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Andre van Heerden

ANDRE heads the corporate leadership program The Power of Integrity, and is the author of three books on leadership, Leaders and Misleaders, An Educational Bridge for Leaders, and Leading Like You Mean It. He has unique qualifications for addressing the leadership crisis. Since studying law at Rhodes University, he has been a history teacher, a deputy headmaster, a soldier, a refugee, an advertising writer, a creative director, an account director on multinational brands, a marketing consultant, and a leadership educator. He has worked in all business categories on blue-chip brands like Toyota, Ford, Jaguar, Canon, American Express, S C Johnson, Kimberley Clark, and John Deere, while leadership coaching has seen him help leaders and aspirant leaders in Real Estate, Retail, the Science Sector, Local Government, Education, Food Safety, Banking, and many other areas. Subscribe to my Substack HERE.

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A Simple Leadership Test

"Can you be trusted? Tragically, too few people in postmodern western society can give a sincere answer to the question, and hence the breakdown of community and relationships at every level. And that makes leadership an inevitable casualty." ...

Leaders and Liars

"Leadership starts with self-leadership, which requires thinking for yourself, and that is impossible for people shackled by ideology." ...

Leadership Starts in the Heart

"Human beings are a fusion of mind and body; the latter is susceptible to control by tyrants, while the former is far less so when properly shaped by an adherence to truth, as history again readily attests." ...

It Matters What Your People Think

"The constant growth of knowledge boosts the quality of one’s thinking.  Yet how many managers can count on their employees to think accurately, creatively, and positively about the business?" ...

Leaders Build Relationships

"It is commonplace to say that leadership is about people, but what that really means is that it is primarily about relationships. Bringing people together is, logically, the first requirement of leadership." ...

On Suffering and Redemption

"Suffering and redemption show that human nature has the potential for both good and evil, and personal fulfilment will always ultimately be determined by the free choices we make as we negotiate the challenges of this life." ...