a time to lead, a time to follow

Al Smith
my fastest mile
Published in
2 min readOct 7, 2015

I spent the day today delivering a leadership development workshop and have come away feeling increasingly like there’s something missing in the conversation.

Whilst there’s no shortage of views on and approaches to developing leadership hardly anyone is talking about or offering development opportunities in followship. So much so that my spell checker has just told me that the word doesn’t even exist!

At myfastestmile we believe that anyone journeying to excellence must learn both how and when to lead and how and when to follow for its in this sense of fellowship that we can find a common purpose and truly co-create a future that helps us all to bring the best of ourselves.

It seems to us that it will be those who are brave enough to enter this liminal space as fellow learners who will best ready themselves for the challenges posed by the social age that we’re all moving into. That’s why we’ve decided to establish ‘relearn’.

We’re passionate about learning and development in sport and love to talk with other people who share our passion. Through ‘relearn’ we aim to curate a learning space where people can bring their ideas and experiences of coaching and its development to a community that shares a common desire to put learning at the heart of what they do.

We’d love for ‘relearn’ to generate a sense of fellowship for those who engage with it and hope you’ll join us in bringing it to life.

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Al Smith
my fastest mile

helping people be their best through applied complexity and ecological dynamics