Importance of Leadership

Connect with Australia’s leading minds in wellbeing & ageing and be empowered to lead the way in delivering the quality, human-centred care every Australian deserves.

By engaging with Meaningful Ageing Australia, you:

Position yourself as a provider of choice with truly holistic, person-centred care.
Demonstrate spiritual care and emotional wellbeing is central to quality of life, and your organisational culture.
Can be assured membership benefits everyone from Executive to support staff.
Join a growing network of CEOs and leaders forging world leading care.
Member leaders gain free access to training on the Inner Development Goals framework adapted for health and aged care.

‘Effective spiritual care is more often achieved through a whole-of-organisation approach, a key success factor for implementation of The National Guidelines Spiritual Care in Aged Care is the active engagement of those in leadership roles at all levels. Integrating spiritual care into key human resource practices is more likely to ‘hard-wire’ a focus on spirituality throughout the organisation.’

For more information about The National Guidelines of Spiritual Care in Aged Care (2019, Meaningful Ageing Australia) select the button below:

National Guidelines for Spiritual Care in Aged Care

Meaningful Ageing Australia is an official hub of the Inner Development Goals (IDG) international framework designed to assist leaders in ageing and health and aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

Other ways we support leaders

Meaningful Ageing Australia offer leadership learning events (refer to our Learning Events page), and evidence-informed and expert advice (refer to our Coaching and Consulting page for more details).

Prime Super Leadership Lunches

Another initiative that is highly popular is our CEO & Leadership Breakfast & Lunch series hosted together with our sponsor, Prime Super. We pride ourselves on ensuring the event is a welcome space for like-minded leaders to meet in person and engage on the topic of emotional wellbeing and spiritual care.

Please note, numbers are limited and subject to availability.

Dates will be released for the 2026-27 Leaders events below. Expressions of interest to join are considered on a first come basis, and are intended for CEOs, Heads of Mission, or Executive level leaders.

Sydney Leaders Lunch
8 April 2025, Alegre Bar & Dining, Sydney

Wollongong Leaders Breakfast
2 May 2025, Warrigal, Oak Flats

Canberra Leaders Lunch
15 May 2025, Lanterne Rooms, Canberra

Adelaide Leaders Breakfast
11 August 2025, Hotel Alba, Adelaide

Perth Leaders Lunch
10 September 2025, venue tbc

Brisbane Leaders Breakfast
25 November 2025, venue tbc

Newcastle Leaders Breakfast (postponed – date tbc)
Melbourne Leaders Lunch (postponed – date tbc)