Elizabeth I: Can you handle the leadership role? – London

Few leaders have had so many odds against them, or faced such conflicting expectations. Yet she manages to resolve the expectations placed on her, not by reactive acceptance, but by proactive role design. Elizabeth I takes on the role of leader and regent. She endures adversity and cross-pressure. With her, England becomes a world power.

We look at the leadership role in light of expectations within the organization, and how to meet them. In this perspective, leadership is a trade-off between leaders and employees. You don’t get leadership for granted, you have to earn it.
We will also learn from Elizabeth’s opposite, the theater’s most famous character, Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Hamlet is the prince, who in a crazy cross-pressure never manages to make up his mind, and therefore ends up with a solution that many leaders have chosen both before and since – he plays the fool.

The seminar is held in London where we benchmark a time that borders on our own time, but which was even more marked by upheavals and challenges. You will experience London completely differently when we use it as a “classroom” in this seminar.
Sir Roy Strong on creating a leadership brand: «The cult of Gloriana was skillfully created to buttress public order and, even more, deliberately to replace the pre-Reformation externals of religion, the cult of the Virgin and saints with their attendant images, processions, ceremonies and secular rejoicing».