Presented at a young leadership training at Hotel Vodno, Skopje, Macedonia organized by the Balkan Institute of Faith & Culture (April, 2013)

1. Passion, movement
building & volunteerism
Grace Mwaura

2. 1. Influencing through Service
2. The story of Love and
Leadership
3. Authenticity

3. My past, present, future
 University Movements
 National Youth Movements
 Kenya Youth Networks
 IVEN
 Kenya Youth Climate Network
• Regional Movements
 AYICC
 Global South Youth & IYCM
 International movements
 IUCN
 IUCN Intergenerational Partnerships Task force

4. People and Passion

5. Why was leadership important for
us?
 For ourselves
 For our peers
 For the nation

6. Our Building blocks in the
Movement
 A vision for change
 A radical spirit
 An Infectious presence
 Persistence
 Values
 A spirit of Giving
 Risk taking
 Dialogue
 Mentoring
 Mobilization strategy

7. Why we need to build the
movement
 The ability to move back and forth- intergenerational
dialogues
 Our energy and creativity
 Our futurity capability and desire
 Our flexibility

8. In giving, we discovered ourselves; In service,
we were served; In risking our futures, we
discovered a more beautiful future, and our
resilience to its risks. Grace Mwaura

9. Movements & Institutions

10. Who will lead the leaders?
Intergenerational partnerships?

11. What will lead the leaders?
Emotional Intelligence?
Love?
Excellence?
Radicalism?

12. Leadership: Love in Action
 “We are coming into leadership (whether we like it or not) in a
time of serious disruption of the status quo, which is a
massive opportunity or a great stumbling block, depending
on how we see it; our 'PERSPECTIVE' is very critical. My
take is that we still have an old paradigm definition of
leadership where we have a winner-take-all-lord-over-others
mentality of who should be called a 'leader' . We need to
change that paradigm; that's our first challenge as emerging
leaders, writing a 'new story, a new narrative„. The emerging
leaders should be exceptional story writers and impeccable
story tellers”. David Wainaina, Kenya.