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Secure based leadership as a basis for intrapreneurship

Ron Immink
8 min readSep 2, 2021

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Psychological safety is a hot topic in intrapreneurship, innovation, transformation. Hence “Care to Dare: Unleashing Astonishing Potential Through Secure Base Leadership”. A book that immediately reminds me of “The new leadership literacies

Secure base leadership

A secure base is a person, place, goal or object that provides a sense of protection, safety and caring and offers a source of inspiration and energy for daring, exploration, risk-taking and seeking challenge. Humans are innately driven to seek closeness to, and comfort from, a person who gives them a sense of protection.

High performance

You need that base to leverage high performance. Consistently achieving beyond normal expectations. And secure base leadership ensures that people stay attached to people and goals in their pursuit of success.

Coherence

Secure Base Leadership is, first and foremost, a way of being. Having a coherent set of feelings, thinking and behaviour. The ability to manage your own state is fundamental to manage yourself and to influence the state of another person.

Self-awareness

You have to start with yourself and your self-awareness. Your personal journey defines who you are as a leader…

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Ron Immink
Ron Immink

Written by Ron Immink

Father of two, strategy and innovation specialist, entreprenerd, author, speaker, business book geek, perception pionieer. See www.ronimmink.com

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