Our world is changing rapidly and at the brink of the beginning of a new era. However, the present leadership is still based on a paradigm of a bygone era and thus not capable of solving the various crises our world is facing today, whereas the people in the street are progressively aware of an inevitable change. Our future leaders will have to be geared to guide the impending transformation. A transition that will not emerge automatically: future leadership requires an outright different set of core competences, which will have to be developed and trained.

Jaap Geerlof is schrijver van diverse boeken en (academische) artikelen over leiderschap, maatschappelijke transformatie en de toekomst van het publieke domein, in het bijzonder het sociaal domein.