SYSTEMS INNOVATION LEADERSHIP
Building the future of global health leadership centered in equity
If we are to Heal the world, we need to revisit the the future of leadership and how WE create health in our organizations.
In public health, we use epidemiological tools to measure the incidence and prevalence of illnesses “out there.” But how often do we use those tools to look inward and assess what ails us inside our organizations? Might these organizational ailments be the thing that is preventing us from implementing more effective solutions to improve global health and contribute to our own healing as a system?
The status quo has been harming communities and societies for long enough. The Unnamed Road invites in those who are ready to take personal responsibility for changing it and themselves along the way, to live and create wellness for themselves and the systems they impact.
public health leadership needs to evolve.
The complexity of a pandemic world. The long overdue equity reckoning. The hyper-connectivity of our global world. The need to decolonize our systems and structures. Global health demands a different kind of leadership to meet the challenges of our present ecosystem—and moreover, to accelerate the stagnating progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals.
Embracing self-inquiry, allowing emergence, and prioritizing people over process is not only worthwhile, it’s non-negotiable.
what does evolved leadership look like?
Great public health leaders embody a complex mix of humility and community engagement, technical expertise, interdisciplinary and systems thinking, diplomacy, and emotional intelligence. They have a willingness to examine our own intuitions, power dynamics, and equity issues.
In public health, the personal is professional. Development in both is how we unleash broader social change. It begins from understanding we are the system and must focus on growing from inside out, starting with taking radical responsibility for the way we lead, whatever your title.
the public health leadership redesign
DSIL Global’s Gareth Durrant shares his perspective on both the inner work and the complex, dynamic systems approach necessary to develop public health leadership for the current moment.
The Unnamed Road is unlike any leadership course you’ve ever participated in. Our experiential approach will not mimic the pedagogy of the academic institutions in which you were trained. This evidence-based program is world-class because it integrates your lived experiences and engages with what is emerging for you in real time. You will take back the skills you are learning into your work tomorrow, and the depth of learning will become ingrained in your lifelong career.