Play Contemporary Leadership CoLab | Leadership Development

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.

Peter Drucker

Welcome to our

Collaboration

We're a collaborative hub of thinkers and doers deeply invested in innovative approaches to systemic, organisational and personal transformation.

We do this through a number of contemporary approaches to research, culture transformation and leadership development in ways that are insightful, experiential and challenging.

Meet the Collaborators

Ways We Play

Culture

We collaborate with organisations who sense a cultural shift is required in order for them to move forward to a desired future. This usually first entails a diagnostic phase to sense underlying beliefs and patterns of behaviour, and allow key players to share their own observations and reflections, from there we co-design initiatives that can flex and adapt to the emerging culture.

Courses

We offer a number of leadership and professional development experiences that aim to open up the participant's worldview of themselves, others, organisations and the world around them. These small group experiences are curated to appreciate commonalities as well as diverse ways of being in the world.

Teams

Because the leadership culture caps the potential of the organisation's impact, we work with lead teams in a way that frees up unhelpful group patterns and individual roadblocks, which ultimately allows more visionary ways of being to emerge.

WHAT PEOPLE SAY

"I have sought Sandy’s assistance with three different organisations: an ASX-listed multinational and two not-for-profits. Each had different challenges. Each time her insight, experience and critical thinking added exceptional value. In an industry full of supposed experts, Sandy stands out as wise, fearless, pragmatic and fun. She gets to the heart of a problem, thinks creatively about it, and puts her heart and soul into solving it. Don’t work with her if you are afraid of direct and often confronting feedback. But if you have the appetite for honesty and change, and need the counsel of a genuine expert, put her at the top of the list"

— Ian Narev, CEO, SEEK

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a lifetime of conversation.

Plato

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What ten years of Play has taught me

Ten years ago today I pressed the ‘live’ button on the website for Play Contemporary Leadership CoLab . There was no strategy as such. In fact, despite having strategy and research in my skill set, it was a deliberate act of not letting my thinking get in the way of action. If I had, I may not have had the courage to act on intuition and curiosity. I had in some ways fallen into professional development after three quite distinct phases in my working life. Like many women c

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