Receive
Start with the question handed over by the region before you.
PARTICIPATE
Bring your reality. Move the question forward.
We are looking for grounded voices, not polished presentations.
Every role is online, volunteer and unpaid. You contribute from where you are, with no travel.
- Fully online
- No travel
- All roles volunteer and unpaid
- 20–22 May 2027
Tell me when opportunities open.
Contributor opportunities will open through the LEAD48 programme themes.
Volunteer opportunities will open in a future recruitment phase.
We use this address once, to tell you when opportunities open. Questions: charles.igwe@ci3pro.ca.
HOW THE RELAY WORKS
Here is how the baton moves.
No region speaks for the world. Each speaks honestly from its own experience.
Add your reality
Show what the issue looks like where you live and what people can do about it.
Pass it on
Leave the next region with a better, sharper question.
PARTICIPATION PATHWAYS
Where do you fit?
Start with the kind of contribution that feels most like you. You can choose more than one.
01
Planning Team
Help us design, fund, promote, measure or run LEAD48.
Explore roles → 02Regional Facilitator
Find strong local voices and connect your region to the global program.
Explore roles → 03Speaker / Baton Carrier
Bring one useful leadership insight and pass the question forward.
See the speaker call → 04Host / Moderator
Guide a good conversation and make each handoff feel natural.
Explore roles → 05Event Delivery
Help with production, speakers, participants or event operations.
Explore roles → 06Next-Gen Council · 13–19
Help shape the questions and challenge adult leaders from the start.
See the participation model →NEED HELP CHOOSING?
Find where you fit.
Answer six quick questions. We will suggest a pathway and three roles to explore.
No perfect answer required.
This is guidance, not a test. You can still explore every role.
Question 1 of 6
FOR ORGANIZATIONS AND DELIVERY TEAMS
Help build and operate the relay.
Bring the people, capability or local knowledge that makes a global conversation possible. Delivery is fully online, and every role is volunteer and unpaid.
01
Planning team
Support program design, communications, partnerships or measurement.
Explore planning roles → 02Regional partner
Connect credible local voices and help ground the regional story.
Explore regional roles → 03Event delivery
Contribute production, accessibility, technology or operations expertise.
Explore delivery roles →Designed for continuity. No critical role depends on one person. Every lead has a deputy, coordinator and standby, so the relay keeps moving.
NEXT-GEN COUNCIL · AGES 13–19
Young people shape the questions from the start.
Young people should not be brought in at the end to react to decisions adults already made. The Council helps frame the questions, challenges assumptions and contributes to the LEAD48 Global Leadership Report 2027.
Explore the full Next-Gen participation model
Who leads, and who decides?
Test trust, power, institutions and accountability against the reality young people inherit in each region.
Whose intelligence, language and future count?
Examine access, infrastructure, safety, human oversight, local-language data and unequal benefits. Not possibility alone.
What can this generation live with?
Connect climate resilience, livelihoods, culture and just transition to actual regional choices and constraints.
32proposed council placesFour participants across each of eight regional groupings, with deliberate representation across ages 13–15 and 16–19.
- CO-DESIGNRegional circles review the provocation and identify what adult agendas routinely miss.
- CHALLENGE LIVEEvery regional movement includes a Next-Gen challenge, question or evidence contribution, not a ceremonial appearance.
- CO-AUTHORCouncil members review what each region handed on and contribute the Next-Gen commitments to the LEAD48 Global Leadership Report 2027.
- TRACK IMPACTParticipants receive a visible response showing which ideas changed the programme, survived the relay or remain unresolved.
SPEAKERS / BATON CARRIERS
What leadership insight do you bring?
Bring one idea you have earned through your work, research or lived experience. Make it useful. Then leave the next region a question worth answering.
The enduring LEAD48 question
What kind of leadership does our world need now?
THE 2027 EDITION QUESTION
How must leadership change when the systems people depend on are changing faster than institutions can adapt?
Take on one dimension of the 2027 question through a specific regional or lived reality.
Speaker participation is now being organized through the LEAD48 programme themes. Applications are not currently open.
Explore the conversation framework How speakers are selectedBring one insight
Share something your experience, research or community has taught you.
Name the reality
Show how the issue really plays out where you are.
Make it useful
Leave people with an action, tool or idea they can try.
Pass it forward
Give the next region a question worth answering.
Read the complete speaker expectations
Selected Baton Carriers respond to the central question, engage the incoming baton, join preparation and technical checks, keep to the curated format, avoid promotional presentations and take part in a deliberate handoff. Recording and editorial reuse require clear, separate permission.
See the transparent selection process →ONE GLOBAL INQUIRY · MANY REGIONAL TRUTHS
The baton carries a question, not just the microphone.
Each region receives an unfinished question, tests it against local life and passes on what it learned. That is what turns 48 hours into one conversation.
Regional authenticity is a selection standard.
Read the conversation architecture
We curate for contextual grounding, local knowledge, within-region diversity, credible evidence and the ability to engage another region. Not prestige.
PRACTICAL VALUE · CROSS-REGIONAL EXCHANGE · LASTING RECORD
The livestream is the beginning, not the final product.
Every contribution is useful in the moment, connected to another region, and captured for the work that follows.
What every session must produce
What is actually true in this context?
What does this change about how we lead?
What can an individual, team or institution test?
What remains contested or unresolved?
What must the next region examine?
Where regions meet each other
Selected handoffs will bring outgoing and incoming regions into the same live exchange. Topics may include culture and leadership legitimacy; hierarchy and psychological safety; identity and belonging; communication and conflict; AI under unequal infrastructure; sustainability under different economic pressures; and social impact across different institutional capacities.
The incoming region must respond on air to what it receives. That response is part of the program, not backstage context.
What survives the 48 hours
OPPORTUNITY MAP
Every LEAD48 role, ready to read.
None of these roles is taking applications now. Open any role to see its detailed requirements in place.
FAQ
Questions people ask before choosing a role.
APPLICATIONS
Applications are not currently open.
Speaker participation is now being organized through the LEAD48 programme themes. Contributor opportunities will open through those themes.
Volunteer opportunities will open in a future recruitment phase.
Every role, requirement and question on this page is ready to read now.
Already applied? Your application is kept. Check its status.
Hear when opportunities open.
Leave one address and we will email you once, when contributor or volunteer opportunities open. Nothing else is sent to it.
Questions about your application or your data: charles.igwe@ci3pro.ca.