Overview
Strategic leadership for complex systems.
Strategic Leadership in the Public Sector supports senior leaders to strengthen their strategic capability and lead effectively across complex public systems. The program focuses on long-term thinking, stewardship and decision-making, helping participants step back from day-to-day pressures to examine how strategy is shaped, influenced and delivered in public sector contexts.
Strengthen strategic judgement
Lead across systems and stakeholders
Apply strategy to real public challenges
What Alumni Say
Insights from participants across the region.
Alumni from across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand share how the Strategic Leadership in the Public Sector Program has shaped their leadership, from building strategic insight to cultivating their confidence to lead with impact.
Who It's For
Experienced, accountable, strategic.
Strategic Leadership in the Public Sector is designed for senior public sector leaders responsible for setting direction and guiding organisations through complexity. The program provides space to strengthen strategic judgement, lead across systems, and make decisions that support long-term public value in demanding operating environments.
Build strategic leadership capability in complex public systems.
Strategic Leadership in the Public Sector is designed for senior public servants who are responsible for setting direction and making decisions in complex environments. The course supports participants to strengthen strategic judgement, understand how strategy is shaped and enacted in government, and reflect on their role in leading across systems, priorities and constraints.
Program highlights
Program Structure
Where learning turns into leadership.
Understanding strategy in the public sector
Participants examine how strategy is shaped, interpreted and enacted in public sector organisations. The program explores the distinctive features of strategy in government, including accountability, public value, political context and system-wide implications.
Strategic judgement in complex environments
The program focuses on strengthening strategic judgement in conditions of uncertainty and competing priorities. Participants reflect on how leaders make decisions, manage risk and exercise influence while balancing short-term pressures with long-term outcomes.
Leading across systems and boundaries
Participants explore what it means to lead strategically across organisational and jurisdictional boundaries. The program supports leaders to consider their role in shaping collective outcomes, working with stakeholders, and contributing to effective public governance.
Learning Approach
Shaping public leaders. Strengthening public systems.
Peer learning
Engage in discussion with peers to explore diverse perspectives on strategic leadership challenges.
Facilitated dialogue
Facilitators guide structured conversations focused on real public sector leadership issues.
Reflective practice
Reflection supports deeper insight into your leadership role and strategic responsibilities.
Contextual application
Learning is grounded in participants’ own organisational and system contexts.
How to Apply
Ready to join the program?
Your leadership journey starts with one step.
If you’re interested in joining the 2026 program, please submit an expression of interest.
Prefer to start with a conversation?
Talk directly with our Learner Services team about the Strategic Leadership in the Public Sector Program experience, learning outcomes, and how it fits your career or organisational needs.