LEAD FOR LIFE
Programme

‌L4L is a two-year, transformational journey for HKU students to acquire the characteristics needed for lifelong leadership – leadership which is life-enriching, life-nurturing (for leaders and group members), and a way of life. Its purpose is to help students flourish during their time at HKU, and to equip them to build flourishing communities afterwards.

Built around the research on character leadership at Oxford University and the University of Hong Kong, our programme presents character leadership as acquirable and desirable as well as accessible to all personalities: quiet, outgoing or somewhere in between. The programme draws on deep, multi-cultural traditions of wisdom and virtue to enable HKU leaders to make a significant social impact locally and globally.

L4L’s inaugural programme began at HKU with the 2021/22 cohort. Since then, each year we have admitted around 200 freshmen into the programme. Upon successful completion of the programme, they are awarded a Character Leadership Certificate by HKU. Graduates, however, are encouraged to view their graduation as a ”commencement” of life-long leadership as well as to return and help lead in the ongoing programme. The programme’s content is developed and curated by Faith and Global Engagement in partnership with CEDARS and aims to involve collaboration and participation across all HKU faculties.