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Australia Leadership Load Survey 2026
Where is leadership responsibility accumulating inside Australian organisations?
A national research initiative examining how responsibility, authority, decision pressure, organisational dependency and leadership support are changing across Australian workplaces.
If you carry formal or informal leadership responsibility, your experience can help build the evidence base. Participation is anonymous and takes approximately five minutes.
~5 minutes
Anonymous survey
Australia-wide
Formal or informal responsibility
Report registration is separate
What the survey explores
Six connected conditions that can shape leadership load.
The research looks beyond individual resilience to examine how organisational responsibility and decision-making are actually distributed.
Responsibility Authority Decision flow Organisational dependency Support structures Structural pressure
Add your experience
Help us build a clearer picture of where leadership responsibility is being carried.
The survey takes approximately five minutes and does not require you to identify yourself.
Who should participate
People carrying responsibility for decisions, people, projects, governance or organisational outcomes.
Executives, senior leaders, middle managers, team leaders, supervisors, business owners, governance roles, project leads, senior specialists and people carrying significant informal responsibility are all relevant to the study.
Government & public sector Education Health & care Private sector Professional services Community & NFP Small business Emergency services
Why this research matters
Leadership pressure can be structural, not simply personal.
Responsibility can increase faster than authority and support. Decisions can travel upward, key-person dependency can deepen, and capable people can become the point through which too much of the organisation must move. The Australia Leadership Load Survey 2026 is building evidence about those organisational conditions.
Receive the findings
Receive the Australia Leadership Load Report 2026
Register separately to receive the report when the 2026 research is released.
The report will examine what the completed sample indicates about responsibility, authority, decision flow, organisational dependency and leadership support.
Your report registration is separate from the survey.
Your email address is stored only with this report registration and is not attached to your survey response.
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Research approach
Careful collection. Proportionate claims.
Separate registration
Email registration for the report is captured separately and is not attached to a survey response.
Responsible interpretation
Final claims will reflect the size, diversity and methodological strength of the completed sample.
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Five minutes can help strengthen Australia's evidence base on leadership load.
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