Center for African Leadership Development (CALD)

is a center, in Ethiopia, in operation for more than 10 years. We have the experience of working with hundreds of organizations in the government, NGO and business sectors. Our services are delivered by resource persons with a wealth of experience in their respective felds of expertise. Drawing from various researched and cutting-edge approaches, CALD provides human capital development and organizational development solutions in the forms of training, consultancy, research and publications. Leadership capacity development constitutes the centerpiece of our work. We at CALD underscore that enhanced and well-developed human capital at all levels makes all the difference in all sectors. Especially, investing on increasing leadership capacity across institutions has a promise of guaranteeing extraordinary results. When we make the human element work well in systems, then, everything else works well! There is enough evidence from around the world and from our own hands-on experience that human capital, especially leadership capital, can be developed through accelerated and dynamic learning systems that yield breakthrough results. Our programs target at generating inspiration for self-examination, re-programing thinking patterns, and cultivating new habits and behaviors that will be responsible for creating new realities – significantly enhanced relationships, work place harmony, productivity, innovativeness, professional excellence, customer satisfaction, proftability, sustainability and more. We are committed to making the human element work in organizations across Africa and beyond so that teams and institutions mobilize their massive potential to do the remarkable and the extraordinary. CALD’s Philosophy Our programs and interventions facilitate for shift in thinking and practice informed by cutting edge models such as: Transformational leadership – a model that empowers people into leaders who possess integrity, set good example and communicate high goals to inspire others to look beyond their personal interests and contribute for the transformation of social systems. Emotional Intelligence – a form of learned intelligence in which reasoning with emotions is made possible to manage oneself and galvanize and in?uence relationships for personal and collective success. “It is part of the enigma of human nature that the ‘typical’ person – immature, stumbling, inept, lazy - is capable of great dedication and heroism, if well led.” Robert Greenleaf Systems Thinking – a framework of seeing interrelationships rather than things, patterns of change rather than static snapshots to shift how people think, communicate and act for managing change, effective problem solving and decision making. Appreciative Inquiry – an inquiry into human systems’ strength, possibility and success and connecting to them in ways that heighten energy, sharpen vision and inspire action for change. Learning Organization Model – an organization where people continually…