INITIATE The Future leadership conference is creating a forum for young leaders from across the globe to discuss the future of leadership in Australia.
The recent removal Kevin Rudd and replacement by Julia Gillard, our first female Prime Minister, holds some important lessons for the youth of Australia. If we momentarily leave aside the significance of having a female Prime Minister leading our country, the real lessons to be learnt revolve around the concept of leadership. The lessons from history, politics and business in times gone by are clear; that one …

Sydney leadership conference offers a connection to the world for future leaders

Youth leadership has become a hot topic for debate in recent years, surrounded by both glamour and hyperbole.

The team behind Australia’s youth leadership conference INITIATE The Future have released a video welcoming delegates and partners to the event.  The video profiles some of the speakers and partner organisations who will be running workshops on the social issues and practical skills that today’s young leaders will need to make lasting social change in their chosen field.

The latest organisations to join the conference include:
Teach For Australia, a non-profit organisation working to confront educational disadvantage in Australia by recruiting and training graduates to teach in disadvantaged schools for a two …

In a nation and a generation characterized by youth apathy, action focus is a rare and welcome quality. Perhaps due to this scarcity as well as the prevailing generational stereotypes, it is a quality that goes largely unnoticed and therefore uncultivated amongst the young people who do possess it.