WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 26th
10am-9.30pm (incl dinner)
Ovolo The Valley
Brisbane
THE ULTIMATE LEADERS LAB
Choose Your Edge.
Reshape Your Future.
Forged with insights from an international Hall of Fame strategist and award winning mindset mentor, you will be equiped with practical solutions, sovereign confidence, and future-facing insights for the next gen of conscious leaders.
As much as I personally use AI, we're now in an era of instant (generic) answers.
This day is curated to develop the one edge that machines can’t generate... your unique experiences, wisdom, and the editorial journey of creativity.
3 Distinct Labs. 3 Unique Pathways. One Day of Transformation.
The Next Chapter of Leadership
In an era where AI can generate quick answers, the real challenge is not information, but wisdom.
These Labs will revert back to tapping into collective brains-trusts and will remind you how to stay connected so you can evolve alongside AI without losing your essence of humanity, innovation, and evolution.
This is not three separate events, but a progressive journey, where you get to choose your experience.
The Ultimate LEADER Experience
Morning Lab 1 | Learn & Elevate
Afternoon Lab 2 | Activate & Design
Evening Lab 3 | Expand & Reframe (limited to 16 seats)
So Who This Is For?
If you’ve ever felt stuck reacting instead of leading, this day was created specifically for rising leaders, seasoned managers, conscious entrepreneurs, and impact-driven, change-makers.
It's for anyone ready to expand their mindset, toolset, and skillset to navigate modern leadership.
Across the day YOU'll discover and decide what must change.
If you'd love the opportunity to co-design practical solutions (and learn how to) dive deep into the future of leadership through intimate, candid dialogue, then this experince was created for you.
If you want tools you can use tomorrow, not just generic ideas, if you have learned the theory, and don't want the fluff, and instead understand the power of collective wisdom to transfer into actionble leadership tools, you will love this break-the-mould day.
Attend 1 or all 3. Each are stand alone but absolutely build on each other.
Practical Takeaways
Leaders from Labs 1 & 2 will receive separate *Lighthouse Reports capturing the
visual outputs and summaries of the key discussions.
Delivered post-event, like a digital chronicle, with visuals and summaries you can revisit and reuse.
*Lighthouse Reports are exclusive to Labs 1 & 2.
The Legacy Dinner (Lab 3) is a candid, ‘Chatham-house’, off-the-record style of experience and
won’t have any recording, reports, or write ups - note only 16 seats are available at the table
and are for Ultimate Lab ticket holders only.
What the Ultimate Lab Ticket Includes
> 7 hours of Unconference and Hackathon Lab events
> Seat at the 3rd Lab - The Legacy Dinner table (2 course and beverages included)
> morning & afternoon tea, plus lunch on me
> Lighthouse Reports from Labs 1 & 2 – professionally prepared visual outputs of the days key discussions.
The Ultimate Leaders Lab
experience, at a glance
Morning Lab 1
1000-1330
The Unconference
(Discover)
Expose the frictions holding leaders back and uncover how to shift from firefighting to future-building.
Through an unconference format super-charged by Dan Clark’s keynote, you’ll decide the real leadership challenges that matter - and reframe them into proactive growth opportunities.
Together, we’ll explore how to resist defaulting to quick-fix AI answers and instead us critical thinking to reconnect with the deeper wisdom, and experience that will drive the next gen of authentic leadership.
Afternoon Lab 2
1430 - 1800
The
Hackathon
(Design)
Move from insight to application. In this hackathon-style Lab, you’ll co-create sovereign leadership practices, models and tools that turn your challenges into champion-making solutions. Less theory, more design, you co-create the frameworks you’ll want to use the very next day… born from collective intelligence.
While AI offers efficiency, our focus will be on designing frameworks that keep human insight at the centre.
Lets generate tools born from collaboration, not automation.
Evening Lab 3
1830-2130
The Legacy
Dinner
(Delve)
Break bread with big thinkers in an intimate dinner setting. Together, explore the shifts reshaping leadership - from AI to culture to legacy. This is not a networking dinner, it’s an off-the-record circle for candid, future-facing dialogue, designed for though leaders that are considering what’s next in life, work and for humanity.
As the globe shifts and AI reshape the landscape, we’ll ask...
"How can I as a leader expand my foresight while anchoring myself in my unique purpose without giving up human connection."
