ILA Lifetime Achievement Award
ILA’s Leadership Legacy Program honors individuals who have made a significant lifetime contribution through their published works and influence. Each honoree is presented with ILA’s Lifetime Achievement Award and has their work celebrated at our Global Conference and on our Virtual Hall of Fame below.
Begun as part of ILA’s 10th Anniversary celebration in 2008, the Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes the work and influence of outstanding thought leaders in the field of leadership studies. Each year, a special board committee reviews an ongoing list of nominees (both living and deceased) to determine each year’s nominees. In addition to considering a nominee’s impact on the field of leadership, the committee takes into account the location of the Global Conference when making its decision with a preference for nominees residing in that year’s conference region so their families and colleagues may easily attend the awards ceremony. If you wish to nominate yourself or someone else for a living or post-humous Lifetime Achievement award, please email their name, bio, and CV to ILA Staff at ILA@ilaglobalnetwork.org. You may also include an impact statement describing how this person had an enduring influence on the field of leadership studies.
The ILA extends heartfelt thanks to Larraine Matusak (one of ILA’s founders) for her leadership in creating this program and for her initial sponsorship of the program. Over the years, we appreciate the many individual ILA members who have taken up the torch and supported the program through their financial donations. We also wish to express deep gratitude to the Tobias Leadership Center at Indiana University for conducting oral histories with some of our recipients and to students at the Kravis Leadership Institute at Claremont McKenna College for contributing research on some of our recipients.
Click through below (when available) for short biographies, pictures, links to resources about or by the honoree, and oral histories.
