The future demands bold leadership.
New Challenges, New Leaders: Collaborative and Human-Centric Leadership for Better Outcomes
How can leaders navigate complexity and build a more resilient future? In an era of rapid technological advancements, geopolitical uncertainty, and climate crises, leadership must evolve to meet these challenges.
Powered by the Menzies Leadership Foundation, this report from Economist Impact assesses the urgent need for collaborative, human-centric leadership that is fit for today’s world.
Key insights
- A Crisis of Trust – Leadership across public, private, and nonprofit sectors is facing declining public trust and increasing disconnection from societal needs.
- The Leadership Gap – Existing leadership models are outdated, failing to address AI disruption, generational shifts, and systemic challenges.
- A Call for Collective Action – Future leaders must embrace empathy, shared values, and collaboration across sectors to drive meaningful impact.
- Benchmarking Leadership Progress – There is no global data-driven standard for leadership effectiveness—this report proposes a roadmap for defining and tracking leadership success.
This report synthesises insights from global leadership experts, social listening research, and literature reviews to provide a new leadership paradigm—one that moves beyond siloed thinking and prioritises partnerships, ethics, and adaptability.
Access the full report and explore practical strategies for reimagining leadership.
The Menzies Foundation aspires to amplify a leadership movement which encourages citizens to clarify their purpose, deepen the collective understanding of our responsibility to each other and motivates all to act for the ‘greater good’. This report emphasises the imperative of building a non-siloed coalition of the willing to explore and build a new leadership paradigm which engenders confidence in our leaders, builds collaborative capacity and best positions each of us to step forward with the attributes and ability to navigate the complexities of an increasingly challenging and polarised world.
We invite you to join us in this quest.
