The Wider Lens
See more. Think wider. Connect across sectors.
The conversation you can’t have inside your own organisation.
A quarterly cross-sector morning for senior leaders in NGO health, community and human services. Two and a half hours. Curated cross-sector tables. Live questions worked together. Susanne facilitates throughout.
Why The Wider Lens exists
Senior leaders in NGO health, community and human services often read the sector from one seat. When pressures begin to interact, the leader who is only reading from one organisation is the last to see the pattern.
Cross-sector perspective is not a networking luxury. It is where the early warning system lives.
What happens in the morning
The Wider Lens runs every three months. Senior leaders come together for two and a half hours at curated cross-sector tables.
The tables work live questions, bringing different angles to what is emerging.
We then surface what has come up across the tables. Patterns. Signals. What everyone is seeing. And how they are going to take it into the next quarter.
Susanne facilitates throughout, drawing out the insights and adding her own.
Who comes
Senior leaders in NGO health, community and human services stepping beyond internal operations. Time-poor. Bringing a current question, pressure or decision into the morning.
Allocated seating, curated for cross-organisation mixing.
Where it takes them — the value ladder
Where are your senior leaders?
The Wider Lens is built to move senior leaders from emerging to wide lens. Read across the levels and locate yourself, or the people on your senior layer.
What the organisation gets
Senior leaders spot patterns earlier because they are connected across organisations. Earlier warning. More time to respond. Better insight into how to respond. The organisation leads through convergence rather than being caught by it.
Program at a glance
About Susanne
Leadership that holds when everything shifts.
Author of Centred: How to Lead with Confidence in Times of Complex Change. Susanne works with boards and executive teams to keep decisions moving and delivery on track when conditions will not sit still. More than three decades across government, health and community services in Australia.
A few things people ask (FAQ)
Who is in the room?
Senior leaders from NGO health, community and human services. Different sectors, different funding models, different organisations.
Will I need to prepare anything?
No. Bring a current question, pressure or decision you are sitting with. The morning gives you somewhere to bring it.
Is it on the record?
Chatham House rules. What is said in the room and who said it stays in the room. It's okay to share insights and themes. Susanne will prepare and share a de-identified summary.
Does my CEO need to be involved?
No. You can apply directly. If your CEO is registering you, there is no further process for them.
What should I wear?
What you would usually wear to work.
