Learning Through the Johari Window – Expanding Your Self-Awareness

THIS WEEKS TOPIC: Learning Through the Johari Window – Expanding Your Self-Awareness
Speaker: Neil McDonald – True North Development

What if the way we grow isn’t about doing more… but seeing more?

In this talk, Neil introduces the Johari Window – a simple but powerful model used in psychology and leadership to understand how we learn and evolve.

It’s built on a simple idea – growth comes from two things:
• what we’re willing to share
• what we’re willing to hear.

Research shows true self-awareness is actually quite rare, and that honest feedback from others plays a big role in how we grow. We often do parts of this already… we just don’t realise it.

This session helps make sense of it, and shows how to move beyond your “known self” into your unknown – where real growth starts to happen.

Neil will touch on:
• the four areas of the Johari Window
• where blind spots can hold us back
• how to gently stretch beyond familiar patterns.

It’s simple, practical, and something you can start to notice straight away. For anyone interested in personal growth – in work, relationships, or simply understanding yourself more deeply.

About the Speaker – Neil McDonald
Neil McDonald is an experienced leader in education and leadership development, with a career spanning school leadership and senior roles across Queensland. He has served as a principal across three Brisbane schools and later led the Leadership Centre for Queensland, working closely with the Minister and Director-General to support leadership capability across the state.

Through his business, True North Development, Neil now works with individuals and organisations to build leadership capability, strengthen self-awareness, and support meaningful personal and professional growth.

Outside of work, he enjoys staying active, spending time at the beach, and being out and about with friends – a natural people person who values connection.

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Upon returning, we collect our coffees from O-Boats and gather for a 10-minute engaging presentation by a community member or special guest on a variety of compelling topics.

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