ILA’s Board of Directors

Mike Hardy

ILA Board Chair
 
Founding Director, Centre for Trust, Peace, and Social Relations, Coventry University, UK

Susan Elaine Murphy

ILA Vice Chair/Secretary

Professor and Chair in Leadership Development, Organisational Studies, University of Edinburgh Business School, UK

Cynthia Cherrey

ILA President & CEO, USA

Scott Allen

2024 Global Conference Chair; Principal, S & J Allen, LLC, USA

David Altman

Chief Research and Innovation Officer, Center for Creative Leadership, USA

Hadeel Anabtawi

Founder, The Alchemist Lab, and Educational Consultant, Jordan

Joanne Barnes

Chair, Board Development Committee; Professor, Division of Leadership & Followership Studies, Indiana Wesleyan University, USA

Kehkashan Basu

Founder-President of Green Hope Foundation and UN Human Rights Champion, Canada

Tasha Coppett

Chair, Membership Committee; Associate Dean for Residential Life, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA

Kathy Guthrie

Chair, Committee for the Advancement of Leadership Programs; Associate Professor, Leadership Studies, Florida State University, USA

Mikinari Higano

Professor & Director, Leadership Development Program, Global Education Center, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Kathryn Johnson

Co-Founder, Center for Global Services Retired CEO, Health Forum, USA

Stefanie K. Johnson

Director, University of Colorado Boulder Center for Leadership, USA

Claire Lachance

President & CEO, ReSurge International, USA

Angelica Maria Larios Arias

CEO & Founder, ALACONTEC, Mexico

Annika Hilding Norberg

Head of Peace Operations and Peacebuilding, Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Switzerland

Betsy Myers

Founder and CEO, Myers Leadership, USA

Kara R. Price King

Vice President, Site Lead, Pfizer, USA

Danica Purg

2025 Global Conference Chair; Founding President of IEDC-Bled School of Management and President of CEEMAN, Slovenia

Oliver Seale

Founding CEO, University Leadership Development and Advisory Services (ULeDA), South Africa

Gillian Secrett

Director of Leadership Programmes, University of Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership at University of Cambridge, UK

Carolyn Stefanco

ILA Treasurer & Chair, Finance Committee; Retired University President
Founder and CEO, Barét Leadership Consulting, USA

Suze Wilson

Massey University, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand

Michael Yap

Regional Managing Director, Singapore Hub, Coventry University, Singapore

Emeriti Board Members

Jean Lipman-Blumen

Thorton F. Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy & Professor of Organizational Behavior, Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management, USA

Gill Robinson Hickman

Professor of Leadership Studies, Emerita, Jepson School of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond, USA

Roger H. Sublett

President Emeritus, Union Institute & University, USA

Katherine Tyler Scott

Principal, Ki Thoughtbridge, LLC, USA