KidLead Middle East

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Last week, I had the opportunity to be with our partners at Future Leadership Academy (www.futureleadershipacademy.org) in Dubai.  We had a great time training Trainers and interacting with nearly 20 students through the Red Module.  Aman Merchant, entrepreneurial leader of FLA, is one of a growing number of people who intersect their role as business leader and parent, realizing the best hope for our world is to develop the potential in the new generation. 

I left Dubai, impressed with both the diverse culture of this magnificant desert oasis and the robust leadership ability in their preteens.  The group I had the opportunity to observe was mostly made up of higher leadership aptitude students who both enjoyed and benefitted from the training.  Aman and I got to do a couple of radio programs and a newspaper ran a full page article on the new venture.  I also did a Developing Your Child to Lead workshop at GIIS school, a private Indian school, led by a principal who understands the importance of developing the whole child, not just academics.

While I was in Dubai, Tom Cruise was there, premiering his new Mission Impossible movie, shot in part at the world's tallest building, the Burj Kalifa.  But while Mr. Cruise was attracting the paparazzi, a group was quietly launching mission possible, a system for identifying and developing great future leaders in the Middle East.  I anticipate exciting things as Aman, Romshi and the FLA staff launch LeadStar (their brand for LeadNow) and LeadSmart (LeadWell), throughout the UAE and the Middle East. 

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