Systems-led leaders make decisions about their personal or organizational social-impact strategies based on understanding the systems within which they work. They envision wider system change goals – goals they know they can’t achieve alone but which help guide their actions so that those actions connect with, build upon, and contribute to the wider impact of the collective.

If system-led leadership is what we need to positively shape our future, we need to start designing education and funding programs that focus on system understanding.