High-performance director Ben Whitaker has played down talk of a "summit" as the ARU plots to overhaul its coaching development program in a bid to close the gap on world champions New Zealand.
Whitaker, Wallabies coach Michael Cheika and national skills coach Mick Byrne will later this month rack the brains of 1991 World Cup-winning mentor Bob Dwyer and the legendary Dick Marks before engaging other great minds.
Marks masterminded Australia's highly successful coaching pathway in the 1970s, 80s and 90s and Whitaker admits the ARU need a more uniform approach.
"We've chopped and changed in the last five years, eight years etc and I think everybody acknowledges the need to come together and look at a targeted approach over a time frame and you don't deviate from it," Whitaker told AAP.
"We run a coaching development program nationally, which I don't oversee, nor does Michael Cheika. We have an involvement, but we don't oversee it.