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Learn to Lead: Embracing Servant Leadership

When
06 AUG 2024
6.30 PM - 8.15 PM
Where
UniSQ Toowoomba & Online
RSVP
06 Aug
6.30 PM

Join us to explore the nature of servant leadership, how it can be implemented, and what it's impact is. Hear from our Keynote Speaker, Ryan Salzke, and engage in a Q&A panel with a distinguished group of professionals in servant leadership and social enterprise, including Ryan and Fraser Lane founder of mental health charity project, HAND InC. Connect with panellists and fellow attendees after the main program, for refreshments and to further discuss experiences and perspectives on servant leadership.

Speakers and panellists

A man with short, curly brown hair and glasses, wearing a white button-down shirt, is smiling in an indoor setting.  Ryan Salzke
CEO, Vanguard Laundry

Ryan has forged a pathway of servant leadership in the for-purpose sector, and is currently the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Vanguard Laundry. Established in 2016 with the help of Ryan, Vanguard Laundry is a social enterprise commercial laundry, with a dedicated purpose of reducing systemic unemployment barriers for the socially disadvantaged in Toowoomba.

In addition to Ryan's driving role at Vanguard, he has previously served as CEO for Orange Sky, a charity that runs free mobile laundry and shower services to homeless across Australia and New Zealand, and Campus Manager for a large integrated community hub and commercial facility, with Churches of Christ.

Ryan holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Master of Business Administration (MBA) through the University of Southern Queensland, which he attained while engaging in an accelerated leadership pathway at Heritage Bank in service, training and development.