Reimaginative Leadership: Concepts and Applications

The best leaders harness the potential of people and ideas to achieve their organization’s goal. In Reimaginative Leadership, a reconceptualization of leadership in the twenty-first century is posited. Focussing on the Caribbean, Canute S. Thompson advances a new narrative and offers a different lens from which to view leaders and workers.

Divided into three parts, Reimaginative Leadership examines the origins, nature and application of a reimagined leadership based on care, courage, trust and accountability in response to the new generation of workers. Building on his earlier work in Leadership Reimagination: A Primer of Principles and Practice (2013) and Locating the Epicentre of Effective Educational Leadership in the 21st Century (2015), Thompson takes a humanistic approach and articulates nine concepts as the fundamental basis for a new theory of leadership.

Intended for the leader and worker alike, Reimaginative Leadership provides a guide to navigating challenging and complex issues in the twenty-first-century organization.

Canute S. Thompson is Professor of Educational Policy, Planning and Leadership, and Head of the Caribbean Centre for Educational Planning at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus. The author of seven books including Leadership Re-imagination: A Primer of Principles and Practices (2013), he is a leadership coach and certified management consultant who has spearheaded the founding of the Caribbean Leadership Re-Imagination Initiative and the Caribbean Centre for Educational Planning.