"The Leadership Circle Profile- Domestic And Foreign Certifications (http://www.theleadershipcircle.com/gamefilming-developing-an-extraordinary-awareness-to-becoming-highly-effective) Latin America presents unique challenges and opportunities for leadership growth. This article outlines the opportunities there are for leadership development in Latin American countries. Leaders of global companies and international leadership coaches/consultants need to be aware of these challenges and opportunities to achieve success. Related Keywords: leadership development, global leadership, culture and leadership, leadership and culture, the leadership circle"

1. Buying our Ticket to Bombay, Latino-style
Written By: Art Shirk

2. Latin America presents unique
challenges and opportunities for
leadership growth. This slideshow
outlines the opportunities there are
for leadership development in Latin
American countries.
Leaders of global companies and
international leadership
coaches/consultants need to be
aware of these challenges and
opportunities to achieve success.

3. Nowhere on Earth are we more “In over our
heads” today than in Latin America, and
nowhere is The Leadership Circle mission to
“evolve the conscious practice of leadership to
steward the planet and to awaken us all to our
inherent unity” more urgent and important.

4. • Colombia is one of the worldʼs largest exporters of fresh flowers, and also
home to the longest running active civil war in the world.
• South America is the single most biologically rich area in the world, but at
the same time includes 6 of the 10 most violent cities on the planet based
on homicide rates.
• Fueled by growth in middle class, urbanization, increased infrastructure
spending, and improved connectivity, Latin America is likely to become
one of the most important markets globally, with a gross domestic product
of $15.14 trillion by 2025. And, over 25% of the Latin American population
survives on $2 per day.
• There are approximately 40,000,000 people in Latin America and the
Caribbean that belong to the almost 600 indigenous peoples of the
continent; 12.76% of the entire American population and approximately
40% of the rural population is indigenous. Many of these indigenous
cultures are at high risk due to exploitation of rich sources of natural
resources from their land.

5. Based on the contrasting figures on the previous slide,
one can see and understand a Latino world that reacts
in a “play not to lose” strategy.
However, Latin America is yearning for creative ways of
embracing “play to win” strategies.

6. • In some moments Latin America is viewed as a subordinate sibling to
the United States and has a complying tendency to somehow be
approved of or accepted by the North.
• However, in other moments, Latin America seeks to stand apart from
its northern neighbors--protective stance of “we don’t need them.”
• Perhaps the most stereotypical version of Latin America evokes
images of controlling dictators exerting dominant control over a
struggling populace. As is the case around the world and in all cultures,
reactive responses abound in Latin America and represent the “center
of gravity” of society’s collective consciousness.
• What is ever-more visible in today’s Latin America is an opening and
hunger for transformative change”or new forms of being and thinking
and knowing, for creative ways of embracing “play to win” strategies.

7. In January of 2013, The Leadership Circle
Latin America was officially launched.
• Fifty certified practitioners from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru,
Panama, Costa Rica, and Mexico are supported by a core team of
consultants and faculty at our headquarters based in Bogota,
Colombia.
• Prior to launching this Latin American region, The Leadership
Circle was actively engaged in conversation about how this
methodology, model, and sets of theories could impact the
developing world that is Latin America today.
• The global community of The Leadership Circle practitioners
now includes Latin America as a part of that web.

8. The Leadership Circle’s vision is bold - They
believe that the window-of-opportunity for this
shift particularly in Latin America is NOW.
• In this decade, Latin America is experiencing an “age structural
transition” in which the total active working population is larger
than the dependent population of youth and the elderly.
• One way of looking at that trend is from the perspective that
the largest group of emerging leaders is searching NOW for the
best ways to expand their leadership consciousness and capacity.

9. The Leadership Circle’s vision is bold - They
believe that the window-of-opportunity for this
shift particularly in Latin America is NOW.
•The challenges encountered in Latin America are not unlike
challenges faced in other parts of the world, particularly in
developing countries.
• Practitioners of The Leadership Circle all sense that the global
community is at a precipitous time of history and know that an
evolution in their way of making sense of the world is at the root
of tilting the future toward a sustainable path.

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