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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
Moving Beyond “Theme Emerged”: Uncovering How Qualitative Data Analysis Really Happens
Live Webinar, 24 October 5:00-6:00 PM EDT (UTC-4). Qualitative research exists in many formats, representing numerous data sources, philosophies, and inquiry practices. However, we often know little about the background work involved in qualitative data analysis. This webinar will dive deeper into the ways that data can be qualitatively analyzed that go beyond “Theme Emerged.”
Down to Business
Live Webinar, 30 October, 5:00 PM EDT (UTC-4). Teen entrepreneurs Fenley Scurlock and Jason Liaw discuss lessons learned from their book Down to Business: 51 Industry Leaders Share Practical Advice on How to Become a Young Entrepreneur and how to help kids in Gen Z and Gen Alpha build critical business, leadership, and life skills, as well as an entrepreneurial mindset.
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.
Latest Leadership Learnings
Applying Theories and Models in Leadership Program and Curricular Design
Dan and Lauren discuss New Directions for Student Leadership Issue #180 with issue co-editors, Drs. Melissa Rocco and Darren Pierre.
Franz Kafka and the Truths of Leadership
Live Webinar Wednesday 25 September, 4:00 pm EDT (UTC-4). Leah Tomkins and Joanne B. Ciulla discuss Kafka’s incredible and enduring relevance and how the ‘Kafkaesque’ can help us develop a different and constructive understanding of the dynamics of leadership.
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 Chapters – Ghost Leadership: Uncovering the Hidden and Unsettling Sides of Leadership
Call for chapter proposals for “Ghost Leadership: Uncovering the Hidden and Unsettling Sides of Leadership.” Submit by 18 November 2024. The book, part of ILA’s BLB series published by Emerald will be edited by Professor Richard Bolden (University of the West of England), Dr Rachel Wolfgramm (University of Auckland) and Dr Neil Sutherland (UCL School of Management).
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.