Life-long learning and leaping ahead.
LEAP Life had informally started at the end of the first LEAP YOUth (ex LEAP Advanced) cohort in 2016, through all the alumni that continuously remain engaged, continuing their personal development journey and learning further.
With the help of LEAP alumni, LEAP Life was born officially in 2020 with the vision of continuing our development journey, fostering a new sense of ongoing learning, courageous practice and re-generation, and leveraging this incredible community of diverse change agents.
Nowadays LEAP Life fosters several spaces and activities following this vision (e.g. LEAP Life Brave Spaces, LEAP Life Master Classes), as ways of continuing inspiring exchange and learning with and form one another.
Stay informed about future activities on our website and facilitate a LEAP Life space yourself!
Inspiring a new generation of leaders
LEAP is the oikos Leadership initiative focusing on building capacity in the oikos community with the necessary competencies, qualities, practices, tools and global network to become conscious leaders in the co-creation of thriving and sustainable societies.
The question of transitioning to sustainability, creating thriving and flourishing living systems highlights the need for conscious leadership development. There is a blind spot in our global efforts to create a sustainable global society. A growing number of researchers in sustainability science, as professor Christine Wamsler from Lund University, elucidate that our sustainability challenge cannot be resolved only by new technology, policy or governance approaches. There is a need to address leadership, to educate and prepare students to lead solutions for sustainability and to focus on the role of the inner dimensions (described as people‘s mindsets consisting of values, beliefs, world-views, motivations and associated cognitive, emotional and relational capacities) of human beings and the potential of inner transformation as a powerful leverage point for sustainability (Wamsler 2019).
A big part of oikos’ mission is to transform education. We understand we have a significant role in developing our individual and group members to be inspired, skilled and empowered at imagining and leading sustainability transitions. In this context, LEAP plays a key role in introducing emerging leadership models, in order to overcome the dominant paradigm of leadership, which is often seen as a driver of unsustainable practices.
Ever since 2015, our LEAP initiative has brought different programs and tracks to life based on the needs of the community.
Find out more on our website. 🤩
LEAP tools are a living set of ressources and guides to help oikos students, alumni, partners and friends of oikos as well as experienced coaches on the journey to responsible leadership.
LEAP Tools is a project supporting you to thrive by providing you and your community with the space and tools to grow personally and professionally and to build a strong and engaged team. It can be a simple gift for the members of your organization or the chance to connect better with your whole team. The LEAP Tools for chapters allow you to introduce this program to your local student groups.
Learn more and access this amazing toolbox via this link!
Experience magic of conscious leadership & personal development.
LEAP YOUth is a 10-month transformational leadership program for international students from oikos community focusing on building leadership capacity with the necessary competencies, qualities, practices, tools and global network to become conscious leaders in the co-creation of thriving and sustainable societies. Since 2015, 300+ participants from 30+ countries have been equipped with knowledge and capacity for conscious leadership on transformative change for sustainability, empowered and inspired to act as conscious leaders in their communities.
Further details on the program, framework and the impact you can check out in the pdf below.
Apply for the program and become conscious leader yourself >> jump on the website right away!
The LEAP Researchers is a 9-month program for the joint personal and professional development of Early Career Researchers (ECRs) - Masters students, PhD students and Post-doctoral researchers addressing sustainability challenges. Program aims to empower academics, helping them reach their full potential in personal development, while fulfilling the mission of researching and transforming economics and management education for sustainable future. With this program we intend to contribute to designing an economic system that allows both the planet and people to thrive.
LEAP Researchers 2023 in a Nutshell
9-month leadership development program for 10 to 15 Early Career Researchers
monthly group online sessions tailored to participants’ needs, personal development themes alternate professional ones
individual professional coaching and the possibility to engage in peer group coaching
opportunity to support university students in their sustainability-oriented projects
minimum time commitment: 4-5 hours per month
Some more info can be found on the 1-pager below and on our webpage!