Books Archive - International Leadership Association

Inspirational Women Leaders, Part 2: The Challenges and Rewards of Religion, Spirituality, Purpose, and Calling in Leadership

Inspirational Women Leaders: The Challenges and Rewards of Religion, Spirituality, Purpose, and Calling in Leadership (Parts 1 & 2)

9 September, 2026

How do religion, spirituality, and a sense of calling shape the way women lead? This two-volume collection answers through contemporary research, personal reflection, and the stories of historical and present-day leaders from many faith traditions — showing belief as both a source of strength and a catalyst for unique challenges.

Artful Leadership: Retreat, Recenter, Rewild

14 November, 2025

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

6 December, 2024

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

2 July, 2024

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

20 June, 2024

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

16 May, 2024

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

16 October, 2023

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

11 May, 2023

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

28 July, 2022

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

14 July, 2022

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.