“I get it now”: Michelle Campbell on ANZSOG’s Executive Fellows Program

ANZSOG’s Executive Fellows Program (EFP) brings together a cohort of senior public sector executives from across agencies and jurisdictions, to reflect and develop their leadership skills under the guidance of expert academics and practitioners.

The result is a program that can be career-changing for participants, who leave with a deeper understanding of their personal leadership, a new ability to think strategically and navigate the complex modern public sector environment, as well as a network of peers from across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.

Michelle Campbell, Executive Director Capability and Systems, with the Office of Project’s Victoria joined the public sector late in her career, and says the EFP had opened her eyes to the complexities of government and the different requirements for public sector leaders.

“I was new to government and I’d done a lot of training, I’d completed my senior corporate MBA study and worked in the corporate sector for many decades.  For me the EFP was like: ‘I get it now, there’s that other dimension we don’t need to factor in in corporate”

“To bring the global thought leadership together to deliver the EFP in a seamless, professional and efficient way was just out of this world.”

“It introduced concepts and theories to put into my day-to-day work, and ways to shape my thinking. It crystallised everything for me. For example, understanding the ‘Big P’ – political dimension has changed how I work.”