The EQ Impact Leadership Circle is a high-impact, confidential leadership circle for SME owners and senior leaders who want to strengthen their influence, elevate their people leadership, and grow alongside a trusted group of peers.
The 2026 program is offered as a Founding Global Cohort, bringing together leaders from Australia, North America and select global regions.
Leading a team can feel isolating. Having tough conversations, managing performance, lifting culture, and navigating uncertainty is challenging, and often leaders don’t have a safe space to talk openly about what’s really going on.
This is that space.
The Circle brings together leaders who want to sharpen their people leadership, deepen their emotional intelligence, and learn practical strategies they can apply immediately. Each session blends discussion, real-life scenarios, and targeted EQ micro-learnings to help you lead with clarity, calm, and impact.
Places are limited to eight leaders in the Founding Global Cohort.
The EQ Impact Leadership Circle is ideal for:
You don’t need perfection, just a willingness to grow.
Across the year, you will:
Each session is practical, relevant, and designed for busy leaders.
12 × Monthly 90-Minute Live Leadership Circle Sessions
Each session combines a focused EQ learning burst, facilitated group discussion, and practical application through real leadership scenarios and Hot Seats.
Leadership Themes Aligned to the Annual Timetable
Including emotionally intelligent leadership, psychological safety, communication, feedback, influence, decision-making, accountability, delegation, and leading under pressure.
Confidential Peer Mastermind Environment
A trusted, high-safety space to share challenges, test thinking, and gain perspective from a carefully curated group of SME owners and senior leaders.
Hot Seat Problem-Solving
Two Hot Seats per session, allowing members to work through real, current leadership and business challenges with guided inquiry and peer insight.
Quarterly 1:1 Leadership Coaching
Four private coaching sessions across the year to deepen insight, build clarity, and support meaningful behaviour change between Circle sessions.
Genos 180° EQ Leadership Assessment + Debrief
A comprehensive leadership feedback report and personalised debrief to strengthen self-awareness and inform your leadership development focus.
Practical EQ Tools, Templates & Frameworks
Clear, usable tools that support communication, feedback, boundaries, decision-making and stronger leadership habits in day-to-day practice.
Accountability & Ongoing Support
Guidance and reflection to help embed new behaviours, shift team dynamics, and maintain momentum throughout the year.
Industry-Exclusive, High-Trust Community
Maximum of eight participants, one per industry, operating under strict confidentiality (Chatham House Rule) to protect commercial and personal insights.
The EQ Impact Leadership Circle has supported SME leaders across Australia, with the 2026 Founding Cohort expanding globally.
“The EQ Impact Circle gave me a valuable deep dive into how I operate day-to-day and the impact this has on my team. It encouraged genuine reflection and helped me consider alternative behaviours and perspectives.
Throughout the year, I addressed broader team culture challenges within the business. Together, we identified key gaps and focused on strengthening engagement, ensuring our staff feel supported in the right ways.”
“After 15 years in business, I wasn’t sure if EQ Impact would offer anything new or be relevant for me. But Susan helped me get crystal clear on what was working, and what absolutely wasn’t, across my businesses. The clarity was unexpected and incredibly valuable.
What surprised me most was the accountability and support from the group. It wasn’t just Susan keeping me on track; the Circle itself became a sounding board. A place for advice, ideas and fresh perspectives that helped me elevate my leadership even further.
I can’t recommend EQ Impact highly enough.”