Elevate: Experienced Principals
About the programs
Driving meaningful impact in your school requires navigating complexity through adaptive leadership and collaboration capabilities. The Elevate suite of programs is designed to meet the unique needs of experienced principals and equip you to meet the demands of modern school leadership.
Flexible learning pathways
Elevate programs are designed around 3 themes: Systems, Self and Teams. While each program delivers value on its own, experienced principals will receive the most benefit by attending all programs in the suite, as each has themes that strengthen and reinforce the others.
2026 remaining programs
Elevate: Trust in Action with Simon Breakspear is the final Elevate program for 2026.
What you'll learn
Trust in Action with Simon Breakspear
- Master trust-building frameworks. Explore how trust functions as the foundation for school improvement and professional collaboration.
- Apply practical trust moves. Learn specific, actionable leadership strategies to strengthen your trustworthiness and foster a more resilient, growth-oriented staff culture.
- Restore relational safety. Gain the tools to identify how trust is broken within a school environment and develop a clear process for repairing critical professional bonds.
All elevate programs
- Lead high performing teams. Build capability and confidence to lead teams that adapt to change and complexity.
- Navigate complexity with clarity. Learn to apply practical, evidence-informed tools and strategies to lead with purpose in dynamic environments with competing priorities.
- Drive meaningful system impact. Cultivate adaptive and collaborative leadership capabilities to navigate complexity and influence impact beyond the school level.
- Deepen personal leadership insight. Build self-awareness through 360-degree feedback, coaching, and targeted development in resilience, conflict resolution and trust building.
- Foster system-wide coherence. Contribute to greater collaboration by engaging in shared leadership development opportunities across roles and networks.
Expert facilitator
Dr Simon Breakspear
Dr Breakspear began his work in education as a high school teacher. Today he is a researcher, advisor and speaker on educational leadership, policy and change. Simon develops frameworks and tools that make evidence-based ideas actionable and easy to understand. Over the last decade his capability building work has given him the opportunity to work with over 100,000 educators across more than 10 countries.
Who should apply
Roles
This program is designed for:
- principals with 5 or more years in the role
- executive class principals
- school-based or Intensive School Support school leaders with responsibility to lead a complex or challenging school, such as a turnaround or transformation school.
School sectors
This program is available to the following school sectors:
- Victorian Government
- Catholic
- independent.
Structure
Delivery
This program is delivered through a 1 full-day, in-person workshop.
Completion requirements
To successfully complete this program, you must attend and complete the full day workshop.
Fees and support
| Government school | Non-government school | |
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| Fees (2027) | $400 (excl. GST) | $2,000 (excl. GST) |
Financial support
- Government school participants can claim CRT funding for up to 20 days across the program.
- Travel and accommodation subsidies are available for eligible schools.
Elevate programs
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Elevate: Collaborative Improvement for System Impact with Peter DeWitt and Michael Nelson (past intake) |
Elevate: Resilient Leadership with Heather De Blasio |
Elevate: Power and Conflict with Frank Handy |
Elevate: Thriving through Change with Nick Conigrave |
Elevate: Trust in Action with Simon Breakspear |
Please note, you may choose either Elevate: Resilient Leadership or Elevate: Power and Conflict, but not both.
