6 Course summary

Congratulations on reaching the end of the course. Hopefully you will now feel better positioned to practise leadership in organisations and communities. Leadership is a distinctive concept because it’s all about challenging the way things are by moving people intellectually and emotionally – appealing to the ‘head’ and the ‘heart’. That makes it a valuable practice for furthering racial equity, because it can help to shake up some of the systemic issues and boundaries of discrimination faced by Black people.

The Five Ps framework you have followed in this course offers a useful way of honing your leadership practice. It’s important to think about ‘leadership as person’ and who we’re being as leaders, as we can all grow into the kind of person who helps make leadership practices buzz with life. ‘Leadership as process’ is significant because it focuses attention on the different forms of communication that can bring leadership for racial equity to life. Thinking about ‘leadership as position’ stretches the imagination about what can be achieved through organisational and geographical positioning. The ‘leadership as product’ focus is a prompt to be critical about who is celebrated as a leader (and who is not), as well as think about how such preconceptions can be challenged. Finally, ‘leadership as purpose’ is about finding an ethical grounding, a compass that can guide your leadership work.