“You should think of yourself as a Formula 1 race car that needs as much support as you can to get around the racetrack.”
This excellent analogy was made by one of our philanthropic colleagues to a CEO client recently to encourage them to reach out for leadership coaching.
It chimes so well with the themes that we spoke about to the students at the Masters of Social Impact at Swinburne University’s Centre for Social Impact.
Our observations were that:
- Leaders are navigating an external context that includes fast-advancing developments in AI, shifting policy and funding landscapes, national cost of living pressures, and broader geopolitical cross currents.
- They are doing so whilst getting better and more targeted in understanding and measuring how to shift the dial of social impact where there are rarely easy answers.
- In organisations whose operating environments are fast-paced, resource-constrained, and where values and purpose drive culture in ways that can be both powerful and destabilising.
To do this requires leadership that is agile, creative and always learning.
Our experience is that organisational coaching gives leaders the space they need to reflect and recharge AND to access expertise that is not necessarily in their core wheelhouse: whether that’s in strategy, structure, ways of working or scaling culture.
What we love is the unapologetic permission and rationale for leadership support that is nested in this quote and so commonplace in the corporate sector, but still emerging in the social purpose space.
Thank you… to the growing number of philanthropic funders who are encouraging our leaders to invest in themselves and their teams, and to Swinburne CSI who continues to open the eyes and hearts of the next generation of leaders, funders and corporate partners.
