Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) in Europe, Middle-East, Africa - Leadership development solutions provider

CCL-Africa: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®) launched Leadership Beyond Boundaries (LBB)™, a global initiative to democratize leadership development and unlock human potential in 2006. We have delivered LBB programs to more than 20 developing countries to over 50,000 individuals and more than 100 social sector organizations over the past years. Through this effort, we are working to make high-quality leadership development affordable, accessible and scalable to all people around the globe. CCL has begun creating low cost leadership development programs, tools, and models that can be offered at the grassroots via NGOs, educational institutions, government agencies, and community organizations. These methods apply more than four decades of knowledge from CCL's research and training practice to create: a greater understanding of leadership and development; provide enhanced self-awareness, clarity of challenges and goals, and interpersonal and coaching skills; and build self-confidence and a learning orientation.		Featured Images LBB Program Participants Leadership Essentials Training CCL Team in Ethiopia CCL Training Space in Addis Ababa CCL Training Space in Addis Ababa LBB Africa Youth Leadership
Programs & Activities Customized Solutions for Social Sector Youth and Women Leadership Leadership Essentials for Grassroots Train the Trainer Program	Partnerships World Learning Under a USAID grant initiative, CCL works as a sub-recipient to World Learning to pilot an innovative program in Gambella region of Ethiopia to address HIV prevention, care and support through a leadership lens. More... IOCC CCL and IOCC have worked on co-developing several proposals to donors like USAID for combining development initiatives and leadership for multiple sectors. More... USAID The United States Agency for International Development provides funding for CCL initiatives through partners like World Learning and many others. More... Desert Rose Consulting Desert Rose Consulting offers unique consulting services in social anthropology, innovation and design that CCL has tapped into for product development, tool contextualization, program design, and monitoring & evaluation. More... Unity University CCL and Unity University, a member of the MIDROC Technologies group in Ethiopia, have teamed up to provide executive leadership development for senior MIDROC employees. More...	Featured Video Loading the player ...
Featured Staff Steadman Harrison III - Regional Director, Africa Read Bio Aaron White - Deputy Regional Director, Africa Read Bio	Testimonials "I have never been in a program that stimulated my self-reflection as much" — LBB participant Sub-Saharan Africa "In the developed countries this leadership teaching may result in better management, better business practices. But here, here in Uganda, this teaching has the ability to save lives" — LBB participant from NGO in Uganda. "The approach was particularly helpful in modeling open and fluid teaching in line with the principle of "development is a dynamic process". Learning by watching and doing reflects mix of learning about myself and learning about training." — LBB participant Sub-Saharan Africa "Within the first hour of the program, it felt like we had bonded and know each other for a long time. We were friends, sharing the same passion and with a common goal to learn and grow better; and so the classroom became a place where we put aside our credentials, age and positions to focus on our development as leaders". — Leadership Essentials participant, Ethiopia	Resources Leadership Beyond Boundaries Blog Peace Corps Action Learning Toolkit ILA Video: Steadman Harrison Defines Leadership

Steadman Harrison III - Regional Director, Africa

Experience
Steadman has sixteen years of experience in non-profit leadership, marketing, operations, and research. As an expert in managing large-scale complex projects, Steadman provides innovative approaches and operational direction for the delivery of successful, high-quality research and delivery initiatives. As a key member of the Research Innovation and Product Development group, Steadman serves as an innovation catalyst to help design, deliver, and test new and sustainable models for leadership development that are inclusive, accessible, and affordable. His engagements regularly involve the design, delivery, and project management needs of a very diverse global clientele. He has supported interventions for top companies in the following sectors: non-profit, computer, software, biotech, oil, consumer products, insurance, manufacturing, education, and the U.S. Government. Steadman's experience as a senior faculty for design and delivery of leadership development spans work in Uganda, Kenya, Sudan, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Ghana, Nigeria, Liberia, South Africa, India, Belgium, the Caribbean, and the United States. For the past seven years he has trained extensively in a variety of custom and open enrollment programs including the Leadership Beyond Boundaries Training of Trainers platform both in the US and abroad.

Current Role
Steadman Harrison, MA/MTS, is the Regional Director, Africa for the Center for Creative Leadership(CCL^®), a leadership training and research organization dedicated to helping companies improve their effectiveness and competitiveness through people. In the past four years, the Center has begun to scale an initiative entitled, Leadership Beyond Boundaries, taking leadership development beyond the domain of senior level executives at large multinational corporations to people everywhere who play a role in enacting leadership. Recent initiatives have included a focus on emerging markets, nonprofits, young leaders, and leveraging technologies such as mobile phones, iTunes, and Second Life...Educational Background .Steadman holds a B.A. in Psychology from the UNC-Chapel Hill and a M.A. from Houston Graduate School of Theology. Steadman is an ordained ARP elder and a visiting professor at Unity University in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where he teaches Executive Programs.

Publications and Professional Affiliations
As a thought leader on leadership development, Steadman began publishing chapters and articles focused on the notion of broadening the conversation of leadership with the aim of democratizing leader development globally. Recent publications include chapters in the 2010 ASTD Leadership Handbook, CCL's 4th edition of the Handbook of Leadership Development, the Pfeiffer Annual Leadership Development, and Mitchel Rothstein's Self-Management and Leadership Development. Steadman is a member of the Association of Managers of Innovation, TED, Ashoka Changemakers, and an author of the Leadership Beyond Boundaries blog.

