MANAGE
TO LEAD
Transforming Early Childhood organisations and their people.
Innovation.
Insight.
Inspiration.
Manage to Lead was created to meet the challenges in the early childhood sector, blending leadership and management practices into workable solutions for organisations and children now and in the future.
Manage to Lead’s Ian Alchin is a recognised leader in the early childhood arena. He is acknowledged for his insightful and inspirational approach to contemporary leadership and management. Ian crafts bespoke and customised business and professional development drawing on his many years of success leading organisations in the sector.
Ian works with service directors, managers, leaders, staff and governing bodies to shape the challenging and complex into being manageable and meaningful.
MEET THE FOUNDER
Ian Alchin - Principal
M. Comm. Employment Relations, B.Ed. AMICDA
Ian’s work focuses on developing capable people and sustainable organisations in diverse settings in Australia and internationally. It includes organisational leadership that connects strongly to professional practice that has a positive impact on children and communities. He regards organisations as social enterprises that need to deliver positive results to be sustainable.
WORK HISTORY HIGHLIGHTS
Western Sydney University
Sessional Tutor Early Childhood Education
PhD Candidate, Western Sydney University: Leadership and Management in Early Childhood Education
Remuneration Committee
CCSA – Community Connections Solutions Australia
Holistic Leadership
Framework
See the practical guide to shared, intentional leadership in early childhood education. The Holistic Leadership Framework (2025) provides clear principles and practices to support collaboration, professional growth, and sustainable improvement.
Solutions for the Early Education Sector
Everyday Management Challenges
Crafted solutions that lift capability and address the everyday challenges facing service directors, managers, leaders and governing bodies.
Leadership and Management
Employ holistic and collaborative leadership and management approaches that empower individuals and improve organisations.
Business Planning
- Craft strategic, business and improvement plans that are clear, targeted and evidence-based with measurable outcomes.
- Develop context responsive financial plans and monitoring.
- Reshape Risk into opportunity and improvement.
Positive Culture + Workplace Relations
Draw from decades of experience and expertise in workplace relations to enable leaders be more capable managers and confident team builders.
Managing People
Professionalism and ethical practice
Introduce a collaborative approach to managing people that employs practical and workable leadership and management practices that lifts professionalism at all levels of responsibility.
National Quality Framework Responsive
Be change ready and improvement aware
- Apply proven strategies to develop a change ready team and workplace relations.
- Develop innovative solutions using contemporary approaches that develop capable people and effective and sustainable learning organisations.
Governance Expertise and Sustainable Not-For-Profit Services
- Adopt strategies for good governance and effective management systems.
- Recruit and retain effective members for your governing body.
- Build a productive relationship between committees/boards and service directors.
Our Collaborative Approach
Coaching + Mentoring
Enhance your abilities
We offer bespoke and personalised coaching and mentoring over zoom or in person.
- Draw from a crucible of shared knowledge and practice to and extend your professional bag of tools.
- Problem solve challenges and create pathways to meaningful outcomes.
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