The Vincent Fairfax Fellowship is a unique, transformative program that aims to help leaders to know what’s right, want what’s right and to what’s right for the benefit of the people they lead, the communities they influence and the society they inhabit.
The program tries to support a community of high-calibre leaders who, individually and collectively, are champions of ethical decision-making, moral imagination, care and the common good.
The new Program Director needed our help to make the previous version of the program more experiential and engaging. Rather than simply being an introduction to the core concepts, each component was to take the participants into a broader level of moral engagement.
They needed our help to provide a powerful experience at the begging of the fellowship that brought the cohort together in a way got them to conn ect with each others shared humanity, beyond the masks of their professional selves
Part of the fellowship got participants to create a social impact project intended to engage the fellows in ongoing philosophical conversations about our human capabilities. The intent as to empower these highly influential leaders to put ethical change into action within their organisations. They needed our help to coach the fellows through the ethical learning opportunities that arose through the development of the projects.
We ran our Brave Conversation workshop titled “Being Human” at the launch of the program and provided coaching to fellows during their social impact project.
We also delivered our Human-Centred Leadership and Facilitation Training to the Program Director and a number of the fellows.
The Director was able to develop a more engaging, experiential and transformative program. Fellows reported being more aware of their privilege and having a greater ethical sensibility towards their influence int he world. They talked about the worth of fighting to be more inclusive of the marginalised, acknowledging the value of different perspectives and the importance of a values driven engagement in their work.
Fellows reported having greater confidence in their abilities and that they were more attuned and responsive, rather than being reactive. They emphasised the benefits of having a human-centred approach that values relationships, especially when trying to move beyond the myths of ethical leadership and embrace an inclusive and just practice.
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