International Leadership Association
Cultivating a Thriving Global Leadership Community
25 Years of Advancing Leadership
We are a global community of leaders and leadership scholars, educators, and development professionals who share a vision of leadership for a just and thriving future. ILA connects people worldwide to advance leadership through our trusted spaces and relevant leadership resources. For the past 25 years, the ILA has convened extraordinary talent across sectors, cultures, disciplines, and generations. Join us today!
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Upcoming Events & Conferences
Latest Leadership Learnings
Identifying Your Researcher Identity and Community
Dr. Nathan Eva (Monash Univ. Business School) shares strategies for determining your researcher identity, crafting a meaningful research agenda, and identifying a community of scholars to co-author publications.
Positive Leadership: Cultivating Communities for Flourishing
Live Webinar on 29/30 March. Drs. Benjamin Kutsyuruba, Sabre Cherkowski, and Keith D. Walker will share research findings on how to lead for flourishing in diverse organizational contexts.
Leading the Counter-Resistance: Rhetorical Tropes in Defense of Privilege
Using contemporary and historical examples, leadership expert Keith Grint deconstructs the top ten rhetorical tropes leaders use in defense of the indefensible.
Why Diversity Is Good for Business
ILA Lifetime Achievement Award winner Juana Bordas discusses her journey from child immigrant to one of the world’s foremost thinkers on Latinx leadership. In the last half of the article, Juana shares the top five ways diversity helps a company’s bottom line.
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.