How important is it for leaders to be courageous? transcript

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Blue screen appears with text: How important is it for leaders to be courageous?

Text appears at bottom left of screen: Tele'a Andrews Senior Policy Advisor, Pasifika Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment

Tele'a: I think being courageous is incredibly important. I think courage is the ability to back yourself which can be really daunting especially when your perspective might be a little bit different than the status quo, but courage is really the ability to push throughwhat used to seem impossible and see thepossibilities on the other side. I think in my line of work it's really important to mean courageousness because effective leaders often hold not only hope for people who can't hold it themselves but they hold vision for people that can't lift their heads high enough to see, so I'm looking for different alternative futures for Pacific communities in New Zealand and I think you need courage to chase that.