Leadership Assessment
School 1
Leader of Self
School 2
Leader of Teams
School 3
Leader of Organisation
School 4
Leader in the Sector
Leadership Assessment
School 1
Leader of Self
School 2
Leader of Teams
School 3
Leader of Organisation
School 4
Leader in the Sector
School 1
Understand your own qualities and personal leadership skills.
School 2
Understand teams and help team members to flourish.
School 3
Understand organisations and create an inspiring culture.
School 4
Understand and influence the Irish nonprofit sector.
The Breakfast Clubs are our Leadership Event Series. They create spaces for people in the sector, at all levels of their own Leadership journeys, to come together, hear some new ideas from other leaders in the sector and connect. They start with a fireside chat with two people with experience on a particular topic. We have a mix of leaders from within the sector and other experts in certain areas. Themes are be overarching and applicable to anyone on a leadership journey. After, we host facilitated roundtables with the audience to help people reflect on what they’ve heard and get to know others in their community.
With all the things going on in the world, it can be easy to wonder how anyone can make a difference, but every day things are changing. Change is happening and it is triggered in many different ways, public outcry, legal cases, slow and methodical policy changes. There are lots of different ways we can get involved in changing the systems we want to see changed.
There are many different ways to make change in society, some choose to engage in a policy way, trying to engage with the technical systems within which we live, and others choose to take a more direct approach through grass roots campaigning. There is no right way to get involved and there is an entire spectrum of how to do so.
Today we will be chatting to two people and exploring their approaches to engaging with systems they wanted to see transformed.
The Leadership Academy Breakfast Clubs are available to anyone in the community, voluntary, nonprofit, or social enterprise space at any level, from volunteer to CEO. The events are free and delivered both online and in-person to allow for accessibility. We’ve had just under 600 people attend our events in 2023.
Our attendee profiles show an ongoing mix of people at varying stages of their leadership journey from emerging leaders and young people considering a future career in the sector, to senior leaders with years of experience. We also have everyone from volunteers in the sector, to consultants working with the sector as well as staff in the sector. We invite anyone at any stage of their own leadership journey with an interest in the sector to attend.
Academic, author, public speaker
CEO of the Irish Cancer Society
Fine Gael Councillor/ She Builds People
CEO Carmichael
CEO UCD Professional Academy
CEO Childrens Books Ireland
Co-Founder Black and Irish
CEO Mantra Strategy
Senior Manager Crosscare
Biodynamic Psychotherapist
CEO Open Doors Initiative
The Trussel Trust
CEO NOVAS
Foroige
Nonprofit Consultant
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“For me personally, the benefits to the Breakfast Clubs have been many but key are the value of think-time, the cross sectional networking and having a product to offer staff looking to consider upskilling – in this regard promoting the breakfast club internally in Trócaire, in particular to my own team, is very relevant to the area of continuous leadership learning and development.”
Karen Casey
Head of Community Engagement & Outreach
Trócaire
Breakfast Club Attendee
The Breakfast Clubs created a networking space that feels open to all leaders, future and established, so that we can meet and make connections. Sharon encourages the early career professionals in the room to be the leads for discussion and she connects people with such ease. I have found TLA events extremely interesting and engaging, having enjoyed the the space to network freely. I would encourage anyone who is thinking of attending a Leadership Academy breakfast to attend and get involved.
Amy Ennis
Recruitment Coordinator at 2into3
Breakfast Club Attendee
Contrary to popular belief the Breakfast Clubs were not called after Breakfast, even though it plays a valuable part in our day. It was actually called after the fabulous 1985 John Hughes movie.
In the movie five complete strangers find themselves becoming friends after spending a lengthy detention together. We had an idea that we wanted to make spaces for people from all across the sector with nothing obvious in common, to get together and connect. ‘Like that movie the Breakfast Club’, Sharon said to Mairead, and that is how The Breakfast Club stuck!
