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Upcoming Events
Upcoming Webinars
Trauma Sensitivity at Work: How to Lead Safe, Inclusive Teams
Live Webinar. Wednesday, 5 August at 11:00 AM EDT (UTC-4). Human rights lawyer and changemaker Adriana Leigh shows how unresolved trauma drives burnout, conflict, and turnover. Discover practical, trauma-informed tools for embedding safety and trust into leadership, policy, and everyday organizational culture.
Leading Through Polycrisis: What 63 C-Suite Leaders Told Us About the Future
Live Webinar 27 August from 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. EDT (UTC-4). Five trends. Sixty-three C-suite leaders. One clear message: Leadership must evolve for a polycrisis world. Embracing AI fluency, radical collaboration, purposeful strategy, and talent development, this webinar unpacks what global executives say comes next for leadership.
Latest Leadership Learnings
NDSL #187: General Principles for Advancing Leadership Programs
A landmark journal issue dedicated to ILA’s General Principles for Leadership Programs gets its moment in the spotlight. Drs. Kathy Guthrie and Gayle Spencer join Dan and Lauren to explore the scholarship and honor co-editor Rian Satterwhite’s enduring legacy.
Lead From Where You Are: Understand Leadership at Work
Live Webinar. Tuesday 21 July 2026 at 11:00 AM EDT. (UTC-4). Leadership isn’t reserved for the corner office. Authors Richard Bolden and Peter Stephenson make the case that leadership is a collective process that everyone contributes to, regardless of title or tenure. They’ll go behind the pages to share what inspired the book, how power structures shape leadership in practice, and what early-career professionals can do right now to lead with influence and intention.
The Unexplainable In-Between: Leadership, Wicked Problems, and Leaning Into the Creative World
What if our biggest problems were never meant to be solved, only navigated? This piece by Joanne Murphy explores why wicked problems such as climate change, migration, healthcare inequality, etc. resist linear solutions, and argues that leadership now means letting go of control, embracing creativity, and building psychological safety for collective sense-making.
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.