Our Leadership for a Complex World programme is designed to challenge delegates to lead and build organisations that can thrive in the face of complexity and uncertainty. Hear from participant Darren Lynton on his experience of the programme. 

Please introduce yourself, telling us what motivated you to apply for the Leadership for a Complex World programme.

My name is Darren Lynton, and I feel like we're all going through a period of change within our company. There's culturally a change, there's been a leadership change, and so I think it's a really good time to review and try to up our game. When I found this programme, I felt it was the perfect one for us. 

What would you define as leadership for a complex world?

Leadership for a complex world means agility and communication, now more than ever. You need to be a person of many hates, juggling people's demands, the changing nature of the world, and more. You have to be able to turn your hand to a little bit of everything or understand your weaknesses, at least. 

What do you hope to learn from this programme?

The programme is going to give me the ability to understand my strengths and weaknesses, to understand areas and give me the skills or methods to approach the new changing world and the problems we've got. Hopefully from this programme, I can build some strategy towards growing the business and moving forward.

Are you enjoying networking with your cohort?

Yes, indeed. Meeting the people on the programme with such similar backgrounds, but different businesses all together has been great. We've had some really interesting conversations. We've actually made sure we stayed over on campus each time so we can spend more time together as a cohort. You learn so much after talking through the course and finding out their unique approaches to business and problems they have encountered. We've learned a lot and built a good group; it's a really nice group of people. 

Why would you encourage others to do this programme?

I would strongly encourage people to do this programme if you're going through a period of change. If you're trying to develop your business or even just plan for the future, it gives you the tools you need to be able to do it properly and consider the requirement in the modern world, because nothing is staying the same. 

To explore this programme further and to see whether you would like to become a leader in a complex world, please see our programme page here.