Entrepreneurship & Leadership

This session explores how entrepreneurial attitudes and leadership responsibility shape effective decision-making. Students learn to navigate uncertainty, inspire others and apply practical judgement in real business contexts. Through practical examples and interactive discussion, they examine how leaders foster innovation, manage challenges and build resilient teams capable of driving meaningful and sustainable impact.

Leadership & Change Management – Part 1: Pressure and Decision-Making

This session explores how leaders handle pressure and make effective decisions using the Satir Change Model and Lean Change Management. Students learn to read signals at each stage, manage chaos and apply rapid, evidence-based actions to guide teams through organisational change.

Leadership & Change Management – Part 2: Time, Rhythm and Negotiation

This session focuses on managing time, organisational rhythm and strategic negotiation during periods of change. Using Satir and Lean Change principles, students practise pacing transformation, aligning stakeholders and adapting communication rhythms to move from chaos to successful integration.

Adaptation, Adversity and Creative Leadership

This session explores how leaders respond when reality does not follow the plan. Through examples from sport, business and personal experience, students examine the role of preparation, resilience and creativity in moments of uncertainty. The discussion focuses on the difference between improvisation and true adaptation: improvisation reacts without preparation, while adaptation applies judgement, experience and training to new situations. Using stories about adversity, risk, visualisation and unconventional leadership, the session also explores the idea of the “maverick” leader — someone capable of thinking independently, reading the environment and finding creative solutions when conventional approaches fail. Students are encouraged to understand that preparation, courage and adaptability are essential for effective decision-making in changing environments.

Failure, Responsibility and the Long-Term Legacy of Leadership

The final session examines how success and failure shape leadership over time. Using examples from sport and real-world decision-making, students analyse how leaders learn from mistakes, respond to pressure and maintain responsibility for their actions. The session explores key ideas such as commitment, effort, trust, communication, ethics, and the role of environment and character in shaping leaders. Special attention is given to the idea that success is not simply measured by results but by coherence — the alignment between what leaders say, what they do, and how they behave when no one is watching. The session concludes by reflecting on leadership legacy: the long-term impact leaders leave through their decisions, values and the people they influence.