
Can initiative be taught?
Field trials say a self-starting habit can be trained. Here is what five months of our LeaderMeter records add, and what they cannot yet show.
Big questions about how leaders and entrepreneurs are raised in Africa, answered with what we observe in our own programmes. Aggregate figures only, with the limits of our evidence stated plainly.

Field trials say a self-starting habit can be trained. Here is what five months of our LeaderMeter records add, and what they cannot yet show.
What each method we have tried showed, why self-report is the weak point, and how we plan to measure growth more honestly.
What our Tracer Study and nine cohorts of UBC Sauder LIFT tell us about growing leaders and entrepreneurs on purpose.
How we have measured growth over the years, from cohort surveys to a monthly LeaderMeter, and what the numbers show.

Mapping 82 projects by the young leaders in our network against the 17 Goals shows they reach 15 of the 17 Goals, and where they build most.

Emmanuel Goodglory
Director, Research, Africa Impact & Global Visibility
The GracedLife Leadership Centre
egoodglory@gracedlifeleaders.org
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