Enterprise Leadership in Mining
Intake commences 14 September 2026
30 PD hours
100% online
✅Build high-performing teams, strong culture and leadership pipeline
✅Lead beyond your function and influence across operations, people and strategy
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 Next Intake |
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30 hours
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100% online |
Online Certificate |
14 September 2026 |
Up to 30 |
English |
Course Overview
The Enterprise Leadership in Mining course is a groundbreaking partnership that combines the prestige and world-class leadership expertise of Melbourne Business School (Australia’s #1 business school) with AusIMM’s unmatched 130+ years of deep mining industry knowledge.
Co-developed by MBS and AusIMM, this course has been specifically created to elevate the leadership capability of mining professionals. The course delivers a premium learning experience that combines academic excellence with real-world mining application.
- Entirely mining-focused case studies and leadership scenarios
- 100% online, flexible for demanding FIFO, shift-based and internationally distributed workloads
- Live interactive sessions with a global cohort of mining leaders
- Includes digital credential and PD hours on completion
- Designed for mid- to senior-career professionals
This program uses mining industry-based case studies, scenarios and leadership challenges to ensure learning is practical, relevant and immediately applicable. Participants join a global cohort of peers navigating similar leadership demands and return to their organisations better equipped to lead with confidence and impact.
Who Should Enrol?
This course is purpose-built for mining and resources professionals who are leading or preparing to lead at the enterprise level, including:
- Superintendents and senior site leaders stepping into general management or multi-function accountability
- Mining managers, operations managers, and technical services leaders managing across disciplines
- HSE, engineering, and technical professionals moving into people leadership roles
- Senior professionals in globally distributed matrix organisations navigating complex stakeholder environments
- Emerging executives in exploration, processing, corporate, and project environments
- HR and organisational development professionals supporting leadership development strategy
Ideal for professionals across Australia, Canada, Africa, LATAM and Asia-Pacific where the leadership demands of large-scale mining operations are increasing alongside regulatory, ESG, and community scrutiny.
What You'll Learn
Across 6 structured weeks, participants develop enterprise leadership capability across six core leadership dimensions – each grounded in mining-specific case studies and live cohort application.
- Leading beyond the operation, understanding enterprise value and cross-functional impact
- Setting expectations and driving enterprise-aligned performance
- Building capability for today and the future
- Culture: the beliefs, behaviours and conditions that sustain performance
- Leading through change - translating enterprise shifts into local action
- Running an enterprise-minded leadership system
By the end of this course, participants will not just understand enterprise leadership they will lead differently.
What you'll be able to do
After completing this course, professionals will be able to:
- Apply enterprise leadership frameworks to lead confidently across functions and disciplines within complex mining organisations
- Navigate change initiatives by communicating with clarity, anticipating and managing resistance, and using reinforcement strategies to sustain adoption
- Build the ability to analyse leadership challenges as a systems level, moving beyond operational symptoms to underlying causes
- Build and sustain high-performance cultures grounded in accountability, psychological safety and deliberate development
- Develop and retain high-performing teams through coaching, clear expectations, and international leadership practices
- Earn a globally recognised digital credential from AusIMM and Melbourne Business School
Enterprise leadership capability is increasingly the differentiator between mining organisations that perform consistently and those that cannot sustain results through cycles of change, growth, and pressure. This credential is a measurable investment in long-term career progression and organisational contribution.
Course Overview by James Yorston
Online Mining Course Modules
Week 0
Onboarding and Leadership Reset
- Transitioning from technical expertise into the leadership mindset.
- What drives performance on site.
- Current challenges and program expectations.
Week 1
Stepping Up: Leading Beyond Your Operation
- Expanding from operational leader to enterprise leader.
- Leading leaders and multi-disciplinary teams.
- Enterprise vs site-level thinking.
Week 2
Setting Expectations and Driving Performance
- Defining what good looks like.
- Ownership vs compliance.
- Accountability as a performance lever.
- Effective performance conversations and early intervention.
Week 3
Building Capability and Retaining Talent
- Coaching for growth in complex operations.
- Recognising and reinforcing high performance.
- Building a leadership pipeline through deliberate development.
Week 4
Culture: The Behavioural Environment
- The link between psychological safety, inclusion and performance.
- How leadership behaviour influences risk reporting.
- Addressing behaviours that erode culture.
Week 5
Leading Change and Resistance
- Communicating the 'why' of change in operational contexts.
- Leading through resistance vs disengagement.
- Sustaining momentum after roll-out.
Week 6
Running a High-Performing Leadership Operation
- Integrating standards, culture, capability and accountability.
- Diagnosing performance issues beyond the obvious.
- Shifting from reactive to deliberate leadership.
