Leadership / Quiet leaders

PresenterThey never chose to be leaders, yet they calmed the world in a pandemic.

She leads a large Maori tribe, but not in the way you'd expect.

AhoYou can show strength in different ways when it's needed, but I think people will respect leadership more if they feel that you are listening to them.

PresenterTheir leadership could be described as quiet, but what do we mean by that? And how do they compare to the more brash leaders we might be used to?

Our leaders talk while others listen, right? They use their personality to get what they want.

Scientists are more used to watching than being listened to: quiet, thoughtful experts.

But in the Covid pandemic, they have led more than ever and changed the lives of billions of people.

Spector: a professor of genetics in the UK. Thanks to him and his team, people around the world found out that losing your sense of taste and smell were symptoms of Covid.

That changed the way millions behaved, saving countless lives.

Fauci took over America's Disease Institute in 1984, dealing with things like a relatively small Zika outbreak. But that meant he was perfect to help lead the response to coronavirus. His messages were not always popular and he disagreed with President Donald Trump.