Tracey Ezard
CSP
VIC, AUSTRALIATracey Ezard is known for her 'Ferocious Warmth' Leadership approach & professional collaborative work. Her passion is working with leaders to build strong cultures of trust, collaboration & learning.
Tracey Ezard is known for her 'Ferocious Warmth" Leadership approach and professional collaborative work. Tracey’s passion is working with leaders and their teams to build a strong cultures of trust, collaboration and learning. This has powered her research and development of her Ferocious Warmth Leadership approach. She believes great leaders have deep connection with their teams, as well as the courage to face challenges and inspire their people. They are skilful collaborators. Leaders who are ferocious and warm in harmony, not in competition, focussing on both results AND relationships. These leaders are first and foremost learners, willing to change and adapt to transform the way we work.
Tracey works with senior leadership teams, whole organisations and systems to create environments of safety and stretch through leadership and collaborative learning cultures. Using evidence base approaches from the latest findings in leadership, emotional intelligence and neuroleadership, she also develops her own thought leadership based on observation of excellence in practice.
As a speaker, author, educator and mentor, Tracey brings to any group she works with a range of models and positions that will spark the new thinking and discussion that needs to continue evolving in a complex and diverse global paradigm.
Tracey is the author of three books. In 2021, Tracey launched her third book ‘Ferocious Warmth - School Leaders Who Inspire and Transform’. Her previous books ‘Glue -The Stuff that Binds Us Together to do Extraordinary Work’ is for leaders across all sectors who want to lift beyond convention to create high performing teams and ‘The Buzz – Creating a Thriving and Collaborative Staff Learning Culture’, designed for education leaders to support schools to bring about transformation in education.
Tracey was award Breakthrough Speaker of the Year 2023 by Professional Speakers Australia, awarded the Hedley Beare Educator of the Year 2022 by the Victorian branch of Australian Council of Education Leaders (ACEL) and is a National Fellow of the Australian Council of Education Leaders (ACEL). Tracey is Board Chair of the social enterprise, The Corner Store Network, which aims to eradicate food poverty issues both in Timor Leste and in Australia.
Tracey Ezard is known for her 'Ferocious Warmth" Leadership approach and professional collaborative work. Tracey’s passion is working with leaders and their teams to build a strong cultures of trust, collaboration and learning. This has powered her research and development of her Ferocious Warmth Leadership approach. She believes great leaders have deep connection with their teams, as well as the courage to face challenges and inspire their people. They are skilful collaborators. Leaders who are ferocious and warm in harmony, not in competition, focussing on both results AND relationships. These leaders are first and foremost learners, willing to change and adapt to transform the way we work.
Tracey works with senior leadership teams, whole organisations and systems to create environments of safety and stretch through leadership and collaborative learning cultures. Using evidence base approaches from the latest findings in leadership, emotional intelligence and neuroleadership, she also develops her own thought leadership based on observation of excellence in practice.
As a speaker, author, educator and mentor, Tracey brings to any group she works with a range of models and positions that will spark the new thinking and discussion that needs to continue evolving in a complex and diverse global paradigm.
Tracey is the author of three books. In 2021, Tracey launched her third book ‘Ferocious Warmth - School Leaders Who Inspire and Transform’. Her previous books ‘Glue -The Stuff that Binds Us Together to do Extraordinary Work’ is for leaders across all sectors who want to lift beyond convention to create high performing teams and ‘The Buzz – Creating a Thriving and Collaborative Staff Learning Culture’, designed for education leaders to support schools to bring about transformation in education.
Tracey was award Breakthrough Speaker of the Year 2023 by Professional Speakers Australia, awarded the Hedley Beare Educator of the Year 2022 by the Victorian branch of Australian Council of Education Leaders (ACEL) and is a National Fellow of the Australian Council of Education Leaders (ACEL). Tracey is Board Chair of the social enterprise, The Corner Store Network, which aims to eradicate food poverty issues both in Timor Leste and in Australia.
Creating Psychological Safety and Deep Learning in Teams
Complex times require leaders to shift their teams and transform not only their thinking about WHAT needs to be done and HOW, but also the WHY. The core skill for individuals and leaders is their ability to LEARN.
Critical to a high performance learning environment is TRUST and PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY. This environment creates opportunity for growth and innovation, as well as dealing with failure and mistakes with a learning mindset. Leaders today need to understand how to bring about...
Ferocious Warmth - Leaders Connecting Heads and Hearts
Getting the Leadership Balance Right
The balance of the high performing leader is a daily tight rope walk. latest research and observation has been focussed on leaders who are able to display a ferocious commitment to the work, learning, growth and outcomes while balancing that with the compassion and nurturing that bring people with them on the journey. These leaders build strong trust and psychological safety, as well as creating cultures with high expectations of...
Owning our Ignorant Truth?
Every one of us brings to the table vast amounts of expertise, life experience, ideas and perspectives. But often in the dynamics of the workplace, they get lost in a hot mess of assumptions, miscommunication, silence and judgement.
Seeking to explore points of view beyond the way we personally see the world is the window to creativity, innovation and collaboration. It creates the space that connects us more deeply. It allows us to elevate our strategic thinking and...
Deep Collaboration - Moving from Collaboration to Co-creation
As one of Australia's leading experts on collaboration, Tracey understands the challenges of getting people to work more collaboratively.
To collaborate authentically, we need to understand the extraordinary outcomes that are possible when we come together to problem solve, create new directions and challenge our thinking.
In today's decade of disruption, siloed and isolated thinking is a highway to mediocrity.
Tracey's in-depth work in the space of collaboration and...
Glue - Building the Trust for High Performance Cultures
Teams that lift above convention are skilled at authentic collaboration, learning deeply with each other and challenging the status quo. These skills lead to an adaptability and innovative approach to their work that creates dynamic shift and transformation.
Based on Tracey's new book Glue - The Stuff That Binds Us Together to do Extraordinary Work, learn the key elements that bypass mediocrity on the way to extraordinary.
Tracey encourages us to think above conventional...
The Buzz Creating Thriving Collaborative Cultures – a keynote specifically for education
Collaboration beats stagnation. Yet collaboration is a term used yet not truly understood in many schools seeking to build a culture where educators learn deeply from one another.
Tracey's work for over a decade in schools and education systems has seen her work with a wide range of collaborative skill levels and identify the key elements of teams that thrive when learning together.
Teams with the Buzz tap into creative approaches to digging deeply into their work. They...
Ferocious Warmth Leadership -Results AND relationships
Ferocious Warmth leaders get where we need to go with drive, strategy, focus. But they also have the skill of getting buy in, having empathy and compassion and building the skills of those they lead.
At the basis of this all, ferocious warmth leaders are LEARNERS.
Able to flexibly...
Miembro de
Certificaciones y premios
