There is an exponentially-accelerating force for global societal and organisational change. From this realisation has come a call for more holistic leadership that integrates the three fundamental arenas that define the essence of human existence — the body, soul, and spirit.
Spiritual leadership is one of the leadership traits that is underdeveloped within leaders, particularly because of a misconception about religion. The advent of Covid-19 in 2020 has resulted in an increased recognition of spiritual leadership globally as one of the fundamental leadership traits for the 21st century. As companies and institutions faced great uncertainty and volatility, and employees were overtaken by the proliferation of deaths, with loved ones and colleagues who succumbed to the pandemic, a dark cloud loomed over organisations. A need arose to fill the vacuum and provide answers to questions beyond the traditional scope of businesses. Spiritual leadership thus, globally, emerged to enhance organisational spirituality and safeguard organisations from volatility and uncertainty.
However, Africa, and in particular Namibia, still lags behind with employees’ need to find purpose and meaning in their work life unmet, thereby significantly contributing to mental health challenges, unfulfillment, demotivation, low morale among employees, etc.
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For this reason, GLOWREACH, a leading leadership and organisational development consulting firm in Namibia, in partnership with Generation Christ Bible Church, is pioneering spiritual leadership and organisational/workplace spirituality in Namibia from a Christian worldview, to help the business world put systems in place to help professionals integrate their spirituality and work to find greater purpose and meaning.
‘Triple bottom line’
GLOWREACH introduced Workplace Spiritual Leadership Summit in Namibia in 2023. The Summit is aimed at supporting leaders to get in touch with their core values and communicate them to followers through vision and personal actions to create a sense of spiritual survival through calling and membership. The summit aims to introduce spirituality at work, which is about leaders and followers who understand themselves as spiritual beings who have a sense of calling that provides meaning and purpose for their lives. The summit empowers leaders to develop membership at the workplace where people experience a sense of belonging, connectedness to one another and their workplace community, by acknowledging that people have both an inner and an outer life and that the nourishment of the inner life can produce a more meaningful and productive outer life that can have beneficial consequences for employee wellbeing, corporate responsibility and sustainability, as well as financial performance – the triple bottom line.
On November 9 2024, GLOWREACH in partnership with Generation Christ Bible Church held its second Workplace Leadership Summit in Windhoek, Namibia. The summit brought together over 100 marketplace leaders from various sectors with the aim of developing the spiritual leadership acumen of leaders in the marketplace for sustainable impact.
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The summit covered topics such as workplace spirituality, strategic relevance for marketplace leaders, spiritual governance, marketplace leadership, faith at work, finding and amplifying your voice; practical application of integral leadership and financial intelligence for personal growth. The speakers were phenomenally, well-grounded, local, renowned seasonal spiritual business leaders such as Erwin Tjipuka, Standard Bank CEO, Rosalia Martins-Hausiku, MVA Fund CEO, Dr Martha Uumati, Tridick managing director, Dr Elton Black, Clinico Health Group managing director, Dr Eddie Turner, Biblica Africa director, Edla Kaumbi, NICG CEO, and Letitea du Plessis, Climate Fund Managers, investment manager.
The hope is that the summit will empower marketplace leaders to connect with their true selves, lead from within and integrate vision, hope, and altruistic love in the workplace, thereby improving spiritual consciousness, providing employees with a more meaningful work experience — and achieving the “triple bottom line”.
The following companies participated in the summit: Old Mutual, MVA Fund, Bank of Namibia, NAMCOL, Tridock, ARC Namibia, Advanced FSN, NWR, MTC, and EIF.
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