Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our Future

S2-Ep49: Africa’s EU Ambassador Redefines Leadership: How You Have Global Impact


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Guests: Cynthia Cherrey, CEO of the International Leadership Association, & Ajay Bramdeo, African Union Ambassador to the EU

This classic episode, revisited, focuses on global challenges. Migration – legal and illegal – is just one major issue haunting the globe. As the world faces this, climate change, and other international challenges, what can you do?

Plenty, as we learn in this episode! ILA CEO Cynthia Cherrey opens the conversation by discussing the frameworks and forum for the new leadership needed to develop solutions which the Association’s annual global conference provides. Then Ambassador Ajay Bramdeo steps in to point out how old-school leadership fails in light of illegal migration and other global challenges – and how redefining leadership is necessary to solve them.

Here's what Cynthia, Ajay, and Maureen cover:

  1. The needs Cynthia saw in the leadership community…and how establishing ILA’s global conference can help fill them;
  • The origins of the migration crisis, focusing on Africa’s emigres as an example of how poor leadership exacerbates the issue; and
  • Solutions – including the leadership traits you can practice in your own organization which, in the long term, can influence resolving global issues.
  • Produced in conjunction with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org.

     

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    - Work, War, and In-Between: An International Peace Negotiator’s Top Tips for Resolving Conflict with John, Lord Alderdice

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    RESOURCES:  

    You can learn more about Cynthia Cherrey’s organization – as well as their next global conference – on the International Leadership Association website: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org. https://ilaglobalnetwork.org/.

     

    To learn more about the African Union, check out https://au.int. https://au.int/.

     

    Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here

     

    Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI, or check out the Kindle version at https://amzn.to/44buVz8. The audiobook version is now available at  https://amzn.to/4dTCleZ.

     

    Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here

     

    Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:

    • Take Back Your Power: 10 New Rules for Women at Work by Ancestry CEO Deb Liu, on how to overcome the obstacles women still face in the workplace – especially in tech. It’s in hardback at https://amzn.to/47OUO9E, and audio at https://amzn.to/3Y6EmOQ.
  • Covert Cows and Chick-fil-A by Steve Robinson; it’s available in hardback at https://amzn.to/460LnmQ, on Kindle at https://amzn.to/3RVXhZs, and as an audiobook at https://amzn.to/3xPjBgn.
  • The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. Paperback = https://amzn.to/3VEl7cU, Kindle = https://amzn.to/45JGm1L, and audiobook = https://amzn.to/3RPhC2y
  • Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
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    About Our Guests:

    Cynthia Cherrey, is president and CEO of the International Leadership Association (ILA), a global network of leadership scholars, educators, and practitioners. Previously, Cynthia served as Vice President and Lecturer in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. She publishes in the areas of leadership, organizational development, and higher education including coauthoring Systemic Leadership: Enriching the Meaning of our Work, coediting ILA’s Building Leadership Bridges book series, and co-editing Women and Leadership around the World. She is a Fellow at the World Business Academy and a recipient of a J.W. Fulbright Scholarship. Cynthia’s interests and research explore new ways to live, work, and lead in a knowledge-driven, interdependent, global society. She consults and speaks to for profit and nonprofit organizations around the world on leadership and organizational change.

    Ajay Bramdeo is the African Union Ambassador to the European Union. In this position, Bramdeo is working to overcome the historical legacy of relations between Africa and Europe to establish more mutually beneficial exchanges between the two continents, particularly, in recent years, in terms of migration. He is also engaged in ensuring that Africa’s voice carries weight within larger global systems for governance, such as the United Nations and global conversations around peace and security.

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