Live Online Event: 18 September 2025, 10 AM – 3 PM EDT (UTC-4)
On-Demand: 26 September 2025 – 27 March 2026
Cost:$50 or $25 with partial, automatic scholarship.
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Description
This upcoming specialized ILA virtual event will bring together global scholars, practitioners, students, and program leaders to explore the pressing and complex dynamics of global leadership and followership in today’s polarized world. The event is designed to foster reflection, dialogue, and collaboration across geographic, cultural, and methodological boundaries.
Participants will examine cutting-edge theory and practice through a diverse range of lenses—including Indigenous and non-Western worldviews—and consider leadership as a force for planetary health, ethical engagement, and collective progress.
Conference Goals
- Advance understanding of current scholarship and practice in global leadership and followership.
- Highlight the interdependence and co-creation between leaders and followers.
- Promote innovative, interdisciplinary, and culturally informed methodologies.
- Engage Indigenous and diverse perspectives on leadership, stewardship, and systems of care.
- Foster global connections and set the stage for ongoing dialogue and collaboration.
Agenda Overview
The following agenda is subject to change. All times are EDT (UTC-4).
10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
- Welcome & Opening Remarks
- Keynote Presentation + Q&A
- Breakout Sessions (theory, methodology, and practice tracks)
- Global Leadership Alumni Panel
- Collective Processing Session
- Closing Reflections: Where Do We Go From Here?
More details on session times and structure will be released soon.
Featured Speakers
Stay tuned—speaker announcements and session details will be shared soon!
Conference Co-Chairs
Yulia Tolstikov-Mast, PhD, Teaching Faculty, Ph.D. Program in Leadership and Change, Antioch University. As an award-winning educator, scholar, and consultant, I work at the intersection of global leadership, international professional communication, and community empowerment. I conceptualized global followership and continue drawing attention to it as a force for change. Examples of my global engagements are being a Co-Investigator in Russia for GLOBE 2020, a leader of Russian followership research, a Fulbright Specialist, and a Partner at the American Council for International Education.
I develop and advise on global leadership curricula, review leadership programs in the USA and abroad, and mentor international scholars. My publications appear in peer-reviewed journals and Advances in Global Leadership, Culture 2.0, The Study and Practice of Global Leadership, Handbook of Global Leadership and Followership. I advocate for culturally responsible research models and mentor international scholars. One significant contribution is the Handbook of International and Cross-Cultural Leadership Research Processes – a guide on conducting international research grounded in local epistemologies.
Wanda Krause, Ph.D., Associate professor, Program Head, Global Leadership, Royal Roads University. As an Associate Professor at Royal Roads University, my focus on politics in the Middle East has enabled me to offer unique perspectives in the fields of global leadership and planetary health leadership. With over two decades of teaching, research, and consultancy, and over a decade and a half of leading and co-leading programs and organizations, in several countries, my work is dedicated to helping individuals, organizations, and leaders flourish, and create a more equitable orientation in the world.
An award-winning author, co-author, and editor, my books include: Civil Society and Women Activists in the Middle East; Women in Civil Society: The State, Islamism, and Networks in the UAE; Spiritual Activism: Keys for Personal and Political Success and Citizenship, Security and Democracy: Muslim Engagement with the West; forthcoming Crossing Oceans: How to Journey together for Planetary Health.
