International Leadership

A discussion with Henry Mintzberg about his book, Rebalancing Society: Radical Renewal, Beyond Left, Right, and Center. Enough of the imbalance that is destroying our democracies, our planet, and ourselves. Enough of the pendulum politics of left and right, as well as the paralysis in the political center. The world we live in needs a form of radical renewal unprecedented in the human experience. This conversation presents an integrative framework to suggest a comprehensive way forward.

Courageous leadership is required to address the world’s most pressing environmental and social issues, such as rising carbon emissions, resource scarcity, plastic pollution, mass migration, poverty and conflict. Maureen Metcalf interviews Mike Gerbis, a business leader who has managed to challenge the status quo, break through traditional conventional commercial approaches and implement more sustainable solutions.

2014 International Award winning book, provides a practical approach for successful and developing leaders to build the global innovative leadership skills required to lead and build thriving global organizations. It is designed for busy leaders who want a comprehensive process accompanied by worksheets, tools and reflection questions along with samples completed by a person testing as a “Level 5″ leader using the term pioneered by Jim Collins in his best selling book Good to Great.

Maureen Metcalf, Forbes.com, December 2017

This conversation features leadership from global and local perspective and explore the international leadership association and its contribution to the research and practice of international leadership. Cynthia Cherrey lives and works at the intersection between research, teaching and the practice of leadership.

The Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) and Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) Alliance for Advancing Leadership in Peace and Security was formed to advance the practices of leading in public, private, non-profit organizations and civil society: especially those dedicated to advancing peace and security. The Leadership Alliance combines expertise in executive education for large, multi-level organizations with in-depth knowledge of peace and security issues and policy in an innovative formula for geopolitical, community, and international leadership development. The leaders offer unique insight into how this partnership was formed, why they think it is a priority and how they are proceeding as an organization.

During this conversation, Mike Hardy, PhD talks about peacefulness – and leading toward an increased level of peacefulness.

Éliane Ubalijoro, PhD and Maureen discuss leadership the context of the changes we anticipate in the coming years from population growth in Africa to climate incidents to block chain and what is required of leaders now in this era.

Barbara Kellerman, James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School is the Founding Executive Director of the School’s Center for Public Leadership. As part of the International Leadership Association (ILA) series, Barbara Kellerman, recently awarded the ILA’s lifetime achievement award, discusses her thoughts from a global perspective on the end of leadership as well as her point of view about followers, leaders and contexts given our current environment.

Papandreou, former prime minister of Greece, talks about how he navigated major challenge as a leader. One of my key take-a-ways was the importance of building trust and demonstrating courage as foundational skills to leading in turbulent times.

Cynthia created a global conference designed to deeply engage individuals and groups and fundamentally evolve the science and practice of leadership and build a global community of innovation and collaboration. She discusses the conference and the underlying invitation to for leaders to continue to explore this very important topic by engaging in the difficult process of personal growth as leaders continuing to strive to improve our craft of leadership.

By helping leaders understand their own views and behaviors when facing diversity, we enhance our leadership capacity. When we eliminate segments of the population because they appear different, we remove valuable insights and perspectives. The 21st century is a relationship age. Mike discusses the forces of prejudice versus the forces of pluralism.

Juana talks about the eight leadership principles that set the foundation for cross-cultural leadership. These are drawn from best-selling book “Salsa, Soul and Spirit – Leadership for a Multicultural Age” Juana discusses the principles and illustrates them with examples that apply to our current global organizational environments.

Rattan talks about planning and implementing global strategies.

Steve Terrell, co-author of the Innovative Leadership Workbook for Global Leaders talks about developing global leaders.