- We work with leaders to help them find the right answers that they need to ask of their people.

- The way that we always imagined organisations has shifted as well, so leaders are having to think about two things all the time. What's going on externally and how it impacts their organisations and also what's happening internally.

- We come at those challenges from multiple angles and I think, for me, that's the most exciting part of the programme, watching how the delegates make sense of and use those experiences to draw really important meanings for themselves that they take back to their organisations and make progress on some of those big challenges that they're facing.

- It's about how can you really work with your colleagues and the wider organisation and your stakeholders and your customers to really understand what people need.

- So we used humanities as the vehicle for bringing out these leadership lessons that we think are so important, and most importantly actually is about building leadership confidence. What does that look like and feel like to be a leader in the 21st century?

- My session is called Oxford Cultures, and what we try and do is take the skills of the historian, the ability to synthesise large amounts of evidence, to think about relationships, and we look to apply them to the built environment of Oxford. So, for me, the excitement about the stories that buildings tell is they link people, object, and place together.

- The Oxford Strategic Leadership Programme really isn't like any other leadership programme anywhere else in the world.

- The thing that really appealed to me was both that it was based in the humanities and that it's a very immersive programme.

- I wanted to be in an environment that would challenge me, that would test my own thinking, and that I would come out of it a much better, but a much broader leader as well.

- Tutorial groups, I think, is what differentiates this programme from many other leadership programmes. They've created networks and friendships and connections that far outlast the programme.

- We all came from different places all over the world, different backgrounds, different cultures, different professions, but people are people and the insights gained through that process were immense and equal to the content that was shared with us in the learning sessions.

- All you have to have is curiosity and positivity and a desire to really confront your own vulnerability as a leader, and think about how you can grow further.

- I think it has built me to become a better leader and a better person outside this programme.