Student Leadership Program
Leaderships skills will help you develop professionally and boost your employability.
Make new friends, learn about yourself and have fun!
Participation appears on your VU Extra transcript.
Conversations & connections
Conversations & Connections networking events feature a guest speaker followed by an opportunity to meet and network with other students with food and drinks supplied. All VU students are welcome.
Connecting Through Story with author Joe Bakhmoutski
How do you forge a deep, lasting connection with people you don’t even know? By sharing a real, authentic story that speaks to our shared human experience that helps you turn strangers into your champions. For this vital conversation, please join author, artist and health activist Joe Bakhmoutski, the author “Finding Hope in Times of Uncertainty: A Guide to Thriving in Challenging World of Today”, on finding your tribe and unearthing your story.
When: Wednesday 1 May 2024, 5–7.30pm
Where: City Campus
Cost: Free
Leadership snacks: bite-sized learning
Leadership Snacks are a bite-sized (1 hour) introduction to a topic relating to leadership. Each month, an expert will explore a different skill or topic that will help you grow as a leader.
Attending will earn you 2 Leadership Activity points towards the LEAD Program.
2024 Leadership Snacks
Tuesday 30 April, 4-5pm, Sustainability – should businesses care?
Did you know that Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) 200 listed companies with robust and transparent Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) disclosures outperform their competition? Sustainability standards are increasing in Australia and companies are needing to identify and respond to their most material ESG issues and disclose their performance.
Come along to this session, led by Amanda Visser, Head of Environmental, Social and Governance for PEXA Group, to hear how businesses tackling these challenges and how good practice brings long term value to companies and their stakeholders.
2024 Leadership snacks
These are some of the sessions we ran earlier this year:
- Monday 26 February, 4-5pm, Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
- Monday 18 March, 4–5pm: Strategic Foresight – Imagining Futures
2023 Leadership snacks
Take a look back at our 2023 leadership snacks:
- Tues 28 February, 4–5pm, Leadership through change
- Mon 3 April, 4–5pm, Healthy leadership
- Wed 3 May, 4–5pm, Public speaking
- Mon 29 May, 4–5pm, Leadership Styles
- Mon 31 July, 4–5pm, Sitting with Hotspots – Facilitating tricky meetings
- Wed 30 August, 4-5pm, Providing effective feedback
Workplace skills
Boost your employability by learning useful workplace skills
Leadership skills
Learn from a range of diverse and inspirational leaders
Get support
Get ongoing support from our leadership team
Student testimonials (leadership program)
Marriell
I enjoyed my university time because of the Student Leadership Program. I’ve met inspiring and goal oriented students ready to become leaders of the future. The program prepared me to be a great leader someday, just like the inspiring guest speakers and individuals I’ve met on this journey
Dave
Participating in the Student Leadership Program has given me exposure to an aspect of VU that I would not have otherwise seen, and allowed me to interact with some great role models and gain a lot of confidence and skills
Glauco
I’ve had more opportunity to network with others outside my discipline, as well as learning some new leadership qualities and reinforcing those I already had
