The pre-and post-summit masterclasses are designed to maximise your summit experience. You will cover topics in much greater depth – enabling you to share your challenges, proactively plan and create the highest possible ROI.
Monday 9 March 2026
Everyday Actions Leaders Can Take to Shift Culture
Led by Meredith Wilson
Wednesday 11 March 2026
Culture as a Strategic Asset — A Masterclass
Led by Michael Henderson
This full-day masterclass will be held on Monday 9 March 2026
ABOUT YOUR MASTERCLASS
This immersive masterclass, based on Meredith Wilson’s globally recognised book Shift, is designed for senior leaders who want to move beyond theory and bring culture to life in practical, everyday ways.
Grounded in the belief that culture is shaped in moments that matter, this session will equip you with the clarity, confidence, and capability to become a powerful lever for cultural change—starting now.
KEY OUTCOMES
ABOUT YOUR FACILITATOR, MEREDITH WILSON
Meredith Wilson is a Culture Expert, Speaker, Author, and Mentor who helps leaders create capacity through culture and leadership. A former executive and board director, she has led cultural transformations in ASX10 and global organisations, navigating growth, acquisitions, and large-scale change.
As CEO of The People Game, Meredith works with executives and leadership teams to make culture simple, practical, and actionable—cutting through the jargon to focus on what really shifts the dial. She is the author of Shift: Everyday Actions Leaders Can Take to Shift Culture and Leadershift, providing real-world insights and everyday actions that make culture work.
Meredith’s approach is calm, reflective, and pragmatic, challenging common myths about culture and leadership. She helps leaders see that culture isn’t a project—it’s their day job, shaped through conversations, decisions, and everyday actions. Her Leadershift Framework helps leaders rethink leadership for the now and next of work, while her GRASS Model—Gatherings, Rituals, Actions, Symbols, Stories—turns culture from theory into daily practice.
A sought-after keynote speaker, mentor, and advisor, Meredith is known for her ability to engage, challenge, and inspire audiences from the boardroom to the frontline. She brings fresh insights, real-world examples, and a touch of humour, leaving leaders confident and ready to take action.
MASTERCLASS PROGRAM
8.30am Registration
9.00am SESSION 1: Culture Is What We Do, Not What We Say
10.30am Morning coffee
11.00am SESSION 2: Micro-Moments of Leadership
12.30pm Lunch
1.30pm SESSION 3: Shaping Belonging and Driving Results
3.00pm Afternoon tea
3.30pm SESSION 4: The Shift Starts With You
4.30pm Session close
The masterclass will be conducted using a variety of learning methodologies, including delivery of theory, practice sessions and breakout learning opportunities. Please note that the masterclass content will be tailored to participants’ individual needs so the length of each session may vary. Refreshments will be served at appropriate times, including morning and afternoon teas and lunch.
This full-day masterclass will be held on Wednesday 11 March 2026
ABOUT YOUR MASTERCLASS
This is not your typical ‘how-to’ workshop. It’s a How-Not-To.
Despite best intentions, most organisations never realise the full potential of their culture. Not because they don’t try, but because they misunderstand what culture truly is, how it functions, and how to work with it effectively.
In this powerful and practical masterclass, Corporate Anthropologist Michael Henderson takes H.R and People & Culture leaders beyond surface-level thinking of culture into the deeper, systemic forces that shape culture and shows you how to align them with strategic intent.
Over a transformative day, you’ll challenge outdated assumptions, reframe your understanding, and gain access to proven frameworks that unlock culture as a catalyst for growth, accountability, adaptability, performance, and business success.
You’ll also walk away with a personalised audit of your organisation’s current position on the Culture Awareness Scale, giving you the clarity to identify key leverage points and the steps to work on to align culture as a true strategic asset.
Whether you’re leading through transformation, managing hybrid or cross-cultural complexity, or seeking to elevate engagement and performance, this masterclass will give you the mindshift and perspectives to turn culture into your competitive edge.
KEY OUTCOMES
ABOUT YOUR FACILITATOR, MICHAEL HENDERSON
Michael is a corporate anthropologist, which means he has a degree in understanding and studying human cultures. Michael applies insights from anthropology (the study of human beings as the curators of culture) to organisations to support them in aligning company culture as a strategic asset.
He has over 40 years of experience and has overseen over 300 culture transformation projects, which has taught him what works and what doesn’t when it comes to changing or improving culture.
Both as a keynote speaker and a gifted teacher and educator, Michael brings deep insights that explain what culture is, how it forms and functions, and how you can use this knowledge to optimise your culture. His work has been hailed by the world’s leading expert in organisational culture, the late Professor Edgar Schein, M.I.T Sloan Business School, providing the “Missing link” organisations have been missing for the past fifty years to align culture as a strategic asset.
The year 2025 marks the 30th anniversary of Michael’s practice and the launch to the broader market of his astoundingly successful approach to developing culture as a competitive advantage like no other.
Michael is an award-winning author of ten books on organisational culture. His forthcoming books are
‘The Caring Advantage’ and ‘Outcaring the Competition’
MASTERCLASS PROGRAM
8.30am Registration
9.00am SESSION 1: Aware; Rethinking Culture – From Culture measurement to Culturing meaning
10.30am Morning coffee
11.00am SESSION 2: Appreciate; Diagnosing and Measuring Cultural Awareness
12.30pm Lunch
1.30pm SESSION 3: Act; Aligning Culture, Performance and Strategy
3.00pm Afternoon tea
3.15pm SESSION 4: Achieve; Building Your Culture Activation Blueprint
4.30pm Session close
The masterclass will be conducted using a variety of learning methodologies, including delivery of theory, practice sessions and breakout learning opportunities. Please note that the masterclass content will be tailored to participants’ individual needs so the length of each session may vary. Refreshments will be served at appropriate times, including morning and afternoon teas and lunch.