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The Young Strategic Leaders' Congress
The Young Strategic Leaders' Forum now gathers twice a year for a weekend-long Young Strategic Leaders' Congress.
The purposes of the Congress are to:
- Enable Young Strategc Leaders to meet and network with senior national security decision makers
- Foster the professional development of Young Strategic Leaders through seminars, workshops hypothetical/s and informal discussions
- Facilitate networking of Young Strategic Leaders with their professional colleagues in other organisations
- Foster the development of esprit de corps amongst the Young Strategic Leaders
The weekend involves a series of workshops and seminars with senior national security community leaders and industry heads. The weekend’s activities are structured around a central theme with time in between seminars and workshops to talk informally with some of Australia’s senior officials.
The Young Strategic Leaders' Congress is intended primarily for Kokoda's Young Strategic Leaders (YSLs). YSLs are typically those who have either joined the national security community during the last 8 years or so, are in the final phases of their studies and aspire to join the national security community and are generally below the age of 35.
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December 2008 Young Strategic Leaders' Congress
The Challenges of Managing East Asian Security in 2020
Date to be confirmed. Further details will be available here soon.
May 2008 Young Strategic Leaders' Congress
Key Issues for the National Security Statement and the New Defence White Paper
ANU Kioloa Coastal Campus 21-23 May 2008
The second Young Strategic Leaders Congress built on the success of the last event. The coastal retreat was designed
to build the strategic, analytical, leadership and networking skills of
those young professionals who have joined the national security community
in recent years or who aspire to do so. |
Some of Australia’s leading strategic thinkers lead debate in the key themes that should characterise the pending national security statement and the new Australian defence white paper.
The program included the following session topics:
- Intelligence Foundations for the National Security Statement and the Defence White Paper
- Key Themes for the National Security Statement
- Key Themes for the New Defence White Paper
- Key Principles of Strategic Leadership and Management
- Hypothetical: Strategy for the Defence of Australia in 2030
- How to Foster a Highly
Productive Organisation?
- Priority Strategic Theme
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2007 Young Strategic Leaders' Congress Program
Strategy for Winning the Long Struggle Against International Terrorism:
Key Factors for Success
Kioloa, NSW South Coast, 14-16 December 2007
The Congress was a great success with several very senior Australian government officials participating over the weekend. The weekend was broken into a number of sessions with opportunities for participants to work closely with Australia’s current generation of national security leaders in a relaxed environment.
Some of the activities for the weekend included:
- A “hypothetical” exercise where young leaders will be exposed to decision-making at the highest-levels of the Australian Government;
- A series of seminars focusing on long-term strategic challenges and priorities; and
- A series of workshops where small groups will partner with senior government and industry leaders for discussions prior to reporting back to the congress on group outcomes.
The Young Strategic Leaders’ Forum is proudly sponsored by Noetic Solutions Pty Ltd
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