Shaping your purpose
Creating authentic practices to achieve your purpose
Globally Responsible Leadership
An exploration of 21st-century relationships within a global context: whole persons learning about whole-planet issues.
Oasis is a founder member of the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative. The GRLI holds and facilitates an inclusive and collective call for deep systemic change across three domains: how we live and make a living, how we learn, and how we lead. Oasis has always pioneered a different kind of leadership, one which takes responsibility for people and planet.
Those who take a step into global responsibility find:
- they can be seen as market leaders or opinion shapers
- that authentic practice can have financial as well as reputational advantage – in both the non-profit and profit sectors
- that in doing so they unleash more innovation, creativity and commitment within themselves and their workforce.
Connections
Making connections between I, we and all of us
Innovation
Unleash your innovation and creativity
As we work together to restore hope to the future, we need to include a new and strange ally – our willingness to be disturbed. Our willingness to have our beliefs and ideas challenged by what others think. No one person or perspective can give us the answers we need to the problems of today. Paradoxically, we can only find those answers by admitting we don’t know. We have to be willing to let go of our certainty and expect ourselves to be confused for a time.
Margaret WheatleyWriter and consultant
The Oasis approach to Globally Responsible Leadership
Our response includes programmes, organisational consultancy, one-to-one development and research.
These activities build upon our contribution as founding members of the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative, and our links with international business schools and organisational clients.
The work is at the level of deep complexity, and with bigger-than-self challenges: whole persons learning about whole-planet issues. At its heart is an exploration of 21st-century relationships within a global context.
Those who engage find time and space to:
- explore their current connection to and with people and planet
- raise consciousness of the connections that exist – social, transpersonal, financial, emotional and environmental
- be supported into action within their spheres of influence, with an emphasis on the spheres of work, local community action, leadership, collaboration and social innovation.
The Three Laws of Globally Responsible Leadership
The Law of the Environment
The natural system is not a stakeholder in our businesses; it is the ultimate foundation of the rules.
The Law of Interconnectedness
Everything, everywhere is linked in a single system. Therefore every action must be considered in the context of its effect on the whole system.
The Law of Engagement
Globally responsible leaders must become engaged in solving the dilemmas that confront us as a consequence of the first two laws.
News and Blogs
Togetherness Through Crisis – Reflections on the Windsor Leadership Dialogue 2021
Laurie Spafford reflects on this year's Windsor Leadership Dialogue.
A More Beautiful World
Like many of my generation, in my teenage years I discovered The Little Prince. It seemed to capture the collective imagination for a while. To be honest I couldn’t now tell you its central message. For me it was as much about the wonderful illustrations as the story itself.
Common Good, Common Ground
The theme of this year's gathering of the partners of the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative is 'Common Good, Common Ground'.
Resources
7 Principles to Shape the Workplace of Tomorrow
We are in a time of fundamental change and the future remains uncertain.
Whole Person Learning
Whole Person Learning addresses issues of globally responsible practice, leadership and practice in organisations; the value of this new paradigm in the business world and the Whole Person Learning perspective.
Learning for Tomorrow
Whole Person Learning is a radical and innovative approach to relationships. Learning for Tomorrow highlights the need for such a new paradigm and explores the implications of a Whole Person perspective.
Steps to an Ecology of Soul
Highlighting the necessity for connecting with each other in ways that make a difference – ways that allow the soul to flourish – exploring effective oneness, moving from ‘I’ to ‘we’ and the global dimension.
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