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Current Events & Programs
Executive Presence: Command the room and lead with clarity, confidence and conviction
Unlock the power of your presence In a world of relentless complexity, change, and competing demands, the pressure on leaders
Past Events & Programs
The Value Maker Era | Transforming Leadership For The Future
In this Livestream, Maximus Founder Vanessa Gavan and Senior Advisor Gerhard Vorster discuss how Executives, Senior Leaders, and HR Professionals can transform their leaders into Value Makers and supercharge performance.
James Cameron – full interview
Late last year, we challenged a room full of leaders to “Imagine a better world…think of a better story…” as we welcomed to the stage cinematic legend James Cameron in a candid interview on the relentless curiosity and deep-seated purpose that led him to take on some of the world’s most ambitious projects.
World Business Forum 2023 and James Cameron – it’s a wrap!
Explore insights from the speakers at World Business Forum Sydney 2023 and from our exclusive live interview with award winning film director James Cameron who offered true inspiration to the Maximus network.
The Future of Work with Gary A. Bolles
We hosted Gary A. Bolles, Chair of the Future of Work at Singularity university for two incredible days of collaboration and events in Sydney. Gary is a San Francisco-based writer, lecturer, consultant and entrepreneur focused on initiatives with impact, especially related to the future of work and learning.
Sustainably Exceptional: The Psychology of Human Performance
In part 1 of our livestream series, Sustainably Exceptional: The Psychology of Human Performance, James Chapman, dual Olympian and Clare Ferguson, former Australian Diamonds Captain and QLD Firebirds assistant coach, will explore the world of exceptional performance.
The Great Reframe
Welcome to The Great Reframe where we leave crisis behind. We believe humans were made to flourish – not resign – and now is the time to unlock potential at scale. Join us as we explore innovative ways to unlock potential and positivity across your organisation and beyond. What will you unlock?
The Expedition: Part 2
Maximus Directors spend a mind-opening hour with Peter Coffee, VP for Strategic Research at Salesforce, exploring how Salesforce built a customer-obsessive culture and scaled a Founder’s Mindset as they grew from a start-up to a global enterprise with over 50,000 employees. We dive deep into the world of exponential change, technology, AI, and explore how the pandemic has brought technology trends forward by 5 years.
The Expedition: Part 1
Expand your horizons, gain strategic foresight, and learn vicariously through direct exposure to the world’s sharpest minds. Maximus Directors Vanessa Gavan and James Keeler are joined by Chemi Peres, one of Israel’s foremost venture capital and innovation pioneers with a portfolio of some 230 global hi-tech companies in our first taster session of The Expedition.
An Antidote For Languishing: The Call For Optimism
As we continue to navigate the challenges of COVID-19, we are faced with a decision point of how we respond and show up for ourselves and others. More and more we are experiencing a chronic state of languishing which dulls motivation, disrupts focus, and narrows people’s focus inward.
Leading Transformation | The New Fundamentals Livestream
How ready are you to lead transformation across your organisation?
Maximus’ Founder, Vanessa Gavan and Director, James Keeler are joined by guest speakers Andrew Chanmugam, Executive General Manager – Strategy & Transformation at Suncorp Group, and Danielle Mair, Acting Chief Strategy & Impact Officer at Sunsuper as we explore the changing dynamics of leading transformation.
Leading Transformation | The New Fundamentals | Melbourne Event
From understanding iterative strategy, flexible IT architectures, rapid funding mechanisms, and carefully curated ecosystems of partners, we share lessons learned from working with executives and leaders at the edge.
Anatomy of Choices in a Post COVID World
Along with the severe health and humanitarian crisis caused by the pandemic, executives around the world face enormous business challenges: the collapse of customer demand, significant regulatory modifications, supply chain interruptions, unemployment, economic recession, and increased uncertainty.
Truth Be Told: Workforce Re-Entry in 2021
After a year of unexpected lockdowns, working from home, and dwindling motivation, many leaders feel challenged by the prospect of fostering a growth mindset within their teams.
