Middle Leadership Impact
Growing Your Influence as a Leader
As a middle leader, your impact is no longer measured solely by what you do by yourself, but by what you enable others to achieve.
This programme is designed for current and aspiring middle leaders who are ready to expand their influence, strengthen their leadership practice, and maximise their impact across their team and school.
Through four full-day workshops, supported by online learning and practical tools, participants will develop the capabilities that matter most for leading people and improvement.
- Building High-Performing Teams: create the conditions for teams to thrive through clear expectations, shared purpose, trust, and productive collaboration.
- Leading Professional Conversations: develop confidence in giving feedback, coaching others, addressing challenges early, and navigating difficult conversations with clarity and care.
- Leading Change and Improvement: build momentum for improvement, create ownership, work effectively with resistance, and turn good intentions into sustained action.
- Creating Accountability and Culture: strengthen follow-through, maintain high standards, and foster an open-to-learning culture where people feel both supported and challenged to do their best work.
Along the way, you will gain practical leadership tools and productivity strategies to help you manage competing priorities, make better decisions, run effective meetings, and maintain your own wellbeing. Whether you are leading a syndicate, department, curriculum area, or strategic initiative, this programme will help you grow your influence, strengthen your leadership, and increase your impact.
Each term there will be one face to face session at Learning Network 9.30-3pm
Term 1: Friday 19th March
Term 2: Friday 21st May
Term 3: Friday 13th August
Term 4: Friday 22nd October
Mark is an educator by background and has worked across the New Zealand education system for nearly three decades as a teacher, school leader and consultant. Mark initially trained as a primary teacher before working in the secondary sector for 15 years, most recently as a foundation Deputy Principal at Albany Senior High School, the country’s first ILE high school. The majority of Mark’s work in schools is based on leadership development and supporting schools to implement change projects large and small. Mark holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne on change leadership, and he has published widely nationally and internationally on how to ensure change efforts a successful in schools.
