Profiles in Resilient Leadership

Leadership is often defined in moments of crisis—when vision, resilience, and compassion are tested most deeply.

Resilient leadership is revealed in how we support ourselves, and critically our stakeholders, through crisis.

In this series, I invite leaders to share how they navigated defining challenges, supported the resilience of their stakeholders, and discovered new dimensions of their own leadership.

These profiles illuminate not just strategies, but the human strength, reflection, and courage that sustain leaders and their stakeholders through adversity.

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Dr. Samukeliso Dube, Executive Director, FP2030

“In this current funding crisis, we could keep writing about the shrinking of overseas development assistance but it is not coming back. We would do better to ask ourselves - what else do we need to do?”