Events
Lunch & Learn: Leveraging Strengths - Know Yourself. Know Your Team.
Event Details
When: Friday 2 October 2026
Start Time: 1:00 PM
End Time: 2:00 PM
Where: Online, via Zoom
Open to: Members only
Suitable for: All levels
Event type: Professional Development
Time Zone: AEST

Lunch & Learn: Leveraging Strengths - Know Yourself. Know Your Team.
Great leadership starts with understanding your strengths.
The most effective leaders know what they do well, recognise the strengths of others and create environments where people can contribute at their best.
Join Women in Super for an interactive Lunch & Learn exploring how a strengths-based approach can strengthen leadership, improve collaboration and build more effective teams.
Through practical discussion and real-world examples, you'll learn how to identify your own strengths, recognise the strengths of those around you and apply a strengths lens to your everyday leadership. You'll leave with practical tools to help you lead with greater confidence, strengthen team performance and get the best from the people you work with.
Why attend?
A strengths-based approach can change the way you lead, communicate and collaborate.
This session will help you:
• Understand what strengths are and why they matter for individuals and teams
• Recognise and leverage your own strengths in your leadership context
• Identify the strengths within your team and use them to improve collaboration and performance
• Build confidence in applying a strengths-based approach to everyday leadership
• Take away practical tools you can apply immediately
Who should attend?
This session is ideal for Women in Super members who:
• Are building their leadership capability
• Lead people, projects or teams
• Work in collaborative or cross-functional environments
• Want practical strategies to strengthen team performance and workplace relationships
Presenter
Sian Mertens - Owner and Director, MDM Talent Management
Sian Mertens is a leadership and talent specialist with extensive experience helping individuals, leaders and teams understand and leverage their strengths. Through MDM Talent Management, she partners with organisations to build leadership capability, strengthen team performance and create positive, high-performing workplace cultures.
Members
As a Women in Super member, you can register for this complimentary professional development event by logging in to the Member Portal.
Once registered, you'll receive event communications, including a 'See You Soon' email three business days before the session and a reminder on the day, both containing your Zoom link and event details.
Please note
This session will be recorded and made available to members 7 days following the event.
This early October Lunch & Learn is in lieu of the September Lunch & Learn, as it falls on a Victorian Public Holiday.
Speakers
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Sian Mertens Owner and Director, MDM Talent Management |
Tickets
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