About
Mause.

Mause-Darline Francois is a Haitian professional whose work focuses on protection, peace, the rights of women and girls, and the rights and inclusion of persons with disabilities. Her professional experience has taken her through civil society, public institutions, and international organizations, where she has worked with people, communities, and institutions facing complex situations.

Her understanding of leadership has been shaped by both her professional and personal life. It comes from leading teams, advising institutions, supporting colleagues and communities, working alongside women, girls, and persons with disabilities, and helping people navigate difficult circumstances. But it also comes from living with disability, moving across countries and cultures, navigating family relationships, adapting to change, making difficult choices, and learning from the ordinary moments that often reveal the most about who we are.

These different experiences have taught her that leadership is not limited to professional titles or formal authority. It can appear in the way we respond to disagreement, care for others, make decisions, respect difference, recover from difficult moments, and recognize the limits of our influence.

The Leadership Notebook is her independent personal publication. It is a space for reflections on leadership as it is lived through work, family, relationships, disability, responsibility, resilience, difference, public service, and everyday life.

The reflections published here are personal and do not represent the views of any organization with which she is or has been affiliated.