View their profiles via the links below.

CSL Melbourne Fellows 2013 Profiles

CSL Sydney Fellows 2013 Profiles

Watch this space or sign up for updates here for some soon to be launched new CSL leadership programs running in the second half of 2013 ! 

We can all do things better

We’ve been empowering the next generation of leaders with the training, skills and networks they need to envision and create a better future.

We’re aiming to create 20,000 leaders by 2020

To do this, we’re working with corporate and community partners to build the capacity of their people, their organisations, and their communities.

To build a prosperous society and economy, within our environmental limits

Check out how we can help your community or organisation prosper and grow:

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Make sure you:

• Drop by the CSL stall

• Go to the CSL and OurSay.org presentation on leading change through social media (Friday 5 to 6pm)

• Check out Greg Foyster (CSL alumnus) talking about his experiences of living with less while increasing quality of life –  "Seeking the Simple Life" (Saturday 1 to 2pm)

• Join the interactive panel discussion about reconnecting young people with nature, hosted by CSL alumni group the Victorian Child and Nature Network (Sunday 2 to 3pm)

• Take part in the Worlds Biggest Organic Feast, hosted by CSL mentor Costa Georgiadis (Sunday 12 to 3pm)

Hope to see you there!

PDF: CSL Annual Review 2011-issuu

Check out some grad pics at our Facebook page

If you’d like to apply for any of the below projects, please follow the application process outlined here.

Communications

Marketing & PR Intern, Key Responsibilities:

• Create and implement the marketing strategy for the Fellowship Program with the marketing coordinator
• Coordinate and promote programs and events in liaison with other staff
• Develop and deliver effective PR campaigns for the Fellowship Program
• Coordinate and implement social media strategy

Note: The same role is available for Leadership Rewired.

Alumni Program Coordinator, Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinate events for 2011 Alumni Program, liaise with venue staff and supporters, guest speakers and alumni
• Coordinate newsletter creation and distribution
• Contribute to the development and implementation of Alumni Program projects
• Manage alumni@csl.org.au account and provide support as needed

Note: This position has been filled in both Melbourne and Sydney. Register here if you want to be kept in the loop and hear about future volunteering opportunities.

Annual Review editor, writers, graphic designer and photographer, Key Responsibilities:

• Research, develop and edit content for annual review
• Develop report’s image
• Coordinate group of writers, graphic designer and photographer

Knowledge Management

Knowledge Management Intern, Key Responsibilities:

• Assess current electronic filing system and suggest recommendations for improvement
• Assess current contact management system and suggest recommendations for improvement
• Provide general support in regards to contact management to the CEO, Fellowship Program Manager, and Marketing and Operations Coordinator.

Fellowship Program

Fellowship Program Intern, Key Responsibilities:

• Provide general support to Program Manager in planning and running of weekly workshops and weekend retreats
• Provide administration support to Program Manager in evaluation analysis and report writing
• Graduation planning and coordination along with the Program Manager

Note: This position has been filled in Sydney only. Register here if you want to be kept in the loop and hear about future volunteering opportunities.

Below are ten categories of niches to get you thinking about yours. But remember these are just 10 broad categories to get you thinking; there are six billion different niches for creating change.

1. Social Entrepreneurs

Description: Social Entrepreneurs are people who see a social or environmental problem and decide to fix it by starting an initiative, organisation or business. They take an idea and make it exist in the real world.

Qualities: Social entrepreneurs are people who are very determined and bulldoze through obstacles. They are often the “jack of all trades” being able to work across all aspects of the initiative from funding to marketing, program delivery.

2. Organisers

Description: In a well functioning democracy to change the ways things happen you need a significant number of people to believe in that change and voice the belief to decision makers. Organisers mobilise large groups of people around a vision or outcome and help them make their voice heard. This involves anything from a letter writing campaign to a conference to a protest on the streets.

Qualities: Organisers are people who have a clear vision for the world they want to see and inspire others to that vision. They have incredible people skills and are the type of change agent other want to follow. They are also strategic in focusing people’s energy to achieve a specific outcome.

3. Political Movers and Shakers

Description: Political movers and shakers are people who leverage power and influence to change things in politics, business and their community. They talk to the right people in the right way at the right time to get the change they seek. They may have any job title from lobbyists to board members to even technical experts, but they understand power structures and how to leverage them.

Qualities: Political movers and shakers are very strategic. They understand power and influence as well as how to leverage it. This might be anything from understanding what motivates their boss’s decision making to being across the sociology of voters in a marginal electorate seat.

4. Thought Leaders

Description: Thought Leaders are people come up with new ways of thinking that create change. It might be a new way of doing business or a new way of getting our energy. They think of new ways of doing things and open up new possibilities. They often spend a lot of time thinking alone and are always thinking. They think through why old ways haven’t worked and see the opportunity not the blockage.

Qualities: Though Leaders are strong conceptual and critical thinkers and have a passion for understanding how things work. They are always coming up with ideas. They are intellectual.

5. Communicators

Description: One of the biggest challenges of action on sustainability is not lack of information, but being able to present that information in a way motivates people to act. Communicators translate the science and solutions to the public and decision makers. They might be journalists, filmmakers, public speakers, writers or advertisers.

Qualities: Communicators are people who have a natural gift for taking the complex and cutting through to what their audience needs to hear. They are engaging and often entertaining. They have a strong understanding of what makes people tick; why people act like they do and how to influence their behaviour.

6. Sector Greeners

Description: Sector greeners are people who have a vision for making a sector of society sustainable and are passionate about making it happen. It would be any sector of society from fashion to finance to fishing. It may be the person’s local community from their workplace, their school or their town.

Qualities: They are people who are respected by others and have credibility in the chosen sector. They also have a clear vision for making their sector green and are passionate about doing it.

7. Business Entrepreneurs

Description: Business Entrepreneurs are people who are passionate about changing the world through markets. They create products and services that lead us towards a sustainable planet.

Qualities: Business Entrepreneurs have vision for how business can drive sustainability and prove this through their own business success.

8. Catalysers

Description: Catalysers bring out the best in other types of change makers. They work behind the scenes so you don’t hear about them in the papers. The may be teachers, mentors or project team members.

Qualities: Catalysers have a passion to help others. They are highly emotionally intelligent.

9. Modellers

Description: Modellers are people who are sick of waiting for government of big business to redesign the way we live; so they do it themself. Like all change makers they are ahead of their time. Modellers create a “proof of concept” by taking on the burden of making an idea work in the real world for the first time. These are often small scale projects which after their demonstration governments or big business see the success and roll out on a larger scale.

Qualities: Modellers are visionary people with a strong determination to make things happen. Like social and business entrepreneur they use their focus on their goal to cut through obstacles.

10. Designers and Problem Solvers

Description: Designers create things which lead us towards a more sustainable world. This could be anything from a lunch box which encourages healthy eating, to low emission cars or a manufacturing process that produces no waste.

Qualities: Designers can often be found in their offices thinking or their workshops pull things apart and putting them back together. They have an engineering mind and are obsessive about understanding how things work.