Aaron White - Deputy Regional Director, Africa

Experience
Aaron White has worked in East Africa since 2005, where he started in Tanzania working for a small community based organization that focused on bringing engaging and creative education initiatives to rural communities. Since then, Aaron has worked in Rwanda with mountain gorillas and then moved on to spend the last 5 years in Ethiopia working in the relief and development. Providing humanitarian relief to Somali refugees, working among displaced populations along the Sudan border and providing emergency nutrition for victims of famine has given Aaron a unique understanding of the development world and the socio-political landscape of East Africa.

Current Role
Since joining CCL in January 2011, Aaron has been working as Deputy Regional Manager for Africa programs. With the desire to bring leadership development to the grassroots level, Aaron has piloted and developed grant programs for leadership as a lever for peace, leadership for food security, youth mentoring, and leadership for HIV and health programming. Aaron has been active in the innovation space, working with others to develop new tools and new methods to bring leadership to a broader community.

Educational Background
Aaron graduated with honors from Northern Michigan University with a degree in Biology and Chemistry. From high school, continuing on today, Aaron has been very active with Young Life, a youth outreach ministry that spans the globe.

Publications and Professional Affiliations
Aside from designing and writing numerous grants and proposals, Aaron has worked with various technical working groups to develop nutrition, food security, water, and OVC protocols/guidelines that have been distributed throughout the humanitarian community in Ethiopia. Additionally, Aaron worked to create a regional version of the INEE Minimum Standards for Education in Emergencies for the UN Education Cluster and co-authored the Ethiopian Guidelines on Non-food Items Assessment and Distribution for the UN Shelter/NFI Cluster.

Customized Solutions for Social Sector

Leadership development is as important to organizations working in the social sector as those in the for-profit sector. Nonprofits tackle critical and complex social issues with limited resources. These external challenges, furthermore, are compounded by challenges that lie within NGOs themselves – promoting empowerment, collaboration, and retention.

Many NGOs have not worked to embed and share leadership within the organization. In many cases, founders or senior leaders hold a tight grip over the day-to-day operations. This is a source of frustration for employees and a key reason for turnover. The lack of training and development is also a factor in the high burnout rates and stagnation present among employees in this sector.

In contrast, we observe that social sector organizations that achieve scale have typically developed leaders at all levels, enabling frontline staff to respond creatively to opportunities and challenges. Through Leadership Beyond Boundaries, CCL is working to enhance leadership capacity in the social sector, working in environments where the need is greatest.

Youth and Women Leadership

A refrain often heard in our programs for senior executives is the regret that they hadn't had the experience earlier in life. CCL is working to unlock the potential of young people around the world by collaborating with education and community organizations serving youth to develop leadership tools, toolkits, curriculum, and train-the-trainer programs. We've seen first-hand the impact this work can have, from enabling young people to rise to challenges such as the tsunami in Sri Lanka, to helping orphans in Uganda gain confidence, to accelerating the ability of young managers in India to learn from experience, to deepening empathy and purpose for high-potential youth in the US.

Leadership Essentials for Grassroots

The vast majority of the people in the world live in developing countries. Leadership is a lever that can propel organizational effectiveness in emerging markets, as well as unlock the greater potential of those living in poverty. The Center's efforts in Africa and India are creating local capacity to respond to leadership needs with NGOs, community organizations, educational institutions, and corporations.

Leadership Essentials Program

The Center has created a simplified curriculum titled Leadership Essentials that can be delivered at the grassroots. The program has been delivered to thousands of individuals across the developing world since it was launched in 2008. Leadership Essentials is coupled with a train-the-trainer offering to enable grassroots trainers to learn and practice facilitation skills along with gaining mastery over content. The train-the-trainer program has enabled universities, NGOs, and community organizations in Asia, Africa, and North America to provide high quality leadership development to local populations at low cost.

Train the Trainer Program

Through the Leadership Beyond Boundaries (LBB) initiative CCL is working to make high-quality leadership development affordable and accessible to the people around the globe. CCL has begun creating low cost leadership development programs, tools, and models that can be offered at the grassroots via NGOs, educational institutions, government agencies, and community organizations. These methods apply decades of knowledge from CCL's research and training practice to create: a greater understanding of leadership and development; provide enhanced self-awareness, clarity of challenges and goals, and interpersonal and coaching skills; and build self-confidence and a learning orientation.

Main LBB initiatives include:

Train-the-Trainer Program
Using insights from these immersions we are now working to prototype and test new, innovative, and sustainable models for leadership development that are inclusive, accessible, and affordable. This work fuses knowledge from the Center with the capabilities of other educational and training entities around the world. The effort thus far spans developing women who work in government in emerging democracies; young leaders in Africa and US inner cities; NGO professionals working on public health issues in Africa and human development in India and Laos; virtual training, coaching and mentoring programs for young professionals; and cross-sectoral dialogue about the importance of grassroots leadership in fragile states and in times of crisis. As we embark on this bold effort, we recognize that we can't achieve our ambitious goals alone.

Read about all LBB initiatives at LeadBeyond.org.