Future of Leadership Initiative (FLI)


The Future of Leadership Initiative (FLI) was founded by MLI in collaboration with the Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM).

The initiative brings together global thought leaders, senior executives and young talents to collaborate on finding solutions to the key leadership challenges of the digital age.

In recent years FLI has brought more than 4,500 participants together to cover topics including…

  1. Phantom Change – How do you recognise true progress?
  2. Vision Y – What does a desirable future look like to Generation Y.
  3. Meaning@Work – How can leaders promote meaning in working life.
  4. The truth behind innovation – How to design a system that systematically produces innovation.
  5. Leadership in Times of Intelligent Machines – How will AI affect leadership?


„Through the Future of Leadership Award, FLI honours role models who have taken the lead with new and innovative approaches.“

Past award winners


Jimmy Wales

Jimmy Wales

Jimmy Wales is most well known as co-founder of the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia. The platform makes the most of the collective potential of a huge number of authors to give access to information and knowledge to users across the globe.


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CIYOTA COBURWAS

CIYOTA COBURWAS is self-organised refugee project in Uganda. There, young people have set up their own school system without any financial support in a refugee camp near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo. Driven by the vision of educating those around them, the organisation has succeeded in strengthening the community, reducing crime among young people and increasing the proportion of girls completing school from 10% to 80%.


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TUM Hyperloop Team

By producing fastest moving tunnel vehicle, this team of engineers from the Technical University of Munich won Elon Musk’s Hyperloop competition twice in a row, beating teams from more than 900 participating universities in the process.

Each year they started from scratch, fully disposing the previous year’s project to tackle the challenge from a new angle. The team is fully self-organised and works purely out of personal interest in pushing the limits of what is possible.

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