Welcome to Youth Leadership Academy Australia! Before the event begins, there is an opportunity to network and collaboratively share leadership ideas in an immersive and interactive way.

The facilitators, who will MC the event, will share the mission of YLAA, introduce themselves, share their leadership journeys, biggest learnings and tools and strategies they have that young leaders can utalise in their leadership journeys too. This morning session is student focused, with ample opportunity to interact with new people straight off the bat and discuss aspects of leadership within themselves and their community.
event begins, there is an opportunity to network and collaboratively share leadership ideas in an immersive and interactive way.

The first session will conclude with a keynote workshop from Wil Massara the CEO of YLAA followed by a Q+A. This keynote unpacks the foundational beginnings of leadership, unpacking what it means to lead ourselves before others.

On this break, student leaders will have opportunities for interaction, collaboration and guided networking.

This session takes a deep dive into various strategies and tools for how leaders can communicate effectively and understand our response to change. The student leaders will have an opportunity to practice the skills they learn, connect more with other leaders around them and also hear from a student speaker with a Q+A to follow.

We discuss what change looks like moving forward from the conference, what it means to be representative leaders for our community and introduce the post event program LeaderUP looks like.

On this break, student leaders will have further opportunity to network, talk to the facilitators and discuss opportunities to overcome barriers in their community.

This session takes a deep dive into various strategies and tools for how leaders can communicate effectively and understand our response to change. The student leaders will have an opportunity to practice the skills they learn, connect more with other leaders around them and also hear from a student speaker with a Q+A to follow.

Further opportunity for student voice - selected schools and their representatives from their leadership team will share their community opportunities they discussed over lunch and what agency looks like to them and their biggest learnings and key takeaways from the event. The session is concluded with a wrap up of the day and a re cap on the tools and strategies we focused on.

We kindly ask for your feedback to support us in continuing to make this event a successful and engaging day for all young leaders - there will be an opportunity to provide this on the day.