Zebr Leadership Program
Learning to lead Self, Others, and Society
By igniting the entrepreneurial imagination, Zebr Leadership Program aims to equip the emerging generation with tools to become authentic leaders anchored in a vision for the common good.
Zebr Leadership Program was born out of a desire to see you - together with future participants - grow into a courageous network of friends, empowered to dare to lead. With the increasingly faster pace of change in our societies, more than ever, two key traits will be needed: character and the ability to lead through constant change.
Over the past 14 years, the Oslo-based think tank, Skaperkraft, has offered its leadership program to Norway’s emerging leaders. Based on the experiences made from that journey, we have for two years made available a similar program to young adults across the continent. The region is facing unprecedented challenges and change. Europe needs innovative leaders across the spectrum of industry and society.
Join our next co-hort of young professionals ages 21 to 26 across Europe. Register your interest here.
Interested in applying for the Zebr Leadership Program class of 2023-24? Register your interest HERE!
"Whoever is the greatest should be the servant of the others." -Jesus of Nazareth
During the 7 month Zebr Leadership Program you will:
Get to know yourself better; learning who you are as a person and leader, and become aware of how you invest your time and your energy
Connect with fellow participants and mentors in deep and meaningful ways through shared experiences and guided discussion
Engage with inspiring guest speakers and leaders from diverse private and public professional backgrounds
Embrace the entrepreneurial mindset to create solutions for the common good, across all spheres of society.
Cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset, being equipped with leadership skills to follow the principles of Jesus, integrating them with your career and work
Learn how you can follow Jesus' principles of leadership, integrating them into life and supporting your vision for addressing societal challenges
Learn to tackle various aspects of leading yourself, others, and society. We will look at: vision, strategy and planning, problem solving, communication, conflict management and change management.
Complete one special project to be presented or published at the end of the year. (Time commitment 1-3 hours per week)
Gain insight into community management; solve specific societal needs, by means of innovation.
Build character, be challenged and equipped to create entrepreneurial solutions for the common good, across all spheres of society.
Want to learn more about the program and meet members of our team?
Join us on Tuesday, April 18 at 20:30 CET for a virtual Q&A to learn more about the Zebr Leadership Program and meet members of our team.
- Tuesday, April 18 @ 20:30 CET - Register Here
““The best part of the course is the good teaching, the focus on character building and not least the network of socially engaged people that you get to know.” ”
Zebr Leadership Program is a 7 Month Program and includes:
Two 48 Hour Weekend Modules - In Person
Two 24 Hour Weekend Modules - Virtual on Zoom
Bi-Monthly Readings with Reflections
Guided Small Group Sessions between Modules
Mentoring 1:1
Self Knoweledge Assesments and Personal Leadership Coaching
Occasional Special Evening Seminars with Inspiring Speakers
Guidance and Coaching on a Special Project - Example: Learning to Write and Publish an Op-Ed.
The dates for the four weekend modules are:
Module 1: Sept 29th - Oct 1st 2023 OSLO
Module 2: virtual on zoom: Evening Friday Nov 17th - 18th (wrap-up mid-day Saturday)
Module 3: virtual on zoom: Evening Friday Jan 19th - 20th (wrap-up mid-daySaturday)
Module 4: March 15th - 17th, 2024, BERLIN
Presenters:
In addition to the program managers, you will meet leaders in business, politics, media and other social sectors during the leadership program. They will equip you with good, inspirational and steady teaching on leadership, and will share their life experience in following Jesus in an integrated way.
We are looking for participants who:
Are between 21 and 26 years of age (can turn 21 during the program year)
Have shown leadership initiative (during studies, in organizations, politics, business, communities of faith, etc.)
Want to follow Jesus in life, work, and relationships
Have a high degree of motivation
Will commit to fully participating in the program, including two virtual weekends, and two in person, completing one special project (approx 1-2 hours of time per week) to be presented and/or published at the end of the program, participate in small group sessions, and participate in occasional evening seminars.
Why Focus on Jesus’ Leadership?
A central focus of the program is learning from current and historical leaders such as Hans Nielsen Hauge, William Wilberforce, Mahatma Gandhi, and Mother Theresa. One would be hard pressed to find a leader who made a more lasting global impact than Jesus of Nazareth. The life and teachings of Jesus continue to impact our world in positive and powerful ways and his model of servant leadership is just as relevant today as it was 2000 years ago
In regards to Jesus’ impact as a leader, consider the following:
2000 years after he walked the dusty roads of Galilee, several billion people can recite major portions of his principle speech, the “Sermon on the Mount.”
Billions of people on all continents continue to study his words and seek to follow him.
Our calendar is dated from his birth, and major worldwide holidays like Christmas and Easter center on events in his life.
Jesus achieved tremendous global influence in only three years of public life.
His influence was accomplished without money or mass media, without writing any books, without holding an elected office, and without commanding an army. Yet, his teachings transformed the world.
Today, Jesus is regarded by many as a great prophet, a healer, a teacher, an avatar, and/or the savior. Despite what one believes about Jesus, his example of innovative leadership is unique and universal. We will study key principles of Jesus’ teachings including: reconciliation, servant leadership, integrity, purpose, love, clarity, and freedom.
Register your interest in the Zebr Leadership Program HERE!
What is Entrepreneurial Leadership?
Entrepreneurship is usually defined as the creation of new products or services and as such is limited to the field of business. Over the past decades, the notion of social entrepreneurship has developed, which broadens the scope to creating goods and services to solve social, cultural or environmental issues, either for-profit or as NGOs. In our course, we aim to empower young leaders aiming for careers in all sectors to develop a more entrepreneurial mindset.
Examples of this use of entrepreneurial leadership:
In the city of Turku, Finland, one of the universities training nurses includes a mandatory course in business start-ups, including starting a student business. The reason: The expected percentage of old people in most European societies will grow in the next decade, requiring nurses to have a more innovative way of approaching their jobs in order to serve the growing number of older patients.
Among the most important minds behind the establishing of the European Coal and Steel Union in 1952 (what became the European Union), the frenchman Jean Monnet used his entrepreneurial skills in shaping the solution and connecting government leaders in order to see the solution to the centuries-long feuds between Germany and France settled for good. Being from the french cognac producing family Monnet, where he in early age worked to increase the firm's global exports, he utilized his entrepreneurial skills in the field of politics.
Drawing from our Norwegian heritage, the case-study of Hans Nielsen Hauge (1771-1824) and the first nation-wide grassroots movement he initiatied between 1796 and 1804 is especially inspiring. Seeing a population subdued by the king and around him a small elite, Hauge stirred the population to a new level of faith both in God and in their ability to create. He personally helped initiated more than 50 businesess and the friends around him and in the decades to follow would start many more, in addition to schools, civil organizations, hospitals and social work, and helped bring about democracy through the 19th century. Historians acclaim Hauge to be one of two pivotal figures in bringing Norway into modernity.
As the world is facing unprecedented challenges such as the weakening of democratic institutions, migration, climate change, decreasing resources such as water and species of the world`s insects and animals, we believe the ability to enhance one´s entrepreneurial thinking is pivotal. The course aims to do just that.
Applications for the Class of 2023-24 are open!
Please click here to register your interest in the April Info Call, in joining the class of 2023-24, or see below to apply today.
Any questions? Drop us an email to amanda@zebrinstitute.com