ABOUT CIFLI

The Creative Industries Future Leaders Incubator (CIFLI - pronounced "chiefly") is a first-of-its-kind initiative that combines advanced business skills training with project generation.

It is a counterpoint to the perception that artists need to starve. They don't. They just need to get better at finding food.

Course participants:

• learn leadership skills
  
• deepen their knowledge of business
  
• set up creative industry businesses and projects with financial sustainability at their centre
  

The course runs for 6 months, consisting of 22 workshops which include lectures, activities, guest speakers and project development. Over 70 topics are covered.

There are five distinct phases:

1. Foundations: learning the key leadership and business skills needed to succeed
   
2. Ideation: creating and exploring project and business ideas
   
3. The business case: developing business cases to prove the idea has strong potential to be financially sustainable
   
4. Shark tank: pitching your projects to a panel of business experts
   
5. Project work: building your creative industry projects or businesses with support and guidance from the facilitators.
   

The course covers topics in the following areas:

Markets | Systems | Leadership | Business skills | Digital business | Marketing | Money | Output optimisation | Perspectives | Professionalism  | Communications + relationships