The Ecosystem Savvy Leader: Understand & act with impact

Hosted by Julie Cunningham, Peter Murchland, and James Dowling

What you'll learn

What is your ecosystem

Understanding your first steps towards more agency within and outside your ecosystem

Increase your agency as a leader

Understand your ecosystem and your agency within it

Extend your ecosystem and extend your agency

Learn there is often flexibility among ecosystem participants, and you can influence lower risk and greater impact

Why this topic matters

Most difficult challenges that leaders face originate outside the ecosystem within which they have control. A challenge comes from a client or superior in response to a disruption outside the client's ecosystem. It could be from a chain of disruptions. Change in a link of that chain disrupts actions in progress that become ineffective. Ecosystem savvy leaders are better prepared to adapt.

You'll learn from

Julie Cunningham

Juie applies cognitive and complexity science to learning experiences.

Julie Cunningham is a seasoned Leadership Facilitator and Executive Coach with 25+ years’ experience across diverse industry sectors. She draws on a wide body of research in cognitive and complexity sciences to design applied learning experiences that translate theory into practice. Julie specialises in building leadership capability from the boardroom to the shop floor, with a strong emphasis on learning by doing. Her pragmatic approach helps leaders navigate uncertainty, drive behavioural change, and thrive in complex, evolving environments.

Peter Murchland

Peter builds conversational bridges for actions among segments of enterprises.

Peter works at the intersection of business and IT for his entire career, involving work in public, private and community sectors across education (including higher education and research), health, justice, defence, trade & transport and utilities. Typically, he engages in business architecture and transformation programs, assisting executives to realise the desired outcomes from their investment is organizational and operational capability investment No assignment has failed to present language challenges! His first encounters always involve coming to understand how an organisation talks about itself and its operations. He regards himself as a highly experienced babelfish (cf Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy).

James Dowling

Jim is an orchestrator of leader alignment and action.

A business maker, learner, and coach with a keen interest in helping individuals, teams and enterprises realize their performance aspirations. After leaving Engineering and Information Technology, Jim found his work/playground in a place where people, process, technology, and business can align to produce amazing results. Jim has led Teaming, Leadership Alignment, Leader Development, Enterprise Design, Enterprise Architecture, Business Transformation, Strategy Clarification, and Change Readiness programs for organizations in Europe, The Americas, and Asia.

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