A Macquarie University initiative
Impact Skills.Built through life’s pressure moments.
Cycle 2 launches September 2026.
Thank you for visiting THiNK.
We’re preparing the next chapter of the Macquarie University THiNK
initiative—exploring the skills that help us navigate life’s most
challenging moments with confidence.
Takes a minute — be first in line when Cycle 2 opens, with news, previews and research along the way.
Big questions
Each cycle asks what smart organisations are still getting wrong — and goes looking for the answers everyone else is missing.
Real evidence
Psychologists, researchers and practitioners studying the capabilities that decide what happens when a plan meets pressure.
Your perspective
Members shape the work through surveys and early feedback, then receive previews and findings as Cycle 2 unfolds.
Cycle 2 launches in
66days
94% of women in the C-Suite surveyed by EY and espnW had played sport. Sport does not automatically create leadership. But it gives people repeated practice in pressure, feedback, setbacks, teamwork and decisions made in public. Source: EY & espnW, “Where Will You Find Your Next Leader?”
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About
Welcome to the THiNK Tank.
The THiNK Tank examines the gap between what we say matters and what people experience in practice.
We use research, real stories and public participation to understand why that gap persists, and what might close it.
Aspiration vs reality
Aged care and service delivery in regional and remote Australia — examining the gap between national aspirations and lived reality.
Impact Skills
The capabilities that distinguish people under pressure, explored through sport and how they carry into work and life.
THiNK is a Macquarie University initiative, connecting research, sport and community to make these capabilities visible, understandable and useful.