BWA Podcast Show: Reimagining Leadership: BWA’s Journey with the Inner Development Goals
What does leadership need to look like in a world demanding greater courage, collaboration, sustainability and human connection?
In this thought-provoking episode of the Business Women Australia Podcast Show, Wendy Harper interviews Lyn Hawkins in a powerful conversation exploring the future of conscious leadership and BWA’s evolving journey with the Inner Development Goals (IDGs).
Together, they unpack:
- Why the IDGs resonated so strongly with Business Women Australia’s leadership philosophy
- How BWA is evolving its leadership pathways, conversations and communities of practice through a human-centred approach
- Why leadership today requires more than external success and technical capability
- How inner development connects to the needed changes in organisations, communities and society that is required today and in the future
- The impact of more conscious, collaborative and sustainable ways of leading
This honest exploration of leadership evolution, organisational growth and the inner capacities highlights the urgency of adopting a new approach to navigate complexity, uncertainty and adaptation.
If you are a leader, founder, executive, board member, consultant, HR professional, entrepreneur or change-maker curious about the future of leadership, this episode is for you.
Watch the podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/live/jwP_3o6gSc0?si=CR4H7iDVf3aEsncK
About Wendy Harper
Wendy Harper is a Transformation Leadership Consultant with a deep focus on inner development. She is the Convenor of the Business Women Australia Advisory Board, Co-founder of the Inner Development Goals national hub, and a working group member for Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness Index. Wendy guides visionary leaders to connect and develop their personal agency and resilience for mastering the art of complex transitions. She also curates immersive-learning journeys, like “The Collaboration Game,” for developing the inner capacities essential to achieving the global goals. As the founder of the Agency of Women, she champions the self-determined efforts of Mary Jack and the women of Vanuatu to build the social leadership capacities they need amid escalating climate impacts.
About Lyn Hawkins
Lyn is the Founder and National Director of Business Women Australia and a management consultant, and leadership coach. She is known for building communities who are on a journey of conscious leadership, with a focus on achieving growth and transformation. Lyn advises some of Australia’s most successful professional firms and business leadership teams. She is also the Philanthropy and Partnerships Lead with the Peel Community Foundation. Lyn has held senior roles with KPMG, HHG Legal Group, HLB Mann Judd and Telstra, in addition to General Management roles with technology-based businesses.
About Business Women Australia
Business Women Australia (BWA) is a national conscious leadership ecosystem and collaborative community. For more than a decade, BWA has created meaningful spaces for women to connect, learn, collaborate, grow and lead – professionally and personally. Through leadership conversations, roundtables, masterminds, retreats, podcasts, communities of practice and strategic connections, BWA supports women to develop not only external success, but also the inner capacities needed to lead wisely in a rapidly changing world.
BWA offers experiential pathways through a more human-centred, conscious and collaborative approach to leadership development — informed by the emerging global frameworks of the Inner Development Goals (IDGs), while continuing to build on the collective design and lived experience of members.
BWA’s purpose is:
“To unite and develop conscious women leaders who uplift business, community and society.”
We invite you to become part of a national movement of women shaping the future of leadership in Australia.
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