Co-Creating Organisational Transformation

Creating Spaces for Dialogue:

Aligning Leaders, Enterprise Performance and Collaboration

Strategic Conversations. Unified Leadership. Sustained impact

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Are you ready to elevate your leadership impact?

In today’s volatile, complex business environment, executives are expected to do more than make decisions. They must unite diverse stakeholders, navigate competing priorities, and lead systemic change. To create meaningful impact, leaders need the ability to convene authentic dialogue, harness collective intelligence, and build the trust and alignment necessary to deliver what’s important. The Creating Spaces for Dialogue program equips leaders with advanced communication practices that strengthen relational maturity, trust and potentially drive enterprise-wide performance.

Harness the Power of Dialogue to Align People, and Drive Better Quality Outcomes

In this program, you’ll learn how to create a dialogue-rich culture that inspires collaboration, strengthens relationships, and leads to outstanding outcomes. Dialogue skills are foundational to leadership success, enabling you to harness the potential of your team.

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Why Generative Dialogue?

Leading and engaging others is more than directing – it’s about connecting, understanding, and fostering an environment where everyone’s voice adds value. Dialogue-based leadership empowers you to:

Build Enterprise-Wide Trust

Foster the psychological safety required for leaders and cross-functional groups to engage honestly, take intelligent risks, and commit fully to shared decisions.

Enable Strategic Collaboration

Break down silos and bring together diverse perspectives from across functions, geographies, and stakeholders to generate unified action.

Lead with Emotional Intelligence

Strengthen emotional intelligence, expand your ability to more confidently respond to team dynamics, navigate conflict, mobilise and engage people with increased resilience and clarity

Unlock Innovation

Use dialogue as a catalyst for fresh solutions and collective ownership of change, ensuring adaptability in challenging and uncertain contexts.

Who This Program is For

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Next Generation Leaders

looking to take on greater leadership responsibility or preparing to step into roles of greater strategic influence where advanced dialogue skills are essential.

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Aspiring Game Changers

Those wanting to mobilise others around innovative ideas and outcomes

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Managers Facing Challenges

In aligning your team, facing communication barriers, or employee disengagement or who work in contexts where aligning diverse stakeholders delivering complex initiatives.

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Change Leaders & Executives

Charged with driving enterprise-wide transformation, innovation, or culture shifts.

What You’ll Gain from This Program

This program will equip you with practical, actionable skills for mastering leadership dialogue:

Explore the foundational principles of dialogue-based leadership and how it empowers leaders to build trust and foster a connected team culture.

Discover how dialogue transforms conversations into opportunities for connection, collaboration, and collective insight—unlocking smarter solutions together.

Learn how to create a safe, intentional space that supports openness, holds tension constructively, and enables groups to surface differences while co-creating new possibilities

Discover how to balance both advocating for your viewpoint while interactively inquiring into others’ perspectives, a critical skill for collaborative decision-making, innovation and breakthrough.

Deep Listening invites you to listen and examine multiple layers of a conversation, both the visible and non-visible elements – tuning into both what’s said and unsaid, while setting aside distractions and biases to be fully present with others.

Learn the art of asking generative questions that inspires new ways of thinking about something, where groups unlock collective wisdom, spark fresh ideas, and drive meaningful innovation together.

Learn to uncover the power of pausing preconceptions, challenge biases, embrace curiosity, and engage in dialogue that leads to new ways of looking at things.

Develop skills to enhance self-awareness, manage biases, that lead to more insightful, impactful ways of engaging others.

Which Enable You To…

  • Change the way people in your workplace meet
  • Catalyse mindset shifts
  • Empower and enliven others, elevating others to work to higher potential
  • Generate thriving teams
  • Build more autonomous workplaces
  • Activate others to make a bigger contribution to their work life
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From Conversations to Change:
Real Stories of Team Transformation

Program Structure

Creating Spaces for Dialogue is a fully online, flexible program consisting of seven in-depth modules, each designed to build on the last and integrate seamlessly into your leadership practice. You’ll have access to: 

Interactive Video Lessons


Engage with expert-led content, featuring practical examples and exercises you can apply in real time.

Real-World Case Studies


Learn from real-life examples of leaders who have transformed their teams and deliverables through effective dialogue practises and discover actionable strategies for similar results.

Guided Reflection Exercises


Develop your reflective skills with structured exercises that help you identify areas for growth and plan for practical application in your workplace.

Peer Networking and Support


Join an online community of like-minded leaders, where you can share insights, experiences, and challenges and learn from each other’s journeys.

Live Immersive Sessions


Participate in live sessions, where you can ask questions, engage in-depth discussions on each module, and gain personalized guidance from leadership experts. Alternatively, if you miss a session, you can catch up with the recording if you need flexibility.

Key Modules


Module 1: The Fundamentals of Dialogue in Leadership


Explore the foundational principles of dialogue-based leadership and how it empowers leaders to build trust and foster a connected team culture.

