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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
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TNT in the Workplace: A Dynamite Presentation on Trauma, Toxicity, and Shaping Goal Behaviors
Live webinar 6 August 2024, 5:00 pm EDT (UTC-4). Drs. Pettis Perry and Wendy M. Edmonds will equip participants with strategies to identify the factors contributing to workplace trauma, toxic leadership, and enabling followers and will share strategies to mitigate the trauma to foster a resilient, supportive workplace culture.
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To Stop a Tyrant: Political Followers & Leaders
Live Webinar 21 August. Choose from 12pm or 8pm EDT (UTC-4). Renowned Followership guru 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.
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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.
Latest Leadership Learnings
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Developing Leaders in Singapore
Scott discusses leadership development, cultural intelligence, and global mindset in Singapore with Dr. Nadir Zafar, Director of the Singapore Leaders Network, and ILA Board member Dr. Michael Yap, Regional Managing Director – Singapore Hub for Coventry University’s Doctor of Business Administration.
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Advancing Leadership Programs Via Executive Coaching
Live Webinar Wednesday 17 July 2024, 11am, EDT (UTC-4). Dr. Carolyn Stefanco will share her leadership journey and how she draws from the many roles she has held to support the success of executive coaching clients in their current positions and as they advance into higher levels of leadership in colleges and universities, nonprofits, and health systems.
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Care-Full Leadership
In this blog, ILA Fellow Keith Grint explores whether looking after followers (caring for them) is the key to leadership success. In his analysis he explores both Servant Leadership and Compassionate Leadership as historical and contemporary examples of Care-full Leadership.
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Transformative Women Leaders – New ILA Book Series!
We’re excited to announce that the first two books in ILA’s new Transformative Women Leaders book series are now available to pre-order. Learn more about this inspired new collaboration between the ILA and Emerald Publishing that explores women leaders who are making a difference in their communities and organizations around the world.
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.