Travels From Western Australia
Speaker Topics
Resilience: How to thrive after adversity
Having survived multiple career setbacks and Breast Cancer Jan is well positioned to share how trust in your people and devoting more time to self care contributes to an improved life at home and in the workplace.
Resilience is not just a matter of bouncing back but flourishing after adversity.
Jan will guide the audience through startegies that have worked for her and her colleagues, including mindfulness, connectivity and creative problem solving.
Read lessCulture and inclusion: Being heard matters
What does your organisation / department culture look, sound and feel like?
Do your workers feel heard?
How does your leadership nurture your workforce to thrive?
Unsure of your leadership style? Not a problem! Jan reflects on how her own style evolved and the importance of actively listening in her drive for success.
She will share tips that proved essential in achieving the vision. How, with no direct reports she was able to bring the best in her work colleagues by empowering and facilitating opportunities for them.
How creating a meeting environment where building on diverse opinions and drawing on individual skill sets led to meaningful outcomes and attaining a dream many thought unattainable.
Plus the importance of celebration and acknowledgement of contributions.
Read lessEquality and Equity: Avoiding the ‘toilet and crosswalk’ pitfalls
What do cross walk lights and toilets have to do with equality and equity? Find out when Jan shares her tips for addressing inequities in our communities and how leaders can use these analogies to reflect on their organisation!
She will share ideas for fostering safe environments within your organisation that shape a more equitable and inclusive future before challenging you to look closely at who’s in your leadership group, and how you can use cross generational mentoring to improve equality and equity within your organisation.
Read lessLeadership and Teamwork: Breaking down barriers and finding the minority voices.
Jan will explain how her ‘Triple C Method’, played a significant role in breaking down barriers that ultimately led to the successful establishment of AFLW and the women’s and girls pathways across Australia.
When leaders are strategic, recruit champions of change and draw on unlikely networks, they are utilising powerful tools for change. Jan explores these and other concepts such as imparting ways to support employees to feel included, connected to the team, and heard. Jan concludes with descriptions of her ‘tribe’, how regardless of their workplace location in Australia, she galvanised them as a high performing team so together they helped change the mindsets of decision makers to embrace change.
Read lessJan Cooper O.A.M
Coffee, Curiosity and Concern: Unlikely ingredients of Leadership and Teamwork.
“Perhaps I should seek a coffee sponsor!” suggests Jan Cooper when describing one of the essential ingredients of her leadership style, the “The Triple C Method”: one-on-one quality coffee chats with work colleagues to ensure them that they matter and are integral to achieving a collaborative vision, no matter where their workplace is located.
Through stories from her vast experience Jan illustrates the power of her “Triple C Method” with other elements of her leadership style that have been integral to her success. She explains why leadership and teamwork are mutually inclusive and challenges the audience to reflect on their own style and who they would gather to be their “tribe”.
Prior to every presentation, Jan seeks participant input to ensure her delivery best meets their needs and expectations. It is this focused attention on the individual, along with a dose of humour and mental agility, with which Jan builds rapport with her audience.
In keeping with her collaborative leadership style, Jan prefers to integrate her own knowledge with expertise that is already in the room. A passionate advocate of equality and equity, she will, however, challenge your unconscious bias; not in a confrontational manner but with examples that will have you nodding in agreement.
Her presentations, which emphasise strategies for supporting young people (especially women) in your organisation, always conclude with a challenge and time for participants to share their learning.