Leadership Bootcamp
Top Leadership
This section is designed for those in executive positions as well as those who serve in oversight bodies such as boards and committees. It is intended to help leaders in top positions reflect on topics that could lead them to inflexion points as they lead their organisations through complexity.
Opinion Pieces
Interview with Cathie Lewis – Are “Net Positive” companies a solution to inequality?
In this video, Dr Claudelle and Cathie Lewis discuss stakeholder capitalism and whether its principles are appropriate for our world today. Is stakeholder capitalism both desirable and viable?
Interview with Cathie Lewis -Sustainability is a leadership issue
Sustainability, in its fullest context, is still only truly understood by a few. Is the hype around sustainability designed to spook us unnecessarily?
Interview with Russ Stoddard – Leading stakeholder capitalism
In this conversation Dr Claudelle and Russ Stoddard discuss stakeholder capitalism and how humanity has been brainwashed into thinking of business profits as the sole domain of shareholders.
Interview with Russ Stoddard – Business as a force for good
In this conversation Dr Claudelle and Russ Stoddard discuss business as a social construct and the degree to which its current form has facilitated human greed.
Interview 2 with Muzi Sikhakhane SC – Courage to lead self
In this conversation, Dr Claudelle and Muzi Sikhakhane SC explore the inner self.
Interview 1 with Muzi Sikhakhane SC – Does law serve society?
In this conversation, Dr Claudelle and Muzi Sikhakhane SC look through the lens of law and explore questions such as: what the relationship between law and politics?
Interview with Ansie Ramalho – The overlooked value of feminine leadership
In this conversation, Dr Claudelle and Ansie Ramalho discuss the unique value female leaders bring to organisations. The discussion includes linking characteristics associated with feminine leadership to certain governance principles.
Interview with Ansie Ramalho -Overcoming leadership challenges
In this conversation, Dr Claudelle and Ansie Ramalho explore modern-day leadership challenges and how Ansie has dealt with some of the challenges she has had to face.
Interview with Priscillah Mabelane, Executive Vice President for Energy Business at Sasol – Levelling the Leadership Playing Field
In this conversation Dr Claudelle and Priscillah Mabelane explore the factors that contribute to the challenges women find in leadership and how to break through those barriers.
Interview with Priscillah Mabelane, Executive Vice President for Energy Business at Sasol – New Leadership Challenges
In this conversation Dr Claudelle and Priscillah Mabelane explore the challenges leaders face in a fast-changing world and the leadership skills that have become non-negotiable.
Is Culture on the Board’s agenda?
Despite all the corporate failures, we should spare some empathy for Boards. The complexities that they have to deal with, in relation to the time
Tone at the top vs actual culture
Tone at the top, as an important governance principle, has gained more prominence over the last number of years as one corporate scandal after the
Making better Board decisions
Boards always run the risk of making decisions that could backfire on them, especially in a world where increasing complexity is the order of the
Transformation is more than a numbers game
The investment bank Godman Sachs recently announced their new diversity rule that states that they will no longer take companies public that do not have
Dealing with whistleblowers in the organisation
Many organisations do not consider whether they have enough measures in place to ensure a speak-up culture. Encouraging employees to blow the whistle safely requires
Your organisation is a corporate citizen
It is only in recent times that we have started to see a shift in the understanding of the role of organisations in the broader
Understand different realities
Most of us walk around thinking that everyone around us see the world exactly the way we see it. Understanding that people experience the world
Are you captured?
It is always easier for us to recognise unethical behaviour in others than it is to detect it in ourselves. Similarly it is easier to
Abuse of power
Leaders must always be aware of the power they hold and how easy it is to abuse that power. Abuse of power has tremendous ethical
Why governance principles fail
In recent times there has been an increase in focus on governance codes in an attempt to ensure that organisations are well governed and therefore
Making better decisions
Making Board better decisions Boards always run the risk of making decisions that could backfire on them. Wrong decisions can severely damage the reputation
One who bathes willingly with cold water doesn’t feel the cold.
— Fipa proverb
