Mosaic Leadership: Expanding Perspectives in Leadership Development explores how leadership can be reimagined through diverse cultural, indigenous, and global wisdom traditions.
Contributing to the growing movement toward decolonising leadership development, the topic challenges the dominance of one-size-fits-all Western models and highlights the importance of epistemic diversity in understanding leadership, ethics, relationships, and human growth.
Bringing together African, Asian, Middle Eastern, Indian, and Indigenous perspectives alongside contemporary leadership thinking, mosaic leadership emphasises cultural intelligence, collective wellbeing, relational awareness, and openness to multiple ways of knowing and leading in an increasingly interconnected and multicultural world.
About the speakers:
Jonathan Passmore (UK) is an internationally respected chartered occupational psychologist, executive coach, researcher, and author with over 40 years of experience across the public, private, academic, and nonprofit sectors. Having held leadership roles with organizations including IBM and PwC, he has coached senior leaders, politicians, and executives around the world. Jonathan is widely recognized for advancing the coaching profession through his extensive research, global teaching, advisory work with professional bodies such as International Coaching Federation, and more than 40 published books on leadership, coaching, ethics, mindfulness, and organizational development.
Dr. Badri Bajaj is a thought leader, author, and practitioner in coaching, wellbeing, and leadership. He has published books with leading international publishers, including Routledge, Wiley, and Pavilion. He is the co-editor of Mosaic Leadership: African, Asian, Middle Eastern and Indigenous Perspectives and co-editor of The Health and Wellbeing Coaches Handbook. He is also the author of Happiness A to Z. Dr. Bajaj was nominated for the prestigious Thinkers50 Coaching and Mentoring Award 2025 and also received 100 Best Global Coaching Leaders Award. Dr. Bajaj has worked with individuals across 15 countries and has delivered presentations on coaching in the UK, the USA, and India for diverse organizations. He has also been invited by leading coaching bodies, including International Coaching Federation Global and the Institute of Coaching, to contribute to conversations on coaching, leadership, and wellbeing. He has played a pivotal role in promoting coaching in India, serving two terms (2019–2021 and 2021–2023) as President of the International Coaching Federation Delhi-NCR Chapter, where he curated global coaching conferences and led the chapter to win prestigious awards.
Mongezi C. Makhalima, PhD (South Africa)is a globally respected leadership coach, organizational development specialist, academic, TEDx speaker, and entrepreneur from South Africa. Recognized among the Top 20 Global Gurus in Leadership & Coaching and as a Thinkers50 Global Leadership Coach, Mongezi works with influential leaders, creatives, executives, and organizations across the world. With more than 30 years of experience, he has advised major global companies including Citi, De Beers, and Vodacom. His work bridges leadership, coaching psychology, organizational learning, and the creative industries, bringing a distinctly African and globally informed perspective to leadership and transformation.