Beyond the Bullshit: Rethinking Leadership Development in a System That Won’t Hold by Dr Richard Claydon.

What if leadership development wasn’t broken? What if it were just built for the wrong system?

Join us for a reflective, rigorous exploration of the myths, metaphors, and mechanisms that shape modern leadership, leadership studies and the leadership development industry. Through Maya’s story, we’ll unpack the disconnect between what leaders are told they ought to be and what their roles actually demand.

Across three focused dialogues, we’ll explore:

• Dialogue One: The Self-Help Trap – When development becomes performance
• Dialogue Two: The Virtue Mirage – When idealised leadership models collapse under complexity
• Dialogue Three: The Role Awakening – When meaning returns through system-sensing and role awareness

This is not a training. It’s a deconstruction and a reorientation.

Come ready to listen deeply, reflect honestly, and speak to what leadership really feels like now.

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Dr Richard Claydon is the co-founder of EQ Lab, and the designer of the Future of Leadership module at Macquarie Business School’s Global MBA Program (ranked #6 globally by CEO Magazine).

He was awarded the highest achievable marks for a Ph.D in behavioural science. A Harvard Top-200 Management expert and business columnists for the Guardian newspaper have described this research as “a touchstone for the future work in management and organisation”, “outstanding in daring imagination” and “at the forefront of modern discussion and debate.”

Richard is a tier one tennis player, have coached tennis professionally, and also designed the tactics creator for the multi award-winning and world-leading management simulation, Football Manager.