Tools & Resources

This online resource offers a set of guides for systems thinking, systems mapping, systems change and systems building through the lens of Systems Innovation, which aims to change the underlying structure of a system rather than its individual parts.

This resource describes Australia’s unique leadership culture and shows how leaders working in this context can support the change they want to see in the world.

This resource provides insight into five challenges of systems leadership and how we might respond to them.

This resource describes the core capabilities of system leaders and describes the means by which they may be acquired.

This resource is a video that explains pivoting as changing strategy, not changing your vision, much like changing your route if you encounter an obstacle while driving.

This resource describes six conditions of systems change: policies; practices; resource flows; relationships and connections; power dynamics; and mental models.

This resource helps individuals think systemically about social change, explore what is happening below the surface on issues they care about, and determine how they and their organizations can pursue large-scale change in a disciplined and holistic manner.

This resource is a video of Liz Skelton unpacking the key concepts required for diagnosing and working with power, including changing our organisations’ relationship with power.

This resource unpacks key concepts of ‘co-design’ and explains how the range of design-based traditions that sit under the co-design banner have something very important to bring to social innovation. 

Deep Collaboration is a way of working that was created by First Nations and other Multicultural Australians to find new ways to work and lead together. In this video, Deep Collaboration Lead, Mark Yettica-Paulson and CFI’s Jane Martin discuss why a new approach to working together is needed.