We need strong values-led leadership in today's divided world
First published in TES on 16 February 2017. The qualities traditionally ascribed to female leadership are among those that are most needed in our schools, and indeed in the turbulent wider world, writes a co-founder of the Leading Women’s Alliance Friday 20 January turned out to be a very good day to be closeted in the theatre at the Mulberry and Bigland Green Centre, surrounded by scores of inspirational leaders , cut off from the outside world. When we set the date for the second Leading Women’s Alliance Summit last summer, we had no idea it would be the day Donald Trump would be inaugurated . Uppermost in our minds at that time were the communities closer to home, reeling in the aftermath of the Brexit vote . Both events provided a backdrop for a day focused on the need for, and the power of, values-led leadership . The day after 52 per cent of voters set us on the path to Brexit last May, my six-year-old son asked his half-Indian daddy whether his life would