Lead across teams, functions and futures
Enrolments now open
Intake commences 14 September 2026
Course Pricing
- Exclusive discounts
- Access to digital library
- Networking opportunities
- Professional development
- Industry insights
- Networking opportunities
- Professional development
- Industry insights
Additional benefits from Melbourne Business School on course completion
Access to relevant industry events hosted by MBS
Invitations to online webinars and free online masterclass
Notification of available scholarships for further study
Access to MBS research and whitepapers
Melbourne Business School proven results
Feedback from program participants (2025) across the 27 Melbourne Business School Short Courses
84.3 Overall net promoter score (NPS)
5000+ program participants in 2025
4.9/5 overall quality rating
AusIMM proven results
Feedback from recent participants of AusIMM Courses.
95% Satisfaction Rate
Participants say the course met their goals and expectations
7,800+ Course Participants
Participants from 75+ countries across the world
96% Recommendation Score
Professionals would recommend this course to others
Trusted by professionals from leading mining companies worldwide
Course Overview by Tom Quinn
Course structure
The program runs over six weeks of active learning. Participants should expect to commit approximately four to five hours per week. All learning materials are delivered through a cloud-based platform accessible on any device.
The program consists of:
- Live interactive virtual classrooms led industry practitioners, supported by recorded sessions for flexible access.
- Pre-recorded video content and expert Q&A sessions from MBS and mining industry leaders
- Mining-specific leadership case studies drawn from operations globally.
- Interactive learning activities, group discussions, peer problem-solving, and leadership reflection exercises
- Applied knowledge checks designed around real workplace challenges not academic exams
- Access to a global cohort of mid to senior-career mining professionals
Online Mining Course Schedule
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Course commences: 14 September 2026 Course closes: 30 October 2026 |
Week 1: Thursday 24 September, 13.00–14.30 AEST Week 2: Thursday 1 October, 13.00–14.30 AEST Week 3: Wednesday 7 October, 13.00–14.30 AEDT Week 4: Thursday 15 October, 13.00–14.30 AEDT Week 5: Thursday 22 October, 13.00–14.30 AEDT Week 6: Thursday 29 October, 13.00–14.30 AEDT |
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Note: The live labs will be recorded and made available within 24 hours for those participants unable to attend the scheduled sessions. |
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Course Facilitators
Chyonne Kreltszheim
After more than a decade as a lawyer, Chyonne followed her passion for developing people into the field of leadership development and executive coaching. She leverages her analytical skills and depth of experience in complex transactions to help leaders tackle complex challenges across a range of diverse industries including construction, information technology, banking and financial services, health, mining, professional services, transport, government, and higher education. Her experience includes:
Leadership Development: facilitating numerous intensive leadership development programs with a particular focus on building high performing teams (psychological safety, trust, collaboration, feedback, leveraging cognitive diversity) and navigating change (influencing, stakeholder engagement, storytelling, collaborative problem-solving), including as Program Director for a recent Executive Leadership Development Program in the rail industry.
Complex Communication: delivering hundreds of workshops in negotiation, influencing, and conflict resolution across Australia, New Zealand and Asia, as well as academic programs at Monash University (undergraduate and postgraduate) and Melbourne Business School’s short course in Negotiation & Conflict resolution.
Executive Coaching: working one-on-one with senior leaders to increase their leadership presence and confidence, enhance team engagement and performance, and cultivate focus and resilience, as well as coaching mid-career professionals on their career development and influencing skills.
Industry Experience: providing complex legal advice to state, statutory, and local government authorities, and negotiating contracts and disputes in the context of major infrastructure projects across the water, gas, electricity, renewable energy, and transport sectors.
Chyonne’s current area of focus is supporting leaders to cultivate more inclusive, psychologically safe cultures that inspire high performance without sacrificing wellbeing. Clients describe her as calm, curious and creative, with a knack for cultivating safe spaces for tough issues to be explored openly and constructively.
James Yorston
James has assisted organisations develop more purposeful and confident leaders. James effectively brings together leading-edge executive education design and delivery with deep understanding of organisational needs and challenges. He brings an extremely diverse corporate background having worked in a wide variety of roles and industries, from Mining Engineer to General Manager. This diverse background brings new insights for clients as well as a very pragmatic, business output driven approach in his work.
James has a particular interest in the areas of leadership development, group dynamics, culture change and the application of emotional and behavioural intelligence in the workplace. As a facilitator, James utilises experiential learning methods to create powerful development experiences. Through the application of deep facilitation techniques, James surfaces the unconscious dynamics that exist enabling individuals and groups to build the capacity for greater leadership effectiveness. Whilst working in senior executive roles James completed a Masters in Organisational Dynamics, which allows him to draw on a vast body of contemporary research and apply this to clients’ real world organisational challenges.
