Purpose-Built Leadership: An Immersive Learning Experience for Global Leaders

December 3, 2025

Purpose-Built Leadership: An Immersive Learning Experience for Global Leaders

Carey Melissa Horne Neu | 2024

Abstract

The Purpose-Built Leadership Program is a six-month immersive leadership development experience founded on the belief that global leadership requires an intimate understanding of local leadership traditions and followers’ needs. In the Acts of the Apostles, Christian global leaders are called to embrace cultural diversity and increase intercultural competencies to further God’s kingdom respectively and inclusively. In Acts 2:1-11, the Scripture illustrates the heart of Purpose-Built Leadership when, on the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit filled the disciples, gifting them the ability to speak in many languages and providing them with the capacity to adapt their communication styles to meet the localized needs of the community.

Participants in this program will gain the skills needed to adapt their leadership skills to the global context necessary to move their organizations forward toward a shared purpose. The program is a multi-modal learning experience that includes assessments, individual development planning, synchronous virtual learning, cohort collaboration, immersive in-country experiences, and ‘experteering.’ The program has been carefully shaped with the conviction that leadership development does not come from attending lectures or reading books but is fully realized when learning is actionable and experiential.

The Purpose-Built Leadership Program is designed to improve leadership competencies by providing immersive, actionable opportunities for adapting leadership behaviors to the needs and expectations of their followers in localized, respectful ways. With globalization, the number of leaders crossing borders, either in-person or virtually, has increased significantly. However, global leadership theory has yet to advance as a genuinely global or ubiquitous area of focus; Western male perspectives have primarily contributed to leading research in the field. The Purpose-Built Leadership Model deconstructs traditional global leadership assumptions by encouraging leaders to develop competencies through cultural relativism and human-centered focus. Through intentionally leading in adaptive ways appropriate to the local cultural and societal context, global leaders will find purchase in leading groups to a common purpose through inclusivity, mindfulness, and the common good.

Keywords: purpose, global leadership, intercultural communication, globalization, global citizenship

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