Super-Cube® leadership development

Measured leadership growth

Grow leadership you can measure—across six faces, in weeks not slogans.

Orient in minutes. Set a six-face baseline. Practice deliberately. Re-measure. Download a growth report and certificate with a public verify ID—built from doctoral research in African business networks.

What changes: clarity on weak faces · weekly practice plan · pre→post evidence for you, coach, or school

The Super-Cube®

Whole-person leadership—not one fad skill.

Six developable faces with you at the centre. After your baseline, the cube lights by your scores so growth priorities are visible.

Rotate the model. Each face is a domain you can practise—choices, principles, mind, emotion, body, and purpose—so growth priorities stay visible, not abstract.

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Philosophy · Theory · Model

From human relation to a practiceable cube.

Super-Cube® sits on clear philosophy, development theory, and a six-face model you can measure and train.

Philosophy

Grounded in Buber’s I–Thou, the African philosophy of Ubuntu, and Wilber’s AQAL integral frame—people as subjects-in-relation, never objects of control.

Theory

Illeris’s three-dimensional learning (content, incentive, interaction) plus major leadership literature strands. Roughly 70–76% of leadership capacity is developable through deliberate practice.

Model

Super-Cube® makes that philosophy and theory practiceable: you at the centre, six interdependent faces, pre→post measurement, and deliberate growth.

Core belief

Leadership is largely learnable.

Super-Cube® holds that roughly 70–76% of leadership capacity is developable through deliberate practice, experience, and structured intervention—not fixed by heredity alone. Development follows Illeris’s content, incentive, and interaction.

Theory map (summary)

Major schools

Trait · behavioural · contingency · charisma · follower · relational · shared · evolutionary · neuroscience

Contemporary topics

Socio-cognition · gender · power · identity · culture · globalisation · entrepreneurial leadership

Skills development

Nature–nurture · longitudinal growth · KSAs · theory–research–practice

Integral & philosophical frames

AQAL · I–Thou (Buber) · Ubuntu

Why Super-Cube®

Benefits of the model.

Three design strengths: holistic across the whole person; longitudinal across a whole life; multi-level from one person to wider systems.

Super-Cube® — holistic

Holistic

The whole leader—not a single skill.

Six interdependent faces so growth in one domain strengthens the others. You stand at the centre: agency first, then impact outward.

Longitudinal lifespan development

Longitudinal

One model for a whole life.

From Kids to Adolescents to Adults, the architecture stays continuous. Language deepens with age; context expands from family to work and society.

Multi-level leadership capacity

Multi-level

From one person to whole systems.

Capacity begins with the individual and can extend through organisations, networks, and industries—leadership development as infrastructure.

UKZN doctoral research · 2020

Doctoral thesis

Pre → post growth measured

Capacity change

Sample report + verify certificates

Public verify IDs

Private journals · consented coach share

Privacy by design

Validated at the University of KwaZulu-Natal · Peer-reviewed in SAJEMS · Pre→post certificates with public verify IDs

Voices from African FMCG networks

Named leaders from Imana Foods and Kerry Foods—programme feedback, not paid ads.

I think it is a fantastic model which needs to be shared with all South Africans and later internationally.

Tracey Norton

Imana Foods

The programme is what the world is waiting for.

Sydney Mkhwanazi

Imana Foods

More than the word influence, it provokes your behaviour and calls for change.

Theolen Thevan

Kerry Foods

52 → 68

Mean capacity (illustrative 8-week pattern)

UKZN · SAJEMS

Doctoral model · peer-reviewed paper

+32.2%

Overall intervention gain

Average improvement across all six constructs after Super-Cube® development

+45.1%

Principles (highest)

Largest construct gain—integrity, context, and accountable practice

6

Human-centric constructs

Choices · Principles · Mental · Emotional · Physical · Spiritual

70–76%

Leadership developable

Through deliberate practice—not fixed by heredity alone

Evidence

Built through rigorous mixed-methods research.

Validated with confirmatory factor analysis and senior-leader thematic interviews—designed for practical utility in complex business networks.

132

Employees surveyed

Structural validity across six constructs

10

Senior interviews

Thematic validation of lived practice

0.86

CFI model fit

Acceptable confirmatory factor analysis

α

Reliable scales

Cronbach’s alpha 0.60–0.80 across constructs

Proof of growth

Not activity theatre—measured change.

Learners orient, set a six-face baseline, practice deliberately, then re-measure. Dual radar and PDF report make growth visible for you, a coach, or your organisation.

  • · Pre → post comparison across all six Super-Cube® faces
  • · Downloadable growth PDF + certificate with verify ID
  • · Optional private share link for coaches (journals stay private)

Anonymised cohort illustration

Baseline 52 → Post 68

Composite 0–100 scale after an 8-week school pilot pattern (illustrative; individual results vary). See methodology notes on the sample report.

Emotional+18
Choices+14
Principles+12
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What leaders say

Named voices from real programmes

Leaders at Imana Foods and Kerry Foods—developmental feedback, not paid endorsements.

I think it is a fantastic model which needs to be shared with all South Africans and later internationally.

Tracey Norton

Imana Foods

The programme is what the world is waiting for.

Sydney Mkhwanazi

Imana Foods

Q: Does the Super-Cube® leadership model positively influence your leadership behaviour?

More than the word influence, it provokes your behaviour and calls for change.

Theolen Thevan

Kerry Foods

Next step

Measure growth in your first 10 minutes.

Free baseline on this device—or book a school/company pilot with facilitator calendar, consented roster, and verify certificates.