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Ferocious Warmth Leadership Program
with Tracey Ezard

 

The 2023 Ferocious Warmth Leadership Program is open to leaders keen to explore their human leadership, using the lens of the head and the heart with Tracey Ezard, and supported by ACEL Ferocious Warmth leader exemplars.

Ferocious Warmth is leadership that is able to balance high challenge and high support in a way that creates a thriving environment for all. It is supportive, yet stretches, empathic, yet challenging. This type of leadership pulls constantly from the head and the heart in a dynamic dance that responds to context.

Time Commitment

Delivered through both face to face and online sessions, this program moves participants through self awareness and growth tools, frameworks and deep discussions.

 - 3 x face to face days - 2 to kick us off in June, then a final one in November, both in Sydney

- 2 x online learning pod mentor sessions (2 hr sessions, 8 people per group)

- 1 x online full group workshop (2 hr session)

Audience

Principals, Deputy Principals, Senior and Middle leaders

Content

• The Balance of the Ferocious Warmth leader - results and relationships
• Head or heart? Understanding our defaults, strengths and shadows
• The Four Elements of Ferocious Warmth
• Expansive - expanding our own model of the world and leading learning cultures
• Connected - building empathy for self and others; developing cultures of strong professional capital
• Authentic - exploring and developing our own leadership purpose and principles
• Courageous - building our courage and vulnerability muscles to create challenge with psychological safety

Objectives

• To provide frameworks and support for leaders to explore and develop their human leadership skills.
• To build a network for participants to gain support and learning from beyond the program.
• For participants to create a foundation set of principles that will guide them in their leadership throughout their career.

Tracey Ezard

Tracey is known for her ‘Ferocious Warmth’ leadership approach and professional collaborative culture work via The Buzz Academy. Tracey’s collaborative framework The Buzz which creates an environment of learning, trust and innovation is used in education and organisational systems throughout Australia. The Buzz Diagnostic has been used by over 450 schools and has had over 11000 educators participate. Tracey has run leadership programs for education and system leaders for over 15 years in all education sectors in Australia and in New Zealand. She also works with education federations in the UK. The Buzz Academy is an online portal that assists school leaders skill up their learning leaders in building authentic professional learning culture.

Tracey has presented in conferences on programs alongside educational global leaders such as Professors John Hattie, Michael Fullan, Carol Dweck and Lynn Sharrat, Maggie Farrar and Pasi Sahlberg. She works extensively with principal and assistant principal networks and associations. She runs symposiums and conferences for school leaders using a combination of keynote, workshop and interactive activities throughout Australia. Tracey is an author of three books. In 2021 Tracey launched her third book ‘Ferocious Warmth - School Leaders Who Inspire and Transform’. Her previous books are ‘Glue -The Stuff that Binds Us Together to do Extraordinary Work’ for leaders across all sectors who want to lift beyond convention to create high performing teams and ‘The Buzz – Creating a Thriving and Collaborative Staff Learning Culture’, designed for education leaders to support schools to bring about transformation in education. Tracey is an educator and a National Fellow of the Australian Council of Education Leaders (FACEL) and a Certified Speaking Professional. Tracey was awarded the 2022 Hedley Beare Educator of the Year by the Australian Council of Educational Leaders (ACEL VIC) and was recently awarded 2023 Breakthrough Speaker of the Year by Professional Speakers Australia. She has a background in teaching and educational leadership, business management and HR in fine dining restaurants and project management in the automotive industry (variety is the spice of life!). Her last education position was as Assistant Principal in the Australian school system. Tracey has been running her own speaking and consulting practice for sixteen years. She has two teenage children, two dogs and when not at work loves spending time exploring the world. She is Board Chair of the social enterprise The Corner Store Network.