ILA Newsletter: INTERFACE
The name evokes those spaces and boundaries where our work reaches out and touches another’s — where theory and practice meet, shake hands, and learn from one another. It honors the fact that the ILA’s membership includes people located in many, and often multiple, independent systems who all Interface in the ILA around their commitment to advance leadership knowledge and practice for a better world. Interface shares articles highlighting association news and work being done by other ILA members.
In addition to author interviews, reports from the field, and member spotlights, the newsletter regularly features the following columns, edited by members:
- Exploring Leadership (video blog);
- PAUSE for Pedagogy (article and video interview);
- Grassroots Leadership & the Arts for Social Change (article & radio show); and
- Global & Culturally Diverse Leadership in the 21st, Century (article).
View a Selection of Recent Articles
Call for Chapter Proposals
Submit your 500-word abstract by 15 June for Embodied Somatic Leadership for Peacebuilding and Protest: Women’s Counteroffensive to Violence and Injustice, the upcoming book in ILA’s new Transformative Women Leaders book series from Emerald Publishing.
Why Diversity Is Good for Business
ILA Lifetime Achievement Award winner Juana Bordas discusses her journey from child immigrant to one of the world’s foremost thinkers on Latinx leadership. In the last half of the article, Juana shares the top five ways diversity helps a company’s bottom line.
A Community Radio Broadcast For SNCC Freedom Singers Matthew & Marshall Jones
The story of SNCC Freedom Singers Matt and Marshall Jones highlights the transformational leadership of artist-activists and the role of art in mobilizing people for social change.
Building Pathways to the Future
Announcing the 2022 winners of outstanding scholarship and outstanding practice in the area of women and leadership.
A Heart Surgeon’s Journey
Christopher C. Phillips, a cardiovascular & thoracic surgeon and certified physician executive, discusses his leadership journey from a medical student who did not “appreciate the need to develop and sustain leadership competencies” to someone who embraced servant leadership and followership to lead a rural community hospital to national recognition as a top cardiovascular program.
Changing Agendas: Rethinking Followership to Improve Leadership Meetings
In this PAUSE for Pedagogy, Linda Klingman, President of the International Institute of Restorative Practices, discusses the graduate school’s shared governance structure and how pandemic logistics inspired her to expand participation in IIRP’s Committee of the Whole and retool the dialogue circles in each meeting. The article includes tips on implementation and a sample agenda.
Surreal Encounters at a Community Farm
In this Grassroots Leadership & the Arts for Social Change Corner, Victoria Foster discusses her arts-based research project at a community farm in the U.K. where playful surrealist approaches change people’s relationship with the planet and encourage entry into the environmental activism and leading from the bottom-up. Corner editor Susan J. Erenrich provides an introduction to the piece.
The Power of Moral Resilience in Leading Through Turbulent Times
Lynn Pasquerella shares her personal story of growing up in a New England mill town, the lessons she takes into her work as President of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, the need for moral resilience in our university leaders. Column editors Gayle Skawen:nio Morse, Joseph E. Trimble, and Antonio Jimenez Luque provide a reflective epilogue to the piece.
Design Based Education for Social Leadership Development
In this PAUSE for Pedagogy, Lina Klemkaite discusses social leadership and the role of design-based education in supporting its development. The article delves into the INSPIRE: Social Leadership and Innovation Curriculum, launched in 2019 in collaboration with universities and organizations in the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, and Greece, and shares insights from pilot sessions of the program.
The Year Was 2020
In this Grassroots Leadership & the Arts for Social Change Corner, Rad Pereira and Jan Cohen-Cruz discuss socially engaged performance in the context of the pandemic, Black Lives Matter, and the attempted U.S. coup of January 2021. Corner editor Susan J. Erenrich provides an introduction to the piece.
Exploring Leadership With Rasmus Hougaard
Kathryn Goldman Schuyler interviews Rasmus Hougaard, founder and CEO of Potential Project, a global consulting firm emphasizing how simple mindfulness practice combined with an attitude of compassion helps leaders do hard things in a human way.
Wake Up – The War Has Started: Russia’s Devastating War in Ukraine: The View From a Humble Woman Leader
ILA Board Member Joanne Barnes interviews her friend Valentyna on her harrowing journey to escape Ukraine after Russia’s invasion on February 24th. It’s an on the ground perspective of the quiet leadership being undertaken by Ukrainian women and girls to support their communities.