Intent-Based Leadership® Masterclass

Facilitated by Gareth Holebrook

📅 Tuesday 22 – Wednesday 23 July 2025, 09:00–13:00 NZST (Live, Online)

Is your workplace struggling with silence, disengagement, or fear of speaking up?

In too many organisations, people hold back. They don’t speak up. Power gradients get in the way. Decisions are delayed or worse, made by the wrong people. Innovation stalls, and teams disengage.

This workshop is designed to change that.

A Leadership Framework for the Knowledge Age

Join us for an interactive and transformative exploration of Intent-Based Leadership, the celebrated model developed by L. David Marquet, author of the bestsellers Turn The Ship Around! and Leadership is Language. Grounded in Marquet’s experience as a nuclear submarine captain and supported by powerful case studies in healthcare, energy, banking, and tech, this leadership system has been proven to unlock cultures of emancipation, engagement, and empowerment.

This is not theoretical. It’s practical, actionable, and immediately applicable.

What You’ll Learn

Facilitated by Gareth Holebrook, this experience will give you the tools and language to shift your leadership culturefrom compliance to commitment, and from silence to shared responsibility.

We will explore how to apply core Intent-Based Leadership principles:

• Push Authority to Information – Empower those closest to the action
• Leaders Make It Safe – Create environments where people speak up
• Don’t Be Good, Get Better – Embed a mindset of constant improvement
• Tune the Level of Control – Adjust involvement without micromanaging
• Fix the Environment, Not the People – Lead systemically, not reactively
• Act Your Way to New Thinking – Change culture through behaviour, not slogans

You’ll leave with a clear roadmap for making leadership distributed, deliberate, and developmental—without waiting for permission from the top.

Why Attend?

This workshop is for anyone who leads others or shapes culture—whether you’re in people leadership, agile delivery, product ownership, operations, or strategic transformation.

It’s especially relevant if you’re working to:

• Flatten hierarchies
• Improve decision-making
• Foster initiative
• Build psychological safety
• Drive continuous improvement

Who Is This For?

• Change leaders in large organisations
• Team leads and delivery managers
• Agile coaches and facilitators
• Executives looking to modernise culture
• Anyone tired of top-down leadership that stifles initiative

Proven in Real Organisations

Intent-Based Leadership has been adopted and validated across sectors:

• Healthcare: Elevating frontline autonomy
• Energy: Improving safety and communication
• Banking: Enabling better customer-centric decisions
• Tech: Unlocking agile teams and innovation
• Construction: Improving safety outcomes.

Secure Your Spot

This two-part virtual workshop (22–23 July, 09:00–13:00 NZST each day) will be run live, with real-world examples, group discussion, and practical tools you can apply immediately.

Step into a new leadership model—one where control is shared, voices are heard, and performance is unlocked.

🔗 Register now to lead with intent.