COMMS SERIES Workshop

Leading Under Pressure is an executive leadership and communication intensive for leaders navigating organisational change, governance pressure, stakeholder scrutiny and high-stakes decisions.

You’ll work with practical tools and frameworks drawn from leadership, strategic communication, human behavioural science and real-world corporate experience. Tried and tested with senior banking and finance executives, they will help you understand how you instinctively respond under pressure and the shifts you can make to lead with greater clarity, intent and impact.

Before the workshop, you’ll take part in a personalised 1:1 session with the facilitator to explore the traits and tendencies below. Your insights will shape your workshop experience.

• How you instinctively respond under pressure

• The emotions that influence your decisions and communication

• The gap between what you intend and how you are perceived

• What different stakeholders need to see and hear from you

• How to communicate when the facts are still emerging

• How people make meaning from your words, actions and silence

What’s included

• A private, one-hour 1:1 session to establish your leadership style under pressure and inform your workshop experience 

• An interactive half-day workshop with capped at 15 senior leaders

• Your individual leadership report

• A practical workbook and crisis communication toolkit

• 30 days of facilitated follow-through

Takeaways

• A critical understanding of how you operate under pressure

• A clearer view of how others experience your leadership

• A practical way to read the emotion in a room, clarify your intent, understand perception and shape meaning

Eligible for Individual CPD points (accreditation underway).

FACILITATORS

Olivier Vojetta

Strategist, former investment banker and founder of The Argonauts Series

Olivier brings two decades of experience across business strategy in complex corporate environments, including PwC and Macquarie Bank. Through The Argonauts Series, he brings accomplished people together to challenge their thinking, exchange ideas and build meaningful professional relationships.

Louise Dawson

Strategic communications adviser, narrative specialist and founder of Golden Yarns

Louise has spent more than two decades inside some of Australia’s most recognised organisations, including CBA, AMP, Colonial First State, KKR, Count Financial and Nestlé. Her work sits at the intersection of leadership, reputation, human behaviour and narrative. She helps leaders see what is really happening, understand how their actions will land and find the clearest way through when the stakes are high.

Places are limited to 15 participants to allow for candour, depth and genuine conversation.