Author Archives: zak
Leaders and Mentors
Preparing the Youth Lilian Baylis School in Lambeth, south London was regarded by many as [...]
Dec
Soft Power is Smart Power
It’s More Than Academia I had just finished my address to the gathered officers of [...]
Dec
Leading from the Front
A Generational Leadership Shift PPS – Izak Smit Another fascinating trip to Johannesburg led me [...]
Nov
The Squandering of Soft Power
A New Age of Leadership There was a time when the people worked for the [...]
Nov
Older Doesn’t Mean Better
Leadership Through the Dip Exceptional times demand exceptional leadership. And make no mistake about it, [...]
Nov
Higher and Higher
5 Ways to Create an Inclusive Culture The technology division of Vodafone, like far too [...]
Oct
The Illusion of Inclusion
We Don’t See Things The Same I was meeting Priyanka’s mother for the first time, [...]
Oct
Where’s Rene?
BBC Children in Need Having worked with The Executive Team of BBC Children in Need [...]
Oct
On the Journey to Diversity
African Development Bank Back in Abidjan, Ivory Coast with the African Development Bank (AfDB), I [...]
Oct
Emotionally Unintelligent
Theresa May has been cruelly nicknamed the Maybot, for her robotic and unemotional responses to [...]
Sep