New Water Policy and Practice Volume 1, Number 2 - Spring 2015 | Page 10

Understanding Six Water Leadership Roles

primarily targeted emerging leaders from the program’s host country (Australia), but
its design ensured that it could also service the needs of leaders from other countries,
including developing countries. As described by Taylor and McIntosh (2012), this
work involved the following three steps. First, another review of the international
water leadership literature was conducted, building on the work by Taylor (2010a)
to identify and characterise common leadership roles. This process identified three
key non-executive leadership roles, namely the project champion, enabling leader
and team/project leader roles. It was, however, recognised that these roles were not
ex