Ethical Leadership

Julia Lloyd Bruin Head of English

Ben Crowe, mindset coach of Australian Open winners Dylan Alcott and Ash Barty, commented on a podcast recently that an individual’s values can be shaped through the habits they adopt. This means people have a far greater capacity to develop themselves than perhaps they feel. Too often we put behaviours and attitudes down to genetics or societal expectations, without examining who we really want to be and taking steps towards that goal.

This year, Shelford is piloting an Ethical Leadership program designed to help our students understand themselves better and consider the impact they wish to have on their peers, their families, and the wider community. The combination of part time work, full time school, friendships, relationship, family commitments, and the ubiquitousness of screens can be overwhelming for young people. In combatting this, our aim is to facilitate self-reflection in a safe and structured environment in order to help our students consider who they are, where their blind spots might be, and look forward with their cohort to leave a lasting, positive leadership shadow behind them.

At Year 10: students build on their existing values, belief systems and talents, and examine individually who they are, which attributes of which they are proud, and who they want to work towards becoming.