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Reflections of past Emerging Leaders

participants

2015 Emerging Leader Chad Creighton, a Bardi and

Nyul Nyul man now working as a regional manager

at the Kimberley Land Council, says his supervisor

at the Kimberley Land Council, Nolan Hunter, saw

the opportunity as a vital chance for his

exposure to

Indigenous people driving change beyond

the region

:

When I joined Emerging Leaders I was just doing

my job, ‘head down, bum up’. What Nolan wanted

me to get out of it was to see there’s so much

more going on in the country.

It opened up my eyes. I wasn’t aware before.

It let me see, ok, these are the people moving all

these things, and to hear from them personally

why they’re doing these things, and what they

want from them. Important well-known things

like the cashless debit card in East Kimberley.

You rarely meet the people involved in these

things otherwise.

Participants refer to the impact of meeting

established leaders as a critical part of the program’s

value. They

see what change initiatives look like

from the inside, and how leaders have practically

driven them

. This is important learning for

participants who are looked to as the next leaders,

but often feel short of the experience or confidence

required to step into visible leadership roles.

In a baseline survey completed by the 2017

Emerging Leaders at the start of the program, only

33% felt confident or very confident in leadership

situations; and only 22% felt they had adequate

understanding of what it takes to drive change

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2013 Emerging Leader from Cape York James

Fa’Aoso, now Head of Leadership at Cape York

Institute, remembers Jawun patron Noel Pearson

advising the group on challenging the status quo:

Noel told us a good analogy. He says the most

important person on the rugby team is not the

person with the ball, it’s the person running onto

the ball, and their decision whether they run

outside or run inside, and the important time to

call for it.

He was referring to us. For myself, and the

Emerging Leaders, we are ready to run on the

field and run those angles and to call for it, and I’ll

believe we’ll catch it.

James Fa’Aoso

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2017 LEARNINGS AND INSIGHTS