LIFELONG LEADERS LEADERSHIP SCHOLARSHIPS REPORT 2020/21
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LIFELONG LEADERS LEADERSHIP SCHOLARSHIPS REPORT 2020/21
"Leadership scholarships contribute
so much more than an individual
learning opportunity. They support
the awardees to transform their
leadership into something deeper
and more considered – a shift in
thinking that has the power to
change the ‘how and why’, and often
the 'what' - of their leadership for the
rest of their lives. This goes well
beyond a single person. Through
them, it impacts all who benefit
from their purposeful leadership –
Sally Hines, their colleagues, organisations and
Leadership Victoria
Chief Executive Officer communities."
SCHOLARSHIP AWARDEE PROFILE
Rushda Halith
Rushda Halith’s leadership has always begun As much as Williamson helped her question
with her values. That’s one thing the assumptions, there is one thing Rushda
Williamson program didn’t change. remains sure of.
“Williamson reaffirmed for me the “An MBA alone is not going to solve the
importance of bringing my true self to all world’s problems. We need adaptive
aspects of my life – at home, work or in the leadership. Williamson navigates those
community.” challenges, which benefits organisations
because that is what all of them – corporate
But the trained engineer turned community or otherwise – are grappling with. And when
development leader admits she once you invest in people over time, you create a
focused on the outcome. She was the shared language of leadership in your
person who ‘got things done’. organisation.”
“Now I see that it is OK not to have the Rushda works in local government and is
answers, to sit with uncertainty. I focus more also keen to work with Muslim women.
on the process and people. It is not always “Muslim women face several challenges.
about the end result.” Within the community there are traditions
to respect. In the broader community, if you
The 2020 graduate also found a voice to wear the hijab it is a clear symbol of your
have difficult conversations, including about faith. You are representing your community.
privilege and gender inequity. And there is a pressure that comes with that.
“Williamson gave me the skills to have “Muslim women are doing great work. We
open discussions, even when it’s not easy. need to invest in that – it helps not just the
I seek out people with views that Muslim community but the community as a
whole.”
challenge me, and I listen to understand
where they are coming from.”
*Rushda Halith was awarded the Islamic
Council of Victoria - Leadership Victoria
Muslim Women’s Leadership Scholarship
Photo credit: Rochelle Hansen
SCHOLARSHIP AWARDEE PROFILE
Dr. Lisa Chaffey
Lisa Chaffey can sum up her former Lisa now helps organisations design and
leadership style in one word: steamroller. evaluate their programs. She’s currently
working on disability in employment and
“I was the kind of leader that said: ‘Yeah, let’s disability sport in schools.
do it!”, not realising it was up to me to make
sure everybody felt they were part of the She wants more people with disabilities to
process.” complete the Williamson program to build
leadership capacity in the sector and help
After completing the 2020 Williamson them face the daily unconscious
Leadership Program, the former wheelchair paternalism without burning out. To
basketball Paralympian and coach can see question themselves and others.
she was missing key leadership skills.
“By sponsoring a program place or an
“I was aware of myself as a leader, but I was a employee, you get back someone who is
leader for people who were the same as clear on their purpose and how they
myself – the same outlook, the same
interact with people.
motivation levels. Williamson gives you the
skills to lead all people, not just the
“It can be challenging for an organisation
handpicked people.
because they will be questioned, but we
have bigger expectations of our leaders than
“Williamson taught me to slow down, have a
we used to, and part of leadership is being
good look around and make sure everyone is
able to adapt to new ideas.”
on board with you before you move forward.”
*Dr Lisa Chaffey's scholarship was
With a silver medal, a doctorate in
supported by the Victorian Government
occupational therapy, a book on pain
Office for Disability
management, a private practice, and
leadership positions in the disability sector,
Lisa never saw herself as the type to play it
safe. But by 2020 she was doing exactly that.
“I had become static. Williamson gave me
back my purpose.”
Photo credit: Sam Biddle
2020 SCHOLARSHIP AWARDEES
WILLIAMSON LEADERSHIP PROGRAM WOMEN LEADING NOW
PARTNER-SUPPORTED SCHOLARSHIP LV SUPPORTING WOMEN'S SUPPORTED BY VICTORIAN RURAL
AWARDEES: LEADERSHIP WOMEN'S NETWORK
ISLAMIC COUNCIL OF VICTORIA – LV Alicia Robinson
Rushda Halith Warakirri Cropping
City of Melbourne Farmer
VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT OFFICE FOR Jenn Scott
DISABILITY Independence Australia
Lisa Chaffey Marketing Technology Manager
Occupational therapist, business owner,
Paralympian Charlotte Aves
Leadership Victoria proudly sponsored Irrigated Cropping Council Inc
VICTORIAN RURAL WOMEN’S Food and Fibre Gippsland’s inaugural Executive Officer
NETWORK Female Agribusiness Leader of the Year
Kate Wallis Award in 2020. Orbost-based Gabrielle Brooke Rogers
Commonwealth Bank - Regional & Moore, from Sailors Grave Brewing, will Chester Shorthorns
Agribusiness Gippsland take her well-deserved place in the 2021 Farm Manager
Women’s Leadership Program.
LV FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP
Image courtesy of Food and Fibre Gippsland.
AWARDEES:
Fiona Kelly
Dentist and mentor
Mike Rolls
Professional speaker and resilience “I learnt that leadership is a
coach
process not a destination. I
Tina Brunet have the power to inspire
Social justice campaigner others to partner with me
Women Leading Now program alumna Alicia
Kate Stewart
because together we can Robinson (Victorian Rural Women’s Network
Co-founder, En Pointe Events move mountains." awardee 2020) speaks with more than 80
people at an LV Lunchtime Leadership panel
discussion on imposter syndrome, April 2021.
