[MUSIC] Welcome to the mountains, the French Alps to be precise. I choose this place, first because I like it. It has told me so much in my life. The magnitude, the white, the height, and given me so much energy while skiing down this slope, but it's also because of the challenges you can face on your journey to leadership. This is me flying with my skis on. My name is Kevin Rolland. I am a world champion in halfpipe skiing. Some say that I am a source of inspiration to them. What I do here may seem easy when you see me perform but let's slow down a bit. The road to success is a long one, one of work and practice of technical and physical skills but also one of self analysis to grow mentally and emotionally strong. I'm going to help you in your leadership development to pursue your self reflection and keep on growing your self awareness. To become who I am today and achieve what I do, I have dedicated a lot of energy and time to my sport and worked very hard at my skills. I have had a moment of doubts and hardship, and it is with motivation and confidence that I've managed to pursue my goal so far. What has kept me going has been a strong willpower and the belief that I could always do better with passion and motivation to push myself. >> In this first episode, you will further reflect on your leadership, so you can continue defining your own style by comparing with different leaders in a variety of settings. For this, I have invited three industry leaders, one in education, Daphne Koller, Stanford professor, co-founder and CEO of Coursera, the platform on which you are doing this MOOC. Then Maurice Levy, President and CEO of Publicis Groupe, one of the leading companies in the communication and advertising industries in the world. And then, Stephane Richard, CEO of Orange, one of the world leading telecom companies. They will share with you what they see as leadership skills. Daphne Koller, from Coursera, will begin and share with you what she sees as key leadership skills. >> I think it's really important for a leader to convey the vision of motivation to the organization, make sure that everyone is heading in the same direction. I think that's probably the most important leadership skill. I also think that it's important for a leader to hire the right people for the right roles and then empower them to execute while making sure that they have all the context and all of the motivation to do the right thing. >> What about you, Mr. Levy? What do you see as your key leadership skills? >> It's extraordinarily difficult to speak about yourself but I would say that I much prefer the idea of inspiring people rather than leading people and this leads necessarily to a few characters. The first one, that you have to be exemplary. The second one is that everything that you are doing must be inspiring for other people. So this is very demanding and this is putting the bar to a certain level. The third aspect is that you have to be dead honest with what you are doing. >> Now, Mr. Richard, can you do the same exercise and share with our MOOC learners what you see as your key leadership skills? >> I would say that they first one is probably to listen. Might not be totally intuitive, but I think the first quality of a leader today is his capacity to listen to everyone, internally, externally. The second one is about imagination of the future and when I say the future, I am talking about the long term future. Because probably, what is most difficult is to keep, to preserve this capacity to overcome the quarter, the short term pressure that you have all the time, and to be able to anticipate what is going to be the future of your company in 10 years time, 20 years time. The third one might be the most important, is to share, to share what you are with the others, what you think with the others, what you believe what is right with the others. Because I think that you cannot lead a company today without this capacity to convince, to explain your decisions, in order to share them with the maximum number of people. So to listen, to imagine what the long-term prospect, and to share. >> For our three leaders, even if they don't openly say so, there are common characteristics that transpire when they speak, don't you think? Can you guess what they are? Do you think they are inspirational, charismatic, engaging, optimistic, courageous, visionary? Yes, they appear to be inspirational and visionary and these are critical characteristics that you identified in your first MOOC, alongside others that we will explore further as we move on. Indeed, we need to reflect on what it takes to be a leader and our approach still engages you in critical thinking, the C of ACE in our pedagogical approach for this MOOC. Because the only way to reinvent leadership and discover your own is to observe and question existing sources of inspiration, as with Daphne, Maurice, and Stephane.