3 Labs 1 Cohesive Purpose
In the Ultimate Leaders Lab you will Learn and Elevate your mindset, Activate and Design the tools you need, then Expand your vision and Reframe your skillset to lead ito the future with clarity and impact.
Why Should I Attend?
Step out of isolation; learn and grow through the support of a room of leaders.
Validate your thinking, spark new ideas, and see your challenges through the eyes of diverse peers.
Resilience that lasts
Discover how to lift your own standards, inspire through example, and keep your spark alight without sliding into burnout.
Strength in peers
Discover the confidence that comes from working shoulder-to-shoulder with other leaders who share your challenges and ambitions.
Collective intelligence
Tap into the wisdom of every leader in the room. Your outputs are distilled into frameworks and tools you can apply immediately.
Expand your circle
Collaborate with growth-minded leaders across industries. The conversations here can outlast any framework.
New kind of learning
Forget passive PowerPoints. This is part unconference, part hackathon. Think high energy, deeply practical, and designed to get you applying, not just absorbing.
Immediate implementation
Walk away with the checklists and visual models from the key chosen discussions, plus upgrade to access the outputs of every other group even if not unpacked.
Lab 1: The Unconference (Morning)
Unlock Clarity. Shift Your Mindset.
Great leaders pause before defaulting to easy. It's time to rediscover your own wisdom!
Problem solve with peers from other expertise and industries. After the scene is set, work on an agreed 'collective' challenge and have your results and outputs drawn and written up, post-event and shared with all the other working groups.
How often do you get to unpack and set yourself up to learn form a powerful keynote?
That's what this unconventional morning is about. It's a dynamic 'unconference' where collective wisdom and facilitated conversations uncover hidden patterns so you can reframe your approach to leadership.
What You’ll Experience
Reflective exercises, group dialogues, reframing perspectives.
Tangible Walkaway
Lighthouse Report (Mindset Edition) capturing awareness shifts, new language for intangible patterns, and personal clarity maps.
You Leave With
Fresh insights, awareness of blind spots, clarity on your next growth edges.
Lab 2: The Hackathon (Afternoon)
Co-Create Tools That Work For You.
AI may spark ideas, but only leaders can edit, adapt and impelment solutions with heart.
Collaborate in design groups with peers across industries, you'll tackle practical leadership challenges, and walk away with live frameworks, prototypes, and tools refined into a post-event Lighthouse Report (Toolset Edition).
Lab 2 is a 'Hackathon' style segment, with creative groups to collaborate and design practical frameworks and real-world tools for your real-life challenges.
What You’ll Experience
Think interactive problem-solving, critical thinking frameworks and co-creation think-tank. Solution-solving at it's greatest. (Of course you will also gain some new techniques from the facilitators that you can use yourself afterwards).
Tangible Walkaways
Lighthouse Report (Toolset Edition) filled with the frameworks, structured tools, and actionable assets you created, so you can apply immediately.
You Leave With
Confidence to create new tools, frameworks, SOPs, checklists, decision trees, templates etc. Whatever is designed by leaders like you in the room, tailored for today’s challenges.
Lab 3: The Legacy Dinner (Evening)
only available for 16 Ultimate Lab ticket holders
What You’ll Experience
Guided dialogues, horizon scanning, peer insights.
Tangible Walkaway
Strategic reframes, new questions, and expanded vision.
You Leave With
The ability to navigate complexity and lead with foresight.
Ask Dan The Tricky ‘Future of Leadership’ Questions!
Evolving with AI starts by strengthening the skills only humans hold.
This will be a dinner disucssion that reframes how we will see leadership in an era shaped by AI and global impacts.
Let's break bread with big thinkers in an intimate dinner setting, to explore how we can be part of reshaping the next wave of leaders.
This is NOT a networking dinner, it’s an off-the-record circle for candid, future-facing dialogue.
Flow
We’ll introduce ourselves and ask you to share one question or pondering thought you personally have about the future.
Your dinner guests will vote which question to proceed to discussing.
We’ll garner Dan’s view from his global travels and hear from each other along the way.
This isn’t about global or 'guru' opinions, rather a chat about the shifts and possibilities.
Why attend more than 1 Lab?
The future of leadership isn’t about competing with or denying AI. It’s about cultivating the wisdom, compassion, and creativity that AI can never generate.
In a Nut Shell
Lab 1 shifts your lens - mindset.
