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Wednesday, 04 Sept 2024

LPA TRAVELLING SCHOLAR 2025

Dr David Buttifant from Resilience Builders is a resilience and high-performance coach to elite AFL and Olympic athletes, Doctor in Exercise Physiology, and founder of the N.I.C.K. Foundation.

In June 2025, David will facilitate Leadership Workshops in Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide, designed to empower leaders and cultivate high-performing teams. The aim of these sessions is to drive meaningful engagement by capturing the nuances of leadership behaviours and providing guidance, rather than prescriptive instructions. These workshops will equip you to:

Build Self-Awareness: Encourage leaders to gain a deeper understanding of their strengths and areas for development.
Develop a Shared Understanding: Establish a common framework for what effective leadership looks like within the organisation.
Uncover Underlying Beliefs: Identify and address the beliefs driving current leadership capabilities.
Create a Game Plan for Success: Equip leaders with the tools and strategies necessary to achieve sustained high performance.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

As a young boy, David was heavily involved in sport. Helping his dad from the age of six, he always had football in his life. He is now helping elite AFL players succeed. “In team sport there’s an element of connectedness”. As a trained physical education teacher in Broadmeadows with an interest in sports psychology, he pursued further studies completing a PhD and MBA. He was appointed as Senior Sports Scientist with Australia’s Sydney 2000 Olympic team, before embarking on a 13-year career as Sports Science Director at Collingwood, where he pioneered high altitude training. Humble about his achievements, David believes that patience, support and perseverance are the winning ingredients, and that “the losses are as equally defining”.

David launched Resilience Builders in 2019. Resilience Builders designs and delivers resilience development programs for teenagers, schools, community groups, athletes, teams and corporates. The resilience programs were created on four solid pillars of resilience: physical, emotional, social and spiritual.

David is passionate about developing and supporting young people. He established the N.I.C.K. Foundation in honour of his late son. The N.I.C.K. Foundation runs mentoring programs, leadership workshops and motivational talks for young adults and their parents.