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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
7th Women in Leadership Conference
Brescia University College
London, Ontario, CA
Upcoming Webinars
A Cartography of Resistance: Leadership, Management & Command
Live Webinar 5 September 2024, 4:00 pm EDT (UTC-4). Based on his new book, ILA Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Professor Keith Grint provides a brief array of examples of resistance across time and space to consider the importance of going beyond leadership to explain the success or failure of the cases.
Kofi Annan and Global Leadership at the United Nations
Attend Live Monday 16 September at 12:00pm EDT (UTC-4). Dr. Abiodun Williams
provides a fascinating account of Kofi Annan’s global leadership as UN Secretary-General including invaluable insights into the importance of leadership for the performance of a global institution, particularly in times of crisis.
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.
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.
To Stop a Tyrant: Political Followers & Leaders
Renowned Followership expert Ira Chaleff deconstructs the relationship of political followers and leaders and demonstrates how followers, regardless of their distance or proximity to the leader, can help interrupt the progression of political leader to dictator or tyrant.
Leadership Lessons From the Trump Assassination Attempt: As Taylor Swift Says “You Play Stupid Games, You Win Stupid Prizes”
ILA Fellow Suze Wilson discusses the history of political violence and dangerous speech through the lens of leadership and the assassination attempt on former President Trump.
Call for Chapter Abstracts – Inspirational Women Leaders
Submit your abstract by 15 September 2024 for ILA’s next book in our Transformative Women Leaders series published by Emerald.
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.