The challenges we face today in our organisations and society cannot be met by existing expertise. Knowledge alone won’t do it. Instead, brave acts of creativity and collaboration are called for. There is a world of possibility waiting to be created. In this new realm of hyper-challenge, there is no room for grandstanding, no room for ‘me first’ leaders.
To meet this challenge we need to understand how the human mind works: how individual egos can get in the way, how unruly egos can bend teams and organisations out of shape. Leaders with quietened egos are able to release the energy and creativity of a connected, collaborative, and highly effective community around them.
The WISE Leadership Process helps leaders find a sustainable practice and way of leading that enables them to respond successfully to their biggest challenges and opportunities.
The world faces massive and unprecedented challenges. At the organisational level, these include redefining the meaning of work; harnessing the extraordinary accelerated adoption of digital and distributed working; creating genuinely diverse and humane organisations.
Organisations also have a wider stakeholder role within Society where leaders need to engage and understand issues such as climate change, racial and gender inequality, the handling of global crises, questions around global food supply and societal inequities – to name but a few.
It will create leaders that have:
• A greater sense of purpose and tolerance of uncertainty for employees and stakeholders
• A strong sense of common humanity
• An authentic embodiment of their organisation’s values
• Free flowing creativity
• A genuine interest and engagement in the wider society.
"Our intention has been to create something extremely practical, where participants can see how making small interventions can make unexpectedly large changes."
Michael Chaskalson