You have Plans, Goals, Targets, OKR’s and KRA’s! Your success depends on every leader ensuring every team member contributes to their potential. Research shows that organisations that achieve this are 5 times more productive. What if you could design an organisation where every leader had their own individual development plan from the day they started?

Every leader has their strengths. How aware are they of these and how they can reach across to others in the leadership community?

The Harvard Club of Australia invite you to join fellow local alumni for the annual Harvard Alumni Global Networking Night on Wednesday, March 13th. Harvard alumni throughout the world will come together for an evening of informal networking and engagement.

There's no better time to be connected – meet other alumni and welcome Harvard graduates from all schools in Brisbane at this relaxed and fun evening! Make new connections. See old friends. Explore opportunities. Please spread the word to fellow Alumni Club Members and friends.

Experience a real-world cybercrime ransomware incident by becoming part of an executive and Board-level crisis management team navigating multiple dilemmas and decisions during a cyber ransomware and extortion event.

The Art of Creating an Inspiring Financial Strategy is a hands-on workshop designed to inspire attendees to create a vision for their life that takes them beyond their current thinking of what is possible.

We welcome Brett Lightfoot, National Director for the Health and Public Sectors and State Director for Queensland and Northern Territory at Microsoft. Brett has long foreseen the impact of Artificial Intelligence. With Microsoft’s clear leadership in the Generative AI space unfolding, the conversations and questions from TEC members promises this to be a truly memorable event.

This Members and Alumni lunch has been kindly supported by On Talent and The Executive Connection.

You are warmly invited to the celebrate Thanksgiving with the Harvard Club of Australia - Thursday 23rd November

Please join Harvard Club members and their guests to renew acquaintances, meet new Harvard Club alumni and their guests and other Harvard alumni based in Queensland to share in the true spirit of Thanksgiving.

Discounts available for early registration and tables of eight!

Artificial Intelligence has hit the headlines in 2023 especially with the introduction of Chat GPT.

Hear Australia’s guru on Digital Marketing lead the group through a discussion on how AI will affect businesses, especially in the area of marketing. This workshop is designed to be light on the technicalities but focused on members’ specific needs.

An interactive 3 hour workshop focussing on the performance aspects of communicating in one-on-one situations, particularly difficult one-on-one's, such as giving feedback, performance review and workplace counselling.

This session also helps members and their partners bond and get to know each other!

As the world changes faster and faster every business leader has to perform under pressure. This timely and timeless topic, including organisational strategies to get email under control, is brought by one of TEC’s most active speakers, Steuart Snooks.

The Queensland Chapter of the Harvard Club of Australia invites you to join us at the annual Varsity Bowls Challenge for an evening of light-hearted (!) rivalry between Alumni of Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge and INSEAD at the Booroodabin Club in Newstead.

Bowling from 5-6pm. Food at 6.30pm

Come along for the social engagement and get caught up in the bitter rivalry! Team selection on the day and even if no bowling experience you’ll be most welcome!

The old ways are dead and we need new ways to think in a new age of marketing. This workshop builds on Ashton’s ground-breaking Predatory Marketing workshop with “Outsmart vs Outspend”. Predatory Marketing is the great leveller enabling smaller brands to compete with bigger competitors. It's never been about the medium - always the message. So, if you and your brand can get predatory, you'll be guaranteed to get results. Ashton will take you on a myth-busting ride through 'giant slaying, marketing style' and will leave you in no doubt that the future is predatory and what you have to do to survive.

Assemble your Ultimate Advisory Board!

In this immensely powerful and illuminating workshop Ashton Bishop, master of Predatory Marketing, leads members through the concept of using different strategies to achieve objectives.

We ask - “How might JFK approach my business strategy?” From Hannibal to Ghandi, from Madonna to Ali, and from Jack Welch to Arnie each member will select their Ultimate Business Advisory Board to provide counsel and help open up new and creative solutions to tackle their most important strategic challenges.

The old ways are dead and we need new ways to think in a new age of marketing. This workshop builds on Ashton’s ground-breaking Predatory Marketing workshop with “Outsmart vs Outspend”. Predatory Marketing is the great leveller enabling smaller brands to compete with bigger competitors. It's never been about the medium - always the message. So, if you and your brand can get predatory, you'll be guaranteed to get results. Ashton will take you on a myth-busting ride through 'giant slaying, marketing style' and will leave you in no doubt that the future is predatory and what you have to do to survive.

Join the Harvard Club for a rare opportunity to view an exceptional private art collection.

Along with its special architecture and interiors, including ten fireplaces, “Toonarbin” houses a beautiful art collection of Australian paintings covering the period from the late 1800’s (Charles Conder, John Peter Russell) to the mid-1900’s (Arthur Streeton, Hans Heysen, Arthur Boyd, Brett Whiteley, Hilda Rix-Nicholas, Margaret Olley).

Please join Harvard Club members and guests as they are hosted by Allen Hunter and Carmel Dyer at an evening reception.

A unique opportunity provided to Harvard Club of Australia members and their immediate guests.