As an executive coach, James brings together a vast body of coaching knowledge and practice combined with a deep understanding and reading of organisational realities and challenges. He sees the role of the coach as ‘holding up the mirror’ so that clients build increased self-awareness and take on new perspectives. James has coached CEOs and senior leaders across more than 15 countries including Australia and Asia Pacific.
Prior to joining MBS, James worked in several diverse roles including Program Director Leadership Development AXA Asia Pacific. Based in Singapore, he was responsible for the establishment of AXA’s Asia Pacific University Campus. James has also worked as a Principal Consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers, as a Mining Engineer with Rio Tinto and founded his own leadership development consultancy. Such diverse experience translates into powerful new insights and perspectives for clients.
Tom Quinn
Building transitions is the basis of Tom’s portfolio of roles with organisations focused on infrastructure, industrial, energy and social services sectors. Tom draws on his successful executive career as a global multi $billion business and project leader in the services sector across Australia, New Zealand, Asia, and North America in global companies as a Managing Director, Chief Executive Officer and Group Vice President, Project Executive in phases of growth, turnaround and merger and acquisition.
Tom’s exceptionally broad experience in many countries and cultures is typified by turnarounds that grew from a low base to significant businesses. This experience has enabled Tom’s rapid transition to a successful Chair and Director of listed and unlisted companies.
From 2010 to 2013 Tom was named as one of the top 100 engineers in Australia by Engineers Australia.
Digital credentials
Recognition from two industry-leading institutions
On successful completion of the program, you'll receive a co-branded digital credential and certificate from Melbourne Business School, recognising your achievement through a program that combines the leadership expertise of Australia's leading business school with AusIMM's 130+ years of mining industry excellence. The credential can be shared on LinkedIn, your CV, email signature and professional profiles, providing verified evidence of your leadership capability and commitment to professional growth.
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Frequently asked questions
Is this course delivered by AusIMM or Melbourne Business School?
The course is a partnership between AusIMM and Melbourne Business School (MBS). It was co-developed by both organisations, with Melbourne Business School responsible for course delivery and leadership expertise, while AusIMM contributes mining industry context and sector-specific content. Participant enrolment information will be shared with MBS to support onboarding and course delivery.
What makes this different from a generic leadership course or MBA subject?
Unlike general leadership courses, every case study, scenario and leadership challenge is built around mining and resources sector contexts. The course focuses on real issues faced by mining leaders, including safety culture, operational performance, change management, talent retention and cross-functional influence.
Will I be learning alongside people from other industries?
No. The course is designed specifically for mining and resources professionals, allowing participants to learn alongside peers who share similar operational, technical and leadership challenges.
How much time should I realistically expect to spend each week?
While the course awards 30 PD hours over seven weeks, participants should expect to attend live sessions and complete self-paced activities between sessions. The course has been designed for professionals with demanding workloads, including FIFO and shift-based roles, but participants will still need to commit regular time each week to gain value from the course.
Is the course suitable for someone who does not manage a large team?
Yes, provided you are transitioning from technical or operational leadership into broader leadership responsibilities. The course is aimed at professionals who need to influence across functions, lead through others, drive performance and contribute beyond their immediate area of expertise.
Who will get the most value from this course?
The course is particularly relevant for:
- Superintendents
- Functional managers
- Senior technical specialists
- Emerging enterprise leaders
- Professionals moving from operational leadership into broader organisational leadership roles
It is less suited to early-career professionals or people with limited leadership responsibility.
What are the key leadership capabilities covered?
Participants work through six core themes:
- Leading beyond your operation
- Driving performance and accountability
- Building capability and retaining talent
- Creating high-performing cultures
- Leading change and managing resistance
- Running a high-performing leadership operation
The focus is on practical leadership behaviours rather than leadership theory alone.
Will I receive individual feedback or coaching?
The course includes live interactive sessions and reflection activities. While participants should not expect executive coaching, the design includes opportunities for discussion, peer learning and guided reflection on their own leadership challenges.
What type of credential will I receive?
Participants receive a digital credential on successful completion. The credential is issued by Melbourne Business School and recognises completion of the course.
Can I use this course to support a promotion into a more senior role?
Many participants are likely to undertake the course specifically to prepare for broader leadership responsibilities. The course focuses on helping technical and operational professionals make the transition to enterprise-level leadership, making it particularly relevant for those seeking progression into superintendent, manager and general management roles.
Will I have opportunities to learn from other participants?
Yes. The course incorporates a global cohort model, allowing participants to learn from leaders working across different commodities, jurisdictions and operating environments. Peer discussion is an important part of the learning experience.
Is the content focused on soft skills or operational performance?
Both. The course addresses leadership behaviours such as coaching, feedback, influence and culture while linking them directly to operational outcomes such as safety, production, accountability, retention and performance improvement.