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Subscribe on LinkedInLeadership Lens started as a simple conviction: that the most important conversations about leadership in Africa are not happening in the places where they should be. Not in boardrooms. Not in policy papers. Not even in universities.
They are happening in the spaces between — in the questions emerging leaders ask when no one is listening, in the problems practitioners encounter that no framework adequately addresses.
Leadership Lens is my attempt to have those conversations in public. Every issue is drawn from the work — from what I see in Matadors, from what I observe in government and civil society, from what I am reading and thinking about.
It is not a content calendar. It is a thinking practice. Ten issues published so far. One every week.
The case for deliberate discomfort as a growth strategy — and why staying comfortable is one of the most expensive decisions a developing leader can make.
Read on LinkedInBefore you can lead an organisation, a community, or a movement, you have to lead yourself. This issue on the inner work that makes everything else possible.
Read on LinkedInInfluence is not manipulation and it is not authority. It is something rarer and more durable. This issue on what real influence looks like — and how it is built.
Read on LinkedInThe Public Narrative framework — Story of Self, Story of Us, Story of Now — is one of the most powerful tools for civic leadership and community mobilisation.
Read on LinkedInGratitude is not a soft skill. It is a structural one. Why leaders who do not actively cultivate gratitude are building organisations with a ceiling.
Read on LinkedInThe difference between a manager and a leader is often this: one gives instructions, the other creates the conditions for people to exceed them.
Read on LinkedInSilence in a team is not neutrality. It is a signal. The cultural and structural reasons ideas stay hidden — and what leaders can do to change that.
Read on LinkedInConsistency is underrated. Showing up — fully, reliably, and with intention — is one of the simplest and most powerful things a developing leader can do.
Read on LinkedInThere are patterns that show up in every leadership journey — patterns that, if recognised early, can accelerate growth and prevent predictable failures.
Read on LinkedInThe first issue of Leadership Lens. The essay that started the newsletter. Volunteering in Africa is treated as goodwill. It should be treated as civic architecture.
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