corporate $11,000 + GST

Government $9,800 + GST

Not-for-Profit $7,000 + GST

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