Leading wellbeing program

ENABLING LEADERS TO STRENGTHEN WELLBEING, RESILIENCE, AND SUSTAINABLE PERFORMANCE

Program overview

The Leading with Wellbeing Program is designed to strengthen the capability of leaders to support wellbeing, resilience, and sustainable performance within themselves and their teams. In increasingly demanding and fast-paced workplace environments, effective leadership requires more than operational performance alone. Leaders must also develop the awareness, behaviours, and strategies that enable individuals and teams to thrive both personally and professionally.

Grounded in practical leadership application, the program explores the interconnected dimensions of physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental wellbeing. Participants develop greater awareness of how wellbeing influences leadership effectiveness, engagement, communication, decision-making, and workplace culture. Leaders strengthen their understanding of the role they play in creating healthier, more supportive, and psychologically safe workplace environments.

SUPPORTING LEADERS TO FOSTER WELLBEING, CONNECTION, AND LONG-TERM PERFORMANCE

The program focuses on helping leaders recognise the impact of stress, workload, pressure, and workplace dynamics on individual and team wellbeing. Participants strengthen their capability to lead with empathy, emotional awareness, and intentionality while building practical strategies that support resilience, balance, sustainable performance, and positive workplace culture.

The learning experience is highly practical and directly connected to workplace application. Through facilitated discussion, reflective activities, peer learning, and applied leadership exercises, participants develop practical strategies to embed wellbeing into everyday leadership practice and foster healthier, more resilient, and high-performing teams.

PROGRAM delivery

The Leading with Wellbeing Program is delivered using the Australian Leadership Academy’s blended, experiential learning approach, combining self-paced prework, high-impact facilitated workshops, applied application, and reflective learning. This structured approach ensures participants arrive prepared, maximise in-session learning, and actively apply leadership capability within their own organisational context throughout the learning journey. Each stage is intentionally designed to progressively build capability while reinforcing practical workplace application and sustained leadership impact.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The Leading with Wellbeing Program develops the practical leadership capability required to support individual and team wellbeing, resilience, and sustainable workplace performance. Participants strengthen their awareness of wellbeing leadership practices and their ability to create healthier, more supportive workplace environments.

  • Understand the foundations and dimensions of workplace wellbeing

  • Recognise the relationship between wellbeing, leadership effectiveness, and performance

  • Demonstrate leadership behaviours that support psychologically safe and healthy workplace environments

  • Apply practical strategies to strengthen resilience, balance, and sustainable performance

  • Strengthen capability to support wellbeing conversations and team engagement

  • Reflect on personal wellbeing, leadership behaviours, and opportunities for sustainable leadership growth

 BUILDING LEADERSHIP CAPABILITY TO CREATE THRIVING, RESILIENT, AND
HEALTHY WORKPLACES

Program structure

  • Participants begin their program with curated prework designed to introduce the foundations of wellbeing leadership and encourage early reflection on current workplace wellbeing challenges and leadership practices. This includes short readings, video content, and guided questions focused on resilience, workplace wellbeing, leadership behaviours, and sustainable performance.

  • The program formally commences with a live, facilitator-led virtual session. This interactive introduction establishes the learning environment, outlines program expectations, and introduces the foundations of wellbeing leadership. Participants begin exploring the relationship between wellbeing, leadership effectiveness, team engagement, and workplace culture.

  • Prior to the workshop, participants complete targeted prework designed to deepen awareness of personal wellbeing, workplace pressures, and leadership impact on team wellbeing. This includes reflective exercises, workplace observation activities, and preparation of real leadership and wellbeing scenarios for application during the workshop.

  • A highly interactive, face-to-face learning experience focused on understanding the foundations of wellbeing and the relationship between wellbeing, resilience, engagement, and sustainable performance. Participants explore physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental wellbeing and examine how leadership behaviours influence workplace culture and team wellbeing outcomes. Through facilitated discussion, practical activities, peer learning, and workplace application exercises, participants strengthen their capability to lead with empathy, support wellbeing conversations, and create healthier and more resilient workplace environments.

Note: The program structure above is a draft delivery option. The Australian Leadership Academy can design a bespoke Leading with Wellbeing Program tailored to meet the specific needs of your organisation.

PROGRAM IMPACT

The Leading with Wellbeing Program strengthens leadership capability to create healthier, more supportive, and sustainable workplace environments. Participants develop greater awareness of how leadership behaviours influence wellbeing, engagement, resilience, and overall team performance.

The program supports leaders to move beyond reactive approaches to wellbeing and develop more intentional, people-centred leadership practices. Participants strengthen their ability to support wellbeing conversations, recognise workplace pressures, and create environments where individuals feel supported, valued, and capable of performing sustainably.

At an organisational level, the program contributes to stronger workplace culture, improved employee wellbeing, increased engagement, enhanced resilience, and more sustainable performance outcomes. Leaders are better equipped to foster psychologically safe and healthy workplace environments where individuals and teams can thrive.

BUILDING LEADERSHIP CAPABILITY
TO enable VOICE, COLLABORATION,
AND
PSYCHOLOGICALLY SAFE TEAMS

What our clients say

  • “Another great session, the facilitator was engaging and tapped into the group’s energy levels. understood when to dig deeper versus when to hold back”

    Lessa Bryant
    Coordinator, Operations People & Culture

    Tamworth Regional Council

  • ”it’s been great to expand my leadership knowledge, enhanced with practical, relevant experience”

    Emilia Rixon
    Coordinator, Marketing & Communications

    Tamworth Regional Council

  • “excellent facilitator, great discussion amongst the group, collaborative learning and very practical skills to use”

    Mags Noonan
    Coordinator, Health & Wellbeing

    Tamworth Regional Council

  • “appreciated the delivery, awareness of tools and techniques to help with navigating conversations and confrontation”

    Anna Newell
    Team Leader, Economic Development

    Tamworth Regional Council

  • “Awesome! Extremely insightful information that will facilitate some of those challenging conversations”

    Nicole Chegwyn
    Team Leader, Building Certification

    Tamworth Regional Council

  • “Making coaching a part of my regular catch UPS”

    Laura Murphy
    Manager, Parks

    Hobsons Bay City Council

  • “love the energy and practicality”

    Janet Dawes
    Manager, Arts, Culture & Community

    Hobsons Bay City Council

  • “excellent as always, connected with participants, engaging, varied approach using tools to help all learning styles”

    Natasha Beer
    Manager, Operations People & Culture

    Tamworth Regional Council

  • "The high-Performance conversation approach to leadership has strengthened my supervision practice, and develop capability within the teams i lead"

    Christopher Turner
    Program Practice Coordinator

    Wellways

CONTACT US

For further information or to arrange a meeting with our team, please complete the Contact Us form.

Email: office@australianleadershipacademy.com.au

Telephone (03) 9517 6771