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Schools prepare young people academically, but who helps them prepare for the realities of adulthood? Sandy Geyer explores the often-overlooked space between education and the world beyond it, and why leadership development should begin long before a title or position arrives.

As careers become less predictable and industries continue to evolve, self-awareness and self-leadership may matter more than ever. Are we preparing young people for their first job, or for the person they are becoming?

Are We Choosing Future Leaders or Skilled Followers? As schools prepare to select their 2026 student leadership teams, it’s natural to lean on the systems and processes that have served us in the past. These methods often reward students who are reliable, consistent, and engaged. But in today’s rapidly evolving world, we need to pause…

A new way to think about entrepreneurship, identity, and success. When I was a child in school, I remember being asked, “What’s one and one?” The answer came instantly to my mind was eleven. Because that’s what you get when you place 1 and 1 side by side – how does everyone else not see…

By Dr. Sandy Geyer, founder of EnQPractice, developer of the LL4L online courses in emotional development of young future leaders. The short answer is that nothing “gets in” to our students to cause them to bully others. Students who engage in bullying behaviors are driven by internal and unconscious biases that begin, for all of…

Figure 1 (Authors own): A representation of how self-identity, cultural identity and personal leadership identity can combine to create contextual intelligence and empower inclusive and adaptive leadership in our future leaders. Empowering our Future Leaders with Contextual and Cultural Intelligence. When we talk about nurturing the leaders of tomorrow, culture is a crucial factor to…

Overview of recent events content nuggets and webinar support series invitation. In collaboration with 5 schools, we recently ran 5 leadership events throughout South Africa. For each event a host school worked with us and opened their doors to surrounding schools and in total we reached 28 schools. Our approach was to create immediate value…

In today’s educational landscape, the question of how schools cultivate leadership skills among students is more important than ever. Drawing from a wide range of perspectives and research insights, this article explores the crucial role schools play in preparing our leaders of tomorrow. By examining existing literature and personal experiences, my aim is to discuss…

  Through their high school years, students become more aware that they have a unique personality which they become more and more in touch with as their self-identity develops. Academic research into the development of personalities tells us that as adolescents move more towards an adult like personality profile, there is an expectation that neuroticism…

A young female teacher is teaching at a prominent Boys High School. There are more men on the staff than women. She is new to teaching and in her early twenties. One day she enters the classroom of a male colleague to return a book that she borrowed from him. The lesson in his class…