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2025 Masterclasses

Advance your career, train your team, achieve your professional goals with our Masterclasses. Explore relevant courses taught by world-class thought leaders across a broad range of topics to help you up-skill and stay ahead of the latest trends.

Register and pay for any 2025 masterclass before 31 January

Leadership, Management and Culture

Strong leadership is key to success in any business. Look to develop a strategic understanding of current and future leadership challenges that supports developing managers, cohesive teams and organisational culture.

Personal branding

Personal branding

18 & 19 FEBRUARY 2025
Personal brand is often overlooked or dismissed. However, your personal brand plays a crucial role in influencing career choices, shaping behaviours, and guiding professional practice. This collaborative two-day masterclass will guide you through the steps to create a consistent personal brand and define how you wish to be perceived in the digital space and beyond.

Crisis leadership

Crisis leadership

21 & 22 MAY 2025
This two-day masterclass provides tools and strategies to help leaders respond to crises. Participants will explore crisis risks, preparedness, and the role of communication. Key areas such as corporate relations, HR, health and safety, and management will be highlighted for effective crisis management.

Leading for diversity and inclusion

Leading for diversity and inclusion

22 & 23 JULY 2025
This two-day masterclass equips participants with the knowledge, skills, and tools to effectively manage an increasingly diverse workforce. Through interactive workshops, participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of key diversity dimensions in the workplace and explore practical strategies for success.

Understanding and solving complex problems

Understanding and solving complex problems

17 SEPTEMBER 2025
We live in an era of unprecedented complexity, where routine decisions are easy, but complex ones demand careful thought. Navigating volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environments requires recognising intricate systems and facing challenges with no clear answers. This masterclass explores strategies for professionals to thrive in these environments and make informed decisions.

Leading respectful workplaces

Leading respectful workplaces

5 AUGUST 2025
Curtin Bystander Project – Creating Respect in the Workplace. This masterclass equips managers and leaders with the tools to cultivate a workplace culture where team members feel confident to speak up and take responsibility for their actions. The program delves into the ‘bystander effect,’ examining why individuals may hesitate to challenge ingrained attitudes, beliefs, and behaviours that perpetuate issues like sexual harassment, bullying, and racism.

AI in leadership and project management

AI in leadership and project management

29 OCTOBER 2025
Artificial Intelligence is revolutionising project management, offering tools and insights that empower leaders to innovate and deliver impactful results. This one-day masterclass equips participants with essential skills to design, manage and lead AI projects effectively, fostering innovation while addressing challenges like team dynamics, ethical considerations and stakeholder engagement.

Project management masterclass series

Project management masterclass series

COMMENCING 12 NOVEMBER 2025
The Project Management Masterclass Series comprises five one-day masterclasses into one program. It will expand your knowledge and skills in project management, so you can take the next step in your career. This masterclass series includes an assessment.

Leadership anchors

Leadership anchors

20 NOVEMBER 2025
Aligning the talk with the walk. This masterclass explores the alignment between an organisation’s values (“talk”) and actions (“walk”). Using a tailored framework, participants will assess systems and processes, uncover gaps, and co-develop practical strategies to foster greater organisational consistency and coherence

Emotional intelligence for leaders

Emotional intelligence for leaders

16 DECEMBER 2025
This one-day masterclass will provide participants with their own emotional intelligence assessment as a way of benchmarking their current level of emotional intelligence skills and areas for development.

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Do you want to lead business innovation and corporate intrapreneurship, or be part of the exciting world of entrepreneurship and startups? Pave your way and further your thinking with our innovation, design thinking and entrepreneurial programs.

Switch: Innovate for public value

Switch: Innovate for public value

25 & 26 MARCH 2025
Prioritising innovation has been key to unlocking post-crisis growth, but how can you sustain the rapid innovation that has been forced upon us? Over two intensive days, you will engage with an innovation model and selected tools, working within a small-team coopetition framework to generate options that are desirable, feasible, and valuable.

Strategic innovation

Strategic innovation

12 AUGUST 2025
This one-day masterclass equips leaders and teams to build a culture of innovation within organisations often focused on quality and efficiency. Participants will assess their own, their team’s, and their organisation’s innovative thinking, explore strategic innovation approaches, and learn practical methods to enhance creativity and innovation across their teams.

Scenario planning

Scenario planning

5 Days Commences AUGUST 18 2025
This five-day masterclass will provide participants with hands-on application of the scenario planning process – which is tried and tested in a wide range of organisations and is delivered by renowned Professor George Burt. Ideal for leaders looking to identify potential issues before they become real problems, and have strategic business conversations that focus on long-term goals and company direction.

Reputation and storytelling

Reputation and storytelling

21 & 22 OCTOBER 2025
Discover the power of storytelling in this masterclass, designed to help you craft a cohesive, authentic narrative that resonates with your audience. Learn to define your core message, align it with audience expectations, and create stories that build trust, amplify reputation, and foster loyalty across all platforms.

AI to drive business innovation

AI to drive business innovation

5 NOVEMBER 2025
Practical knowledge of AI applications is becoming a crucial skill for decision-makers aiming to harness its potential. This one-day masterclass provides participants with the tools and frameworks needed to apply AI effectively to real-world business problems.

Environment, Social and Governance

Develop the skills, knowledge and frameworks to respond and facilitate environmental and social change within your organisation.

Ethics of artificial intelligence

Ethics of artificial intelligence

18 MARCH 2025
Informed by recent scandals and advancements in AI Ethics, this one-day masterclass will help participants develop a guidance toolkit and operational checklist tailored to their organisation, operations, and context, enabling better practices for future projects.

Carbon accounting and reporting

Carbon accounting and reporting

8 MAY & 11 JUNE 2025
This masterclass, designed for both established and emerging professionals in sustainability and environmental management, offers an immersive experience into the methodologies, tools, and best practices essential for understanding and managing the accounting, measurement, and reporting of Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions.

Leading for diversity and inclusion

Leading for diversity and inclusion

22 & 23 JULY 2025
This two-day masterclass equips participants with the knowledge, skills, and tools to effectively manage an increasingly diverse workforce. Through interactive workshops, participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of key diversity dimensions in the workplace and explore practical strategies for success.

ESG and sustainability

ESG and sustainability

10 SEPTEMBER & 15 OCTOBER 2025
This masterclass provides participants with the background to ESG and the regulatory frameworks which underpin it, and practical strategies for ESG risks identification, measurement, mitigation and reporting. Attendees will leave equipped with the ability to meet the mandatory regulatory requirements and stakeholder expectations related to sustainability.

Solving complex problems

Solving complex problems

17 SEPTEMBER 2025
We live in an era of unprecedented complexity, where routine decisions are easy, but complex ones demand careful thought. Navigating volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environments requires recognising intricate systems and facing challenges with no clear answers. This masterclass explores strategies for professionals to thrive in these environments and make informed decisions.

Critical thinking for decision making

Critical thinking for decision making

11 NOVEMBER 2025
Many project and business planning failures stem from a lack of strategic thinking and conceptual errors made during the early planning stages. Through a blend of theoretical knowledge and practical applications, this course will empower participants to think critically, plan effectively, and lead confidently in a world where the only constant is change.