Leadership Snack: How to use your unique identity to inform your leadership

We all bring our unique, human identities to our work, careers, and leadership. 

Understanding how the context we work in rewards and disadvantages us based on different aspects of our identities can help you develop your leadership style, understand and utilise power, and even change the world you operate in.

Our guest presenter Allie will show you how understanding her own unique identity helped her build a career from a freelance and casual worker to General Manager of one of Melbourne’s leading artistic institutions. 

She will share learnings from leaders in the culture and business sector and share some tools to help you build your “Leadership Toolbox”.

Guest presenter Allie Stapleton is an arts administrator with over 15 years experience in the arts and culture industries in Australia and the UK. She began her career in independent theatre as a director and writer, before moving into frontline management in ticketing and front of house. She has worked for a wide variety of organisations, from commercial theatre companies to not-for-profits, from museums to festivals, before taking a break from the itinerant life and settling down in Melbourne in 2015. 

Most recently, she was Company Administrator at Malthouse Theatre, where she supported the board and executive with strategy implementation, human resources management, and business administration after completing an MBA at Melbourne Business School. 

A proud disabled, queer woman, Allie is passionate about people and culture development, new work, and the advancement of equity and accessibility in the Australian arts and cultural industries.