Growing Your Impact: Enabling Conversations for Change

Summer School 2025 for OD, Learning and HR Professionals

A unique opportunity for you as an OD, Learning or HR professional to build your intervention skills for enabling change and growth, as well as your personal and interpersonal effectiveness more broadly.

8 hours total over January to March ’25 – including 3 x 2-hour live, online workshops and 2 hours of punchy and engaging self-paced learning.

Workshop dates: Thursday 30 January, Thursday 20 February, Thursday 13 March – all 12 – 2 pm Sydney time.

Enabling Change and Growth

As a professional in OD, Learning, HR Business Partnering or related areas, you’re almost necessarily in the business of change – not necessarily in a conventional ‘change management’ sense but, more broadly, in bringing about shifts and improvements to benefit individuals, groups and the organisation.

Change in this broader sense implies conversation – about where things are at now, where they need to get to, and how to move in the desired direction.

In this course, you will gain skills in opening-up conversations to help get to the heart of issues, explore different perspectives, and foster action for growth and change. You will develop skills at a personal ‘mindset’ level as well as boosting your interpersonal effectiveness and your ability to engage with impact on broader issues.

Enabling Conversations for Change Course

Contact us to find out more about Enabling Conversations for Change
Summer School for OD, Learning and HR Professionals
and how it can benefit you.

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What You Will Learn

In this course, you will learn methods to help you better:

  • Make sense of messy, difficult situations

  • Grow personal skills in areas such as becoming more mindful, empathic and able to speak more fully to what’s true for you

  • Intervene for improvement with team and work-culture-related issues

  • Build more collaborative relationships with others

  • Exercise influence for enabling desired results, while being open to feedback and learning

Leadership course

Who is the Summer School For?

Experienced professionals in OD, L&D, HR business partnering – anyone with at least 3 years of experience in developing the human side of organisations.

The course will focus on participants assisting each other in better understanding, and acting with, challenges they bring to the virtual table.

Developing you as a developer of leadership, teams and culture

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Program Structure

The program includes 3 cycles, each with 40 minutes of engaging self-paced learning followed by a 2-hour live virtual workshop.

This structure:

  • Puts the content learning primarily in the online modules, enabling the workshops to focus on participants’ challenges and practical applications
  • Provides opportunities for skills practice and trial interventions between workshops
  • Enables participants to come into the workshops with new experiences and challenges to process with colleagues and presenter.

What Others Have Said

I think this course has really allowed me to step outside my comfort zone and approach situations with more confidence. By doing so, I’ve also learnt to be more open minded as well as gaining the ability to shift perspectives in my interactions with colleagues but also with everyone outside of work too. I have become more aware of my actions, but more importantly my reactions in challenging situations.

Hospital scientist, NSW health organisation 2023

Don’s ability to engage and trigger thoughts around being more conscious and mindful about how we approach daily conversations is really effective. The online modules provide a healthy foundation for understanding some of the principles that can be applied… When combined with discussion sessions that he facilitates personally, it really allows for us to truly think about and spark a change in the way we think and act during these conversations.

Commonwealth Bank staff member, 2024

The Presenter

Don Dunoon has over 25 years’ experience in helping individuals and groups better practise leadership and engage safely & productively with others. He is the author of a widely cited article with Harvard mindfulness guru Dr. Ellen Langer (search Dunoon and Langer) as well as of the book In the Leadership Mode. Don is developer of the internationally recognised OBREAU conversation model.

Program Fee

$880per person, GST inclusive, payable by invoice
  • Early bird discounts are available – see the Terms and Conditions page
  • Numbers are capped at 25 participants

In Summary: What Participants Can Expect to Gain

  • Tools and methods to better get ‘underneath’ issues and build shared understandings
  • Greater awareness of how their own mindsets and behaviours impact on interactions with others
  • Enhanced ability to engage with others, learn about their realities and strengthen relationships
  • Greater capacity to exert influence for change, while being open to other inputs.

To Register …

Please register me in the course, “Growing Your Impact: Enabling Conversations for Change Summer School 2025 for OD, Learning and HR Professionals”.

(If you wish to register more than one person, please contact Don Dunoon.)

Authorised person to whom invoice for your participation should be addressed. (The fee is $880 GST inclusive, $770 if received by 15 November) *

Registering for the course means you accept the Terms and Conditions.

To Ask A Question …

Don Dunoon welcomes questions about the Growing Your Impact public course, so please just ask.

The course is presented through Don Dunoon’s company, New Futures Pty Ltd, ACN 053271695.