Yes. If organisations want leadership behaviour change, they need to change how leadership development works.
Suzi McAlpine
A new research report based on insights from 31 CPOs and L&D leaders across New Zealand and Australia.
Most organisations invest in leadership development. Far fewer embed it into the systems, manager behaviours and everyday routines that make behaviour change last.
Beyond the Workshop by Suzi McAlpine explores why isolated events rarely shift behaviour on their own — and what organisations can do differently to make leadership development part of how work actually happens.
Workshops don’t change behaviour.
Systems do.
Leadership development works when it is embedded into everyday work — through manager conversations, operating rhythms, cultural expectations, performance systems and real moments of practice.
The opportunity is not to run better workshops, but to make leadership development part of how the organisation works.
Learn what 31 senior people leaders told us
Inside the report
Discover
- Why workshops alone rarely create sustained behaviour change.
- What it takes to embed leadership development into everyday work.
- Why direct manager support is critical.
- Why frontline and first-time leaders are a high-leverage capability gap.
- Why simple, practical tools outperform complex models.
- How to measure contribution without forcing ROI.
- What works in the New Zealand and Australian context.
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