Meet our 30th cohort of Fellows

Most executive programs teach leaders how to solve problems well. The Vincent Fairfax Fellowship (VFF) asks a different question: are they the right problems to be solving?

Now in its 31st year, each VFF selects up to 24 leaders from across Australia’s private, not for profit and public sectors for ten months of rigorous, reflective work. As Program Director Dr Matt Beard describes it,

Many leaders step into the Fellowship carrying a shared set of underlying challenges: navigating complex, high-stakes environments while striving to lead with genuine integrity.

Together, the Fellows sit with the parts of leadership that don’t have a clean answer and work through it; whether introspectively or with each other, they are supported and able to offer support in-kind. These are the leaders brought together by the VFF in 2026:

Meet the 2026 Fellows

To dig deeper into the motivations and experience behind this group, we invited them to consider their leadership journey using the findings of (at) the intersection, our project celebrating 30 years of the Vincent Fairfax Fellowship. These profiles form the 2026 Meet the Fellows series, denoted below by the ⚖️ symbol.

To stay up to date with the Fellows’ journey through the program, and to find out more about what the Fellowship involves, follow Cranlana’s LinkedIn and sign up to our mailing list, if you haven’t already.

If these reflections resonate with your own leadership journey, we invite you to explore the next steps for your career. Applications for the 2027 Vincent Fairfax Fellowship are now open – click the link below to find out more.

The Vincent Fairfax Fellowship is a flagship program of Cranlana Centre for Ethical Leadership, a partnership between the Myer Foundation, Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation and Monash University.