Leadership Connections

Leadership Connections is a leadership consultancy also offering HR training, large scale change, leadership safari and mentoring

Lessons from Africa
 

We have jointly founded, with two American organisations, a company called AcaciaTree.

Our vision is to create leadership development programmes around real world projects for communities in need.

Our first trip was to Kenya in June 2005 where we helped build a school with a Maasai village and discovered just how much we have to learn from these amazing people.

John Scherer has written a number of articles, three of which can be accessed below, about our learning from the Maasai on issues related to leadership.

Supporting leaders to overcome their obstacles and develop themselves - through coaching and mentoring

Increasing the effectiveness of management teams through leadership team development

Identifying and improving leadership across the organisation through talent management and leadership development

Mobilising large groups for change through creating inspiring conferences and motivational speaking

Increasing the effectiveness of the Human Resources function through HR strategy and skills development

 

Lessons from Kenya on Leadership

 

Chris Henderson of Leadership Connections has jointly founded, with two organisations from America, a company called AcaciaTree.

Our vision is to create leadership development programmes around real world projects for communities in need. Our first trip was to Kenya in June 2005 where we helped build a school with a Maasai village and discovered just how much we have to learn from these amazing people.

We publish a monthly newsletter which includes a number of features. One of these is an article about our learning from the Maasai on an issue related to leadership.

 

Time - Master or Slave?

John Scherer, one of the joint founders of AcaciaTree, writes about the Maasai perspective on time and what it has to teach us about leadership. More...

The Power of Community

As we learned about how the Maasai have survived these thousand years in harsh, even forbidding conditions with such grace and joy, it became apparent that they had a secret that we have forgotten. Their secret: respect for the community comes first—and last. More...

Resistance to Change

By our Western standards, the Maasai decision-making process appears to take a l-o-n-g time! On closer inspection, however, there is a lot of wisdom an benefit to their very different approach to making decisions. More...

Coaching and International Development

Working in Africa with a number of national institutions involved with HIV/AIDS I was struck by the relevance of coaching to improve our efforts at helping countries in the world with the greatest needs. More...
 

 

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We don't believe in a "hard sell" and often find that people get value out of the exploratory discussion - whether or not we go on to work together.

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Leadership Connections

Leadership Connections is a leadership consultancy also offering HR training, large scale change, leadership safari and mentoring