Leadership for Sustainable Development Program calls for Application

LEADERSHIP FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (COHORT 18)

BY

FEDEN/LEAD–ANGLOPHONE WEST AFRICA (LEAD-AWA)

 

LEAD-Anglophone West Africa, is a Member Program of LEAD International, a U.K based global non-profit organization, founded by the Rockefeller Foundation 20 years ago. LEAD now has a fast growing network of over 2,500 high net worth leaders and professionals around 80 countries, all inspired and committed to building and achieving leadership and good governance for a sustainable world, through capacity building and networking. 

Objective

Skills-based, hands-on, competence-centered learning experience, structured to add more value to your skills, profession, and career, also making you more rounded to create and lead impactful change in your own sphere of influence, due to its ease of transference to real life, work and business situations.

Features and Benefits:

• You become an outstanding achiever, leader and change–agent, fully-rounded by a multi-disciplinary and multi-sectoral, experiential learning approach, able to take on broader and added responsibilities, and equipped to make decisions from a wider systems perspective. Due to its unique curriculum and program, LEAD Fellows have a unique, highly sought leadership expertise throughout the world.

• Ours is the only leadership programme that provides you a network and platform to leverage high net worth leaders including Ministers, Managing Directors, Permanent Secretaries, Commissioners, DGs, General Managers etc.
• It is customised to suit your budget through our flexi-plan offer.
• Adopts the internationally acclaimed LEAD curriculum with a sustainability component, adjudged the best on all scores based on popular research and scoping of major global leadership and sustainable development programs; including the topmost International and Ivy League institutions.
• After 20 years, the LEAD curriculum and approach compare to none, and is still the only leadership and sustainability program that transforms and delivers contemporary leaders, preparing them for driving change in a national and global setting.

 

Who Should Apply

Time-constrained, professionals who wish to accelerate their career, expand knowledge, and build leadership skills and competencies in a robust multi-disciplinary, multi-sectoral setting; to become better decision makers and change leaders for a sustainable world.

 

Duration and Benefits:  A well-paced, program with two offerings:

The Standard Package and the customized, flexi-plan package delivered in at various exotic locations as follows:

 

The Flagship Cohort Program covers:

 

National Sessions

• 1^st Session at FEDEN/LEAD-AWA Secretariat Lagos
• 2^nd National Retreat Session at the Sheraton Hotel Lagos

Regional/International Session

·         A 5-day Regional and International Sessions

(Location/Dates to be confirmed)

 

The international session is highly ADVANTAGEOUS and allows you network further, working with others from all sectors and disciplines, solving practical leadership and sustainability issues in a foreign location, with potential application for your national situation. Admittance into the prestigious LEAD International Fellowship with over 2,500 members in 80 countries

 

Customized Flexi –Plan Option

This plan offers you an array of any session combinations of your choice or a standalone session to achieve Associateship and receive a certificate in Leadership and Sustainable Development providing the flexibility of meeting your time constraints. Please call for further enquiries.

 

Benefits

Participants who opt for the standard package will complete the National, Regional and International sessions and would graduate as LEAD Fellows

 

Those who undertake any of the sessions will receive a certificate in Leadership and Sustainable Development.

 

MODULE CONTENT

Leadership Module

1.      Why do you think you are a Leader

2.      Leadership in Africa and emerging global trends

3.      How leaders promote change for sustainable development

4.      Governance: How to make the difference

5.      Handling and resolving conflicts

6.      Engaging stakeholders, negotiating, and building consensus

7.      Getting your message across so that every word counts

8.      Resolving the dynamics in making ethical decisions and judgments

9.      Team building and team working for collaboration

10.  Using Systems Thinking for analyzing and solving complex problems.

11.   Successful advocacy

Sustainable Development Module

1. Emerging global developmental and environmental challenges: Opportunities for partnerships.
2. Climate change and how it impacts economies: Adaptation, mitigation and vulnerabilities
3. Overview of sustainable development:  Theory, practice and challenges.
4. Energy, Environment and Development: The true measure of development

5.      Understanding Sustainable Development and climate change

6.      Population and Sustainable Development

Business and Social Entrepreneurship Modules

1.      Adding Value through Social Entrepreneurship

2.      You can make change happen: Are you a social entrepreneur

3.      Introduction to Cleaner Development Mechanisms and carbon market

4.      Applying Environmental Economics to sustainable development

Field Trips

Field trips constitute a vital component of the curriculum which provide an opportunity to integrate newly acquired skills with previous training and experience, in appreciation of contemporary real-life development and environment issues.

EXTRAS:

Ø  Opportunity to participate a cross sectoral and multi-disciplinary teams

Ø  On-line sessions allow interface with others across the LEAD Network.

Ø  Group Leadership Projects (GLPs) to demonstrate practical change, with possibility of international partnership and funding.

Fees: Call for details and Group Discount Rates also available on request.

Closing Date: September 28, 2012
Contact:

Regional Programme Director
Email: info@lead-awa.org

Tel: +234 -1- 7742076, 0704687224