Inspiration, insight, and practical strategies for women ready to take the next step in their career.
Join a powerful, transformative two-day conference designed specifically for women in education who are ready to lead with clarity, confidence, and impact.
Inspiration, insight, and practical strategies for women ready to take the next step in their career.
Join a powerful, transformative two-day conference designed specifically for women in education who are ready to lead with clarity, confidence, and impact.
Inspiration | Insight | Practical Strategies
This conference is ideal if you’re a woman in education who wants to:
Gain practical strategies to advance your leadership journey
Learn more about the type of leader you can become
Discover your unique leadership style
Be better prepared for future leadership opportunities
Learn directly from inspiring female leaders
Build confidence in your leadership capabilities
Registrations close: Monday 28 July
Registrations close: Monday 1 September
Registrations close: Monday 15 September
Learn strategic steps and build a personal action plan to move forward confidently.
Gain deep insights through your DISC & Driving Forces profile to lead authentically.
Get resume templates and expert feedback to elevate your leadership brand.
Practise with experienced leaders and walk in prepared for your next big role.
Connect with like-minded women and create a support system for your journey.
Receive practical tools, coaching kits, and a certificate aligned with AITSL standards.
The Leading Edge Conference – Private Accelerator Session
Unpack and explore the learnings from the conference and the insights from the DISC and Driving Forces Profile report in a one hour private and confidential coaching session with Janine Stratford – Leadership Coach and Conference Feature Presenter.
Through coaching you will develop an action plan and your next steps to accelerate your leadership success. The coaching session will take place over video conference or telephone.
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.
She designed The Leading Edge: Women in Education Conference, and has been delivering it, as the Feature Presenter since 2016. A former Deputy Principal, Janine is an internationally qualified Leadership Coach, facilitator and coach-trainer.
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.
We mean, any school that is a non-government school.
Yes of course you can. The interview process in government and non-government schools is quite different. So the questions we explore during the conference may not be the same ones that you might experience when you apply for a role in a Government school setting.
This is a report about you, how you behave and communicate and what motivates you. It is a form of the DISC profile, but even better because it includes a second science – your motivators or Driving Forces. Its a detailed 40-page report about you. You will be amazed how accurate it is and how much information is produced from a 20minute online questionnaire.
The conference is not recorded. So the answer is fairly short, no.
Yes you can. We understand that it can be really daunting (some might even say confronting) to read your Profile Report so we do email the report to you, just two days prior to the conference. Why only 2 days before I hear you ask? Because we don’t want you to give it too much time before we have had a chance to explain the DISC Model to you, to help you understand the report and the information it contains. We will encourage you to read only a few specific pages before the conference starts. The rest you can read across the conference and after the conference.
Online conference participants will have their Resource Packs Express Posted to them in the week prior to the conference.
At the conference, you will meet educators from across Australia and New Zealand. It is a wonderful networking opportunity. So consider how you want to show up to an event like this. How do you want people to remember you? What is the best first impression you want to make? Once you have answered those questions, you will know how you want to dress for an event this like. It is likely to be professional and make you feel confident about who you are and what you want for your leadership and career.
“More than just an understanding of theory or what your strengths are, the conference provides an opportunity to network, ask questions and learn from women, who are working at the top of their game.”
“Fabulous experience, inspiring and insightful. Best professional learning conference I’ve attended. Highly recommend!”
“I learned a great deal about myself – personally and professionally, all of which can support me to be the leader I would like to be. Thank you, Janine, for the insights, wisdom and toolkit that I am taking with me.”
“The conference is a powerful and intensive two days where knowledge that would individually take me years to accumulate was packaged and presented clearly in a way that made it manageable and achievable.”
“Janine was able to help me authentically explore what it means to be a woman seeking leadership in the field of education. So often, we take a tokenistic approach to “women in leadership”; it was refreshing to engage with such depth, honesty and reflection.”
“The value in learning about how I lead is in learning more about how I act. The DISC provided this insight.”
“This event was one of the most engaging and powerful professional developments I have ever done. I did not want the two days to end. So many inspirational women.”
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