Vaules Centred Stewardship

The Centre for Leadership Excellence (CLE) is a Centre of learning, creativity and personal development to promote excellence in leadership, learning and life. We have extensive knowledge and experience in delivering leadership, management and capacity building training programs in the Australian Public Service, the private sector and the higher education sector.

We offer a holistic solution service to organisations and are up-to-date with the challenges facing today’s leaders. This includes managing a multi-generational workforce; communicating a compelling vision of the organisation to its members; and maturing the business systems of branches and divisions. We work in partnership with our customers to integrate learning and professional excellence into the workplace.

The Centre operates as a consortium of industry specialists throughout Australia who share a philosophy for situated learning and development, ethical practice and personal and professional excellence. Our personnel hold academic qualifications and relevant industry qualifications in their subject matter and most have teaching experience at a tertiary level in their specialist areas.

CLE facilitators also have coaching experience with most continuing to coach at the middle management and executive levels of the Australian Public Service and with private enterprise.

Centre for Leadership Excellence - Organisational Chart

Deborah Nanschild
Executive Director

Our Executive Director, Deborah Nanschild, is an award-winning businesswoman with vast experience in adult learning and development especially in the public sector. She is currently completing a research PhD with her thesis titled: Implications of Values-Based Leadership Development for Australian Organisations.

The Senior Executive Service (SES) in the Australian Public Service are her research subjects and they represent small, medium and large Commonwealth Government Departments amongst them. Her understanding of and experience with government departments and their requirements for public sector management and leadership is extensive.

To see Deborah's full profile, please click here.

CLE Consultants

Consultants for CLE share a deep commitment and methodology for situated learning and development in the workplace.

Consultants include:

• Caron Egle
• Eric Leape
• Catherine Ordway
• Joanne Blackburn
• Craig Ashhurst
• Karen Goldspink
• Heather Davis
• Anna Woods

Vision

Modelling excellence in leadership, learning and life.

Mission

To influence aspiring leaders to provide a compelling vision for their organisation through effective stewardship, amplified consciousness and self knowledge.

Our Core Values

• Truth and Wisdom
• Knowledge and Insight
• Integration and Wholeness
• Collaboration

Philosophy

The Centre operates as a collaborative alliance of consultants who share a methodology for situated learning and development. This means that we focus on what people need to know and be able to do in-situ, most often in their workplace with their real issues as the subject of learning.

We then draw in relevant types of learning as appropriate, creating a powerful, integrated approach to development that complements off-site workshops and seminars. We place a high priority on relationship management with our clients; getting to ‘know their business’ is critical for providing development relevant to their particular situation.