Abstract
D.Comm.
Worldwide there are strong indicators that organisations are experiencing a leadership crisis because of the fundamentally and radically changing world significantly impacting on leaders' effectiveness. The leaders of the future will have to be highly mature to cope with the different and more pressing demands placed on them. This study applies Jung's concept of “individuation” to organisational leadership to study leaders' psychosocial maturity, and its relationship with derailment and burnout as indicators of failed leadership.