Leading Strategic Projects
Overview
Turn strategy into action – and make it stick
Leading Strategic Projects is a six-week online accelerator for emerging and mid-level public sector leaders responsible for complex reform, policy and implementation work. It builds the practical capability to turn strategic priorities into executable plans and maintain progress through uncertainty, competing priorities and cross-agency complexity.
Throughout the program, you will apply your learning to a real or simulated initiative and progressively build an implementation-ready delivery plan that you can use in your workplace immediately. Learn how to:
Turn ambiguous priorities into clear objectives, outcomes and measures of success.
Establish practical governance, decision rights and escalation pathways.
Build commitment across teams, agencies and jurisdictions.
Plan execution, manage risk and adapt while maintaining accountability.
Participants leave with an implementation-ready Delivery Plan and the skills to navigate uncertainty, maintain momentum and deliver outcomes that create lasting public value.
For organisations, Leading Strategic Projects builds the capability required to turn strategic priorities into sustained outcomes. Designed for leaders working on significant reforms, projects and implementation initiatives, the program strengthens practical delivery capability by helping participants translate strategy into action, establish clear governance and accountability, align stakeholders across organisational and jurisdictional boundaries, and manage complexity with confidence.
Who It's For
For leaders navigating complexity and delivering meaningful reform.
Leading Strategic Projects is designed for emerging and mid-level public sector leaders who are delivering or leading significant projects, reforms or implementation initiatives.
You may benefit from this program if you are:
Responsible for translating strategic priorities into practical implementation.
Leading work that involves multiple stakeholders, agencies or jurisdictions.
Looking for structured approaches to scope, governance, planning and risk management.
Seeking practical tools to deliver outcomes in complex public sector environments.
Learning Outcomes
Leave with the skills and execution discipline needed to progress complex initiatives from planning to delivery.
Build the practical skills to structure delivery, align stakeholders and progress work in complex environments.
You'll learn how to convert high-level priorities into clear objectives, success measures and delivery outcomes that create public value.
You'll gain practical tools to establish governance arrangements and decision structures that support effective delivery in complex environments.
You'll strengthen your ability to bring together stakeholders across organisational and jurisdictional boundaries to achieve shared goals.
You'll develop robust execution plans that account for dependencies, resourcing, risk and the realities of implementation.
You'll build the judgement and adaptability needed to respond to change while keeping delivery focused on outcomes and accountability.
Learning Experience
Learning designed for balance, focus and connection.
Flexible design for real-world learning
Leading Strategic Projects is delivered 100% online, combining live facilitated sessions with self-paced learning activities. You'll engage with video explainers, curated readings, knowledge checks, case-based tasks, downloadable tools and templates, guided discussions and peer learning groups.
Learn through real-world application
Apply tools and frameworks to a real or simulated initiative, using practical activities to turn learning into an implementation-ready Delivery Plan that is developed progressively throughout the program with peer and faculty feedback.
Build capability you can use immediately
Develop practical approaches to scope, governance, stakeholder alignment, planning, risk and adaptation, then apply them directly to your project context.
Learning Approach
Grounded in expertise, built for performance.
Topics Covered
Key People
Faculty & Presenters.
For Organisations
Build the capability to turn strategic priorities into sustained outcomes.
How to Apply
Ready to join the program?
April 2027
Session dates and times to be announced soon.