
Managing Director, Australasian Leadership Academy (ALA), Your New Leaf & Your New Leaf Foundation Ltd
With more than 31 years of experience in leadership development, workforce capability and vocational education, Lynne Stephens is passionate about helping individuals, organisations and communities build the skills required to thrive in an evolving global workforce.
Since establishing Australasian Leadership Academy (ALA) in 2010, Lynne has led the development of innovative leadership, project management and workforce capability solutions combining nationally recognised Australian qualifications, professional development and flexible digital learning pathways.
Today, Lynne leads ALA's international growth, developing strategic partnerships across Australia and India to advance leadership excellence, future skills and workforce capability.
Through collaboration with industry, universities, professional bodies and government stakeholders, she is committed to creating meaningful opportunities that strengthen organisations, develop future leaders and support lifelong learning.
As Founder of Your New Leaf and Your New Leaf Foundation, Lynne also champions wellbeing, resilience and career transition initiatives, reflecting her belief that professional success is built on both capability and personal growth.
Leadership Development • Workforce Capability • Vocational Education • Future Skills • Digital Learning • Lifelong Learning • International Partnerships

Founder & Director, Purple People International
Ravi Monga brings more than two decades of experience in business strategy, leadership, transformation, international business, financial performance and organisational growth to the ALA India partnership.
As Founder & Director of Purple People International, Ravi has built an India-based, globally serving knowledge and business excellence ecosystem that has been empowering leaders, professionals, entrepreneurs and organisations since 1998.
Through strategic advisory, executive learning, thought leadership, publishing and transformation initiatives, Purple People International helps decision-makers convert challenges into opportunities and ideas into measurable impact.
What distinguishes Ravi's approach is the development of proprietary leadership, strategy and business excellence frameworks designed to translate knowledge into practical business outcomes.
These include:
The CEO's Power Formula™
Growth × Synergy × Advantage = Business Mastery
The Leadership Synergy Formula™
International Tax Alchemy™
Turning Complexity into Profits
Alongside these frameworks, Ravi works across areas including strategic transformation, business growth, international expansion, M&A, joint ventures, due diligence, financial performance, export profitability and organisational capability.
Through the ALA India partnership, Ravi brings an Indian business and strategic perspective to complement ALA's Australian leadership and workforce capability expertise.
His focus is to help organisations connect leadership capability with business strategy, execution and measurable performance.
Business Strategy • Leadership • Transformation • M&A • Joint Ventures • International Expansion • Financial Performance • Export Profitability • Organisational Growth
Our purpose extends beyond delivering programmes.
We want to contribute to a stronger Indian workforce—one capable of competing, collaborating and leading on a global stage.
That means helping organisations develop people who can:
When one individual develops, a career can change.
When a team develops, organisational performance can improve.
When organisations develop, industries become stronger.
And when an entire workforce develops, a nation becomes more competitive.
This is the larger opportunity we see for ALA India.
We aspire to be part of India's journey towards becoming a globally competitive, knowledge-driven and capability-rich economy by investing in the people who will lead it.
We believe India's greatest competitive advantage is its people.
Our ambition is to help develop a workforce that is:
Future-ready • Globally capable • Innovation-driven • Leadership-oriented • Adaptable • Performance-focused
Through Australian expertise, internationally recognised learning standards and strong local partnerships, ALA India creates pathways for individuals and organisations to develop the capabilities required for the future of work.
Leadership is no longer limited to the boardroom.
Every organisation needs people who can take ownership, make informed decisions, collaborate across functions, manage change and turn strategy into execution.
Our approach therefore extends beyond traditional leadership training.
We focus on developing capabilities across the workforce—from emerging leaders and managers to senior executives, project professionals and broader employee populations.
The objective is simple:
Develop better people.
Create stronger leaders.
Build higher-performing organisations.
Strengthen India's workforce.
The leaders of tomorrow will face challenges that cannot be solved by yesterday's thinking.
They will need to understand technology while remaining human-centred. They will need to think globally while acting locally. They will need strategic vision while maintaining execution discipline. They will need to lead transformation while creating trust.
ALA India seeks to develop this new generation of visionary, responsible and performance-oriented leaders.
Transformational capability cannot be built alone.
Our people and partnerships bring together Australian expertise, Indian market understanding, experienced professionals, educators, industry practitioners and organisational leaders to create a broader ecosystem for capability development.
Through the partnership between Australasian Leadership Academy and Purple People International, ALA India combines Australian leadership and workforce capability expertise with Indian strategic, business and transformation experience.
This creates a distinctive proposition:
Australian Expertise + Indian Strategic Insight + Global Perspective + Local Execution
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