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This Youth Connect Live will focus on ‘Personal Leadership’. Personal leadership is the inner core, the source, of a leader’s outer leadership success. It concerns your growth – psychologically, morally and technically – and its effect on your presence, resilience, behaviour and skill in action. At its heart is your self-awareness, progress towards self-mastery, technical competence and sense of connection with those around you. We’ll learn what YOU can do to work on your personal leadership.

We will explore how to develop your personal leadership in two sessions:

Interview on Wednesday 9 July, 12.00 to 12.30 (BST)
In this session we will learn about the three key elements of personal leadership and hear about how to grow ourselves as a leader as well as about the importance of working on our personal leadership.

Follow-on question and answer (Q&A) session on personal leadership on Wednesday 16 July, 12.00 to 12.30 (BST)
Following your questions and comments relating to the previous interview, this follow-up session gives you a further opportunity to reflect, connect, and explore how you can shape your own path to personal leadership—on your own terms.

Join us for two insightful sessions that will help you build awareness, resilience, and a deeper connection with yourself.

About the panel

This is a panel event, with speakers worldwide, followed by questions from the audience.

The speaker: James Scouller

James Scouller is an executive coach, thought leader and author. His fascination with leadership has dominated his working life over the last 48 years. It’s been the golden thread connecting his four books.

What sets his work apart? His focus on the previously ignored psychological challenges facing leaders and their teams.

His first book was The Three Levels of Leadership. It is a self-help manual for leaders. It offered them new models and tools for growing their presence, knowhow and skill. Launched into a crowded leadership book space with little promotional backing, it has received five-star reviews around the world largely through word-of-mouth. It’s inspired hundreds of CEOs and business founders to seek James’s help.

His more recent trilogy, How To Build Winning Teams Again And Again, came out in January 2024. It took him 15 years to research, test in the field with coaching clients, and write. Book one in the trilogy won the 2025 Independent Press Award (Business: General).

After living and working in different countries he led three international companies as CEO for 11 years before founding his executive coaching practice, The Scouller Partnership, in 2004. Today, when he’s not writing, he coaches leaders and their teams. He has two postgraduate coaching qualifications and trained in applied psychology for four years at the UK Institute of Psychosynthesis.

The host: Disty Winata

Disty is a communication for development professional based in Rome, Italy. She is a leadership advisor and co-founder of Indonesian Youth Diplomacy, a youth-led organisation that aims to increase youth participation in international forums. She likes to start her day with a good cup of black coffee and great music.

Before the sessions

Write down your answers to these self-reflection questions to better understand yourself and engage more effectively during our sessions.

  1. What is your definition of ‘leadership’?
  2. How useful, how practical, is the definition to you? How much does that guide what you do? How does it help you guide what you pay attention to as a leader?
  3. What people, ideas, images, emotions or qualities spring to mind when you consider the word ‘leadership’?
  4. Now consider your definition plus your list of people / ideas / images / emotions / qualities and ask yourself this: does what I have written down so far put me off the idea of being a leader … or encourage me to be a leader?
  5. Why is that? What is it that has put you off – or at least makes you hesitate to put yourself forward as a leader? Alternatively, what is it that attracts you about being a leader?
  6. What would you say your greatest strengths would be if you found yourself in a leadership role?
  7. What would you say your greatest weaknesses would be if you found yourself in a leadership role?
  8. What one thing is most likely to make you reluctant to act as a leader?
  9. Which of your core values do you think you would draw on most in a leadership role?
    (‘Values’ are a specific class of personal beliefs that are especially important to you, that you care about, that act as your guiding principles through life.)
  10. How ready are you to put the effort in a growing yourself to become a good leader (bearing in mind that leaders are made, not born)?
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