Most leadership communication defaults to broadcasting - team meetings, emails, walkthrough tours. It is efficient, and it consistently fails to create genuine connection with the people doing the work. This webinar argues that the alternative is not more communication but a different kind of presence at the front line, practised deliberately.

The underlying shift is one of paradigm. The prevailing model casts leaders as experts and workers as listeners. Purposeful presence inverts that: the leader's role is to hold the workforce capable, drawing out insight rather than transmitting it. We call these breakthroughs Moments of Safety Transformation, and makes the point that they cannot be taught - only experienced - because they arise from within the person having them.

Speaker- Shannon Overland

Director, Consulting, DEKRA

As Director, Consulting, Shannon has guided leading national and multinational corporations in preventing serious injuries and fatalities, driving productivity and competitiveness through best-in-class leadership development and coaching partnerships.

Before joining DEKRA, she spent 20 years in operations across forestry and oil and gas, and partnered in a forestry start-up whose safety system delivered sustained improvement and industry awards.

Shannon has pioneered a Leader of Leader coaching model applied internally and with clients. She holds a Master of Arts in organisational leadership from Royal Roads University, is a Certified Executive Coach accredited by the International Coaching Federation, and a certified MBTI practitioner.

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