Module 2: Deep Listening for Authentic Engagement


Explore the foundational principles of dialogue-based leadership and how it empowers leaders to build trust and foster a connected team culture.

Module 3: Creating Safe Spaces for Open Dialogue


Learn how to create psychological safety within your team, encouraging members to contribute openly and engage meaningfully in every conversation.

Module 4: Balancing Inquiry and Advocacy


Discover how to balance advocating for your viewpoint with inquiring into others’ perspectives, a critical skill for collaborative decision-making and team alignment.

Module 5: Reflective Leadership Practice


Develop reflective skills to enhance self-awareness, manage biases, and make thoughtful, impactful decisions in complex environments.

Module 6: Driving Innovation Through Dialogue


Leverage dialogue to inspire creativity and innovation, empowering your team to collaboratively generate fresh solutions and achieve exceptional results.

Module 7: Suspending Assumptions


Uncover the power of pausing preconceptions. This module helps you challenge biases, embrace curiosity, and engage in dialogue that leads to deeper understanding and innovative solutions.

Learn from Experienced Leaders in Dialogue and Change

ROBERT MCVICAR

Partner
Co-founded Acumen Global Partners in 2011. He has worked with global leadership groups, senior executives, division heads, boards, front line managers and SMEs in the areas of leadership development, organisational change and executive coaching and mentoring.

SARAH CORNALLY

Partner
Has over 28 years consulting experience, working at executive and board levels in the areas of leadership strategy and development; organizational change and issue resolution; effective system and group dynamics; and executive coaching and mentoring.

MURRAY WRIGHT

Facilitator
Has over 25 years with experience in Europe, the Middle East, South-East Asia and Australia in leadership roles in international and national hotels. He also has experience in tertiary education and consulting.

ANDREA MUNRO

Facilitator
guides teams and leaders to greater effectiveness and impact through coaching. For over 15 years she has supported leaders, teams and talent agendas in large, complex organisations across the professional services

Real Success Stories: How Leadership Dialogue Has Transformed Teams

  • Learning to balance inquiry and advocacy was a game-changer. I started to see my team engage more deeply, challenge each other constructively, and come up with incredible ideas I’d never have thought of on my own. This program transformed how I lead.
    Alex W., Team Lead, Marketing
  • Creating a container for dialogue in my team meetings has changed the game. Now everyone participates, and the energy has shifted to one of genuine collaboration. Our performance has gone up, and so has team satisfaction.
    Joanna L., Operations Manager

The Benefits: What You Can Expect to Achieve

By the end of this program, you will:
Engage and align stakeholders

across functions and levels to deliver on strategic priorities.

Harness collective intelligence

to solve complex, systemic challenges.

Navigate transformation

by leading conversations that cut through complexity and resistance.

Elevate your leadership influence

as a trusted, leader or influencer who can unite people behind bold goals.

Join the next program:

Live immersive session dates:

Live sessions: Fortnightly on Wednesdays, 3:00 – 4:30 PM AEST
Dates: Feb 18 | Mar 4 & 18 | Apr 1, 15, & 29 | May 13 

Live sessions are recorded and available on-demand, so you can review them at any time.

Your Investment:

For Organisations

AUD $1750 (incl. GST)

Reduced rates available for teams

Please contact us directly to arrange payment or discuss team options.

For Individuals

AUD $1540 (incl. GST)

Register Today

to begin your leadership transformation.

Join the next program:


Creating Space for Dialogue is now open for enrolment. This 12-week online program begins February 18th 2026 and offers a powerful blend of self-paced learning and live immersive workshops.

Limited Places Available – Register Now to Confirm Your Place

What You’ll Receive:

  • Full Course Access: Online, self-paced modules
  • Interactive Community Support
  • 7 Immersive workshops – held over 12 weeks, these will be recorded if you are unable to attend live.

Your Investment:
AUD $1540

Register Today to begin your leadership transformation through the art of generative dialogue.

Frequently Asked Questions

This course is ideal for emerging and mid-level leaders who want to build their dialogue skills to lead teams with confidence, empathy, and effectiveness.

Live sessions are recorded and available on-demand, so you can review them at any time.

Unlike traditional leadership courses that focus on directive strategies, this program emphasizes collaborative dialogue skills, emotional intelligence, and authentic connection, empowering you to create a culture where ideas and teamwork thrive.

To build stronger relationships, navigate conflicts with empathy, and communicate more effectively in both professional and personal contexts

Take the first step toward becoming a dialogue-driven leader.

Enrol today and start building the foundations for impactful, meaningful leadership!


Bring It In-House – Make It Yours

Want this program designed around your organisation’s unique context, culture, and goals? We’ll create a customised in-house version—ideal for large-scale change, tackling a specific challenge or harvesting the collective wisdom inside your organisation.