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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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Upcoming Events
Educating Tomorrow’s Sustainability Leaders Conference
Johns Hopkins University, Washington D.C., USA
Upcoming Webinars
Global Leadership Practices – Competencies for Navigating in a Complex World
Live Webinar 20 November, 12:00-1:30 PM EST (UTC-5). What global leadership competencies are required to thrive in our complex, interconnected world? Using cases as examples, presenters will share practical insights as well as conceptual knowledge gleaned from a variety of research perspectives.
Leadership as Stewardship: Honoring Our Past While Ensuring Our Future
Live Webinar, 4 December, Choose from 11 AM or 4PM EST (UTC-5). Exploring different understandings of stewardship across a range of research domains and cultures, this webinar will examine the tensions between competing perspectives and their implications for leadership.
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?
Latest Leadership Learnings
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.
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.
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.
Call for Book Chapters: Proverbs and Riddles for Leadership: Building Bridges for Practice From Africa
Submit your chapter proposal by 3 December for ILA’s 2026 volume of Building Leadership Bridges, published with Emerald. Edited by Dr. Innocent Assoman (Kansas State University), Dr. Anisah Ari (Kansas Leadership Center), Dr. Jackline Oluoch-Aridi (Notre Dame Global), Dr. Trisha Gott (Kansas State University), Dr. Brandon Kliewer (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), Dr. Jillian Martin (Duke University), Dr. Hilary Okeguale (Afe Babalola University Nigeria), Dr. Brandy Walker, and Mr. Macharia Gauntundu (Kansas State University)
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.