Leadership & You

Transformational Leadership Begins With You.

In a time of complexity, reform fatigue, and change resistance, leadership in education requires more than strategies and initiatives — it demands inner mastery.

Platypii's “Leadership & You” program is a professional development experience designed to evolve the inner capacities of educational leaders.

Grounded in real-world, Neuro-Behavioural Modelling research into transformational principals who led meaningful change in their schools, this is not another box-ticking leadership course with the usual generic content. This is deep, generative work that expands your self-awareness, strengthens your authenticity, and empowers your ability to lead change with clarity, courage, and purpose.

This program gives you a map, a compass, and the personal development required to become a truly generative, values-based, and authentic leader — from the inside out.

Platypii’s “Leadership & You” is a groundbreaking professional learning experience for Principals and educational leaders who are ready to go beyond managing systems — and step into the deeper inner work of leading transformational change.

8 Deep-Dive Modules That Build You From Within

Each module builds your capacity from the inside out — combining practical tools, guided self-reflection, research-based frameworks, and embodied leadership practices.

Module 1: Foundational Frameworks, Principles, and Skills for the Inner Work of Leadership

Explore the building blocks of transformational leadership:

• What is transformational (2nd Order) Leadership, and how does it differ from transactional change?
• Discover the Neuro-Behavioural Modelling research into successful educational leaders.
• Understand the role of authentic leadership in leading transformational change.
• Get introduced to the Platypii Transformational Leadership Competency Map.
• Learn the Levels of Generative Learning and how they guide inner development.
• Learn how to regulate your autonomic nervous system to prepare for and engage in inner work.

This module sets the tone for a different kind of leadership journey — one grounded in personal evolution, not transactional formulas.

Module 2: Developing and Evolving Your Leadership Identity and Philosophy

Your leadership philosophy is not a document — it’s a living, evolving orientation to your role as a leader.

• Define what a leadership philosophy is and why it matters.
• Build metacognitive self-reflection to examine beliefs, assumptions, and narratives that shape your leadership.
• Integrate language and perspectives from outside the education system to broaden your lens.
• Discover how your evolving leadership identity and philosophy shape your influence.
• Apply the UVAM model to cultivate deeper authenticity and alignment.

This module strengthens your core identity as a leader and invites ongoing evolution in your leadership worldview.

Module 3: Clarifying Your Leadership Values, Standards, and Boundaries

Inner clarity becomes outer strength.

• Distinguish between values and beliefs, and clarify both.
• Define your foundational vs aspirational values.
• Identify authentic vs adopted values — what’s really yours?
• Connect values to standards, expectations, and leadership behaviours.
• Learn how values-based standards support transformational change.
• Establish and maintain clear hard and soft boundaries that protect and express your leadership values.

This module helps you become uncompromisingly clear on what you stand for — and how to stand for it with integrity.

Module 4: Strengthening Your Leadership Psychology to Confront the Hard Issues and Deal with Conflict

Develop your inner psychological readiness to face conflict directly — with strength, composure, and authenticity.

• The critical importance of strengthening your leadership identity as someone who doesn’t avoid conflict.
• Preparing psychologically for pushback, resistance, and aggression when leading change.
• Moving beyond conflict avoidance and the need to be liked.
• How to confront without becoming confrontational.
• Understanding why performance management and behavioural shaping are necessary for creating healthy, high-performing school cultures.

This module equips you to show up powerfully and gracefully in moments where courage, not comfort, is required.

Module 5: The Inner Game of Leading with Integrity and Congruency When Publicly Challenged

Harness the symbolic weight of your actions and the importance of responding with clarity, integrity, and alignment when it matters most.

• Understanding what ‘defining moments’ are and why they matter for your leadership credibility.
• Exploring how your behaviour, reactions, and interactions shape how others interpret your leadership.
• Recognising the impact of these moments on staff engagement and school culture.
• Seeing how your response determines whether people see your leadership as “more of the same” or something different.
• Practical techniques for responding with presence and purpose in the heat of the moment.

You’ll leave this module more able to meet challenges in real time with strength, self-awareness, and meaning.

Module 6: Getting Your Ego Out of the Way for Shared Visioning and Ownership

Co-create a shared vision through collaborative dialogue.

• Debunking the myth of “vision-setting” and the fallacy of buy-in.
• Exploring the principles of servant leadership and bottom-up transformation.
• How process and criteria-based visioning leads to true shared ownership.
• Working with the dynamics of collective emergence to generate higher-quality outcomes.
• Turning conflict and diverse perspectives into alignment and collaboration.

Learn how to lead with others — not ahead of them — and discover the power of collective visioning done right.

Module 7: Debunking the Myth of Needing to Lead from the Front

Let go of the need to “drive change” and instead shape conditions where others can rise and contribute to evolving your school system.

• Exploring alternative metaphors for leadership beyond the traditional heroic model.
• Understanding “leadership fit” — aligning your approach with your school’s cultural readiness.
• Examining how working conditions shape people’s motivation and behaviour.
• Creating enabling conditions for change by addressing systemic factors.
• Learning to lead by orchestrating, not controlling — facilitating emergence rather than forcing outcomes.

This module helps you step into a more sustainable, systemic form of leadership that’s about creating space, not dominating it.

Module 8: Bringing It All Together

An integration session to consolidate your learning, share your insights with peers, and receive personalised support.

• Integration and reflection on the journey through all modules.
• Group sharing of “in the field” applications, lessons, and leadership shifts.
• Tailored implementation coaching for contextualised application of the frameworks and tools.
• A deeper review of the Platypii Transformational Leadership Competency Map.
• Establishing practices for continuing your inner work beyond the program.

This module ensures the learning doesn’t end here — it becomes part of how you lead from this point forward.

Choose the Learning Experience That Best Suits Your Context 

We know that every leadership journey is different — and so is every school context. That’s why Leadership & You is available in a variety of delivery formats to suit your needs, availability, and preferred level of support. 

Whether you're an individual school leader seeking personal development, a leadership team looking to grow together, or a network of schools wanting to invest in systemic capability-building — there’s an option for you.