Governance. A.I. Adoption. Leadership. Coaching. Strategy. Recruitment.
Specialist, experienced, real-world, affordable advice and support, particularly to help purpose-driven organisations to evolve and transform with clear direction and greater impact.
About Leading Progress
We are committed to supporting people, teams, organisations and communities to be their best. We particularly focus on for-purpose activities, and our values of social, economic and environmental equity are central to what we do:.
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Supporting organisations in developing and implementing real-world Strategy
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Coaching executives, directors and other leaders
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Supporting Boards and CEOs to exercise modern, impactful Governance
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Building Leadership in individuals, teams, organisations and communities
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Supporting Recruitment processes for executive roles ... and providing other advisory services
Some of our key focus areas
Gender Equity
Supporting women's leadership, women's careers in trades, multicultural women in community, family safety, and more.
Disability Equity
30 years' continuous support for people with a disability, helping create the NDIS, 12 years as a CEO of a key disability support organisation, 12 years supporting the Australian Federation of Disability Organisations, pioneering Disability Leadership programs, and more.
Cultural Equity
Pioneering multcultural leadership programs, long-term support of Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria, support of individual multicultural organisations, and more.
Coaching, Strategy, Leadership and Governance
Hundreds of individuals supported through coaching and mentoring. Hundreds of projects supporting strategy formulation and implementation, hundreds of leadership programs and activities, and many dozens of Boards supported to exercise continually evolving Governance.
Rural & Regional Leadership
Supporting leadership development across Victoria and across Australia, including in collaboration with Australian Rural Leadership Foundation.
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence is swiftly creating fundamental leadership complexities. We know that current AI (such as ChatGPT) is relatively basic - and is the merest beginning of an enormous transformation. We collaborate with Boards and Executives and their teams to help them adapt to both current and future challenges.
Contact Us
Phone
+61 418 318 453ABN
63634117016
Operating Hours
Based in Victoria, Australia, with
flexible hours by timezone.
Our founder and our purpose ...
Leading Progress was established by Richard Dent OAM FAICD, to help lead progress towards a better world.
Richard is an accomplished CEO, Executive, Chair and Board Director with more than 30 years’ senior experience in exercising and developing leadership: in businesses, governments, non-profits and communities.
As CEO of Leadership Victoria from 2012 to 2019, he led a 400% growth in annual leadership activity, introduced a coaching panel, created programs focusing on ethics, multicultural leadership, gender equity, corporate ethics, rural and regional equity, and a wide range of other activities. He also Chaired the international Leadership Network, helping co-ordinate and link similar leadership programs across Australia, Aotearoa, Fiji, and America.
Richard has been CEO of organisations with up to 1200 staff, and a senior executive across multiple fields, always leading significant sustainable organisational growth and impact. Richard's activities have particularly focused on Indigenous, gender, disability, cultural and rural/regional leadership and equity.
Richard has also Chaired National Disability Services Victoria, Disability Professionals Victoria, Deakin University Health Sciences and The Rotary Melbourne Foundation. He is current Chair of Forever Friends Animal Rescue, and Board member of the Australian Federation of Disability Organisations and Tradeswomen Australia.
Richard has multiple Masters and other post-graduate qualifications, including from Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and has been recognised with a Medal in the Order of Australia.
Richard is highly skilled in consulting and collaborating with complex stakeholder groups. With five post-graduate qualifications, he brings a strong sense of academic rigour applied to direct practical contexts. He is deeply experienced in formulating and implementing strategic directions to support vision, mission, strategic plan, annual goals and objectives. His practical expertise is also strong in key areas including finance, marketing, HR, quality, identification of customer needs, submission writing, operational excellence and sound business development across multiple organisations.
Acknowledgement of Country & Commitment to Diversity & Equity
Acknowledgement of Country:
We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which each of us meet, live, learn and work. We acknowledge the ongoing impact of colonisation, particularly in the lands and waters now known as Australasia, the Torres Strait, and the South Pacific. We acknowledge and honour Indigenous cultures, traditions and Country, and pay our respects as appropriate to Elders and Leaders past, present and emerging.
Diversity & Equity:
We acknowledge and support people of all genders and sexual orientations.
We acknowledge the importance of cultural diversity and celebrate Australia's progress as a culturally diverse society, and acknowledge the progress still needed to achieve true, equitable inclusivity.
