The New Creative Leadership
A program for creative professionals who are seeking to make meaning and impact in their work; and understand that leadership is an act of stewardship for future generations.
Format: Online learning, pre-reading, and cohort activities supported by 4 quarterly live workshops.
Access: 12 months access Price: $599AUD / course, $1,399AUD for the full program.
Build a creative leadership practice with meaning and legacy.
The New Creative Leadership Program is built for a world that demands more from its leaders. When old models of leadership are collapsing and expectations of empathy, creativity, and ethical clarity are rising, this program prepares you to navigate complexity with concsiousness, imagination, and integrity.
Cambridge University's 2023 research identifies creative leadership as a core principle for a sustainable future; IBM's research in 2010 recognised creativity as an essential capability for the 21st-century leader; and studies consistently show that creative leadership correlates with better organisational performance, places of belonging and community cohesion.
Across three courses, the program helps you develop a leadership practice that understands creativity as a way of seeing, deciding, and taking responsibility for the impact we have on others.
This program teaches the leadership capabilities that make you indispensable; the ability to calm chaos, guide teams, earn trust, navigate complexity, and shape work that moves organisations forward. These are the qualities leaders hire for, clients return for, and teams rely on.
You will explore presence, philosophy and leadership practice; you will learn how belonging, culture, and community influence the conditions in which creativity thrives; and you will develop the tools to listen with humility, communicate with clarity, and act with intention.
Course 1
Creative Leadership Foundations
Build the foundations of creative leadership. A course that helps you understand creativity as central to how you think, decide, and lead. You’ll develop a definition of creative leadership, build a reflective practice that strengthens judgement and integrity, and learn to navigate ambiguity with a new found clarity.
Format: Online Certificate Course, with quarterly group workshop.
Duration: 3hrs Pre-Reading, 4 week course
Outcomes: Identify personal, cultural and professional lenses shaping how you interpret the world.
Recognise how those lenses influence your creativity and leadership behaviour.
Embrace deliberate curiosity.
Lesson 2: Cultivating Curiosity
Lesson 3: Power Inside the Room
Lesson 4: Creativity & Leadership
Lesson 2: Bridge Building
Lesson 3: Design for Belonging
Lesson 4: Community
Lesson 2: Cultural Literacy
Lesson 3: Community Listening
Course 2
Culture, Community & Leadership
Expand your leadership practice from the individual to the collective. You'll learn how belonging, culture and community shape conditions where creativity can flourish, and how inclusive leadership redistributes power and builds trust. Through work on collaboration, cultural integrity and the ethics of storytelling, you'll develop the skills to lead teams and work alongside communities with humility, responsiveness and purpose.
Format: Online Certificate Course, with quarterly group workshop
Duration: 3hrs Pre-Reading, 4 week course
Outcomes: The ability to lead difficult conversations. Skills to lead through complex team. community and stakeholder-heavy roles. Stronger professional relationships, and collaboration outcomes.
Lesson 2: Leading in Complexity
Lesson 3: Culturally Responsive
Lesson 4: Power Redistrbuted
Lesson 6: Lived Experience
Lesson 2: A Leadership that Listens
Lesson 3: Bias and Narrative
Lesson 4: The Architecture of Narrative & Story
Lesson 2: Co-Creation & Co-Design
Lesson 3: Leadership in Teams & Communities
Lesson 4: Design for Belonging
Course 3
Impact-Driven Leadership
This course brings your creative leadership practice into the world, showing you how to lead with purpose in the midst of complexity, change and ambiguity. You'll learn to see systems clearly, act with long-view responsibility and create the conditions for collective impact. Through work on systems literacy, stewardship, story and movement-building, you'll develop the judgment and sensitivity needed to shape environments, institutions and communities with integrity.
Format: Online Certificate Course, with quarterly group workshop.
Duration: 3hrs Pre-Reading, 4 week course
Outcomes: The capability to lead projects with long-view and systems clarity. Readiness for senior roles and strategic conversations. Increased confidence in influencing decisions and shaping strategic horizons.
Lesson 2: Power
Lesson 3: Stewardship
Lesson 4: Designing New Structures
Lesson 5: Leading in a VUCA world
Lesson 2: Cultural & Community Storytelling
Lesson 3: Movements & Leadership
Lesson 4: The Dangers of a Single Story
Lesson 5: Collective Imagination
Lesson 2: Practical Ethics in Leadership
Lesson 4: Answering the Call
An international and multi-disciplinary cohort-based structure ensures you will learn alongside others for the duration of each course.
Quarterly workshops are facilitated, 2hr cohort sessions focused on applying the modules/frameworks to real leadership situations. Where possible a guest speaker will discuss business, institutional, and ethical dilemmas. Workshops are recorded and available to you for 12 months.
Time commitment required will include up to 5hrs of pre-reading material for each course, 6-12hrs of video content per course and 2hrs per quarterly workshop.
Pre-reading material will be provided once you enrol in the course. This is mandatory reading for each course module, as well as each quarterly workshop.
The pre-reading material will be yours to keep once your course access lapses.
On-demand video will be made available to you on a daily basis allowing you to watch daily, or self-pace. Quarterly workshops will align with video learning modules and allow you to dive deeper in your learning.
Who is this program for?
This course is for people who work with creativity, inside organisations, systems, or for themselves. You may be leading teams, shaping policy, building things, telling stories, or making decisions that affect others, and you understand the weight of your decisions.
You’re aware that certainty is rare, that power is uneven, and that the old scripts for leadership don’t help much when situations are complex.
It’s for those who want to listen more carefully before acting, make sense of what’s really happening beneath the surface, and take responsibility for the impact their choices create. If you’re looking to strengthen your judgement, communicate with clarity in all environments, and lead with integrity and creative confidence, this course is designed to support you.
How will this course help me?
- Understand how creativity can create value in culture, story, and insight in your decisions.
- Speak credibly in rooms dominated by power.
- Understand the power of storytelling.
- Develop your creative confidence, explore and translate the world around you.
- Develop agile, flexible ways of thinking.
- Develop a deeper understanding of power and enable the redistrubition of it.
- See creativity as a key to your leadership toolkit.
- Earn trust and find calm in chaos and ambiguity.
- Learn to listen deeply.
- Enable leadership in others.
- Make meaning from your work and the world
- Develop the ability to imagine ethical futures.
- Understand how to use ethical frameworks in decision-making.
The New Creative Leadership Framework
Creative leadership makes space for imagination, collaboration and lived experience as strategic necessities.
Creative leaders are reflective, listen deeply, make meaning through participatory practices and work towards impact with care and compassion.
Meet the author of this program
Dimitri Antonopoulos has spent more than three decades sitting inside the overlap of creativity and leadership as the daily condition of building organisations, shaping strategy, and working alongside communities.
He is the CEO of Tank, a strategy, and human-centred design consultancy that works with governments, institutions, and impact organisations to design futures that are equitable and human. He is the founder of March First, a platform for ethical and purpose-driven creative leadership, and the author of The Weekly Journal of Creative Leadership — a publication read by creative professionals, leaders, and thinkers across the world.
The New Creative Leadership is a community-driven learning program he has spent years building toward. It draws on a career that has taken him from the streets of inner-city Athens to the Tiwi Islands, from boardrooms to community forums asking the same question: what does it mean to lead with creativity in an age of uncertainty and complexity?
His work is grounded in the belief that creativity is not a talent reserved for a select group, but an innate human capacity that every leader already carries. The task is learning how to use it with rigour, care, and with the kind of moral seriousness the world currently needs.
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