Core Concepts
We use participation in arts-based and creative approaches to education, elevating learning beyond traditional methods and fostering experiential engagement. This transformative process cultivates profound behavioral changes at a deeper level, leading to systemic transformations within your company or organization.
Here are some key ways in which the arts influence leadership:
Creativity and Innovation
Emotional Intelligence
Communication and Storytelling
Empathy and understanding
Adaptability and resilience
Vision and purpose
Stress-relief and well-being
Team-building and collaboration
Long-term perspective
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We seek to work with individuals, governments and corporations who wish to be part of a new way of thinking about our world and our place in it. Those that are fed up with the status quo and are committed to a ‘higher order’ leadership that places people and planet at a premium.
‘Higher order’ leadership that acknowledges the role of a deeper, more transformative force at play in our thoughts and actions, something that starts from within and ripples out to have outsized effects on those around us and in the world at large.
A desire to work closely with senior leaders to bring about the ‘higher order’ leadership thinking that has the capacity to change the lives of millions of people around the world.
There is no doubt that today’s global leadership is at a crisis point. Leaders of principle are in short supply, politics has become reactionary and isolationist and there is a crying need for leadership that can unite multiple interests into a coherent vision for the reality of today’s world. The model of ‘servant leadership’ that believed in service to a higher cause than oneself, embraced by such visionaries as Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Churchill, Mandela, seems extinct in today’s world. As recent events have seen, we need a new vision of leadership that can steer the course of our globalised world, whilst having the humility to recognise the challenges that ordinary people face in their day to day lives.
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We believe in the power of the arts to affect extraordinary personal transformation that has impact in the world.
The arts appeal to our humanity and invite us to explore the deepest questions that we need to ask ourselves about our world and why we are here. They tap into not only our intellectual and emotional sensibilities but, more profoundly, our spiritual identity and our true reasons for being. When unleashed, these capacities enable us to do more than we ever imagined, allowing us to make extraordinary contributions to the world.
Participation in the arts and creative learning opportunities are also one of the very best ways to develop the 21st century skills that are crucial in a world where technology will dominate more and more and where industrial learning methods and ‘teaching to the test’ are becoming obsolete. It is our creative edge that sets us apart from machines and inspires the leadership that we need to master looming crises coming to our world.
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In the French language, the word ‘globale’ refers not just to a way of thinking internationally or ‘of the world’, but, rather, with a sense or understanding of the totality of an experience or an idea. It is to take into account a more complete view of the subject matter in hand, to see the different elements from multiple perspectives and with a view to taking into account context and a sense of wholeness. We believe that leadership is at its best when it does all of this, acting from a sense of integrity with regards to our responsibilities as leaders and to those we lead, and our mark upon the world. To be a ‘globale’ leader is to be someone who not only understands the world and their place in it, but to act in such a way that they take into account the whole picture when making leadership decisions. That requires a deeper understanding of our roles and responsibilities and to understand our connection with others, our communities and our planet, and to make our decisions with a full – global – understanding of the influences and impacts of those decisions. It is to act with integrity, a sense of wholeness and a truly ‘global’ view.
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True leadership is learnt through practice, not through reading a book or sitting in a lecture. This understanding of how we develop as leaders is key to our experiential learning approach. Our founder’s background, as a grassroots social entrepreneur, leading on the edge in emerging markets who continues to lead projects globally, is key to our belief that leadership is a practice, not a theory.
A unique selling point of our work is the way in which we draw on theatre, artistic processes, and participatory and experiential learning techniques to provide participants the opportunity to practise their leadership development in a ‘rehearsal’ environment.
We often build our programmes around the creation of story and character that acts as a ‘proxy’ to explore complex and sensitive issues which, in turn, create valuable assets for you to use in your own product development, and marketing and communications, both internal and external.
We have developed unique learning and development techniques that develop self-confidence and self-esteem, leadership skills, communication competencies, and creative and innovative thinking to inspire ‘higher order’ leadership in high potential global leaders
Our unique approach provides an enormous added value that creates tangible outputs that go beyond just the development and capacity building of your team and position you as a company with an exceptionally creative and innovative edge