“Leaders are developed within the cradle of Eldership” Reuel Khoza
“What lies beyond leadership? – the vital role of NEDS in seeding the next generations of elders and leaders”
Trevor has spent his life leading and developing leaders, but in the past decade and a half has been focused on how we recover elders within every level of society. He sees leadership as key to recovering eldership and eldership as key to recovering a transformative view of leadership.
NEDs play a key role in being elders themselves and seeding the idea of eldership in their organisation’s leaders. Examples of where this is vital is in succession planning, developing a deeper sense of mission for the organisation, and developing the heart and character of the leader.
He created the for-profit company, The Executive Coach Ltd, with a blue-chip client list working across all sectors and developed the Integrated Global Leadership Model, a holistic framework used in corporate leadership development.
In 2005 Trevor began a journey that led to the founding of the charity Emerging Leaders, a global non-profit that brings the best leadership development to the most vulnerable communities in the world. The Emerging Leaders programmes have impacted over 85,000 people in 16 countries, with an indirect impact on over 2.5 million people. Recently he has developed the online learning programme The Youth Compass Project, an investment that focuses on the heart and character that will enable young people around the world to liberate their own unique potential and learn to lead, love and leave a legacy.
Trevor has written and spoken on a wide range of leadership issues across three continents.
His 9 books include,
· Becoming Mandela – Be Your Legacy (Amazon 2021)
· The 18 Challenges of Leadership (Pearsons 2004)
· To Plant A Walnut Tree – The legacy beyond leadership (Nicholas Brealey 2011)
· Doing The Right Thing – Getting Fit For Moral Leadership (Kindle 2019)
Trevor has also been a contributor to the Huffington Post.
Trevor has spoken as an international corporate speaker on many aspects of strategic and personal leadership, in India, Africa, USA and Europe. He was on the Faculty of The School of Coaching with Myles Downey and he has guest lectured on the Cambridge University, Sustainability Leadership Programme, twice presented at the Graduate Business Forum (top global MBA schools), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, MBA Programme and on Organisational Context for University of Portsmouth MSC in Coaching. Trevor is a probono mentor for the international organisation One Young World
“Trevor Waldock is an inspirational key note speaker. Based on his work from global banking in the West to the poorest communities in Africa, he brings new thinking and fresh insights into the critical challenges facing organisations and senior leaders in the 21st century. His new models of leadership seek to transform the mindsets and character of leaders, providing incisive comment that challenges the paradigms of today.”
– Nick Davies, CEO Capstone International Limited
Trevor truly inspires: He gets to the root of what leadership is about, none of this superficial stuff. Through his stories and anecdotes he touches and opens up the potential for the leader in all of us to voice what’s important about leading others in a sustainable and honest way.
– Charles Brook, Managing Director The Performance Coach