Join Richard Dore, Co-CEO and Lead Educator at Proteus Leadership, for a high-impact 4-part virtual series designed to equip leaders with the mindset and tools needed to lead in today’s fast-changing workplace.
Across four powerful 1-hour sessions, Richard combines storytelling, evidence-based insight and decades of leadership experience to challenge unhelpful habits, build stronger relationships, and cut through the noise of workplace busyness. Expect practical strategies, fresh perspectives, and the kind of real talk that sparks both action and accountability all delivered in Richard’s trademark engaging and down-to-earth style.
Richard Dore
Richard Dore is the CEO of Proteus Leadership and is recognised as one of the most effective Leadership, People and Workplace Culture Change facilitators in Australia.
People love his engaging facilitation style – he’s fun, irreverent, a great storyteller and more importantly he cuts through the hype. His ability to take complex issues and give them simple and practical solutions for effective change makes him a real draw card.
You’re Not Unsafe — You’re Just Uncomfortable
Stop confusing discomfort with danger. Stretch is not stress
Overview
In a world increasingly obsessed with comfort and caution, we’re losing our tolerance for the very thing that drives growth — discomfort. This provocative session challenges the rising misuse of feeling “psychologically unsafe” as a shield against feedback, accountability, and improvement. Great teams don’t retreat from challenges. They normalise discomfort and redefine psychological safety for positive engagement and innovation, not avoidance.
Content
- Unsafe vs Uncomfortable
- Stop Weaponising Psychological Safety
- Embracing Discomfort as a Superpower for Growth
- Taking 100% Personal Responsibility
- Moving into the Growth Zone
One Conversation. Once a Week. Everything Changes
The high-impact habit that builds engagement and relationships — fast
Overview
At the heart of every high-performing team are leaders who make time to connect. One intentional, human conversation a week is all it takes to lift engagement, reduce friction, build real trust and transform workplaces.
This session explores how a small weekly proactive habit builds big connection and why strong relationships always lead to stronger results.
Content
- Gallup’s #1 Leadership Habit
- Connection Over Correction
- Lead Through Listening
- Culture in Every Conversation
- Small Habit, Big Engagement
Having Your Say — Doesn’t Mean You Get Your Own Way!
How brave conversations build influence — not noise
Overview
We talk a lot about giving people a voice but being heard doesn’t mean getting the final word. In many teams, voices either go missing or become combative. This session explores how emotionally intelligent teams communicate with courage and respect without confusing contribution for control or retreating into silence. Because real influence isn’t about being silent or loud, it’s about being considered, connected, and willing to engage even when you don’t get your own way.
Content
- Find Your Voice
- Respectful Dissent is Healthy
- Be Brave, Not Brutal
- Disagree Without Disengaging — No Sulking, No Sabotage!
- Earned Influence Over Entitlement
Getting Stuff Done — But Only the Right Stuff
Debunking The Busyness Myth
Overview
Being truly present, focused, and delivering the right results is one of the biggest challenges of modern work and a genuine superpower for those willing to master it. In a culture where busyness has become a badge of honour, this session calls out the Busyness Myth and replaces it with productivity principles that stick. Learn how to build habits that protect your time, energy, and focus while driving the outcomes you’re really measured on.
Content
- Busyness is red flag — not a badge of honour
- Stop Distraction being Your Addiction
- Becoming Fully Present
- Decide on What Really Matters
- Productivity Principles
- Establish New Habits and a “To Don’t List”
- Making Meaningful Progress
Topics
- Webinar 1: You’re Not Unsafe - You’re Just Uncomfortable
- Webinar 2: One Conversation. Once a Week. Everything Changes
- Webinar 3: Having Your Say - Doesn’t Mean You Get Your Own Way!
- Webinar 4: Getting Stuff Done - But Only the Right Stuff
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