Time for Conscious Leadership

Business leaders are facing unprecedented demands that awaken us to the new dawn of leadership. The lessons of navigating through intensified global conflict, a period of political volatility in the USA, Europe and beyond and the impact of the global pandemic are still to be fully learnt.  However, what has already emerged is that boardroom preoccupation with short-term financial results has been displaced by 360 stakeholder demands for sustainable solutions and impact.  More and more leaders are being retained and rewarded for their shift in focus from their own high performance to people-centric, values-led leadership that empower others to learn and grow.  And businesses that are succeeding are those that are radically shifting their business models from authoritarian, hierarchal structures to decentralized decision-making to enable greater innovation and creativity. 

  “The signature characteristic of our time is the pace of change.  After 13.5 billion years of evolution, change went hypercritical in our lifetime.  The world is changing faster than companies can become resilient.”
― Gary Hamel, Time for Management 2.0

I believe in the radical adoption of conscious leadership to break down the barriers to New Law.  Through opening pathways to de-centralised decision-making, empowering leaders who challenge the status quo and, creating environments that foster innovation and collaboration, together we welcome the Future of Law. 

In this three part series of articles, I set out the case for conscious leadership, put it in the context of leadership in the legal sector and give some practical action steps that you can take to ensure that you are better prepared for the Future of Law.