It’s not hard to find companies who talk earnestly about their quest for a fair gender balance in upper management. But it’s harder to find one that truly commits to that objective.
WILD Program
Women in Leadership Development (WILD) is our flagship public program designed to build leadership confidence and capability.
WILD program
WILD (Women in Leadership Development) is a transformational leadership program designed for women who are ready to unleash their potential. WILD offers a unique, award-winning format designed to explore one powerful question, what does leadership look like when it looks like you?
WILD is for women across all sectors, seeking to develop authentic, confident, and resilient leadership. This program is for individual contributors through to managers of managers. You may feel like an emerging leader, or you may feel like a 're-emerging' leader, looking for a reset or ready for a sprint in your development to take your next step.
Our program is facilitated by industry leading organisational psychologists and development experts who support participants to build confidence, increase influence and impact, develop personal leadership style and lead with purpose.
What to expect
Throughout WILD you will hone and develop a range of leadership skills, including:
- Personal leadership style: understand your individual strengths and style, including how you can best leverage those strengths.
- Leadership, management & everyday work: discover the differences between leadership, management and everyday work, and how these concepts integrate and overlap.
- Influence & impact: explore influence interpersonal and at the system level, and how it can be developed for different contexts. Discover tools and models to increase your awareness and impact.
- Resilience & thriving: learn how to build your psychological flexibility and resilience to enable you to manage the challenges presented in your role.
- Leading self & others through change: understand the barriers to change and how to support yourself, others, teams and organisations move through change.
- Leading with purpose: understand and anchor to what matters most; leading with purpose can help sustain you through tough challenges.
- Breakthrough conversations: learn and practise a framework to hold conversations that can feel difficult.
- Reflective practice: a critical part of the learning cycle is creating space for reflection. Learn how to practise self-reflection during and between sessions.
When and Where?
We are excited to announce registrations are now open for our upcoming Canberra WILD program.
The program will run August – November 2026.
Make the most of our early bird offer, sign-up for the Canberra program by 30 June 2026 to receive a 15% discount.
Canberra program overview
- Workshop 1: Tuesday 25 August & Wednesday 26 August 2026 (in-person)
- Workshop 2: Tuesday 22 September 2026 (1/2 day online)
- Workshop 3: Tuesday 27 October & Wednesday 28 October 2026 (in person)
Coaching Sessions
- Coaching Session 1: September
- Coaching Session 2: November
Investment
- $6,500 per person (excl. GST)
- $5,500 per person (excl. GST) - not-for-profit
10% discount available for three participants from the same organisation
A limited number of scholarship places, with significantly reduced fees, are available. If you are interested in applying for a scholarship place, please contact us for an application form.
Our 2026 Melbourne program is now full, if you would like to submit an expression of interest for our 2027 Melbourne program please provide your details here
Investment
- $6,500 per person (excl. GST)
- $5,500 per person (excl. GST) - not-for-profit
10% discount available for three participants from the same organisation
A limited number of scholarship places, with significantly reduced fees, are available. If you are interested in applying for a scholarship place, please contact us for an application form.
WILD impact
During 2019-2022, Monash Business School conducted an independent evaluation of the WILD program.
The program evaluation reported that participants had ‘…more confidence in their leadership abilities, more confidence in embracing their leadership potential and more confidence in the value they bring to the organisations.’
The evaluation concluded ‘there were significant shifts in thinking and behaviour throughout the course’ and ‘most participants were able to describe how they were already doing leadership differently because of the program.’
The results from this qualitative interview study suggest that the women leaders who participated in WILD have expanded both their understanding of themselves and how to exercise leadership in their roles.
The 100% Project
People Measures is delivering this program in partnership with The 100% Project. We have a long-standing connection with The 100% Project, a not-for-profit organisation that focuses on promoting equality of choice and opportunity for women and men.
"I did not realise quite how transformative WILD would be. I went into it wondering if leadership was for me. I came out knowing I am already a leader, with a framework on which to grow." – Fiona Smith, Bureau of Meteorology "This course is unique. It has fundamentally changed the way I think about myself as a leader. I've done leadership courses before but none quite like this. A rare opportunity." – Clare Baldwin, IFM Investors
"This program was unlike anything I have experienced. It was so powerful. Such a wonderfully holistic and compassionate approach to leadership." – Kat Kakafikas, Vision Australia
"This program was unlike anything I have experienced. It was so powerful. Such a wonderfully holistic and compassionate approach to leadership." – Kat Kakafikas, Vision Australia
FAQs
WILD provides an opportunity to explore what it takes for women to exercise leadership and take up authority in leadership roles in Australia. This program is not about ‘fixing’ women but looking at leadership through the lens of gender. We look at leadership work as identity work and in this context explore how gender bias and organisational and societal barriers impact women taking up leadership roles.
WILD aims to support women to focus on their own aspirations, and development goals and to consider the impact they would like to have in their workplaces and communities.
‘I went into it… wondering whether leadership was for me, and I came out of it realising that I was a leader… that was quite transformational for me’.
Participants continue to benefit by applying the insights and skills gained in the WILD program, in their day-to-day roles. Post-program, people often tell us they have more confidence in their leadership abilities and in the value they bring to their organisation. The broad network of exceptional women that participants connect with during the program serves as a support system beyond the program's duration.
People Measures acknowledges, respects and seeks to learn from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island peoples, histories, cultures and connections to waterways and country. We pay particular respect to Elders and are conscious that First Nations’ sovereignty has never been ceded. We commit with energy to a future where all people have equity of opportunity and socially just outcomes. Learn More
