“This leadership course takes you on a nurturing leadership journey of exploration and self-development.

Rasheed is a master guide who walks alongside you, providing caring, stretching, and supportive inputs, using beautiful imagery, and thought-provoking insights to help you along the way.

I would recommend this course to anyone wishing to bring out the best of their own leadership abilities and demonstrate the tremendous positive potential for transformation that is possible when leadership comes truly from the heart.”

Professor Durka Dougall 

Chief Executive,
Centre for Population Health

“The Soul Leader course was the perfect thing for me to ask myself the right questions and get in touch with the knowledge I needed.

As a newly promoted manager for a small team, I needed to learn new ways of working to bring out the best in myself and my team.

The Soul Leader Course is clearly laid out and is so practical. It is has given me great insight into my own strengths and weaknesses and what I need to do to build a great team.” 

Justin Van Uytrecht 

Service Desk Team Lead,
The Social Hub

“This course has lots of rich, useful and relevant content at all levels, for someone on their leadership journey.

I like how fluid the course is, as I am able to make connections and reflect on my leadership journey. I also see how I can apply it in future in different settings.

The additional resources are very helpful and have helped me as a visual person to put things into perspective, to keep track of where I am currently, and to pause and reflect.

I feel this course will help others unlock and open up abilities that they have. It will help them use their hearts and minds to become authentic leaders.” 

Samantha Ming 

Inclusion Manager,
Barts Health NHS Trust

“Rasheed's Soul Leader approach and guidance helped me to be my best authentic self and lead with integrity, compassion, and purpose.

I've been so privileged to have Rasheed as my coach whilst leading a high performing team in a major publishing house.  

Now that I am pursuing an exciting new venture, the online course has allowed me to revisit a vast array of invaluable tools, tips and techniques to further hone my skills as a heart-centered leader and entrepreneur.

This course is incredibly easy to follow and digest at your own pace with a wealth of additional resources and helpful exercises to support your journey.

I can’t recommend it enough for anyone wishing to take a more meaningful and purpose-led approach to life and work.” 

Zosia Knopp 

Former Rights Director, 
Penguin Random House

“Rasheed Ogunlaru’s new course, Soul Leader, is a game-changer for aspiring leaders as well as for experienced leaders seeking to build new skills to help them show up authentically, confidently, and strategically.

We live in times of increasingly rapid change and now more than ever, we need visionaries who lead from the heart and help society and businesses transition to brave, hopeful and sustainable futures.

The Soul Leader course provides a clear path for anyone who wants to step up and offer the transformational leadership that we need at every level of our society: in communities, politics, business, education, and more.

In Soul Leader, Rasheed has harnessed decades of experience of working with leaders at every stage of their journey to create a practical online course that is concise, filled with exercises and activities that prove to be immediately useful, and that build on each other to deliver tangible change.

I’ve had the great pleasure of working with Rasheed directly and benefiting from his self-paced courses over the years, and having completed Soul Leader, believe it to be an essential professional development tool for leaders of the future. Highly recommended!” 

Suzanne Whitby 

Futurist. Facilitator. Storyteller. Sustainability catalyst.
www.suzannewhitby.com

“In the Soul Leader course Rasheed invites you to journey with him in a profound exploration of practical and embodied ways of knowing yourself and developing yourself as a person and your potential as a leader.

Rasheed invites you to be curious and examine your own mental schema and experiences, while flexing into the ability to see and acknowledge the perspective and lived experience of others you lead; the way you develop and engage with professional relationships; and to imagine a way of building and improving communication, trust, and connection though compassion.  

As leaders and managers, you may tend think that time is probably your most important resource, but Rasheed gets you to think outside of the leadership box – it is you and it is your people. He helps you creatively develop ways to mindfully make space for, and sustain your energies, physical, mental, emotional, grounding and resourcing yourself as a Soul Leader while helping your team feel visible, valued, motivated, and inspired to achieve.

There is so much value in this course. You pace yourself along 8 steps, each stage offering a unique lens through which to see and experience your leadership. In each chapter Rasheed offers you coaching tools to enact the learning from the course, building on this learning through summaries, actions, learnings, and reflections. The fact that you can go back to each module as a standalone resource when you feel you need to, as well as use the techniques and tools he shares with you coaching yourself and your team, is incredibly empowering.

Rasheed has managed to develop a very holistic, practical, and transformational leadership course which touches not just on the key operational aspects of managing people, of being a catalyst for change and managing change, or even of utilising situational leadership styles – it goes much deeper than that. Rasheed invites you to move past strategy, past the ability to zoom in and zoom out, to a heart-centred place where you can be incredibly present as a leader with a deep and authentic understanding of the people you lead, their team dynamics, personalities, their developmental needs, other stakeholders and what is happening in and impacting the environment you professionally operate in.

The emotional intelligence aspect of leadership is often something just paid lip service to in many leadership development courses because it is often seen as “messy” but - wherever there are people, there are emotions, and the Soul Leader is able to connect with that complexity confidently with authenticity and inspire. If you are a leader or potential leader who wants to add another dimension to your leadership, embarking on this course with Rasheed as your coach can transform how you lead.

Throughout the course Rasheed invites you, as your coach, back to the silent centre where you can drop into yourself, resource yourself and emerge stronger, more knowledgeable with more agency and efficacy as a leader. You can’t lead others until you can lead yourself, and through this Soul Leader course, Rasheed holds the space for you, so you are able to do that, and more.” 

Anna Gordon

Leadership and Executive Coach, Certified Business Coaching Psychologist, Hypnotherapist. 
ICF, CBCP, D.Hyp, CH, GHR Reg, GQHP, NGH, CNHC Reg,  

“I found the soul trader course really illuminating. It came at a time when I’ve been feeling pretty burnt out, and I needed something to refresh me to help me to reflect on my year, and to give me a focus for the year ahead, and I found that the Soul Leader course did just that.

It helps me to recognise the importance of using my velvet voice as I persuade and negotiate with individuals. It is a handy Tool of self reflection, but it also gives me practical tools and tips for how I can move forward.

Thanks so much for this resource! It’s it’s really useful for the practitioner who wants to work in a mindful fashion.” 

Maggie Morgan-Valentine

Head of Equality & Diversity
British Heart Foundation