Event Presented by Biznorth

Conversations that Drive Performance

31 July 2026

8:30am – 3:30pm | Hilton Hotel, Darwin

Tackle difficult conversations, shift behaviours and drive outcomes more easily.

The formula for performance is simple:

behaviour + environment.

When leaders create the right environment for the right people, results follow.


But what most often happens?

The people are right — the environment isn’t. It’s not clear, not accountable, not safe.

And so performance suffers.


This one-day workshop gives leaders at every level a proven system for building environments of clarity, accountability and psychological safety — and the conversation skills to make it stick.

You’ll take

away

A clear diagnosis

Your current influencing approach — and the one or two changes that will deliver the biggest lift in your impact

Your personalised

action plan.

A plan you can put in place immediately — no waiting, no  workshops-that-gather-dust

More Impact, More Easily

Buy a copy Rebecca Houghton's bestseller

What you'll learn

  • How to identify and remove the personal barriers holding back your influencing power
  • Practical techniques to shift behaviours, lead outcomes and increase impact from day one
  • What makes people tick — an introduction to neuroscience for leaders
  • Where you stand against Australia’s only middle management benchmark, built from 1,000+ Australian managers
  • How to take the ‘difficult’ out of difficult conversations — balancing compassion with accountability
  • How to reach mastery through a live workplace experiment — with real accountability for results
  • Goal-setting techniques that feel conversational, yet clear
  • Accountability conversations that keep people on track without micromanaging
  • High-impact influencing techniques you can apply straight away

More About

Your Host & Keynote Speaker

Biznorth delivers straight-talking business solutions designed to improve growth, resilience and long-term performance — working closely with organisations to help them adapt, innovate and move forward with confidence.


Annette is a leadership development and executive coach with more than 30 years of business knowledge. Her purpose is to build courageous leaders and transform organisations through evidence-based tools of positive psychology, wellbeing strategies and neuroscience.

Host | Biznorth HR & Leadership Coaching

Annette Gillanders

Services

Biznorth: HR & Leadership Coaching

Coaching with Annette:  Coaching with Life's Challenges

Rebecca Houghton is Australia's leading middle management expert, a bestselling author, and creator of the B-Suite Benchmarks® — the only dataset profiling more than 1,000 Australian middle managers.


Internationally recognised for her work building B-Suite leaders with C-Suite impact, Rebecca works with the nation's top employers across public sector, retail, tech, energy and beyond.



She has trained thousands of managers to drive influence, accountability and strategic performance where it matters most: in the middle.

Speaker | Bold HR

Rebecca Houghton

This book will help you with…

  • How to have Impact without Authority: how to power through common challenges and control your environment without needing seniority – or permission.

  • How to reset your role in the age of AI: understand how to leverage and supersede the threat of AI by raising your leadership game.



  • How to benchmark your leadership impact: use the Benchmarks to pinpoint where you can stop doing more, and use the 12 Systems to do what matters more.


More Impact, More Easily.

Control Your Time, Sharpen Your Focus and Lead Like an Executive — At Any Level

Tickets

$320+GST

Standard Pass

$250+GST

AHRI Members