International Centre
for Leadership and Innovation
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What we do

From self-leadership to entrepreneurial opportunity.

ICLI develops self-leadership through innovation, connecting personal capability with curated entrepreneurship and employability pathways for students, graduates, postgraduates and young innovators.

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The entrepreneurial pathway

Three progressive phases.

Seminars, workshops, exhibitions and conferences can take participants from personal capability development to collaborative innovation, then towards work and enterprise opportunities.

  1. People review evidence and planning documents around a worktable.
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    01

    Intellectual capital

    Identify

    Identify and develop

    Participants identify and develop soft skills through self-leadership, collaborative innovation and independent entrepreneurship.

  2. A cross-disciplinary team develops a solution around a strategy board.
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    02

    Collaborative resource capital

    Innovate

    Innovate and build

    Participants form innovative partnerships, build collaborative leadership and develop entrepreneurial ventures. Delivery may include a pitch-deck or venture exhibition.

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    Social-symbolic capital

    Invest

    Progress into opportunity

    Developed capability connects to curated work and enterprise pathways enabled through institutions and partners.

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How the pathway can be delivered

Participation with a practical purpose.

  1. 01

    Seminars

    Identify and develop practical soft-skill strategies.

  2. 02

    Workshops

    Build collaborative innovation and leadership through participation.

  3. 03

    Exhibitions

    Present developing pitch decks or entrepreneurial ventures where appropriate.

  4. 04

    Conferences

    Exchange knowledge around self-leadership, innovation and opportunity.

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Convene

Symposium

Seminars, workshops, exhibitions and conferences bring self-leadership, shared learning and entrepreneurial thinking into a collective setting.

  1. 01 Conferences on self-leadership
  2. 02 Lectures on redefining personality
  3. 03 Panel conversations on the impact of self-leadership

Outcomes

  • Entrepreneurial soft skills
  • Collaboration
  • Roadmaps to impact
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Collaborative process

Innovation

Learners move from promising thinking into shared practice—testing ideas, forming partnerships and building the leadership needed to develop a venture.

  1. 01

    Identify and test innovative solutions.

  2. 02

    Form innovative partnerships and collaborative leadership.

  3. 03

    Develop entrepreneurial ventures through shared action.

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Entrepreneurial action

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is humanity.

Self-leadership and developed capability become a foundation for independent entrepreneurship, collaborative venture development and enterprise opportunity.

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Partner-enabled progression

Partnerships

Institutions, employers and programme partners can connect developed capability with practical, curated routes into opportunity.

  • Internships, externships and apprenticeships
  • Entrepreneur-in-Residence opportunities
  • Collaborative partnership and consortium opportunities

Sponsorships

The ICS Capital: the net worth of human resources

Students need strong human capabilities alongside technical skills.

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  1. 01

    Intellectual Capital

    Self-Identity

  2. 02

    Cultural Capital

    Self-Development

  3. 03

    Social and Symbolic Capital

    Self-Leadership

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These topics may be explored as general readiness education. ICLI does not provide investment, financial or legal advice, recommend an instrument or promote a specific investment.

Consortium

Building companies from companies to companies.

Entrepreneurial verification of innovative ideas

Delivery can bring institutional leaders, academic departments, student representatives and external partners together around planning, participation and validation.

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  1. 01

    Intelligence

    Product Validation

  2. 02

    Influences

    Market Validation

  3. 03

    Impact

    Service Validation

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Choose the conversation

One pathway. Three ways in.

Choose the route that fits your role and start with the context that matters.