Future Focus Group
More than 100 young leaders have completed the Committee for Melbourne’s intensive, two-year young leadership development program, Future Focus Group™. Created in 1995, Future Focus Group™ was created to test the leadership skills and commitment of Melbourne’s future corporate community leaders.
Future Focus Group Meetings
Monthly Future Focus Group meetings are hosted by participants, usually in their organisations’ boardrooms. A meal is shared, along with the leadership lessons of Melbourne’s most senior leaders - the Committee for Melbourne’s Members. Melbourne’s future leaders also benefit from meeting experts well-equipped to dissect and discuss Melbourne’s most pressing problems, and industry professionals qualified to advise on project-related issues. For current Future Focus Group participants and Executive Board Members only.
Future Focus Group™ projects make a tangibly positive contribution to Melbourne, enhancing the city’s liveability and its reputation as a centre for biotechnology, cohesion & inclusion, creativity, research & development, and culture.
Future Focus Group™ Projects include:
Adopt -a-School Banana Alley Flinders Street (BAFS) Bike Pod Kids Bizz Radio Mobile Electronic Transport Inofrmation (METI) Operation Ballroom Blitz Postcards Power of Some Shared Histories Walking Tour of Melbourne
Participating Organisations for 2006 - 2007
Allens Arthur Robinson ANZ Banking Group Arup Australia Post City of Melbourne Clayton Utz Connell Wagner Pty Ltd Corrs Chambers Westgarth CPA Australia Department of Human Services Environment Protection Authority Ernst & Young Escor Pty Ltd John Wertheimer and Company Pty Ltd KPMG Lend Lease Development Maunsell Australia Pty Ltd Melbourne Business School Melbourne City Mission Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Melbourne Zoo MetLink Minter Ellison Mitsui & Co (Australia) Ltd Monash University Multiplex Constructions (National) Pty Ltd Museum Victoria National Australia Bank Origin Energy Parliament of Victoria Rio Tinto Australia Royal Automobile Club of Victoria (RACV) Ltd Royal Botanic Gardens The Herald & Weekly Times Limited University of Melbourne University of Technology Sydney Vision Australia William Buck (Vic) Pty Ltd Yarra Valley Water Ltd
"Melbourne is a wonderful city that offers limitless opportunities and enjoyment. It is fantastic that the Committee for Melbourne™ coordinates programs such as the Future Focus Group™ to ensure the qualities of our leaders so that our city can inspire our best efforts for generations to come." - Ms Ellen Koshland, President, Education Foundation
How to nominate an employee
Download a 2008/09 Nomination Form Dowanload a 2008/09 Community Scholarship Form (Foundation Members Only)
Committee for Melbourne™ Members are eligible to nominate candidates for the Program.
Corporate Members may nominate one candidate; Foundation members may nominate two candidates.
Accepting nominations for the 2008-2009 Program intake: August 2007
For more information, call (61 3) 9650 8800 or email at ffg@melbourne.org.au. 
Tattersall's Award for Innovation
M:Urban became the only project syndicate to receive part of Tattersall's $20,000 prize pool this year - the second and final Tattersall’s Award for Innovation for the current intake.
The announcement of the Tattersall’s Award for Innovation has come at the right time for Future Focus Group project syndicate M:Urban, launched its exhibition at Melbourne Central in June 2007.
The aim of the M:Urban project is to encourage innovative urban design ideas for Melbourne’s central business district and to bring those ideas to the people who have the power to act on them.
Four project syndicates received the first of two Tattersall's Award for Innovation during the 2006/07 Program. Seed funding of $10,000 was shared between the following syndicates:
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