Crisis Leadership
Resources From ILA’s Library, Members, & Leadership Colleagues
This collection of resources was put together at the start of 2020 in response to the COVID-19 crisis. As an iterative phenomenon involving factors such as leaders, followers, culture, and context, leadership is already quite complex. Crises take that complexity to another level.

Webinars

Sane Leadership on Behalf of the Human Spirit – A Conversation With Meg Wheatley
ILA Lifetime Achievement Awardee Meg Wheatley discusses her work of the past seven years training leaders and activists to be Warriors for the Human Spirit.

Everyone Is Normal Until You Know Them Better – A Conversation With Manfred Kets de Vries
Touching on contemporary global issues and drawing on his recent books Leading Wisely and Leadership Unhinged, Manfred Kets de Vries shares his thinking on leadership in this conversation from ILA’s 2022 Global Conference. Kets de Vries is an ILA Lifetime Achievement award winner as is the session moderator Ron Riggio.
Leadership Education Online?!?! Strategies and Tips to Ease the Transition
With Daniel Jenkins and Rian Satterwhite (Moderator)
Blogs & Other Articles

Sane Leadership on Behalf of the Human Spirit – A Conversation With Meg Wheatley
ILA Lifetime Achievement Awardee Meg Wheatley discusses her work of the past seven years training leaders and activists to be Warriors for the Human Spirit.

Everyone Is Normal Until You Know Them Better – A Conversation With Manfred Kets de Vries
Touching on contemporary global issues and drawing on his recent books Leading Wisely and Leadership Unhinged, Manfred Kets de Vries shares his thinking on leadership in this conversation from ILA’s 2022 Global Conference. Kets de Vries is an ILA Lifetime Achievement award winner as is the session moderator Ron Riggio.
False Positives: A Pandemic of Prozac Leadership
Being positive can facilitate transformational leadership but taken to extremes it can become insincere and manipulative. Excessive positivity constitutes a significant barrier to reflection and...
Where Is Boris Johnson? When and Why It Matters That Leaders Show Up in a Crisis
An enduring issue for leadership is the emotional effect of leaders' presence and absence on those who look to them for direction, guidance, and reassurance....
“Building Forward Better” – Why Women’s Leadership Matters
As we deal with the devastating impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and its disproportionate impact on women, minorities and the poor, much has been written...