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The Embodiment of Leadership

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Editors: Lois Ruskai Melina, Gloria J. Burgess, Lena Lid Falkman and Antonio Marturano (Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2013)

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Description: Covering leadership in the arts and humanities, this volume integrates critical theory with authentic leadership development, exploring the notion that leadership is both a discursive practice and a performative identity. Each year the International Leadership Association publishes a book that captures the best contemporary thinking about leadership from a diverse range of scholars, practitioners, and educators working in the field of leadership studies. In keeping with the mission of the ILA, the International Leadership Series Building Leadership Bridges connects ways of researching, imagining, and experiencing leadership across cultures, over time, and around the world

About the Co-Editors

Lois Ruskai Melina

Gloria J. Burgess

Lena Lid Falkman

Antonio Marturano

Praise for The Embodiment of Leadership

For once leadership experts consider the mind-body problem from the perspective of the latter—the body. Those with an interest in how the body is brought to bear on the exercise of leadership, would do well to explore The Embodiment of Leadership.
Barbara KellermanJames MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School
The Embodiment of Leadership goes beyond the banal by using our body experiences as the point of departure in deciphering the leadership conundrum. Anyone interested in the study of leadership would do well to pay attention to this book.
Manfred F. R. Kets de VriesDistinguished Clinical Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change, The Raoul de Vitry d'Avaucourt Chaired Professor of Leadership Development
Leadership is a social construction. The Embodiment of Leadership presents a multifaceted approach to understanding how we, as a society, define, create, and contend with leaders and leadership. Serious scholars and students of leadership need to read this.
Ronald E. RiggioKravis Leadership Institute, Claremont McKenna College
This path-breaking book extends our view of leadership theory and practice by seeing leadership as 'performance' and 'physicality' and by doing so provides a new and robust leadership framework for practitioners and scholars alike.
Georgia SorensonVisiting professor of leadership studies, Carey School of Law, University of Maryland
This book presents unconventional ideas, creatively explored with great sympathy for the subjects of enquiry: quite a unique tone for a book on leadership; something new is happening. Leaders who are fed up with idealised images of what they ought to feel and do, will recognise their actual experience here, and words given to what has hitherto been almost improper. It will do more for leadership development than could ever be imagined in any number of competency models.
Jonathan GoslingProfessor of leadership studies, University of Exeter Business School, United Kingdom
This timely collection 'embodies' the important research and development work that is required to create a more human understanding of leaders and a more humane practice of leadership.
Brad JacksonFletcher Building Education Trust Chair in Leadership, The University of Auckland Business School
Fletcher Building Education Trust Chair in Leadership, The University of Auckland Business School
Richard A. CoutoDistinguished senior scholar, Union Institute & University
From examining the way in which Michelle Obama takes up her role as First Lady to what we can learn about leading through attending to dance, this volume offers a much needed and exciting perspective on leadership as an embodied practice. Its challenge to traditional ideas about what it takes to be a leader literally made my spine tingle!
Donna LadkinProfessor of leadership and ethics, Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield University, United Kingdom
Read this book to experience an artistic and more robust sense of leadership, to rise to the challenge to gain alignment in mind, body and spirit, and to heed the call to heal the shadows we as leaders sometimes cast over our collective humanity. Read this book to become more whole.
Shann Ray FerchProfessor of Leadership Studies, Gonzaga University
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Table of Contents

Introduction – Lois Ruskai Melina

  1. The Anatomy of Leadership  –  Stephanie Guastella Lindsay
  2. Dramatic Leadership: Dorothy Heathcote’s Autopoietic, or Embodied, Leadership Model  – Kate Katafiasz
  3. Leadership in the Time of Liminality: A Framework for Leadership in an Era of Deep Transformation  – David Holzmer
  4. Seeking Alignment in the World Body: The Art of Embodiment  – Skye Burn
  1. (De/Re)Constructing Leading Bodies: Developing Critical Attitudes and Somaesthetic Practices – Maylon Hanold
  2. Dollmaking as an Expression of Women’s Leadership – Kimberly Yost
  3. Leadership Embodiment and Resistance: The Complex Journey of Latin American Pentecostal Women Pastors  –  Nora Méndez and Fernando Mora
  4. Michelle Obama’s Embodied Authentic Leadership: Leading by Lifestyle – Elizabeth D. Wilhoit
  1. Shall I Lead Now? Learner Experiences of Leader–Follower Relationships through Engagement with the Dance – Julie Burge, Ray Batchelor, and Lionel Cox
  2. Embodied Learning Experience in Leadership Development – Perttu Salovaara and Arja Ropo
  3. Professionals Are Their Bodies: The Language of the Body as Sounding Board in Leadership and Professional Communication  –  Helle Winther
  4. From the Ground Up: Revisioning Sources and Methods of Leadership Development – Kathryn Goldman Schuyler
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