Executive Leadership Team Workshops
Experienced facilitation for executive leadership teams across Australia
Trusted by government departments, universities
and leading Australian organisations
TRUSTED BY ORGANISATIONS INCLUDING
HOW AN EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP TEAM WORKSHOP WORKS
An executive leadership team workshop is a professionally facilitated session for the CEO and senior leadership team to work through strategic priorities, organisational challenges and leadership decisions. Each session is designed to help your executive team set direction, align priorities, strengthen leadership capability and make meaningful progress together.
From focused two-hour sessions to multi-day strategy retreats, our workshops create the structure, challenge and accountability needed to move important conversations towards clear decisions and practical outcomes.
WHAT ELT WORKSHOPS DELIVER
- Strategic alignment around priorities and direction
- Better decision-making on high-stakes issues
- Stronger collaboration across the executive team
- A constructive environment for challenging conversations
- Energy, momentum and accelerated delivery
- Practical outcomes and agreed next steps
WHY CHOOSE MELBOURNE LEADERSHIP GROUP?
Access to a team of experienced ELT workshop facilitators
Face-to-face, online or hybrid delivery, anywhere in Australia
Workshops tailored to your executive team's priorities, challenges and objectives
Flexible formats from two-hour sessions to multi-day strategy retreats
Trusted by government, universities and leading Australian organisations.
Be part of the conversation
Stop running the workshop. Start being a part of it.
If you’re leading the session, you can’t fully participate in it. Managing the agenda, watching the clock and reading the room all compete for your attention, taking you away from the conversations your team needs you to be part of. An external facilitator takes responsibility for guiding the session, creating the space for you to contribute as a leader rather than manage the process.
- The ability to collaborate rather than manage the room
- An unbiased facilitator with fresh perspective and objectivity
- A session designed around your specific team, agenda and outcomes
- Confidence that the day will produce decisions, not just discussion
MEET OUR EXPERT FACILITATORS
Experienced, engaging facilitators who know how to bring leadership teams together, create productive conversations and keep groups focused on what’s important. From intimate sessions with four or five leaders to larger workshops involving multiple management levels, our facilitators adapt their approach to your team and objectives.
HAMISH PARK
Hamish Park is an executive adviser, leadership coach, trainer, facilitator and board director with over 20 years’ facilitation experience.
LOUISE HILL
Louise Hill has extensive executive leadership experience, with a special interest in leadership team facilitation and group dynamics.
ANGELA RUTTER
Angela Rutter is a leadership facilitation specialist, with a passion for values-led engagement, civic leadership and social change.
Which format fits your team?
Five ways to bring your executive leadership team together
Offsites
retreats
Planning Days
Strategy Sessions
Training Workshops
WHO DO WE WORK WITH?
Executive leadership team workshops for organisations across every sector
Our facilitators work with executive leadership teams across the public, private and for-purpose sectors, from large government departments and universities to corporate teams and cross-industry gatherings.
While based in Melbourne, we deliver executive leadership team workshops for national organisations and clients with operations across multiple states. Over the past three years, our work has taken us to Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney, Adelaide and regional Victoria.
Most of our work comes through word of mouth. We’re proud that our clients trust us enough to bring us back to facilitate across multiple sessions and multiple years.
Ready to hire a facilitator for your ELT workshop?
Leading an ELT workshop doesn’t mean you should have to run it.
- Solid preparation, every detail worked through for you
- Sessions that are engaging, not dull and boring
- A facilitator who adapts to the room
- Experience across government, corporate, charity and cross-sector groups
FAQs
What is an executive leadership team workshop?
Why do executive leadership teams need external facilitation?
How do you get an executive leadership team to have genuine conversations?
Genuine conversations happen by creating conditions that most ELT meetings don’t naturally produce. The typical ELT dynamic — hierarchy, performance pressure and political awareness — can work against candour. People often say what is safe rather than what is true.
A skilled external facilitator disrupts that pattern through deliberate session design, direct intervention when the conversation stays at surface level, and the credibility to challenge senior people in a way that moves the group forward rather than threatens it.
Melbourne Leadership Group’s facilitators have worked with ELTs across the private, public and NFP sectors and understand the specific dynamics that can prevent senior teams from having the conversations they most need to have.
What is the difference between an ELT offsite, a planning day, a strategy session, and a retreat?
Each serves a different purpose:
- An offsite is a one-day workshop away from the office, typically used to reset focus, rebuild connection after a dispersed period, or address a specific challenge that needs dedicated time away from operational noise.
- A planning day is also one day, but more output-focused, with a clear action plan developed around a specific objective, deadline or emerging priority.
- A strategy session is broader, delivered as either a single day or a series of workshops to build or refresh a strategic plan. It suits organisations navigating significant change or bringing new leadership into an existing strategy.
- A retreat extends the engagement to two or three days with an overnight stay, adding the relationship-building benefits that concentrated time together can create.
The right format depends on what your team needs to achieve. A brief conversation with us can help identify the best fit.
How do you build a high-performing executive leadership team?
High-performing ELTs share three characteristics: genuine alignment on strategic priorities, the trust to have direct conversations rather than managing around each other, and a collective discipline around decision-making and accountability. None of these develops by accident.
They require deliberate investment in how the team operates, how it communicates and how it resolves the tensions that arise at the top of any organisation. ELT workshops are one vehicle for that investment, particularly when they combine strategic work with an honest assessment of how the team is functioning and a facilitator skilled enough to make both conversations productive.
How do you run an ELT workshop that produces decisions, not just discussion?
We start with the outcomes you need to achieve, rather than simply the topics you want to cover. Every section of the agenda should have a clear deliverable attached — a decision reached, a priority agreed or an action committed to.
In an ELT context, this discipline is particularly important because senior people are skilled at generating sophisticated discussion that never quite arrives at a conclusion. A good facilitator recognises when a conversation is circling and intervenes to bring it to a point. They also ensure that what is agreed is captured clearly and attributed specifically, so that when the team returns to the office, there is no ambiguity about what was decided or who is responsible for what.
How much does an executive leadership team workshop cost?
Fees depend on the format, duration and complexity of facilitation required. A two-hour focused session requires different preparation and facilitation from a two-day retreat with multiple workstreams and a senior, diverse group.
The investment covers more than the facilitated session itself. It includes the briefing process, session design, delivery and post-workshop documentation to ensure outcomes are captured and acted on.
Pricing is available on request. Contact us for a straightforward conversation about what your ELT needs and the investment involved.
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