Leading through Difference: Key Skills from the ILA Board Chair

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Guest: Mike Hardy, ILA Board Chair The real leadership crisis isn’t about performance. It’s about how we handle differences. In this powerful episode, Professor Mike Hardy, Founding Director of the Centre for Peace & Security, joins host Maureen Metcalf to explore the defining leadership challenge of our time: Pluralism vs. Prejudice. It’s critical: even if your organization only operates in one city, odds are your team will have people from different generations, family cultures, and hometowns…much less religions and ethnicities. Bonding them all into one cohesive team is essential. Mike makes a compelling case that the future of leadership depends on moving beyond identity to behavior-based inclusion, and calls leaders to rethink how they respond to difference. Here's what Mike and Maureen cover: How a leader’s behavior, not identity, builds real trust; The dance between pluralism and prejudice in today’s workplace; and Why inclusion often fails…and what makes it work. Produced in partnership with the International Leadership Association: .