This program is ideal for
Middle Leaders – Team Leaders
Heads of Learning or Wellbeing
Senior Leadership Teams
Aspiring and Future Leaders
You’ll walk away with:
Self-awareness of your leadership style and communication
A framework for handling conflict with confidence
Practical coaching tools to build team ownership
A clear plan for growing your team and managing change
Module 1: Clear – Define Your Leadership Style
Great leaders lead with clarity. They know who they are, what they stand for, and how to bring out the best in themselves and others. In this one-day workshop, you’ll discover your behavioural and communication style using the DISC profiling model. You’ll gain insights into how you’re perceived, how to adapt your style for better relationships, and how to strengthen team dynamics.
Walk away with powerful self-awareness and a clear understanding of how you want to lead.
Module 2: Managing Conflict – Lead Difficult Conversations with Confidence
Strong school cultures are built on honest conversations. Great leaders know how to create safety in dialogue—even when the conversation is tough. This one-day workshop builds your ability to lead with confidence during challenging moments. You’ll learn how to shift conflict into constructive conversation, manage emotions under pressure, and use a 6-step coaching framework to resolve issues collaboratively.
With practical tools, proven strategies, and real-world examples, you’ll leave ready to face your next difficult conversation with clarity and control.
Module 3: Coach Consistently – Build a Culture of Accountability
Great leaders don’t give all the answers—they ask the right questions. The Coach Certification Program is a 20-hour learning journey designed to help you lead with consistency and impact. Across two workshop days (with guided learning before and after), you’ll develop a coaching mindset, improve your listening, ask powerful questions, and move away from advice-giving.
You’ll practise practical coaching frameworks that can be used in everyday conversations and formal settings. The result? A leadership style that builds ownership, accountability, and a stronger, more empowered team.
Module 4: Lead with Intention – Build a High-Performing Team
Exceptional leaders are intentional. They lead with vision, build trust, and create teams that thrive on collaboration, clarity, and shared purpose. Leading Teams for Peak Performance is a one-day workshop designed to help you grow your leadership influence and team impact. You’ll develop practical strategies for giving feedback, delegating effectively, managing time, and leading change with confidence.
With coaching embedded throughout, you’ll leave with a focused plan and clear actions to elevate your team’s performance.
What You’ll Receive?
Access to all four workshops
Program Workbook & Reflection Journal
Coaching Focus Pen & Resource Pack
Completion Certificate (mapped to AITSL standards)
Approval Reference Guide to gain PD funding
How much does it cost?
The Elevating Leadership Program costs AU$2,194.50, while purchasing the 4 modules individually costs AU$2,486. Thus, you’ll save AU$291.50 if you purchase the Elevating Leadership Program instead of buying each module individually.
This program offers excellent value for future leaders who want to receive expert teaching from a nationally recognised leadership coach, professional behavioural analyst, and former deputy principal.
Program Dates + PD Approval Guide
Planning your professional development just got easier.
Gain access to all program dates through to the end of 2025-perfect for long-term planning. To help you secure approval for this PD, we’ve included a comprehensive Reference Guide.
It contains all the essential details you need to complete your PD application with confidence and ease.
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Meet Your Facilitator: Janine Stratford
Leadership Coach, Coach-Trainer & Career Strategist
BSc GradDipEd, GradDipAdHlth&Wlfar, MEd(EdMgt), PCC, MACE, MACEL
Janine Stratford is the owner and founder of Coaching Focus, the company developing leaders in schools to be role models for those around them.
Drawing from the leadership challenges she sees most often in schools today, Janine designed The Elevating Leadership Program to meet the urgent need for clarity, capability, and confidence among middle leaders.
She is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coach Federation, Master Coach Practitioner and a Certified Professional Behavioural Analyst. Janine now delivers leadership development programs across Australia.
What Educators Are Saying
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“This program has developed my capacity as a confident leader. Through strategies such as how to have challenging conversations and how to coach employees I have ensured that I have attempted to make my staff more accountable even though it may cause some “push back”. Module 4 tied it all together regarding the importance of being emotionally intelligent and how to best work with the team so they actively participate in change at a school level. This program exceeded my expectations.”
Ashleigh Hoogendoorn,De La Salle College, VIC -
“Janine uses the online webinar medium in a personal, confidential, and connected way, so that participants can explore their practice in a safe and directed manner for real professional growth. I always come away with new insight into my own development as an educational leader, a refreshed skill base and networking I feel I can continue communicating with as I further hone my skills.”
Julia Strentz,Preshil Independent School, VIC -
“The Elevating Leadership Program has helped me grow in confidence as a young leader by providing me with tools and strategies for developing action plans that I can use to become a more impactful leader. I looked forward to each module and found it highly effective completing these modules over the course of a school year as I could see myself apply the things I had learnt and enhance my skills and knowledge as an upcoming leader. Thanks Janine!”
Marissa Chui,Northside Christian College, VIC
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