Every corporate offsite has the same agenda.
“Leadership training.”
Cue the usual suspects: resilience workshops, communication hacks, maybe a case study on Steve Jobs.
And here’s the awkward truth—
No one leaves as a leader.
You can’t “train” leadership into existence.
And yet, the industry keeps selling the illusion that you can.
What actually happens in real organisations?
Leaders emerge. Often unpredictably. Sometimes beautifully. Sometimes painfully.
But emergence is organic. It doesn’t come from modules or playbooks.
So why do most leadership programs fall flat?
Because they ignore the one thing that never self-emerges: context.
Every organisation has a context — its history, its politics, its economic conditions, its market position, its goals.
That mix is unique. But the training is generic.
👉 CO1: Contextual Leadership.
Not “developing leaders” in the abstract. But anchoring leadership to the exact reality of this organisation, this moment, this market.
Examples:
Turnaround Context → leaders trained to cut fast, preserve trust, and rebuild morale.
Hypergrowth Context → leaders shaped to prioritise scaling systems before egos.
Legacy Context → leaders taught to protect heritage while breaking old patterns.
Now the program is differentiated. Now it’s not just leadership — it’s leadership for this context.
Aha — The greater the specificity, the greater the demand.
Reflection — What’s the context in your world that you could name, own, and build authority around?