STRAIGHT UP LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE

An in-person event for business owners and people leaders ready to build stronger teams, lead with confidence and create better culture. Straight Up Leadership Conference - your half-day, long lunch & learn People. Culture. Growth. You started a business because you were good at what you do. Then suddenly, you had to become good at leading people too. And people can be one of the hardest parts of business. You find great people. You train them. Sometimes you lose them. You promote someone because they're brilliant at their job, only to realise they've never been taught how to lead a team. You avoid a conversation because you're not quite sure how to have it. Small issues become bigger ones. Standards slip. Good people become frustrated. And somewhere along the way, you find yourself wondering: Why don't they care about this business as much as I do? Straight Up Leadership is an in-person leadership event for Hobart and Kingston's business owners, managers, supervisors and people leaders who want to do leadership differently. Not another day of motivational speeches that feel good until Monday morning. We're getting practical. We'll talk about how to have the conversations you've been avoiding. How to create clear expectations and accountability without becoming the leader everyone fears. How to develop people instead of constantly replacing them. How to build a culture your team actually wants to be part of. And how to stop carrying everything yourself. Because the answer to people problems isn't always another policy, another process or another recruitment campaign. Sometimes we need to become better at leading the people we already have. Who should attend? This event is designed for business owners, owner-operators, managers, supervisors, emerging leaders and anyone responsible for leading people—across every industry. Especially if you're tired of firefighting people problems, frustrated that you're carrying more than your team, avoiding conversations you know need to happen, struggling to turn good employees into great leaders, or simply ready to become more intentional about the way you lead. You don't need a leadership title. You need responsibility for people—and a willingness to get better. What you'll walk away with Practical tools you can use immediately, greater confidence having difficult conversations, clearer ways to establish expectations and accountability, strategies for developing and retaining good people, a better understanding of how your own behaviour shapes culture, and connections with other local leaders facing many of the same challenges. This isn't about becoming a perfect leader. It's about understanding that leadership starts with you. The standards you demonstrate. The conversations you're willing to have. The behaviour you accept. The people you develop. The culture you create. Straight conversations. Straight standards. Straight accountability. Straight Up Leadership. Join us in person and spend time working on your leadership—not just dealing with everything leadership throws at you. Your people are one of the biggest investments you'll ever make in your business. Let's get better at leading them.