Who Will Lead Next?

Strengthening and releasing the next generation for city movements.

City movements need more than strong leaders today. They need a diverse next generation — trusted, strengthened, empowered, and released to lead.

Who will lead our city movements next? Leaders from Asia, Australia, and the global city-movement community gathered for a conversation about strengthening, trusting, and releasing the next generation of collaborative leaders.

Together we explored what established leaders and movements must do differently today if a diverse new generation is going to carry city movements tomorrow.

An ongoing practice — Strengthening

Strengthening runs through the whole TRUST Pathway — not a final stage after Transfer, but an ongoing practice of reducing isolation, mentoring, and releasing leaders at every step. This gathering focuses there: on strengthening and releasing the next generation.

Who Will Lead Next? — Trust Pathway Gathering #2, with Mac Pier, Mark Visvasam, Kavitha Emmanuel, and Steve Scrimgeour, Thursday 24 September, 6:00 PM Dubai (GMT+4) — Trust Pathway Gathering #2 — held Thursday 24 September 2026, live from Kuala Lumpur

Watch & listen

This gathering was held on Thursday 24 September 2026, hosted live from Kuala Lumpur, where our team and panel were together. Missed it, or want to revisit? Watch the recording below or listen on Spotify.

Watch the full gathering above, or listen on Spotify.

This was the second gathering in our TRUST Pathway season — following When Cities Pray, where we began with prayer. Where prayer builds trust, strengthening keeps leaders in the journey for the long haul, and releases new ones to lead. Next up: How Will Our Cities Hear?, on witness.

What must we do differently today if we want a diverse new generation of leaders ready to carry city movements tomorrow?

The panel

Voices from across the movement

Experienced city-movement leaders from different regions share what they are learning about trusting, strengthening, and releasing the next generation.

Movement.org · Global

Mac Pier

Mac brings decades of experience catalyzing collaborative Christian movements in cities and connecting city leaders globally. His contribution draws on the long arc of city movements — leadership, succession, emerging generations, and what needs to happen next if collaborative city movements are to keep multiplying globally.

Movement Day · Asia

Mark Visvasam

Mark is a Movement Day Regional Leader who mentors and coaches city leaders across Asia. He also serves as Church Engagement Coordinator with Global Assist, a church-planting ministry focused on unreached communities. Mark is passionate about equipping spiritual leaders who can help transform cities and nations. He and his wife, Irene Vasanthi, live in Chennai, India.

Disruptive Women · Asia / Global

Dr. Kavitha Emmanuel

Dr. Kavitha Emmanuel is a leadership trainer, executive coach, pastor, and social entrepreneur working at the intersection of faith, leadership, and social transformation. Founder of Women of Worth and the Dark Is Beautiful campaign, and Movement Catalyst of the Disruptive Women Movement, she equips leaders and institutions to build cultures of dignity, safety, and equality, and to see women and girls represented in leadership across cities. She has spoken at Harvard Business School, IIT Madras, UNESCO, and TEDx, and is the author of Restoring Sacred Trust.

Compassion Australia · Australia / Asia

Steve Scrimgeour

Steve is the Asia Growth Lead for Compassion Australia, working across church partnerships, mission, and leadership development. Based in Perth, he works with leaders across Asia, including the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong. Steve also co-leads Cities of Hope and Student Net, and is passionate about seeing emerging leaders trusted, released, and equipped to build collaborative movements that carry the mission of Jesus into the next generation.

Catch up on the conversation — then join the next gathering, or explore the TRUST Pathway this season is built around.

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