Leading From the Edge: Redefining Purpose and Conviction
Purpose is the north star, the anchor, the stabiliser in a crisis that helps us confidently steer in new directions. Purpose connects us deeply to one another and something greater than ourselves. We believe that purpose is just the beginning.
The Second Horizon: Leading the Medium Term
As uncertainty reigns, the near future of the first-horizon occupies the minds and resources of leaders across industries. Yet it is the second-horizon, the medium-term, which will prove most challenging as leaders grapple with the impact this crisis will have over the coming years.
Enabling Foresight: The Capabilities Needed to Pull the Future Forward
David Dzienciol, Chief Customer Officer & Chief Commercial Officer, NEXTDC, and Evan Thornley, Executive Chair, LongView. join Maximus Directors James Keeler and Katherine Boiciuc, to explore the capabilities which underpin organisations, enable senior leaders to navigate uncertainty and guide organisations with the power of foresight.
Black Swan: Forging New Ground from Foresight to Action
Visionary executives create energy by pulling the future forward and forging their own pathway to the future.
Black Swan: Lessons in Leadership
Commencing our Black Swan series of events, Maximus Managing Directors discuss the criticality of purpose, conviction and culture as we navigate asynchronous re-entry across the country.
Adopting Multi-Horizon Leadership to Unlock the Opportunity
Concluding part 3 of our ‘Shaping our future post COVID-19’ series, we review the three leadership approaches that are currently playing out in market; protecting, progressing, or stuck in the in-between.
Bridging the Divide and Injecting Energy
In part 1 of our ‘Shaping our future post COVID-19’ livestream, we challenged leaders to create the future instead of predicting it.
Democratising Leadership: Creating the Conditions and the Systems for Distributed Impact (Part 1)
The past few years have seen the rise of social movements, with their pace, traction and impact indicating that traditional constructs of power, leadership and authority are no longer durable: leadership and authority as a concept have been decoupled.
Democratising Leadership: Activating every Individual in your Organisation (Part 2)
Following on from ‘Democratising Leadership: Creating the Conditions and the Systems for Distributed Impact’, we move to explore the mindset required by individuals in your organisation to capitalise on the benefits of a system of democratised leadership.
Planning for Re-Entry and the Virtual Offsite
As humans, we lack the capacity and have a poor track record of predicting and modelling the future.
Managing Energy and Building Resilience
We know that leaders are currently experiencing highs and lows and that it is imperative to tune into your own emotions and those of your team to manage energy effectively. In this livestream, dual Olympian (and Maximus Principal Consultant), James Chapman, provides his unique perspective on building and effectively maintaining resilience, grit and mental toughness as gained during his career as an elite athlete.
Cadence, Connection and Emotional Commitment in a Virtual World
As we transfer to a new normal, asynchronous cadence, authentic connection and the emotional commitment of your people will become essential for organisations to survive and thrive. Maximus’ Joint Managing Directors Vanessa Gavan and Brent Duffy discuss the mindset required to tap into ongoing productivity and the emotional health of the business to enable impactful performance in a different operating environment.
Reimagining Performance and the Business Opportunity
With change and reactivity as a constant, executives are finding themselves in a perpetual state of adjusting and pivoting whilst needing to remain aligned. With this comes an opportunity to actively reimagine culture, and in this session our Managing Directors Vanessa Gavan and Brent Duffy discuss how to find the bright spots and unlock impact at scale, creating and enabling a performance culture which is energised around the right business opportunities.
Converting Perpetual Uncertainty to Understanding
In the present climate of uncertainty, executives need to cut through the noise to see the signals and act upon them. In this livestream, Maximus Joint Managing Directors Vanessa Gavan and Brent Duffy talk to the requirement for senior leaders to obtain clarity quickly in this period of uncertainty. Our aim is to help you identify key issues to focus on, quickly assess options and make the decisions that count.
Leading Through COVID-19
The impact of COVID-19 is ostensible for organisations and leaders alike, and we know that the leadership community is being inundated with calls for help and time in areas well beyond their experience. In this livestream, Maximus Joint Managing Directors Vanessa Gavan and Brent Duffy discuss the criticality for leaders to gain control over, and get comfortable with the situation to lead from a place of confidence.
