SESSION OVERVIEW
QUT launched the LDI (Leadership, Development & Innovation) program in 2012 with the aim of delivering 20 workshops to 100 students. By the end of year 1 they had delivered 40 workshops to 300 students. Two years later they were delivering over 300 workshops a year on 120 different leadership topics to more than 3000 students annually. Moreover, students were doing things with the skills they were developing – building clubs, careers, social change initiatives, and enterprises – and being recognised for it. Between 2014 and 2017, more than 16 universities from 8 different countries consulted with the LDI team to inspire their own leadership frameworks. This session will do an autopsy on a leadership program that turned heads from across the globe.
PRESENTER
Jimi Bursaw is Manager of Student Advocacy and Support at the University of Queensland Union. Jimi began his career as a student leader in Canada and went on to manage and lecture on inclusive education and arts-based education in the US before returning to Canada to focus on student leadership and broader student success. Arriving in Australia 15 years ago, Jimi has been lecturer, program architect, campus culture strategist, and advocate, centring his work on the themes of alternative and inclusive education in higher education and student belonging and success. Jimi is passionate about student development, music, camping and hiking, a wide variety of nerdstuff, and above all else his young family.