Closing the Leadership Capability Gap Across Every Level
July 22 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
There’s a capability gap in the middle. The frontline carries it, the exec layer often can’t see it, and when change hits, it gets blamed on the skills shortage. Here’s how to find the real gap and close it.
Call it the capability sandwich. Leadership capability thins out at the middle and upper management levels. The frontline cops the brunt of it. And the executive layer either doesn’t address the performance issue or doesn’t fully see it.
When there’s a lot of change underway, the pressure shows up everywhere at once, and it’s easy to write off as a skills shortage rather than what it really is.
In this session, Zoe Dattner and Fabian Dattner invite People and Culture leaders and executives to look harder at where leadership is actually breaking down, and to stop reading systemic problems as individual ones.
The question worth sitting with: is your organisation working on the right gap?
This is a practical, diagnostic conversation about seeing leadership capability clearly across every level, and aligning it where it matters most.
Who Should Attend?
Chief People Officers, People and Culture Managers, and executives responsible for leadership capability, performance, and change in their organisations.
Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from your Zoe and Fabian about what you can do today, to start closing your leadership capability gap.
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What will you learn?
- Diagnose the real gap. Spot the signals that tell you whether a performance problem sits in the middle, with executive dynamics flowing downward, or with the load the frontline is quietly absorbing.
- See why change breaks things. Understand how transformation exposes the misalignment and unclear expectations that get misread as a skills shortage.
- Strengthen leadership where it counts. Align behaviours across levels and use a simple diagnostic, the Team Behaviours questionnaire, to create visibility and drive action.
Meet your Hosts:
Zoe Dattner – CEO, Dattner Group
Zoe works with many of Dattner Group’s clients, primarily in local government and collaborates with the DG team to remove obstacles, build capacity, and enable the company to grow.
Zoe’s driving purpose reflects the culmination of the many years of learning, growing, and collecting people’s stories. She courageously meets challenging conversations head-on to develop better self-awareness in leaders, for the sake of our planet and the richness of a well-examined life.
Fabian Dattner – Founder, Chair, Visionary, Global Leadership Activist, Dattner Group
Fabian is one of Australia’s most respected voices on leadership.
Fabian founded the Dattner Group to help organisations and communities of all sizes better understand themselves and one another, through programs that examine culture, leadership, purpose, and values, with a focus on legacy. An author, speaker, and advocate for women in leadership, she founded the national program Compass and the global initiative Homeward Bound, and has been named one of Australia’s 100 Most Influential Women.
About Dattner Group
Dattner Group is one of Australia’s most accomplished and trusted consultancies, helping to build sustainable, purposeful leadership for almost forty years. We work closely as a culture and leadership development partner for many councils, large and small, around Australia.
And we are ready to help you create big change, little by little.
