Lord Victor Adebowale is a vital leader healthcare that has been recognized globally. His development into this role began with influences from an early age. He was born in Wakefield, West Yorkshire in 1962. Growing up he attended Thornes House School. It was during his time there that he met a family friend who had a learning disability. Victor stated that “She went to school up the road and she used to come round to the house everyday” (Lord Victor, n.d.). This interaction at an early age helped bring about his sensibility to social needs and exclusion. Victors career was always focused on working on social issues. Once he returned to school at the University of East London after working as a street sweeper, he acquired an MA in Advanced
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This is the largest Black-led housing association. Yet, more opportunities arose, giving him the ability to have an even larger impact for the betterment of society. He became the Director of the Alcohol Recovery Project and Chief Executive of Centrepoint, a youth homeless charity (Lord Victor, n.d.). By 2000, Victor held numerous titles and positions including Patron of the National College for School Leadership, member of the Social Exclusion Unit’s Policy Action Team on Young People, and Chair of the Review of Social Housing Co-ordination of the Institute of Public Policy Research (Lord Victor, n.d.). It was for these services “to the unemployed and to youth homelessness” that Victor was appointed Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, or CBE (Mullooly, …show more content…
Their book, The Leadership Challenge, outlines the basic practices to being an excellent leader. The first of which is to model the way by clarifying values and setting an example, both actively done by Victor. He makes his values well known, often calling for equality and fairness. His dedication to those in need can be seen through his work with people with learning disabilities. He states that “people with learning disabilities are treated like second class citizens” too often, denouncing the prejudice they face (Lord Victor, n.d.). He then set the example by publishing two separate reports on the exclusion of people with learning disabilities. I strongly believe in setting an example for others to follow, and Victor did just
This is the largest Black-led housing association. Yet, more opportunities arose, giving him the ability to have an even larger impact for the betterment of society. He became the Director of the Alcohol Recovery Project and Chief Executive of Centrepoint, a youth homeless charity (Lord Victor, n.d.). By 2000, Victor held numerous titles and positions including Patron of the National College for School Leadership, member of the Social Exclusion Unit’s Policy Action Team on Young People, and Chair of the Review of Social Housing Co-ordination of the Institute of Public Policy Research (Lord Victor, n.d.). It was for these services “to the unemployed and to youth homelessness” that Victor was appointed Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, or CBE (Mullooly, …show more content…
Their book, The Leadership Challenge, outlines the basic practices to being an excellent leader. The first of which is to model the way by clarifying values and setting an example, both actively done by Victor. He makes his values well known, often calling for equality and fairness. His dedication to those in need can be seen through his work with people with learning disabilities. He states that “people with learning disabilities are treated like second class citizens” too often, denouncing the prejudice they face (Lord Victor, n.d.). He then set the example by publishing two separate reports on the exclusion of people with learning disabilities. I strongly believe in setting an example for others to follow, and Victor did just