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25 Years of Advancing Leadership

The International Leadership Association is the professional home of a global community of leaders and leadership researchers, educators, and development specialists who believe that leadership is the key to a just and thriving future for all people. For 25 years, the ILA has advanced the study and practice of leadership by creating opportunities for members to connect and engage with one another to explore innovative ideas, create new resources, and multiply our collective impact.

The 2024 ILA Global Conference Call for Proposals Is Now Open!

We invite you to submit a proposal for this year’s Global Conference, “Architects of Change: Leaders, Followers, and Communities,” which will take place 7-10 November in Chicago, located on lands that are the traditional homelands of the Anishinaabe, or the Council of the Three Fires: the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations. Submit your proposal before the deadline of 31 March, 11:59 PM EDT.

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Bring your team to the ILA with our Organizational Membership package for 4 or more members.  

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Individuals

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8th Leadership
Education Academy

28 – 31 July 2025

26th ILA
Global Conference

7 – 10 November 2024
Chicago, IL, USA

Educating Tomorrow’s Sustainability Leaders Conference

29 – 31 January 2025
Johns Hopkins University, Washington D.C., USA

7th Women and Leadership Conference

11-13 June 2025
Claremont, CA, USA

8th Leadership Education Academy

28 - 31 July 2025

Upcoming Webinars

Task, People, and Change: An Introduction to Two Norwegian Concepts for Social Learning 9 Dec. 12PM EST. Bjørn Zakarias Ekelund and Oyvind Lund Martinsen

Task, People, and Change: An Introduction to Two Norwegian Concepts for Social Learning

Live webinar, Monday, 9 December 2024 at 12:00 PM EST (UTC-5). Bjørn Z. Ekelund and Oyvind Lund Martinsen share how they created assessments and tools based on Yukl’s Task, People, and Change model of leadership. Over the past 25 years, both measures, which focus on communicative practice, have evolved inside of Norway and the presenters now wonder – are there cultural qualities that make it challenging to use these measures outside of Norway?

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Latest Leadership Learnings

Latest Leadership Learnings
Leadership Educator Podcast

Planning a Global Conference With Dr. Scott Allen

Take a behind-the-curtain tour of this year’s 2024 Global Conference. In this episode, Dan and Lauren are joined by Dr. Scott Allen, chair of this year’s conference. Scott shares his journey with the association, his evolving experiences as a conference attendee, and his fresh and innovative vision for this year’s event.

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Cover of Genderwashing book. Text: FREE: Join Editors Rita A. Gardiner, Wendy Fox-Kirk, and Carole J. Elliott to learn about the first book in ILA’s new series!

Genderwashing in Leadership: Power, Policies, and Politics

FREE Live Webinar, tentatively scheduled for 14 November 11:00 AM EST (UTC-5). Explore the phenomenon of genderwashing — where surface-level commitments to gender equality mask deeper, systemic inequalities – with the editors of the first book in ILA’s new Transformative Women Leaders series from Emerald Publishing.

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Monsters, Metaphors and Masks: Leadership Insights From Halloween

Neil Sutherland, Rachel Wolfgramm, and ILA Fellow Richard Bolden consider what we can learn about leadership from the traditions of Halloween. They suggest that ghosts, vampires, werewolves, and zombies can be considered as archetypes, representing our deepest fears, yet also as potential metaphors to unmask the hidden and uncanny aspects of leadership.

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Book Series

ILA’s book series offer the best contemporary thinking about leadership from a diverse range of scholars, educators, and practitioners working around the globe. In keeping with the mission of the ILA, the book series build connections between how people research, enact, and experience leadership to advance leadership knowledge and practice for a just and thriving future.