Lab 2 co-creates new frameworks - toolset.
Lab 3 expands your future vision - skillset.
Together, they form a complete integration for the next gen of leaders.
so....
Pick Lab 1 if you need a reset or to practice critical thinking for the real frictions or to help wiht conflict or challenges around you.
Attend Lab 2 if you want to learn how to generate your own tools you can implement tomorrow.
Come along to Lab 3 if you want to engage in future-facing dialogue with other thought leaderrs and decision-makers.
Keep the Momentum Going Beyond the Lab...
What the VIP NAVKit upgrade contains
The upgrade builds on the Lighthouse Reports from Labs 1 & 2 containing professionally prepared diagrams
and summarised outputs of the challenge discussed.
For those who want to lock in their breakthroughs, the VIP NAVKit extends your experience with exclusive templates, reflections, and bonus resources not available anywhere else.
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Ultimate Lab Ticket
Discount to attend all 3 Labs with bonus lunch and dinner included.
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Priority Participation
VIPs will have their questions, thoughts, and input invited first in the Q&A, roaming discussions, and will be given the first opportunity to be group leaders.
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Front Row Seats
Great for those that like to be up-close to action, and not miss anything.
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Visual Tools & Checklists
Not just the handouts, but bonus usable leadership tools designed by the facilitators, saving you time, post-event, to spark into action.
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Recording
Edited videos from Labs 1 & 2 | A rare golden opportunity to revisit Dan’s keynote and the facilitation activities.
PLUS the digital VIP NAVKit contains
Lab 1’s Enhanced Lighthouse Mindset Report – summary of takeaways from all groups.
Lab 1’s NAV framework DIY application guide.
Lab 1’s Exclusive reflections for implementation.
Lab 2’s Enhanced Lighthouse Toolset Report – prepared graphics and tools from all groups.
Lab 2’s Exclusive collaborative workshoppiing - DIY application guide.
Post-event checklist for immediate implementation.
BREAKDOWN
Lighthouse Reports (Labs 1 & 2) = are some of the group outcomes. The chosen key discussions at the end of the work-shopping.
I've personally sometimes wished that I was in another group as well as my own, you know that feeling..
"Darn what they did over there, sounds fun or interesting!"
The VIP NAVKit = is the premium post-event bundle with all the outputs - not only those that are discussed - plus recordings, templates and other useful resources to help you integrate when the day is complete.
So really, the VIP NAVKit is to help you tap into the wisdom from the entire collective.
The VIP NavKit upgrade is for those who want the pretty graphics, drawn up frameworks and
tools for their personal arsenal beyond the live experience.
"I’ve never been to an event where the diagrams and key discussion notes were typed, drawn up, and shared afterwards — AND be included as part of the ticket...
and to have the option to upgrade and access every group’s output...
IS UNHEARD OF!
THE DETAILS
Ovolo The Valley
Labs 1 and 2 will be held in the Observatory.
Lab 3 The Legacy Dinner will be hosted
in the Games Room.
(Both have natural daylight! Woohoo!)
Wednesday
26th Novemeber
Lab 1 | 10am-1.30pm
Lunch for Ultimate Participants
1.30-2.30pm
Lab 2 | 2.30pm-5.30pm
Lab 3 | 6.30pm-9.30pm
1000 Ann Street
Fortitude Valley
07 3253 6999
Parking
> Limited street parking around the hotel
> Nearby carparks, Wilsons, Secure, and Cornerstone, by the hour and capped at $50.
> The Valley station car park is a 10 min walk with early bird / full day rates.
Two voices. One critical mission.
At the Ultimate Leaders Lab, Hall of Fame keynote speaker Dan Clark CSP CPAE and PSA QLD&NT Chapter President 2024-25 Mell B, join forces in a once-only, exclusive event.
Together they’ll combine decades of lived and practiced insights with fresh, empathic strategies for the future of leadership.
This is not a passive seminar - it’s an immersive, co-created experience designed to help you motivate without burning out.
You choose the discussion points and leave with practical frameworks born in the room, ready to implement in the very next day.
Don't miss this
1-time-only Event!
WHO IS THIS FOR?
Senior leaders who want to be part of the next generation of conscious leaders without burning themselves out.
Business owners ready to shift from heroic effort to collective trust.
Professionals who know leadership needs to evolve beyond theory and into sovereign practice.
