The leaders worth following won’t be here forever.
Leadership is a responsibility, not a title. The few great leaders we have today won’t lead forever, and most of what they learned was never written down. We exist to capture that wisdom, challenge it honestly, and pass it to the next generation before it’s lost.
IN PARTNERSHIP AND CONVERSATION WITH University of Guelph, Lang School of Business · 10C Shared Space · Guelph Chamber of Commerce
Wealth is concentrating. Wisdom is walking out the door.
$1T+
The first fortunes approaching trillionaire scale, with more forecast to follow.
%
of young Canadians no longer believe hard work pays off, per the 2025 HumanKind findings.
1
generation stands between the leadership we admire and the system the next one inherits.
Three ways we move wisdom from one generation to the next.
Capture
Through the podcast and studio, leaders tell the truth behind the highlight reel. Not just what they built, but why they built it that way. Story is how wisdom survives.
Challenge
Intimate, in-person panels where vetted emerging leaders sit with people who lived it, and press them on ethics, responsibility, and the path they’re leaving behind.
Carry Forward
With the Lang School of Business, students pursuing leadership join the dialogue directly, so what these leaders know becomes how the next ones lead.
Leadership, unscripted and on the record.
Find the business only you can build.
Ikigai is where what you love, what you are good at, what the world needs, and what you can be paid for all meet. Our Ikigai for Business tool walks you through that intersection and turns it into a meaningful, viable idea, so you begin with purpose instead of guesswork.
Leadership taught through lived stories, not slides.
Not-Masterclass gives real leaders a platform to teach from experience, the wins, the failures, and the lessons in between, professionally filmed and shared with a global audience. Teach the leadership you have lived, or learn from leaders who have been there.
The wisdom we don’t pass down is the legacy we lose.
THE LEADERS’ MINDSET BELIEF
Find your seat at the table.
FOR LEADERS
Leave a legacy
You have earned hard-won insight. Pass it on. Join the conversation and leave a legacy that lasts.
FOR EMERGING LEADERS
Sit, listen, challenge
Students and rising leaders, request a seat at a live dialogue. Bring your hardest questions to people who have already faced them.
FOR EVERYONE
Watch and spread it
Follow on YouTube and LinkedIn. Leadership isn’t only for the C-suite. Take what resonates into your own corner of the world.
Two brothers, one experiment that grew up.
Leaders’ Mindset started small. Two brothers in Guelph who wanted to give the region’s leaders a voice on a podcast. The conversations were good enough that the leaders themselves said it should be more than a show.
So it became one. A social enterprise built to capture, challenge, and carry leadership wisdom forward, and to prove that doing good and doing well were never meant to be opposites.
CO-FOUNDER AND HOST
Mo
Brings leaders, entrepreneurs and changemakers together to humanize leadership through real conversation.
CO-FOUNDER AND STORYTELLER
Oz
Filmmaker and creative director turning hard-won wisdom into vivid, authentic stories worth passing on.