Columba Leadership is an award-winning, national, values-based leadership NPO with a 14 year track record. Our purpose: "Awakening the leader within to change lives and their communities." More than 12 000 learners, educators and principals from high schools in under-resourced communities have graduated from the values-based leadership academy since 2009 and have gone on to be exemplars of leadership as service and a purpose beyond mere self-interest.