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An Integrated Leadership Development Model: Integrating Zat, Loa, and Vfc for Multilevel Impact

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: This paper introduces an ıntegrated leadership development model that integrates three frameworks—ZAT (psycho-developmental diagnostics), LOA (relational and strategic organizing), and VFC/VCBOM (competency-based organizational scaling). Each model emphasizes a different developmental role: ZAT emphasizes identity and emotional development; LOA (Community Organizing) describes relational power and public narrative; and VFC/VCBOM integrates leadership behaviours in institutional systems through KSAH-based competencies. Leveraging a conceptual synthesis approach, the study develops an integrated, modular framework for youth development, civic movements, and organizational reform. A case scenario illustrates the model in a youth-led education campaign, evidencing how it can help leaders to follow a pathway from personal formation to systemic transformation. Practical/theoretical implications The model provides strategic implications for developing world-class leaders in uncertain and high-context environments such as the Global South. It offers a replicable and scalable mechanism to unite purpose, strategy, and organizational learning—connecting personal development with collective impact and sustained capacity for the long haul.

Source: Lex localis - Journal of Local Self-Government

DOI: 10.52152/803510

Authors: Mohammad Moharram, Abdullah Hussein Salem, Yasser Nasr Eldin, Wael Ahmed Abdalla (corresponding authors)

Institution: Sohag University

Language: English

Topic: Leadership and Management in Organizations

Subfield: Strategy and Management

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W7127039155

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