Women's Leadership Network, 'Coming out: Lessons in authenticity'

What does authentic leadership really mean? How do you balance the call to be genuinely and consistently yourself with the need to develop ideal leadership traits? What does it mean to ‘lead in alignment’? What does the need to show your real self at work mean for those of us subject to various kinds of closets?  

Sam Jacob will address these questions at this Women’s Leadership Network event: ‘Coming Out: Lessons in Authenticity’.

Sam Jacob brings 30 years’ experience in higher education in the UK and Australia and a lifetime of volunteering for LGBTQIA+ organisations.  Sam is currently the Deputy Vice Chancellor Student's and VET at CDU, leading staff across 8 campuses to work towards safer campus communities focused on students in equity groups and improving their outcomes. Sam is a Fellow of the Association for Tertiary Education Management and a mentor in the NTG Women and Leadership program. They hold postgrad qualifications in management, mediation and arbitration and have served on a number of community Boards, including Melbourne’s Midsumma Festival and Adelaide’s Feast Festival. They are currently on the Board of NTAHC and volunteering with the Pinnacle Foundation. 

Join us for this insightful session where Sam will reflect on what decades of coming out can teach us all about authenticity. There will be a Q & A at the end of the presentation facilitated by Leanne Liddle, Director of the Aboriginal Justice Unit at the Department Of the Attorney General and Justice.