The Leadership Compass 4.0D™ Leadership Model

The Leadership Compass is an affiliation of global experts, specialising in leadership, organisational development and training, collectively representing more than a century of professional experience. Our work is behaviour based, with an experiential approach to adult learning, aligned with 21^st Century learning developments associated with Augmented and Visual Reality technologies.

The 4.0D™ Leadership Model is designed to prepare Leaders for future challenges emanating from the fourth industrial revolution – or Industry 4.0. The future of leadership will entail cyber-physical systems, cloud computing, the internet of things (IoT), and cognitive computing that will underlie the mechanisation and modernisation of work places. Future leaders will necessarily have to contend with increasingly complex decision making, while exercising emotional intelligence and simultaneously having impact and the ability to inspire, motivate and deal with this complexity in a volatile, uncertain, complicated and ambiguous world. This environment will require introspective leaders, who continually challenge and develop their analytical ability and leadership effectiveness, more than ever before.

The 4.0D™ Leadership Model is an integrated, yet independent approach to leadership.
It is not aligned to any specific leadership theory, nor does it prescribe to any leadership
style as a single solution. Rather, it allows for each leader to develop his or her personal style.
It departs from the antiquated and bi-axial 20^th Century traditional Leadership theories.
It is multifaceted, and transcends beyond traditional leadership approaches and theories
in the world of work and people; Leadership Impact, as a vital dimension is added and it
transforms leadership into a multi-axial approach. Future leadership contexts that align various,
but up to now isolated, elements are cohesively linked in a multidimensional model.