New $16,500 health sector scholarship

Social Leadership Australia—the leadership development centre at Australia’s first charity, The Benevolent Society— today announced a scholarship for NGO health sector leaders.

Worth $16,500, the Sydney Leadership 2012 scholarship will be awarded to a person working in the health services sector—including practitioners, advocates, administrators and service providers—whose work, either directly or indirectly, is driving positive social change.

The scholarship will be funded by Johnson & Johnson Medical, and provide an NGO health leader with access to Australia’s most highly regarded leadership development program. 

Sydney Leadership is an annual, year-long program that brings together 30 leaders and up-and-coming leaders from the business, not-for-profit and government sectors.

Head of Social Leadership Australia, Robbie  Macpherson, said the program’s aim is to foster new leadership skills and a new determination to create positive social change.

“The NGO health sector plays a vital role in delivering the health services that are needed, where and when they are needed,” Mr Macpherson said.

“The sector is agile, it’s able to respond to needs quickly, and it is full of great people doing great work. But the one thing it often is not, is well resourced.

“The Johnson & Johnson Medical scholarship is specifically designed to help someone from the NGO health sector to access one of Australia’s best leadership courses.

“We’re building a coalition of people across different sectors to help make our society better, and this scholarship will provide an NGO leader with the skills to achieve that.”

Since 1999, the Sydney Leadership program has brought together more than 400 decision-makers, and empowered them to effect positive change in their workplace and community.

The program combines the Harvard University Adaptive Leadership model—emphasising creating change to break through intractable problems—with a hands-on approach.

The award-winning program involves no textbooks or classrooms: it teaches leadership skills in real world settings such as public housing estates, prisons and remote communities.

ESSENTIAL INFORMATION

· For more info on scholarships: please call Kyrstie Dunn on 9339 9313

· For more info on Sydney Leadership: www.benevolent.org.au/leadership

· To register for info sessions: Call 9339 8090 or email [email protected]

FREE SYDNEY LEADERSHIP 2012 INFO SESSION - ALL WELCOME

· 6.30pm - 8.00pm, Tuesday 11 October
The Benevolent Society, Level 1, 188 Oxford Street, Paddington