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Leadership Analytics
Live Webinar 18 November 5:00-5:30 PM EST (UTC-5) / 19 November 9:00-9:30 AM AEDT (Sydney, Australia). Can you govern what you can’t see? Join the author behind the scenes to explore a framework for making leadership visible and measurable — and connecting it directly to strategy, culture, and execution.
Latest Leadership Learnings
Indigenous Wisdom in Leadership Development
Dr. Mike Lickers, Kanien’kehá:ka educator from Six Nations of the Grand River, and Dr. Toby Newstead of the University of Tasmania discuss Indigenous wisdom in leadership development including a governance model where clan mothers select chiefs, mentor them, and can remove them just as readily.
Beyond Peace: African Leadership Lessons for a Fragmented World
Live Webinar Monday 12 October from 12-1 PM EDT (UTC-4). How do you lead when citizens have stopped believing in institutions? Ellen Pratt-Harris (Executive Director of the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Center for Women and Development in Liberia) and Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr (Mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone) draw on Liberia and Sierra Leone’s post-conflict rebuilding to offer lessons for any fragmented society.
Dragon Problems
Most of the time the dragon sleeps, wings folded, smoke curling from its snout. Leaders tiptoe past and hope. But something always wakes it. Joanne Murphy ponders the problems too dangerous to name and why Wicked problems may have teeth our frameworks don’t account for.
Bridging Theory and Practice in Leadership Education
Leadership scholar Nicole Stedman made a bold move when she stepped out of the classroom and into the dean’s office—and she’ll tell you that was the whole point. In this candid Interface conversation, Dr. Stedman explores what authentic leadership looks like in academia, how graduate mentorship is evolving, and why the field must get serious about making leadership research accessible beyond the ivory tower.
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.