We can also run this course with a full cohort from your organisation. Please contact us at info@careknowledge.com for more information.
What changes when leaders make space to think?
This seven-week philosophical programme begins from a simple premise: the hardest decisions in leadership are not managerial or technical, but human. Good leaders need to understand the ideas and values that shape their decisions, their connections, and the lives of those they serve.
Through engagement with ideas and texts, the course challenges leaders to think deeply and critically about themselves and what they believe. It asks fundamental questions: What matters most in leadership and why? What kind of leader do you want to be? What kind of culture do you want to shape? What vision do you want to make possible? And how do you keep asking the questions that matter, even when answers are difficult or unclear?
Our programme invites you into the deeper thinking and understanding that makes for intelligent, imaginative and humane leadership. This is about leadership that begins with knowing yourself and your own humanity and grows into the capacity to guide others meaningfully and responsibly.
The course explores the following themes:
- Thinking in Leadership, Leadership in Thinking
- Humanity and the Measure of Character
- Perspective in Leadership: Everything and Everyone
- Values, Principles and Practice
- The ‘Art’ of Leading Change
- Power, Authority, and Responsibility
- The Philosophical Leader
We believe the most pressing challenges in leadership will not be solved by systems or strategies alone, but by leaders who dare to think more deeply, who can sustain complexity and uncertainty as learning, and who can discipline leadership instincts with intelligent decision making. Our programme exists for those who are ready to make thinking itself their most powerful resource in leading change.
How we work
In order for leaders to put their thinking into practice, they need to practice their thinking. Therefore, this seven-week programme of carefully curated seminar experiences is not training in the usual sense. We bring people and ideas together through the close reading of texts and facilitated conversation, where leaders explore the ideas that animate the decisions they make and practice the kinds of thinking that most matter to them.
Such practice can be demanding: listening with care, questioning assumptions, holding the bigger picture with the small, and testing ideas. But it’s deeply worthwhile. What emerges is not a manual, but an educational experience which develops a cultivated mindset for thinking leaders.