Dr Dana Born is one of the world’s leading exponents of Authentic Leadership. Please join club members for a genuinely intimate and unique experience at an informal dinner hosted by Kennedy School graduates.

Please join members and guests for one of our less serious evenings in the Harvard Club of Australia Calendar. John de Groot has been a regular at many of the club events over the years. But who would have thought that we have a champion Goat Racer in our midst?

We still have some places left for an evening in the Brisbane Club Cellar with master storyteller John de Groot, sharing of his upbringing in Barcaldine as a champion goat racer, in a small dinner format – maximum 20 people.

The business world is accelerating.

While “Innovation” is always great, how do we do this in a time of uncertainty? How do we do this when the team is flat out managing the current changes?

Peter Laurie uses all his skills as a mentor for start-ups to lead a TEC group (usually scale-ups!) through some great tools and processes designed to help a team focus and deliver.

This talk is for business leaders knowing that they and their team must become more strategic, but struggling to find ways to lead their team through the uncertainty of 2023.

In this interactive presentation, Jonathan will address one of the top three frustrations shared by business leaders of all shapes and sizes – managing unmanageable staff – using case studies, group activities based on real cases and practical information that can protect a business from common employment law traps.

In this interactive presentation, Jonathan will address one of the top three frustrations shared by business leaders of all shapes and sizes – managing unmanageable staff – using case studies, group activities based on real cases and practical information that can protect a business from common employment law traps.

Greg Donlan (aka “The Sales Coach”) is a dynamic TEC speaker who has presented to over 100 TEC groups. Greg helps CEOs to obtain the very best from the significant investment they make in their sales team (be it one or many individuals).

• How the CEO can help the sales team to plan for success

• Ideas to inspire, motivate and monitor the team

• Takeaway tools to continue to build their sales skills.

Artificial Intelligence has hit the headlines in 2023 especially with the introduction of Chat GPT.

Hear Australia’s guru on Digital Marketing lead the group through a discussion on how AI will affect businesses, especially in the area of marketing. This workshop is designed to be light on the technicalities but focused on members’ specific needs.

Forget the traditional HR workshops. This is a radical new approach to looking at Talent Strategy and finally giving your members their hands-on accurate powerful data to drive people decisions across their businesses.

Whether it’s assessing their leadership team fit against their strategy, hiring candidates who are behaviourally and cognitively aligned to the position, or inspiring high performing teams – this is a new approach your CEO’s, Business Owners and Key Executives need to experience. An accurate and powerful data driven approach to making better and more accurate people decisions.

Family Enterprise Success in Today’s Turbulent Era

A unique opportunity to hear one of the world’s leading experts in Family Business at an intimate breakfast in Brisbane with the Queensland Chapter of the Harvard Club of Australia. Places are limited

To succeed in today’s turbulent landscape, enterprising families must adopt new practices, mindsets, and strategies that will help them survive and thrive for another generation. Professor Davis shares a blueprint for helping your family, business, and wealth portfolio succeed in this new future.

In recent months the pressure from supply chains has been tremendous. While customers may be in shock, there will be an inevitable return to the squeeze to give or do more, for less. The pressure of Margin erosion, increasing the cost-to-serve and overall profit pressure is real, while most businesses fear holding large and aggressive customers to account. Paul Allen, a Leading Authority on Supplier Margin. leads this essential workshop designed to focus on ensuring margins in servicing key customers contribute to the bottom line.

The business world is accelerating.

While “Innovation” is always great, how do we do this in a time of uncertainty? How do we do this when the team is flat out managing the current changes?

This talk is for business leaders knowing that they and their team must become more strategic, but struggling to find ways to lead their team through the uncertainty of 2023.

Please join members of the Harvard Club of Australia for an early morning visit to one of Brisbane’s pioneers in next-generation wearables. Our host, Mark Kendall will share his story and the opportunities for Wearables.

2023 is a year of re-growth, renewal and exploring new directions. Matt Tice, TEC speaker of the Year and the Ultimate Strategist and Promoter of Insurgents will lead us into the world of Game Theory. With applications in the introduction of new strategies, business models, products and policies, this workshop brings three TEC groups together to provide a unique insight into exploring unconventional strategic opportunities that are all around them.

Please join members of the Harvard Club of Australia at a critical breakfast briefing of 2023. This briefing, postponed from the original date in February 2020, is now of massive importance to almost all of us as we go through 2023.

We welcome Brett Lightfoot, National Director for the Health and Public Sectors and State Director for Queensland and Northern Territory at Microsoft. Brett has long foreseen the impact of Artificial Intelligence and has been wanting to share his ideas with the club for the last 3 years!

The Theory of Constraints was developed by Dr Eli Goldratt, co-author of the best selling business novel, “The Goal”. The theory is often thought to be only applicable to manufacturing production environments in reducing bottlenecks.

Rob Dew shows how we can apply the Theory of Constraints to all business processes and has used this approach with one TEC member in their Sales approach with remarkable effect.