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Leadership in Military Education

Leadership doesn’t exist in a vacuum – it thrives within specific contexts. The research we conduct and the insights we gain from the global leadership community only hold meaning when put into practice, particularly in a Ukrainian context. Collaborating across various sectors, today we share our experiences working with the military. From March 12 to April […]

Command & Control Method

In one of our previous posts, we mentioned that 90% of companies are hierarchical and that most business tools have been borrowed from the military. Leadership styles are no exception, and today we will dive deeper into the one that made its way into the corporate sector first — the pointing finger style. In the […]

Resilience of a Leader: 7 Tips for Coping with Stress

Resilience has become one of the key traits of Ukrainian leaders in 2023, a topic first discussed during the Alumni Leadership Day in 2021. Larisa Galadza, Canada’s Ambassador to Ukraine, delivered a lecture titled “Leader’s Resilience.” Today, this topic remains highly relevant, and Andrew Rozhdestvensky, Executive Director of the CfL UCU, provides updated insights on […]

Andriy Rozhdestvensky: Out educational work in the regions of Ukraine

Leadership During War: Insights from Andriy Rozhdestvensky Andriy Rozhdestvensky, Executive Director of the UCU Leadership Center, has traveled to cities such as Nikopol, Odesa, Dnipro, Ternopil, Lviv, and Warsaw during the war, sharing vital insights on leadership in wartime. For over six years, the UCU Leadership Center has actively studied leadership, including military leadership, and […]

Leadership and The «Art of War»

Famous Chinese strategist and philosopher Sun Tzu in his tract «Art of War» states that the most important thing in war is to ruin your opponent’s strategy In the philosopher’s thinking, it is precisely in ruining your enemy’s plan that an unbeatable war strategy is found. In «Art of War», Sun Tzu gives special attention to strategy, […]

Recipe for the Elixir of Resilience During War: Advice from Psychotherapist Oleh Romanchuk

How can one remain psychologically resilient in wartime? Is there a quick recipe for resilience? How should we behave with children? We discussed these and other questions during a webinar with Oleh Romanchuk, a doctor, psychotherapist, psychiatrist, and the director of the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) Institute of Mental Health. The conversation was moderated by […]

What is common between military and civil leadership — discussion within the UCU Days

We would like to share with you the recording of the presentation of the results of the study entitled “The role of leader’s character in moderation of the negative relation between leadership context hostility and leader subjective wellbeing” carried out by the Center for Leadership of UCU. The event was held in the discussion format […]

A series of webinars LvBS: «Leader’s character: building effective teams»

We kindly invite you to attend a series of issue-related webinars from LvBS «Leader’s character: building effective teams». Together with Andrew Rozhdestvensky, Executive Director of the Center for Leadership of UCU, we will analyze Gerard Seijts’s articles. Gerard Seijts is the Executive Director of Іan O. Ihnatowycz Institute for Leadership (Ivey Business School, Canada). Lviv […]

Psychological safety and the critical role of leadership development

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Trump, leadership, and consequences: it’s time to rethink

Fear, distrust, uncertainty about the future and many other things were caused by COVID-19 pandemic. And it has repeatedly shown the leader’s role in the community, and specifically – what are consequences when we lack character. Today everyone speaks about the presidential election in the USA – in the country with democratic principles, developed economy and united […]