About the Fellowship
Leadership collaboration across racial divides: bringing conversations to the middle spaces
Mark’s fellowship uses the metaphor of Three Leadership Gardens to signify the cultivated, curated, and cared-for space where practitioners come together, discuss their leadership challenges, and learn with and from each other.
The Three Leadership Gardens seeks to address some key learning areas for practitioners arising from Deep Collaboration and for those who work in the spaces of leadership development that involves First Nations and other multicultural Australians.
Using Deep Collaboration practices, he will hold separate leadership learning circles for First Nations practitioners and Non-Indigenous Australian practitioners. Each learning circle will have a topic for preparation reflections and the discussions will gather insights and learning to bring into the Combined Middle Space.
About Mark
Mark Yettica-Paulson is an Indigenous leader from the South East Queensland and North East NSW regions who specialises in cross cultural collaboration. Mark is from the Birrah, Gamilaroi and Bundjalung peoples. He is the founder and Chief of Super Native Unlimited, specialising in creative and cultural leadership development. Mark brings decades of wisdom from his career in leadership development and community education across the corporate and government sectors.
Mark is currently the Deep Collaboration Lead for Collaboration for Impact, Australasia’s leading capacity building and learning network for responding to complexity through effective collaboration. He has facilitated leadership programs and advised organisations such as National Australia Bank, Australian Football League (AFL), Medibank Australia, Australia Post and The Foundation for Young Australians. Mark was also the CEO of the Australian Indigenous Leadership Centre and a senior leader at Office of the Registrar of Aboriginal Corporations.