Leadership

Supporting the development of authentic leaders!

Inspired by her recent leadership intervention at the Harvard Kennedy School, Debby is leading the way in transformational community leadership. Her bespoke leadership programs for artists and cultural leaders draw on principles of community engaged practice and social circus. Debby is experienced in designing learning experiences in the following leadership topics:

Equity-centred leadership (identity, power, achievement, access)
Adaptive leadership
Authority and leadership
Diagnostic analysis
Understanding the ecosystem of the problem
Orchestrating trust, conflict and disequilibrium
Design principles for teaching, training, coaching
Strategies for change
The role of ‘self’ in leadership
Communication
Negotiation
Resilience
Anchoring and self-care
Advocacy

Recent leadership programs and workshops include:

Women’s Leadership Program 2023, Moonee Valley City Council
Place Shapers Program 2023, Nillumbik Shire Council
Nillumbik Leaders 2023

Upcoming programs:

Let’s Make a Circle: An artist-led research project about the socially engaged arts sector in Australia
City of Greater Geelong Community Leadership Program 2024 (Guest Facilitator)
Brimbank Leadership Program for Creatives 2024
Introduction to Creating Change in the Community Workshops

Debby Maziarz wholeheartedly creates a leadership program that nurtures and connects people with their passions and projects to bring about change in their communities.

Therese Willems Team Leader Women Families and Neighbourhood Safety, Moonee Valley City Council
Debby has a warm and friendly approach that makes people feel at ease and is highly attuned to participants. She is a very engaging presenter. She wants to see more people out there doing it – achieving their goals.

Nina Stanwell Community Grants Officer, Moonee Valley City Council

A recent leadership adventure

In May 2023, Debby completed the ‘Art and Practice of Leadership Development Program’ at the Harvard Kennedy School in Boston USA. Armed with her leadership challenge ‘Sustaining a socially engaged arts practice’, Debby underwent a powerful and immersive process of diagnosing challenges and solution design alongside the distinguished Harvard leadership faculty team and 79 brilliant fellow students.

Moonee Valley City Council contracted Debby Maziarz Productions to undertake a scoping exercise to inform the future direction of Council’s women’s leadership activities.

Download the scoping document here.