Expert Practice Forum
A COMMUNITY FOR PEOPLE WHO KNOW THEIR STUFF
Your expertise deserves to make a difference.
You know your field. Getting that knowledge heard, understood, and acted on is another challenge.
Find the peers, perspectives, and practical tools to turn what you know into greater influence. And the career you’ve always wanted.
You don’t have to work out the people part on your own.
Part movement. Part development hub. Part peer network.
EXPERT PRACTICE × THE EXPERTSHIP INSTITUTE
SOUND FAMILIAR?
Being right is only part of the work.
WHO IS THE FORUM FOR?
01 Your advice is sound. The decisions still go the other way.
02 You want a career without having to become a people manager.
03 You’d value some advice from peers who get it. And lived it.
04 You want more influence and impact.
05 You have been given feedback that you should speak up more.
06 You believe expertise should have more important role in your organisation and society.
07 You could make a difference….if you were just consulted earlier.
If you want to elevate your capability with likeminded peers — and elevate the role of expertise in the world, then this community is for you.
AT THE HEART OF YOUR PAID MEMBERSHIP
EXPERT CIRCLES
A different kind of peer group.
Real challenges.
Helpful people.
Tested options.
Practical solutions.
Small, facilitated conversations shaped by members. A confidential space to question assumptions, compare experiences, and test your thinking.
Bring a challenge. Explore together. Choose a next step.
01 Bring the situation you’re wrestling with.
02 Work through it with other experts.
03 Find a proven next step you can use.
WHAT COULD YOU BRING TO THE CIRCLE?
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“How do I influence a decision I don’t own?”
Explore why your advice isn’t landing, what matters to the people making the decision, and how you could approach the next conversation.
Leave with a different way into a difficult conversation.
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Work through the gap between what you know and what a stakeholder wants to know. Explore what to simplify, what to preserve, and most importantly, what questions to ask.
Leave with a clearer connection between your expertise and multiplying your impact.
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“What does a non-people management career look like?”
Compare experiences of building a career around expertise. Explore the contribution you want to make, the capabilities to develop, and the conversations that could open multiple possibilities.
Leave with a more concrete next step for your career.
These are illustrative topics only. Members shape the actual topics and conversations.
FOUR MORE BENEFITS OF PAID MEMBERSHIP TO KEEP PUTTING IT INTO PRACTICE
Your paid membership connects the Expert Circles to your everyday work.
01 / TOOLS
A toolkit for
the tricky moments.
The Expert Practice Toolkit is a continually expanding collection of practical tools designed around the real challenges experts like you face at work. Rather than generic management templates, each tool helps you think through a specific situation, make a better decision, and take practical action — whether you are influencing a stakeholder, communicating a complex idea, navigating resistance, or trying to increase your impact.
Use the Toolkit whenever you need a structured way to work through a difficult expert challenge.
02 / RESEARCH
Research you
can work with.
Our Quarterly Practice Briefings examine important research on expertise, influence, decision-making, leadership, and organisational life, then translate the findings into practical ideas that experts can apply.
The Briefings will be conducted as an online webinar and will be available to paid members only. They will also be recorded for members who are unable to attend.
03 / PERSPECTIVE
A weekly nudge
to think differently.
Wednesday Wisdom is a short, informal email from us every Wednesday, sharing something we’ve noticed or learned from themes emerging in our conversations with experts and our research.
We’ll share an observation or idea that might help you. Or might not. The ideas will be untested and unpolished, but hopefully something that might get you thinking too.
When the Expert Practice Forum launches, the Founding Member rate of A$39/month or A$390/year for life will be available for a limited time.
Your Founding Member rate will never increase.
If you are not interested in paid membership, you will retain your free membership benefits.
The starting Standard rate for non-Founders will be A$49/month or A$490/year and will likely increase over time.
One useful insight from just one Expert Circle could repay the cost of your membership.
04 / PRIORITY
Priority invites to all programs.
Paid members receive early invitations and priority access to all public programs, ahead of non-members.