This lesson will be convicting for many but if truth be told, many leaders need to learn to slow down, pause and even completely stop. Right now. Leader types are action orientated, doers and driven, yet even the most powerful of them needs to acquire this habit of regular pauses and fully benefit from that as individuals and for those they lead. Often when we refuse to voluntarily stop, invariably we are involuntarily grounded. And sometimes it is final and fatal.
In this module 6 (of 8) of the DeepLEAD Growth Series, Character & Character, you will:
Be convinced about the place and power of pause in deep leadership,
Establish a reflective lifestyle as the true rhythm of DeepLEAD,
Provide potent questions for pausing to ponder, and
Propose practices and tools that provide a platform and process for living out the power of pause.
Who this course is for?
LeaderVarsity is aimed at both youth/learners as an emerging workforce and established leaders, especially teachers and executives who shape the world of learning and beyond but who may inadvertently have gaps in their own leadership formation. From the foregoing, it is evident that Leadervarsity “promote[s] lifelong learning opportunities for all”, the fourth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG). Again, if by 2030 Africa would have “substantially increase[d] the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills… for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship,” according to SDG 4.4, then an edtech intervention like LeaderVarsity at scale is a sine qua non. The tech-enabled and tech-based nature of LeaderVarsity provides the kind of access (anyone anywhere) that makes SDG 4 vision of inclusivity and equitability of quality education happen. The goal of LeaderVarsity is the fulfilment of SDGs 4 (education), 8 (decent work and economic growth) and 17 (partnerships).
Dr. Yaw Perbi is a Ghanaian-Canadian medical doctor and serial entrepreneur with three decades of executive leadership experience spanning medical, military, missional, media, ministerial, multinational and multilateral organizations. For eight years Yaw was President & CEO of a Canadian non-profit in the international education space. Dr. Perbi has served in over 50 countries in-person, on all continents, and has been the toast of media groups worldwide ranging from the BBC and CBC through CNN to the National Press Club (Washington DC). Yaw is the Founder and Principal at PELÉ. As an Executive Coach, few things thrill his heart than seeing C-level executives grow in authenticity, succeeding in life and leadership, and attaining lasting significance in society.