SOME QUESTIONS YOU MAY BE ASKING
“I don’t have time for a full day.”
That’s why we designed half-day options so you can drop in for the morning or afternoon and still leave with significant actionable insights.
Attend 1, 2 or all 3 labs that suits you and your circumstances. #FLEXIBLE
“I’m a new leader or manager?”
Perfect. The formats are built to get input from all, no matter the ‘job title you hold’
Insights come from all walks of life and expertise . In reality great conversations, generates curious exploration.
“I’ve been to lots of leadership training before — how is this different?”
This isn’t training. It’s a Lab. You’re not just listening; you’re co-creating practices alongside other leaders. And you’ll leave with tools born in the room, not recycled generic theory.
“Will I get something I can actually use?”
Yes. Every attendee receives the Lighthouse Repors, generated from the live working groups.
They'll be drawn up afterwards (less note tkaing... yes please!)
Premium NavKit holders also get extra frameworks and recordings structured specifically for implementation, so you can put it into action the very next week.
“What if I can’t convince my company to pay?”
Tickets are deliberately priced to be accessible. Consider this an investment in your career, personal development and leadership amp up — one day of growth that will ripple through your life for months.
We’ve also prepared business case templates to use in your support discussion. See below (you're welcome).
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“Who should attend the full day?”
It's not just a bonus lunch and dinner, it's an intimate gathering with facilitated coversation.
Consider it like sitting with Diary of a CEO Steve Bartlet, but being able to ask YOUR specific leadership questions, crossed with group discussions from those also looking to elevate their life, careeer and business objectives.
Meet Your Leadership Facilitators
With over four decades of global stage experience, Dan is a master of Decisive Motivation, Perspective Leadership, and Story Selling.
His hallmark blend of laughter, story, and emotional resonance resets audience mindset - from personal excellence to team synergy.
Drawing on life-changing moments - from soaring to the edge of space to recovering from a football-ending injury, Dan takes leaders into a visceral experience of resilience and significance.
At our Leadership Lab, Dan will guide participants through the power of narrative to reshape culture, recalibrate purpose, and anchor a performance mindset that doesn’t burn out.
Dan Clark CSP CPAE
Hall of Fame Keynote Speaker &
New York Times Best-Selling Author
Mell B is not your average leadership coach.
Although she’s Australian by way of instinct, brushed with resilience, and spirited curiosity... she's a sassy Scot, currently serving as a PSA Chapter President 2024–25. She naturally brings both strategic savviness and soulful presence to every room she steps into.
As International Coach of the Year (2022) testifies, Mell blends empathic intuition with powerful tools like her MindWeb Analysis and Deep Belief Hacking to help emotionally sensitive leaders lead with confidence, not compromise.
With a background as an executive assistant, she’s navigated high-stakes pressure environments (and cancer) with grace, and now she empowers other ‘empath-preneurs’ to reframe their doubts into clarity, their strength into strategy, and their sensitivity into sustainable sovereignty.
Mell 'B' Balment,
PSA QLD&NT President &
Award Winning Coach
Ovolo The Valley
Want To Stay The Night?
We've negotiated the entry level Medium Room (27m²) for you. They are just the thing to prepare for some serious learning and development - also a little convenient for those that like to leverage their dinner plans!
Created with short stays in mind, their streamlined design and eclectic sensibility converge to deliver a perfect oasis.
Enjoy a dreamy queen sized bed, and if you really have to…. get some work done at the desk.
Business Case Templates
To Support Your
Professional Development
These ready-to-use letters are designed to help you secure manager and/or funding approval
by clearly outlining the professional and organisational benefits of attending one or both days.
Lab 1 - Morning ‘Unconfernce’
Business Case - Template
For support to attend the Professional Speaking & Communication Masterclass and Fireside Conversations with Dan Clark CSP, CPAE.
Lab 2 - Afternoon ‘Hackathon’
Business Case - Template
For support to attend the Ultimate Leaders Lab and Legacy Leaders Dinner with Mell B and Dan Clark.
Lab 3 - Evening ‘Legacy Dinner’
Business Case - Template
For support to attend the full two-day program, combining professional speaking mastery with leadership development for maximum impact.
Ultimate Leaders Lab
Business Case - Template
For support to attend the full two-day program, combining professional speaking mastery with leadership development for maximum impact.