Dimity Gannon Tina Brunet Alicia was sharing her experience as a woman
Western Bulldogs Community realising her leadership strengths in the
Social justice campaigner
Foundation agriculture sector and a rural community.
SCHOLARSHIP AWARDEE PROFILE
Mike Rolls
Mike Rolls needs no help finding his voice. Mike, who is a competitive golfer and
As a resilience speaker for schools and President of Amputee Golf Victoria, is now
organisations, telling his story of life as a using his Williamson skills to encourage
double below-the-knee amputee and amputees, especially young people and
meningococcus survivor is part of his day women, to take up the sport.
job.
“Women and girls are severely
“I have open discussions and share my story under-represented in golf, and that needs to
so people can use it to help with their own change.
challenges.
“So, we are building a system where
“We all have our problems. I help find a amputees have many options to join at the
common language of challenge and change grassroots level but can also pursue elite
that we all experience in life.” pathways into the sport.”
But in the Williamson Leadership Program, Mike became close to his fellow participants,
Mike was the listener as well as the speaker. even if 2020 COVID restrictions prevented
them meeting in person.
“There was a lot of discussion around white
privilege. Hearing from people who have to “When you go through this intense
deal with things on a daily basis that I never experience, you create a leadership
even have to think about opened my eyes to community. People bring this back to any
how lucky I am.
organisation they work for and build
capacity for everyone. It’s a multipronged
“Even though I’m someone who has been
and long-lasting impact.”
through something unlucky – a rare disease
that left me with a permanent disability – I
*Mike Rolls was jointly funded by the
feel fortunate because if I had got the
Leadership Victoria Foundation and a
disease in a developing country my life
Williamson alumna.
would be very different. It forces us to realise
what we are truly grateful for.”
Image courtesy of Mike Rolls
LOOKING AHEAD
WILLIAMSON LEADERSHIP PROGRAM 2021
LV FOUNDATION LV SCHOLARSHIPS SUPPORTED
SCHOLARSHIP AWARDEES: BY PARTNERS:
Melissa Hale Robyn Smith ISLAMIC COUNCIL OF VICTORIA EASTERN HEALTH FOUNDATION
Victorian Council of Social Villa Alba Museum Inc Nandi Abdalla Jacqueline Watkins
Services Vice President Alfred Health and Mercy Health Department of Health and Human
Consultant Psychiatrist Services
Coordinator of Disability
Dhelk Dja Regional Coordinator
Advocacy Resource Unit Ruth Heredia
ANZ
Dental Health Services Victoria
Katrina Herbert VICTORIAN RURAL WOMEN'S
Tim Marchinton Dentist Brotherhood of St Laurence NETWORK
Purple Soup Adventure Therapy Executive Manager Family, Health Trish Vigliaturo
Founder Director Laura Howell and Wellbeing P & A Vigliaturo Orchards Pty Ltd
Life Without Barriers Farmer
Katie Hull-Brown Strategy and Engagement LV ALUMNI
Matthew Everitt Rebecca Burgmann
The Song Room Directorate
Dreamtime Art Victoria Legal Aid, Gippsland
Music Mentor and Supervisor
Regional Managing Lawyer
ABORIGINAL VICTORIA
Pete Zwiers Owen Cavanough
Kids Under Cover RTL Mining and Earthworks
Head of Programs General Manager
We are thrilled to welcome 14 dynamic and diverse scholarship
awardees as part of the 2021 Williamson Leadership Program.
The valuable support of our partner organisations and donors
helps make this possible.
PARTNERSHIPS FOR
LIFELONG LEADERSHIP
Leadership Victoria gratefully acknowledges SUPPORTING ORGANISATIONS IN 2020
the support of our scholarship partner LEADERSHIP PROGRAMS:
organisations and individual donors.
Through leadership scholarships, leaders ANZ
who would not otherwise be able to access a Islamic Council of Victoria
development opportunity of this calibre can Victorian Office for Disability
take their place in LV programs. Victorian Rural Women's Network
Individual donors to LV Foundation
LV’s partnership with the Islamic Council of
Victoria has seen five Muslim women leaders
taking part in the Williamson Leadership SUPPORTING ORGANISATIONS IN 2021
Program to date. With the support of the LEADERSHIP PROGRAMS:
Victorian Government-funded Victorian
Rural Women’s Network, 12 women from ANZ
across regional Victoria have advanced their Islamic Council of Victoria
leadership through the Williamson Aboriginal Victoria
Leadership, Women’s Leadership and Victorian Rural Women's Network
Women Leading Now programs. Eastern Health Foundation
LV alumni Aboriginal and Torres Strait
For our 2021 programs LV has worked with Islander Peoples Scholarship Fund
partners and donors on exciting new Individual donors to LV Foundation
scholarship initiatives. These include a place
in the Williamson Leadership Program
supported by ANZ for one of their
community partner organisations and
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples "I have learnt to be true to
scholarships initiated by a group of LV
alumni.
me and not what others
expect or want me to be.
Williamson reminded me to
be bold, inquisitive and have
fun on this journey."
Fiona Kelly
Dentist and mentor Photo credit: Rochelle Hansen
Leadership scholarships enable
people from under-represented
communities and organisations to WAYS TO
undertake Leadership Victoria’s
programs, developing leadership SUPPORT
capability across Victoria’s richly LEADERSHIP
diverse communities.
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