Elevate Your Leadership

with courage, clarity, inclusion and values-aligned action. Be it leading others or learning to lead yourself, this is the right place to be.

Hi, I'm Dr Basirat Razaq-Shuaib. I advise leaders and boards on courageous and inclusive policies, governance and decisions that serve people, performance and profit.

It sounds unbelievable, but I haven't always championed courageous or inclusive leadership. What I've learnt about courage, clarity and inclusion has come from difficult experiences, and that's why I now advise others. Over the past two decades, I’ve led in finance as Deputy CFO, founded organisations, advised boards, authored 7 books, and gained a Cambridge PhD with a focus on inclusion. But underneath that is an ambitious mother, who struggled with feelings of dissonance, guilt, frustration and resentment, especially when my actions and decisions did not align with my true beliefs. Through it all, I have learnt to lead myself and others with courage, clarity and inclusion. And that's what I want for you too.

Current systems of leadership have become inadequate

And we are experiencing the impact not just in the people or systems that we lead but also in ourselves.

The good news is that things can be turned around

The same way we have learnt to develop better financial frameworks, we can learn how to transform ourselves, the people and the systems that we lead. The future of leadership will not be shaped by power alone, but also by courage, clarity, inclusion and humanity.

Download the Values Alignment Audit: Five questions courageous leaders ask before every hard decision.