AROUND THE COMMUNITY Executive leadership development

The third cohort selected to participate in the JCA Frank Wolf Executive Leadership Development Program started their journey earlier this month.

The program is designed to develop the professionals that work and guide our communal organisations on a dayto-day basis. It gives them a platform on which to build their leadership capacity and a place for them to network amongst their peers. This helps to grow the leadership pool for our local Jewish community.

The course is led by facilitator Dr Ali Walker from the UNSW’s Graduate School of Management and includes modules on:

• Leadership identity;

• Self-leadership;

• Personal leadership signature;

• Leadership models;

• Leadership in action;

• Creating a leadership strategy; and

• The future of not-for-profit leadership, identifying the challenges that participants will face.

“Leadership training is akin to climbing a mountain. Sometimes I feel like a Sherpa, guiding and navigating the journey with participants to successfully summit that mountain,” says Walker.

Established in 2021 by Frank Wolf’s family and professional colleagues from within the property industry, the program honours the memory of a passionate and dedicated man.

Frank – who passed away in 2018 – was a humble man dedicated to and passionate about our local Jewish community.

His communal career was long and diverse.

In addition to being the President of North Shore Temple Emanuel, he was integral to JCA, involved with and then chairing committees from Allocations, to Building and Capital and Communal Planning.

“In my journey as a community leader, it was people like Frank that I looked up to, who coupled vision with strategic planning and rational thinking,” says JCA NSW President Ian Sandler. “What I remember most is our regular discussions while in our cars heading to or from our respective homes, when we debated and strategised what the community needed to do to ensure its continuity and future relevance.”

This year’s program participants include Vanessa Johnston (JCA), Dalit Tendler (JewishCare), Darren Bark (NSW Jewish Board of Deputies), Roslyn Sugarman (Sydney Jewish Museum), Anna Stern (Shalom), Courtney WinterPeters (Stand Up), Katie Brody (Emanuel School), Karen Hirst (Moriah College), Amanda Eisman (Mount Sinai College) and Sabrina Scundurra (Montefiore).