the future of leadership development

The Future of Leadership Development

Claire Reinelt , Ph.D.Leadership Learning Community

National Public Health Leadership Development ConferenceApril 28, 2010

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Our current approaches to leadership development will not enable us to reach the

scale of leadership we need to create the change we seek.

Where are we now in our leadership work and where do we need to be 10 years from now?

Where We Are Now

Individual Leader Development

Individual Skills and Knowledge

Strong Organizations

Community Results

Our current model is…

– Not scalable

– Exclusive

– Fragmented

Why Think Differently About Leadership?

Where We Need to Go

From Individuals to Groups…

Image and Quote Source: “A Reflection on How Social Networks Can Become a Powerful Tool To Meet Basic Needs and Build Momentum for Change”, The Diarist Project

The Promotora Institute

“The Promotora model is sort of the Peace Corps model based on local needs and local solutions, except that it is not the educated helping the ‘uneducated’. It’s the community helping itself.”

Asian Pacific American Legal Center

Angela Glover Blackwell (A Conversation on Boundary Crossing Leadership)

We live in the most multicultural, multiethnic society in the world, right here in California and we need to make certain that groups that share common issues, but do not share common historical traditions, are

able to work together.

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Networked Devices + Connected People = Healthier Communities

Source: “The Future of Health is Social” Fast Company, Jennifer Kilian and Barbara Pantuso

From Organizations to Networks…

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In a period of great uncertainty, the most difficult topics must be discussed. Dissenters who can provide crucial insights need to be protected from the organizational pressure to remain silent. Executives need to listen to unfamiliar voices and set the tone for candor and risk

taking.

Ron Heifetz et. al (Harvard Business Review)

Leading in a (Permanent) Crisis

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Discovery of Genetic Sequence of SARS

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Hierarchical, Highly Controlled Model Networked, Open Model

The value of collective leadership networks is in their capacity to solve problems quickly in an environment of uncertainty and complexity.

-- Watts 2004

Source: Social Networks for Social Change Presentation, The Monitor Institute, 2010

Leadership Roles in Networks

From Silos to Partnerships…

Public Health

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African Public Health Leadership and Systems Innovation Initiative

Image Source: http://www.synergos.org/partnerships/publichealthnamibia.htm

A partnership between Synergos, McKinsey & Co., the Presencing Institute, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to improve health performance in Namibia.

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Leadership in Action Program

Improvement at the population level cannot be made by a single agency or organization but must be part of a cross-sector, public and private movement to achieve a given result using a new paradigm of performance management.

Jolie Bain Pillsbury et al. (Cross Sector

Performance Accountability: Making Aligned Contributions to Improve Community Well-Being)

B-LAP Launched

Group Discussion:

How can we better leverage the power of groups, networks and partnerships to reach a radically different scale of health leadership?

• Focus on relationships

• Catalyze networks

• Partner for results

To Summarize…

Leadership for a New Era

Inclusive, Networked & Collective Leadership

• Engaging 100+ participants

• 3 products: publications, assessment tools, interactive website & directories

• 4 topics: Leadership and Race, Leadership and Networks, Collective Leadership, Leadership Across Difference

Questions

• How is collaborative action catalyzed in networks?

• What design elements support leadership and self-organizing to emerge in networks?

• What is the inner work that leaders need to do to practice effective network leadership?

www.LeadershipLearning.org

www.LeadershipforaNewEra.org

Email: info@leadershiplearning.org

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The great project of the twenty-first century --understanding how the whole of humanity comes to be greater than the sum of its parts -- is just beginning. Like an awakening child, the human superorganism is becoming self-aware, and this will surely help us to achieve our goals. But the greatest gift of this awareness will be the sheer joy of self-discovery and the realization that to truly know ourselves, we must first understand how and why we are all connected.

-- Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives by Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler