Updated on 5 June 2008

As we envision our future, we realise that we can only achieve our ambitious community goals through creating highly capable, able and strategic leaders.

This Programme is designed to provide individuals with common leadership tools, with the overall objective of developing leadership capacity within our Khoja Shia Ithna-Asheri Muslim communities. It will also allow participants to realise their own leadership styles and to enhance and evolve their skills to ensure more productive and efficient working methods.

The aim is to help to train and develop a new generation of leaders; to shape a model of positive leadership which engages both our cultural heritage and the modern society we live in. You could say it’s about leadershape, not just leadership. We seek individuals who are passionate about improving themselves.

The programme fits in well with our agreed World Federation strategy for capacity building vision ‘unlocking the potential of our people to serve the community and humanity’. Just as a flower grows from planting a see in fertile soil and regular watering, leaders emerge through seeking, encouraging and nurturing the appropriate people. Allah has given us on trust (amanah) range of capabilities; it is our responsibility to enhance these to fulfil Allah’s will on this earth.

Programme Philosophy

The philosophy underpinning the programme is that each individual possesses unique talent based on personal experiences. Drawing out that talent, applying it to the wider model of leadership, understanding how it affects an individual’s approach to tasks tells us a great deal about the type of leader that individual is. This programme will enable participants to explore their assumptions, attitudes, thinking, values to understand themselves and others better, so that they can shape a new and inclusive path to becoming effective leaders.

The Leadership Programme requires participants to commit fully to this process of learning; it requires active engagement and openness. It is a challenging course, but experience shows that those who are open to new ideas, ways of thinking will leave with the most fulfilling results.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

Click here to download an application form.
Click here to view the brochure.

For further information, email secretariat@world-federation.org