International Leadership Association
Cultivating a Thriving Global Leadership Community
25 Years of Advancing Leadership
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.
Upcoming Events
Upcoming Webinars
Thought Leadership: Why, How, What, So What
Live Webinar 19 February, 11AM – 12PM or 4:00-5:00PM EST (UTC-5). Bestselling leadership book? Thought leader status? So what? Did it actually make a difference? Using the Kansas Leadership Center’s bestselling book, When Everyone Leads, as a case study, this webinar will weave together elements of strategic communications, marketing, leadership, education, and evaluation research to discuss the purpose, value, and limits of thought leadership as a strategy.
Latest Leadership Learnings
Cultivating Cross-Cultural Leadership
Leading across cultures isn’t easy. Success means very different things depending on where you live. Bjørn Ekelund joins Maureen to look at cross-cultural leadership, including the differences in trust and followership between the U.S. and Norway.
Women Embodied Leaders: Peacebuilding, Protest, and Professions
Live Webinar Wednesday 5 February at 12:30PM or 8:00PM EST (UTC-5). Randal Joy Thompson and Lazarina N. Topuzova discuss their new book, part of ILA’s Transformative Women Leaders Series published by Emerald.
Leading Together: An Invitation
In 2025 the world feels like a very divided place. The capacity to listen, empathize, and learn from alternative perspectives is eroded, as is the potential to build lasting and effective partnerships and collaboration to address the “wicked” problems we face, not just as individuals, but as members of interconnected and interdependent systems on which we all depend. It’s time we led together.
Call for Book Chapters: Proverbs and Riddles for Leadership: Building Bridges for Practice From Africa
Submit your chapter proposal by 10 January 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.
