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Upcoming Webinars
Advancing African Leadership via Business Education
Live Webinar, Monday 8 December at 11:00 AM EST (UTC-5). In this ILA Leadership Journeys webinar, Dr. Sizwe Nxasana will explore business education’s role in developing visionary African leaders. Discover culturally responsive leadership curricula and project-based learning insights for real-world transformation across institutional, community, and diaspora settings.
Leadership as Masterpiece Creation
POSTPONED! Due to illness, this webinar has been postponed. A new date and time will be posted soon. Join Charles Spinosa and Moderator, Leah Tomkins, for this lively conversation on the ways in which elite business leaders are “moral artists” shaping industries and cultures. They’ll share insights from their research on large-scale courageous risk-taking and the ongoing personal revision of one’s own leadership style.
Latest Leadership Learnings
Collective Leadership
Richard Bolden discusses leading together. Leadership isn’t always about formal roles, it’s about what gets mobilized, the importance of collective discussion before rushing to solutions, and viewing leadership as a lens that reveals hidden dynamics.
Caribbean From Islands to Influence — Female Trailblazers in Trinbagonian Governance
Live Webinar 12 November 2025, 7:00-8:00 pm EST (UTC-5). What can three women from an archipelagic state teach the Global North about female leadership? Do the complexities of race, age or gender express in the same way in the corridors of power in their part of the world? How do they view development, power and their islands’ future in a rapidly changing global environment? Join us as we explore these and other issues through the lenses of these visionary leaders.
How Relationships Fuel the Future
Interdependent networks help organizations continuously adapt and thrive long-term, even in the face of the worst disruptions.
Trible Library Receives Gift of Leadership Library
When ILA transitioned to a virtual office, we donated our physical library to longtime member Christopher Newport University, celebrating 25 years of partnership in advancing leadership. As Brent Cusher, the current department chair, notes, “CNU’s involvement with ILA has massively shaped our identity as an institution concerned with leadership”—and these books will continue that legacy.
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.