The Global Network for Those Who Study, Teach, and Practice Leadership
The Global Network for Those Who Study, Teach, and Practice Leadership
Our Mission: Advancing Leadership Knowledge and Practice for A Better World
Our Mission: Advancing Leadership Knowledge and Practice for A Better World
Bringing Together People
for Better Leadership Now
Bringing Together People
for Better Leadership Now
Global Network
The International Leadership Association is the largest global community dedicated to leadership theory and practice. It brings together professionals from every sector, discipline, and profession across the globe to produce rigorous research, cultivate a deeper understanding of the world, and generate new insights into how to exercise effective leadership.
TRUSTED SPACES
ILA brings people together across distance and disciplines – virtually and in person – to bridge theory and practice and spark those aha moments that improve leadership locally and globally. By creating and holding these trusted spaces, ILA ensures that the best thinking about the process of leadership is developed and disseminated.
TRUSTED SOURCES
By holding spaces for research and dialogue, ILA serves as a principle source for leadership-related resources. Through our global, regional, and topical conferences, webinars, publications, and digital offerings, we generate new research, knowledge, and practices that address issues of interest to our members and the global community at large.
The Challenges of Today: Why Leadership Matters
The world has a deep and pressing need for leadership that inspires and enables us to face the challenges of a complex, diverse, and ever-changing world.
HOW WE DO OUR WORK
ILA is the trusted global leadership space for content, connections, collaborations, and community. We do our work by convening and connecting our members and partners, collaborating with them to unleash potential, and generating new leadership content to create meaningful change. Through ILA’s networks, conferences, online materials, and publications, we share our learning, seeding the possibilities for individual, community, and international change worldwide.

Wolves, Foxes, Unicorns, and Rhinoceroses: Reflecting on Leaders and Symbolic Animals
Leaders of the countries with the greatest number of covid-19 deaths spent so much energy proclaiming fabular days are approaching that the opposite of a Wolf has arrived – the golden age of floW, a world where unicorns range freely, dispensing largesse at will to their entranced followers.

What We Do Echoes Through Generations In Celebration of Larraine Matusak’s Many Accomplishments
Larraine Matsak, one of the founders of the field of leadership and of the ILA, passed away on 26 March 2021. Larraine has left a legacy far beyond all of us that will echo through generations and decades to come. Learn more about the role Larraine played and some of the lives she touched.

Guardians of Public Value: How Public Organizations Survive and Thrive
With Bert Koopman, Charles Parker, Liesbet Heyse, Margo van den Brink, Susan Ostermann, Sylvo Thijsen, Alan Latourelle, Arjen Boin, Lauren Fahy, and Paul ‘t Hart

2021 Global Conference: Reimagining Leadership Together
Thank you to everyone who submitted proposals! Registration will open soon.

Transformative Leadership in Action: Allyship, Advocacy & Activism
Editors: Jackie Bruce and Katherine McKee

Becoming A Better Leader: Daily Leadership Development
Ron joins the show to discuss his new book “Daily Leadership Development,” his lifetime achievement award and his views on the current state of leadership.

Sitting down with Hadeel Anabtawi, Speaker at #ILA2020GLOBAL
Hadeel was a keynote speaker at the 2020 ILA women and leadership virtual conference.

Resource Rewind – Special Issue on Democracy
Events of the past few months have drawn attention to democratic norms, the rule of law, and the ways in which leadership and democracy intersect.








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