The Global Leadership Practices (GLP) program is a leadership experience for executives, designed to explore what is going on behind the scenes around the world.

The GLP program supports the Australian’s government’s agenda for the Australian Public Service to develop deeper knowledge and networks in Asia and the Pacific. The programs present a unique way for participants to discover their own latent capacities and potential, especially when faced with a very different social-cultural contexts but which also contain familiar, almost universal leadership challenges.

The GLP tests and challenges our assumptions of leadership. Leadership is constructed and practiced in these countries in ways that are very different to Australia. The contrast experienced enables deep reflection on what it means to be an Australian leader in a global world, how Australian leadership is conceived and practiced and the choices that can be made to enhance our effectiveness in our own leadership roles.

Participants include senior executives from the public sector (SES), the private sector and not for profit sector.

The China program is conducted in partnership with the prestigious China Executive Leadership Academy, Pudong (CELAP) in Shanghai. A premier institution of the Communist Party of China (CPC), CELAP provides unrivalled access to the thinking and policy directions of the CPC.

Steve Dodt was a 2010 graduate of the Global Leadership Practices Program to Shanghai (China).