What3Words Leadership Locations Report - A celebration of leaders everywhere and their personal journeys 2023 - Final Design - Flipbook - Page 35
The journey has been one of discovery, learning about myself and importantly
others, really understanding people and what is needed for others to feel
empowered and enabled to succeed. Leadership for me doesn’t feel like a
destination that is reached, feels more like an unmapped path that I keep
treading, and sometimes have the courage to go back on and retread,
importantly with the counsel, support and guidance of others around me.
The key for me being the re昀氀ections on what I’ve learned as a result of the
experience on the journey and seeking to put those lessons into practice.
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Ross Maloney,
Chief Executive,
The Ramblers
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Owen Mapley,
Chief Executive,
Hertfordshire County
Council
Becoming CEO of a large council was not my career sat-nav destination 30
years ago. My route has journeyed through private sector professional services,
CFO roles in the civil service and now my ongoing road trip (no pot-holes)
in local government. Each of these three career chapters have taught me
the importance of building strong and broad relationships and using these
networks to broker innovation, build common purpose and favour
multi-agency systems working and leadership over personal ‘success’. My single
biggest realisation is the need to retain the desire to keep learning, especially
about things outside my own experience. ‘Leaders are readers’ but must also
be listeners and re昀氀ectors. Anti-racism, gender bias (thanks Caroline Criado
Perez), menopause and environmental sustainability are recent themes for my
learning. So my what3words leadership philosophy is located by a river in the
wilds of Alaska: listening, reading, learning.
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I’ve come to understand that leadership is not static, it’s not a single “thing” or
a de昀椀ned role to be sought after and achieved. It’s not even an attribute vested
in one person or a particular group – it’s a state of mind, and an opportunity to
enable a creative, agile, inclusive and innovative culture so that you can start
addressing the issues of tomorrow today. If you care about people and their
lives, they will also care; if you collaborate well, you’ll empower evolution and
change, and get out of the way when someone in your organisation can actually
do it better than you; and if you communicate consistently and constantly,
you’ll make a safe space for people to be able to do their thing. In my world,
that’s what makes all the di昀昀erence to the people we support.
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Philippa Mariani,
Chief Executive,
Think Ahead
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