Meet Your Instructor, Peter Boyd | Connected Leadership

Peter Boyd shares his cross-sector journey - from McKinsey and a decade at Virgin Group to teaching at Yale and founding Time4Good - and the three pillars that drive his work: connected leadership, the "great work" of sustainability, and the coaching mindset. He also explains why marathon running has taught him as much about personal leadership as his professional life has.

Key topics:
- Peter's Yale roles and his company, Time4Good
- Private-sector path: McKinsey, ten roles at Virgin Group, and CEO of Virgin Mobile South Africa
- Sustainability work: Carbon War Room, UN Race to Zero, and Sustainable Westport
- The "great work" - Thomas Berry's call for our generation
- The coaching mindset: partnering with people, not fixing them
- Why ultra marathons inform his leadership philosophy

📚 About the Course:

This course is designed to maximize your ability to create change at the individual, team and system levels. Through study, reflection, and deploying practical tools, you will establish a firm connection between your clearly articulated Purpose, effective Priorities, visualized Potential for success, and pathway to maximized Progress. But, what does that mean in practice?

When you take this course, you will:

Improve your ability to get the most out of life: Learn a simple practice to reflect on your purpose, clarify priorities, visualize your potential, and maximize your effectiveness at progressing towards your goals.

Strengthen your leadership toolkit: Tap into your unique leadership style and strengths and join or create a community of others to maximize your potential as a team.

Create change through systems thinking: Become a more effective agent of positive change and appreciate the power and complexity of system thinking.

Course Takeaways:
Improve your ability to get the most out of life
Strengthen your leadership toolkit
Practice and apply systems thinking to plan for change

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🎓 Enroll on Coursera for assessments and a certificate: https://www.coursera.org/learn/connected-leadership

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