This year my old school Cornerstone Leadership Academy celebrates 20 years and many know I have been involved in this work for as long as I can remember. My reflections therefore take me to the early years when back John Riordan was headmaster. As headmaster he was strict, kind and loving. John gave his first-born son the middle name “Kutesa” this is a Luganda (or better still Bantu) word to, “to negotiate”, to talk together. John was headmaster of Cornerstone Leadership Academy boys at a very formative stage when the school was struggling to find its identity. The proprietors who included Tim, Michael and John sought to build a different kind of school. A school with no rules. Where students are guided by principles. To date this is true. In many ways this was a blend blend of cultures that the American friends wanted where freedom and order would meet. Negotiations was therefore inevitable. It was critical that the talk was walked. That the student new they coul...