Books
ILA’s book series offer fresh thinking on leadership from a diverse range of leaders, scholars, educators, and leadership professionals working around the globe. They support ILA’s purpose to connect people worldwide to advance the practice and study of leadership for a just and thriving future.
Current series include Building Leadership Bridges and Transformative Women Leaders, both published by Emerald Publishing. Past series include Women & Leadership: Research, Theory, and Practice, published by InfoAge and the original BLB series published by Jossey-Bass/Wiley.
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Artful Leadership: Retreat, Recenter, Rewild
This volume is not merely about improving leadership effectiveness; it is about reimagining what leadership could become when rooted in creativity, connection, and care. It invites us to consider that our current leadership challenges may be evolutionary pressures calling forth new capacities for conscious, integral, and life-affirming ways of being. (Excerpt from the Foreword)
Women Embodied Leaders: Peacebuilding, Protest, and Professions
Despite the images and expectations imposed on their bodies, women are increasingly claiming their bodies as their own through embodied somatic leadership, in protesting injustice, in promoting peace, and in working in a so-called “man’s world.”
Genderwashing in Leadership: Power, Policies, and Politics
This book considers how genderwashing – the process whereby organizational rhetoric differs from the lived experiences of workers, creating the myth of gender equity in the workplace – highlights hidden biases in organizational policies and procedures. The authors and editors host a space for dialogue and debate as they explore different aspects of genderwashing and how to transform today’s organizations.
Questioning Leadership
Leaders ask hard questions that spark creative solutions and new understandings. Asking by itself isn’t enough – leaders must also help find answers and turn them into effective action.
The Gift of Transformative Leaders
Through the stories of thirteen transformative leaders, Hatch illuminates how the author approached identifying talent and empowered leaders to lead in bold and creative ways.
Inclusive Leadership: Equity and Belonging in Our Communities
This book serves as a guide to what it means and looks like to be an ally and advocate for DEIB. Divided into four sections—(a) Understanding DEIB, (b) DEIB and Education, (c) The Application and Practice DEIB/Accessibility, and (d) DEIB/Accessibility: A Community and Global Perspective— the book offers readers a roadmap toward fostering inclusivity and fairness.
The Hazards of Great Leadership
A leader can become a hazard through social psychological processes, which operate through the metaphor of Seven Deadly Sins, to create negative consequences. Great leaders can undermine their own success and accomplishments, as well as their followers.
Leading For Innovation
Creativity, the generation of novel and useful ideas, and innovation, the transformation of these ideas into new products, processes, and services, are both critical for the long-term viability, profitability, and growth of organizations.
There Is More Than One Way to Lead
The charismatic, ideological, and pragmatic (CIP) theory of leadership has emerged as a novel framework for thinking about the varying ways leaders can influence followers. The theory is based on the principle of equifinality, or the notion that there are multiple pathways to the same outcome.
A Grassroots Leadership & Arts for Social Change Primer: For Educators, Organizers, Activists & Rabble-Rousers
More than 30 activist-artist leaders discuss their work inspiring and creating the positive changes needed to meet the daunting problems facing people and planet.
The Study and Practice of Global Leadership
This book provides cutting-edge perspectives on the impact that globalization is having on the study and practice of Global Leadership.
Cultural Dynamics and Leadership
The intersection of leadership and culture is undertheorized. Of particular relevance is an interpretive approach, elaborated in the works of Simmel, Cassirer, Ortega y Gasset, and Gadamer.
Reimagining Leadership on the Commons
What does leadership in self-organized, self-governed, autonomous networks and organizations that function outside the state and the private sector look like? This book is essential reading for researchers of commons, leadership practitioners, and non-profits working towards a more ethical, equitable, and just world.
Leading the Future of Technology
There is presently a view that accessible technologies offer an inclusive and humanistic expression of technology. They do. But that is not all. Accessible technologies offer more than this: they contain within them lessons on transformational leadership.
Transformative Leadership in Action: Allyship, Advocacy & Activism
This book provides leaders and educators a road map to develop the skills in themselves and others necessary to lead and to support causes related to justice and equity.
Leadership Studies and the Desire for Shared Agreement
Beginning with the belief that the study of leadership belongs to all and to no one in particular, the author offers twenty-seven stable and unchanging elements for the study of leadership, and collects them under four themes: context, shared purpose, language, and human agency.
Peace, Reconciliation and Social Justice Leadership in the 21st Century
Conflicts and violence, repression and oppression have always been part of the world. Whether conflicts can be won or not, the human cost must be addressed when building a lasting peace, and this role falls now to our future leaders and followers.
Evolving Leadership for Collective Wellbeing: Lessons for Implementing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Editors: Seana Lowe Steffen, Jamie Rezmovits, Shanah Trevenna, and Shana Rappaport
Leadership and Power in International Development: Navigating the Intersections of Gender, Culture, Context, and Sustainability
Editors: Randal Joy Thompson and Julia Storberg-Walker
More Women on Boards: An International Perspective
Editors: Lynne E. Devnew, Marlene Janzen Le Ber, Mariateresa Torchia, Ronald J. Burke
Global and Culturally Diverse Leaders and Leadership: New Dimensions and Challenges for Business, Education, and Society
Editors: Jean Lau Chin, Joseph E. Trimple, and Joseph E. Garcia
Breaking the Zero-Sum Game: Transforming Societies Through Inclusive Leadership
Editors: Aldo Boitano, H. Eric Schockman, and Raúl Lagomarsino Dutra
Grassroots Leadership and the Arts for Social Change
Editors: Susan J. Erenrich and Jon F. Wergin, Editors
Theorizing Women and Leadership: New Insights and Contributions From Multiple Perspectives
Editors: Julia Storberg-Walker and Paige Haber-Curran