Steve Chalke is my pick as a culturally intelligent leader

I posted this originally in the G+ community for FutureLearn's Developing Cultural Intelligence for Leadership in November 2015

"Founder & Global Leader of Oasis. Founder of Stop The Traffik. Special Advisor to UN on Human Trafficking. Senior leader of @OasisWaterloo Church, London."
(taken from Steve's Twitter profile @SteveChalke)

It is amazing the number of activities that Steve is involved in from running 47 schools with 25,000 students in the UK to employing 5,000 staff delivering a range of services in 10 countries on 4 continents to being a local church leader and a UN Special Advisor working with local, national and international governmental institutions.

Steve is the most passionate, enthusiastic, visionary, ideas-person, change agent, deliverer I know of (and have heard speak a few times in various contexts). Definitely a role model.

Some may be put off by his strong Christian faith but he was awarded an MBE in 2004 for his "services to social inclusion". Worth checking out the resources below.

Resources
(1) "Being Human: How to Become the Person You Were Meant to Be", Steve's talk at St Paul's Cathedral, London, September 2015, exploring the idea that each of us are called to play our part in bringing about a just and loving world, and it's finding our place in that story that will shape us into everything we were meant to be (video)

(2) Steve Chalke and The Oasis Story, Episode 47 of the Rob Bell podcast, 2 November 2015 (that I heard on day 1 of this course!) (audio)

(3) Bio

(4) Wikipedia entry

(5) Oasis UK web site

(6) "American Ambassador Builds Diplomatic Bridges With British Teenagers"; New York Times article (11 November 2015) about a visit to Oasis Academy, Shirley Park, Croydon, London