Save the Date - Ethical Leadership with Prof. Lindy McAllister - 4th & 11th November 2025

We are delighted to welcome Prof. Lindy McAllister to facilitate a workshop on Ethical Leadership. The workshop uses scenarios to apply knowledge and develop skills in ethical reasoning and ethical leadership.

Part 1 introduces participants to the language of ethics used in the health professions, covering values, duties, approaches to ethics including bio-medical principles of ethics, and ethical reasoning. Participants will have the opportunity to apply the language of ethics in ethical reasoning with relatively straightforward ethical
scenarios.

Part 2 focuses on ethical leadership for health professionals of all levels of experience. It introduces participants to concepts of and frameworks for ethical leadership. Complex, contemporary workplace-based scenarios are used to encourage participants to apply the concepts and frameworks of ethical leadership, (and the language of ethics covered in part 1), to consider how ethical leadership might be demonstrated in different situations.

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of the workshop participants will be able to:

• Understand the values, duties and principles of ethics;
• Apply this language of ethics to ethical reasoning with relatively straightforward scenarios;
• Understand concepts and frameworks of ethical leadership;
• Apply the language of ethics and concepts and frameworks of ethical leadership to complex workplace-based scenarios to discuss how ethical leadership could be demonstrated and role modelled.

Speaker Bio:

Lindy McAllister, PhD, is an Emeritus Professor at The University of Sydney. She is a Life Member of the Speech Pathology Association of Australia (SPA), and Fellow of the RCSLT. She was made a Member of the Order of Australia in the King’s Birthday Honours list in June 2023 for contributions to the development of speech pathology education and services in Australia and Vietnam. Lindy was a senior member of the Ethics Board of SPA for many years, has published a book, education packages and several papers about ethics education, and has provided ethics education to a range of allied health disciplines. She provides curriculum consultancy to a range of universities in Australia and internationally.

Lindy has also co-authored an article recently published in IASLT Journal Advances in Communication and Swallowing which can be read in two parts below.