About

Mission

First-time and early career leaders often face the challenge of having to learn and adapt quickly how to lead others. Our leadership training and community is your first point of call, setting you up with the basic knowledge needed. Subsequently it provides the support, resources and materials to help you grow and develop your leadership abilities.

Why Leadership?

Our world today is fast paced and complex. At every stage of life, you will be involved in leadership. Often as a follower, but on many occasions also as a leader. Leadership challenges are diverse and do not happen in isolation, and as such is subject to many, often uncontrollable, requirements and influences – in addition to the ones you can control. Because of this, more than ever, it is important to understand and act on the requirement for leadership, and the responsibility that comes with being a good leader.

 

We suggest that as a good leader you should always be aware of, and looking to improve in three key areas:

• Individual understanding – this is about self-leadership (how you behave, act, and interact), how you assess and see yourself, and how others see you.

• Leadership understanding – what is leadership? (and this can be a surprisingly complex question to answer), how do you follow and how do you lead, how does culture affect you, those around you, and leadership within the given context cultural differences.

• Action – the important one! As a leader you have to actually do something, showing strong ethical resilience and decision making, and making sure that what you do has a lasting and positive impact.

 

It is further important to remember that we are incredibly privileged to live in a very diverse world which gives us access to a vast depth of knowledge and understanding. One of the most rewarding things about leadership can be working together with a group of other likeminded people and together achieving something that is more than what each one could do as an individual – creating synergy. We must also accept that leadership is a continuous, imperfect process. As a leader you will make mistakes. The most important thing is to learn from them (both your mistakes and those that others have made) and use them as learning opportunities. Always be curious!