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Upcoming Webinars
Safe, Strong and Self-Aware: How Leaders Cultivate High Performing Teams
Live Webinar, Thursday 17 July, 7-8pm EDT (UTC-4). Discover how personal experiences shape effective leadership development. Learn how human-centered leadership practices create inclusive, empathetic environments that derail toxicity and enhance team performance. Explore how self-awareness empowers leaders to foster psychological safety, increase engagement, and build high-performing teams—ultimately improving satisfaction and retention in organizations.
Developing Servant Leaders at Scale
Live Webinar, 6 August at 11:30 AM or 7:00 PM (UTC-4). Join us for an exclusive webinar exploring a proven model for developing servant leaders at scale. Learn how to guide large groups through inner development while maintaining focus on real-world impact across diverse audiences.
The Future of Leadership
Live Webinar Thursday 28 August 10-11 AM EDT (UTC-4). 2025 ILA Global Conference Chair, Danica Purg joins ILA Lifetime Achievement Award Winner David Day to explore the shifting paradigms of leadership, including the growing importance of values-based and purpose-driven approaches, and the need for innovative, human-centered leadership development practices.
Latest Leadership Learnings
Collective Leadership
Richard Bolden discusses leading together. Leadership isn’t always about formal roles, it’s about what gets mobilized, the importance of collective discussion before rushing to solutions, and viewing leadership as a lens that reveals hidden dynamics.
Leadership at the Spiritual Edge: Emerging and Non-Western Perspectives
Live Webinar took place Tuesday 10 June, 12-1PM EDT (UTC-4). Explore how spirituality enhances leadership beyond traditional strategies to improve decision-making and foster resilient organizations. Learn practical tools that balance wisdom, intuition, and action for purpose-driven leadership.
Leadership Insights for 2025
Leadership needs to adapt in an era of disruption, complexity and rapid transformation. Key components of that adaptation include the importance of relational and developmental leadership, systems literacy, and the democratization of leadership tools.
Call for Abstracts – Disrupting the Default: Perspectives on Gender, Power, and Emergent Technology
Submit your abstract by 31 August 2025 for Disrupting the Default: Perspectives on Gender, Power, and Emergent Technology, a new book in ILA’s Transformative Women Leaders Book Series published by Emerald. The book will be edited by Christine Haskell, Ph.D., Catharyn Baird, J.D., and Randal Joy Thompson, Ph.D.
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.
