Authentic leadership is crucial for delivering today’s complex projects. Leading projects, programmes, and portfolios is a comprehensive and multifaceted endeavour that requires developing and sustaining trusted relationships with people and organisations, and authenticity absolutely helps.

Authentic leadership is a style where leaders are genuine, self-aware and transparent. Authentic leaders are anchored by their own deep sense of self and awareness of their own and others’ identities, beliefs, and values. It is a leadership style connected with emotional intelligence. It enables leaders to engage their teams with a vision and a role model and interpret and shape the broader environment within which they situated.

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