Leadership, Organising and Action
The ATUI is proud to present the internationally acclaimed program developed by Marshall Ganz, delivered in-person in Australia for the first time ever.
An opportunity to learn global best practice leadership skills in organising
Applications are now open for Leadership, Organising and Action: the internationally acclaimed program developed by Marshall Ganz at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Following the online program delivered in 2020, the ATUI is once again working with the Centre for Australian Progress and the Leading Change Network to deliver this program.
This year, training will be run in-person in Australia for the first time ever, in Melbourne, 17 – 19 September.
Numbers are strictly capped at 42 places for ACTU affiliates.
We are inviting experienced organisers and campaigners looking to take part in this unique training and learn alongside a diverse network of organisers.
Includes
In addition to a three day in-person workshop, participants will attend:
- an online interactive session and Q&A with Marshall Ganz
- a comprehensive 2-hour briefing and workshop prior to the training on the new Delegates’ rights to contextualise the program, plus two 90-minute follow up sessions
- the ATUI’s Learning Clinic on Sector Organising: Delegate Structures Beyond the Enterprise (complimentary enrolment, not compulsory)
Outcomes
The program offers you the unique opportunity to:
- Enable others to achieve shared purpose under conditions of uncertainty
- Develop leadership, build community around it and turn resources of that community into the power to achieve change
- Develop your public narrative: story of self, story of us, story of now
- Learn the difference between organising and mobilising and why it takes organising to create real change
- Apply these skills to new opportunities for workplace leader development presented by new Delegates rights
Lead Trainers
Noorualin Masood
Founder and CEO, Center for Social Innovation in Developing Countries | Lead Trainer, Leading Change Network
Aprajita Pandey
Founder and Chairperson, Haiyya (a youth-led feminist organising and movement building organisation established in 2015 in India).
Mick Power
Coordinator (Lead Organiser), United Workers Union
Cost
$2,150 +GST
To Apply
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander unionists and people of colour are particularly encouraged to apply for this program.
Places are strictly limited and will be offered following an application process to ensure suitability of candidates for the program and diversity of the group as a whole.
Applications close 17 July *CLOSING DATE EXTENDED* – LIMITED ADDITIONAL PLACES AVAILABLE: APPLY NOW TO SECURE YOUR PLACE
In-person Workshop
17 – 19 September | 9.00am to 5.00pm
Australian Education Union Victorian Branch
126 Trenerry Crescent, Abbotsford, Melbourne, VIC
Delegates’ Rights Workshop
2 hours | Online
Tuesday 3 September, 11:00am to 1:00pm AEST
Interactive session with Marshall Ganz with Q&A
2 hours | Online
Friday 3 October, 9:00am to 11:00am AEST
Follow Up / Recall Session
90 minutes | Online
Thursday 28 November, 11:00am to 1:00pm AEDT
Learning Clinic | Sector Organising: Delegate Structures Beyond the Enterprise
8 – 29 October | Online
(Complimentary enrolment, not compulsory)
Lead Trainers
Noorualin Masood
Founder and CEO, Center for Social Innovation in Developing Countries (CSIDC)
Lead Trainer, Leading Change Network (LCN)
Noorulain is the Founder and CEO of CSIDC, a Global South organisation that specialises in providing training and facilitation services to enhance the practice of leadership and organising in campaigns, particularly those in the climate, energy, and gender spaces.
Since getting a Master’s degree in International Development from Harvard University in 2009 as a Fulbright scholar, Noor has trained and coached over 1,500 campaigners and social justice leaders across South Asia, East Asia, Australia, Africa, and the United States.
She first taught with Professor Marshall Ganz at Harvard in 2012, and since has been teaching and leading teams in the instruction of Marshall Ganz’s Organising and Heifetz’s Adaptive Leadership with Harvard University, LCN, and other institutions.
Prior to founding CSIDC, Noorualin a rural leadership program; led a 1.2M USD non-profit called Teach For Pakistan; worked in the poverty and equity practice at the World Bank headquarters; and supported the Pakistan Mission in United Nations General Assembly proceedings.
Mick Power
Coordinator (Lead Organiser), United Workers Union (UWU)
Mick is a Coordinator at the United Workers Union, where he organises workers around the country to win higher wages, secure jobs, dignity and respect.
Over the last 10 years he has organised migrant farm workers in Australia’s fruit and vegetable industry with United Workers Union/National Union of Workers, American nurses and healthcare workers with Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Pennsylvania, and communities fighting for climate justice with US Climate Action Network and Environment Victoria.
He has worked with the Leading Change Network as a trainer in over 50 workshops on community organising and public narrative to hundreds of organisers in the union, environment, peace, racial justice and Muslim rights movements around the world.
Aprajita Pandey
Founder & Chairperson of Haiyya
Aprajita is the Founder & Chairperson of Haiyya, a youth-led feminist organising and movement building organisation established in 2015 in India.
Aprajita has been organising on gender, sexuality, health, climate, and political participation issues for the past 12 years. She studied the Leadership, Organising & Action course in 2016 and has been working closely with Professor Ganz and Leading Change Network to develop organising infrastructure in India and South Asia. She has facilitated the formation and seeding of many global and national campaigning initiatives as a core team leader in Mobilisation Lab, Youth Climate Fund and Campaign Academy India.
Aprajita was selected as the founding member of Indian Women Social Entrepreneurs Network of ANDE and Amani Institute in 2020, and awarded Asia Youth Workers Award by the Commonwealth in 2014.