Plateía Viktorías

5) Write about one Greek leader you have met on this trip: introduce him or her, describe the parts of the leadership system in relation to him or her, you might want to use the leadership system diagram to help you explain (this is not someone on our team travel group)

While in Greece we met Kayra, who is the director for Love Without Boarders, a nonprofit that focuses on helping refugees in Greece. They provide housing for the refugees, an art gallery for the refugees to sell artwork, and a place to help the refugee children learn language skills and more. Kayra works as a flight attendant and travels the world, hosting pop-up art showcases where people can buy the art and have the proceeds go directly to the refugees.

Her Leadership system would have her as the leader, the followers would be us and the French students that also volunteered to help her, the positive outcomes would be all the help that the refugees receive, whether that be housing, money, or skills. The contextual factors are number of refugees, the location of the art gallery, the number of volunteers helping, the lack of responsibility taken by the government, and people buying the art.

I was able to learn from Kayra that anyone can make servant leadership work in their life, she is always traveling for work and uses that to her advantage with the art shows she sets up around the world, she practically works as a case worker for so many refugees, and teaches life skills to many of them. She shows that leadership needs to be flexible, it’s complicated but with enough hard work and devotion you can make it work.Les mer