Cost
A$990
(GST inclusive)
Inquiries & Scholarships
greg.austin@socialcyber.co
Format
2 half-days, each 3.5 hours
Location
Online
Small cohorts
2026 Dates
6 & 13 August
8 & 15 October
3 & 10 December
Time
3.00 pm to 6.30 pm
Sydney Time
Cyber Decision Room: Organisational Stress Points
7-hour Interactive Leadership Lab
See the blind spots in your crisis exercises
for leaders in cyber and tech policy to analyse stress points for their organisation in the face of critical incidents or extreme cyber events
Takes 60 seconds. We will send you a short briefing note. No commitment required
Take 5 mns to get a flavour of what the Academy offers. No commitment required
Why leaders trust this workshop?
Our facilitators bring their direct experience of education and co-learning from:
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leading universities (Harvard, Cambridge, ANU and King's College London)
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advising Prime Ministers, Ministers and CEOs in Australia and overseas
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design and delivery of executive education in Australia and overseas
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their unique research perspectives and original peer-reviewed research — not repurposed vendor frameworks
Who will find this workshop useful?
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You are a senior leader, director, CIO, or policy official responsible for cyber resilience or technology risk
You have cyber policies, plans, and governance frameworks in place — but you are not fully confident how your organisation would actually perform under real pressure
You have run cyber exercises before and found they told you what you wanted to hear rather than what you needed to know
You want to understand how your organisation's culture, decision chains, and internal dynamics shape your actual cyber risk — not just your technical posture
You work in government, defence, critical infrastructure, financial services, or a large regulated organisation
You are responsible for advising a board or minister on cyber preparedness and want a more rigorous basis for that advice
Kevin Mandia Says
This workshop helps senior executives prepare for strategic cyber challenges, lead cyber security change, and review the impact of their initiatives. Building on the SCI foundaional paper "Creating Social Cyber Value", participants diagnose their organisation’s “cyber social system” (inside and outside the firm): culture, incentives, knowledge flows and external relationships. The course has also been inspired by the call of Kevin Mandia, a leading cyber entrepreneur, to “know your organisation”. He said that cyber security depends first on an ability to mine collective organisational knowledge—systems topology, people, processes, suppliers and infrastructure—for strategic advantage in cyber defence and resilience.
Blended Learning International
The program is delivered by the Social Cyber & Tech Academy, in partnership with Blended Learning International, an Australian Registered Training Organisation with more than 20 years experience in Australia and overseas.
Facilitators
Professor Greg Austin
Professor Greg Austin has diverse international experience in cyber policy research and international security policy: Senior Fellow and head of the Program on Cyber Power and Future Conflict with the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and Professor of Cyber Security, Strategy and Diplomacy with the University of New South Wales Canberra. His academic career, including a Senior Visiting Fellowship in the Department of War Studies at Kings College London, has included ten books on international security, as author or editor, and leadership of several international research projects. He is currently an adjunct professor in the Australia China Relations Institute at the University of Technology Sydney. His service as a research leader for prominent global NGOs, such as the International Crisis Group and the EastWest Institute, has seen him work from Brussels and London with leading governments at Ministerial level (Russia, China, UK, India, United States, Turkey, Australia), major international organisations at leadership level (United Nations, International Atomic Energy Agency, R20 for Climate Action), and leading corporations (AT&T, BT, Perot Systems). He has consulted for the UK Cabinet Office, the UK Ministry of Defence, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the European Commission, and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Professor Glenn Withers AO
Professor Glenn Withers is an Emeritus Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University and Visiting Professor at the University of New South Wales Canberra. His Harvard PHD was on the topic of human resources for defense. He has held appointments at Harvard University and Cambridge University, as well as ANU, and has consulted widely for governments and companies from the OECD and the North-West Shelf Consortium to the US Defense Department and the Prime Minister of Malaysia. In Australia. He has been head of the National Population Council and the Economic Planning Advisory Commission and helped to establish the Bureau of Labour Market Research, the Bureau of Immigration research, the Productivity Commission, Crawford School of Government and Universities Australia. He was awarded honors by the Australian government for developing the Australian Immigration Points System. He is a past President of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Australian Council of Learned Academies. Currently, he is Chair of the Global Board of the Global Development Learning Network, a World Bank affiliate that operates in 60 countries. He has a wide range of publications in books, academic journals, government reports and consultancy reports, particularly focusing on education, skills, workforce and population issues.
Lisa Materano
Lisa Materano is the Director of the Social Cyber and Tech Aacademy, the Director for Education in the Social Cyber Institute and a co-founder/Director of the Social Cyber Group. She has vast experience in sourcing, comparing, and providing Executive and Practitioner Programs in Cyber Security, including for the Vietnamese Government from 2010. Her career includes roles in the public sector as an Economist and Senior Researcher, and as a Lecturer in the field of economics within Australia and the Asia Pacific. Following these roles, she then moved into business and education innovation and management, including amongst these activities a $26m project to establish a Technical College under the Australian Government, as well as significant federal and local government contracts for education and training, and a range of other contracts including with the Department of Defence, Qantas, ACT Government, NSW Government, The Australian National University, CBA, and AECOM Australia. She embraces each of higher education, vocational education and workplace learning. She is Director of Blended Learning International Pty Ltd and a Director of Leadership Learning International Pty Ltd, and is also a Governing Committee member for the Global Development Learning Network (GDLN) (World Bank) for the Asia Pacific. Her formal qualifications include BEc, MEc, Dip Ed, DipTAA, CIVTAE.
Adam Henry
Adam P. Henry is a Senior Fellow in the Social Cyber Institute. He is a policy and program specialist in cyber security education, skills and workforce development. He has instigated key pilot programs that are focused on growing and developing the required multifaceted multidisciplinary cyber skills within the economy. He was invited to participate as a SME in the 2017 Prime Minister's Cyber Taskforce, and has been invited to brief ministers, shadow ministers and government senior executives on these key topics to develop previous cyber strategies and initiatives. He has provided key research papers on cyberspace and has been fortunate to be invited globally on these key topics. He has had a broad cyberspace professional career spanning the APS, a major consulting firm, academia, working in multiple start ups, his own consulting business and industry accelerators and clusters. This provides a unique skill set and understanding of the differing requirements of the Australian economy. Adam is available to provide expert advice, high level briefings, policy and programme development and review, participate in workshops, research with both an Australian economy, labour market, defence and national security and international perspective.
Takes 60 seconds. We will send you a short briefing note. No commitment required
Please pay only after receiving the briefing note and full information, inlcuding our refund policy
Cost: A$990 (GST inclusive)
Inquiries & Scholarships
greg.austin@socialcyber.co
Small cohorts
2026 Dates
6 & 13 August
8 & 15 October
3 & 10 December
Time
3.00 pm to 6.30 pm
Sydney Time
