The Leadership Vanguard

Forward-thinking businesses, governments and NGOs are seeking new ways to serve the needs of 8 billion people while enabling life to flourish on a destabilised and finite planet. Businesses, governments and NGOs increasingly recognise they must collaborate to achieve the transformation needed.

Catalysing this transformation whilst still running the systems that support their stakeholders today is perhaps the greatest struggle for leaders. The pull of the past is strong, and requires business, government and NGO leaders to develop the networks, mindset, and abilities required to trigger, encourage and guide such transformation.

The Leadership Vanguard is a unique cross-sector partnership managed by Xynteo that each year brings together senior leaders from business, government and NGOs to co-develop the networks, mindset and abilities to transform not only their organisations but the systems in which they are embedded.

Each year the programme evolves, but there are constants: leaders step out of their familiar contexts to work in close collaboration with peers from other sectors and diverse external stakeholders. They immerse themselves in systemic problems seeking ways to combine commercial value with value for people and planet. They explore possible futures, build networks of innovators and change-makers, and identify the system interventions necessary for new business models, technologies and ways of organising to thrive. As they collaborate, they build the capabilities and cross-sector networks that will empower them over the years to come.