Leadership In A VUCA World Recap

The program revolved around “Leadership in a VUCA World”. Many would be perplexed by the term “VUCA”, let alone know what leading a world as such entails. The COVID pandemic led to a renewed understanding of this phrase, which had been initially accepted in the late 1980s to reflect the realities of the end of the Cold War.  

Change, ironically being the most constant phenomenon, is the future smirking back at the uncertainty it holds, problems aligned like dominoes consumed by the desire to flaunt the havoc they can create. We are all either on standby or being tossed by the ocean. With all these veiling our awaiting success, how do we get past them and shake hands with our success?

Our CEO Kidist Gebreamlak was, Co-founder and CEO of Zero-One Zero-One PLC and the Senior Center Manager of the Center for Innovative Drug Development and Therapeutic Trials for Africa (CDT Africa), Kidist is a strategic, emphatic woman who is driven to unleash the unrealized potential of African women and youth as innovative change makers. Having expressed how connected she felt to the topic of discussion, “Leadership in a VUCA World”.

Kidist spoke of how, as leaders, we are expected to thrive in this inevitable reality, be it on an individual or international level. She then warmly welcomed our speakers, whom she thought was the ideal choice as they would speak from their own experiences and walks of life rather than merely possessing a superficial understanding.