What does it take to be a highly effective leader in a war zone? What about in a prison, a hospital, a refugee camp or on an Olympic racetrack?
Former BBC news reporter and international development aid director, now executive leadership coach, Rachel Ellison MBE DUniv creates an informal discursive environment, to present her original and applied research on global leadership. She takes a psychoanalytic or below-the-surface approach to interpreting events, behaviours and choice points of two international leaders working in exceptional environments:

• Somalia: leading where it’s hot, dusty and dangerous. ‘Ego-free’ leadership in a war zone.
• A hero is someone who wins a war, not loses a leg: how a Paralympic sports coach led his diversely disabled athletes to gold.
  This talk has relevance across subject disciplines. Rachel Ellison calls for higher ethics and diversity in leadership, for higher productivity, profit, sustainability and joy in coming to work.