with Drs. Marian Iszatt-White and Richard Bolden (Moderator)
Note: This webinar will be offered at two different times. The content will be the same in each.
Cost: Free to ILA Members; $9.95 for non-members.
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- 4 December 2024, 11:00 AM - 12 PM EST (UTC-5)
- 4 December 2024, 4:00-5:00 PM EST (UTC-5)
Exploring different understandings of stewardship across a range of research domains and cultures, this webinar will examine the tensions between competing perspectives and their implications for leadership.
Marian Iszatt-White proposes “leadership-as-stewardship” as a new signifier for leadership research, providing practical guidance to leaders navigating the challenges and trade-offs of the Anthropocene. The research behind the idea of leadership-as-stewardship identifies how the apparent inadequacy of modern leadership coincides with a shift in scholarship away from practical inquiry and towards a range of aspirational approaches, including authentic, sustainable, responsible and ethical. Marian proposes stewardship as an alternative to these aspirational forms of leadership and challenges the ability of Western, Enlightenment-based thinking to solve global issues created by that same thinking.
The webinar will put forward the view that it is time to place the more enact-able construct of stewardship at the heart of leadership aspirations and scholarly activities. It will conclude by outlining the next phase of Marian’s research, which consists of compiling rich and varied case studies of organizations currently enacting leadership-as-stewardship and the ways in which they have negotiated the challenges and trade-offs which this strategic decision entails.
Attendees will:
- Understand the different perspectives on stewardship emerging from a range of research disciplines and from Western and Indigenous cultures.
- Consider why leadership-as-stewardship matters now and how it can offer new insights to business and organizational leaders.
- Understand more about the challenges and tensions involved in enacting stewardship and the strategies leaders might adopt in negotiating them.
Marian Iszatt-White is a Senior Lecturer in Leadership at Lancaster University Management School (LUMS), where she is also a member of the Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business. Her research interests revolve around ‘aspirational’ forms of leadership (Authentic, Sustainable, Responsible) and their implications for leadership practice and leadership development. Her most recent work centers on ideas of stewardship across various research domains and as a potential successor to our hopes and aspirations for practicing leaders. She is the editor of Leadership as Emotional Labour: Management and the ‘Managed Heart’and the co-author of Leadership, now in its 3rd edition. Her latest book is Leadership as Stewardship: Honouring Our Past While Ensuring Our Future
Dr. Richard Bolden is Professor of Leadership and Management and Director of Bristol Leadership and Change Centre at Bristol Business School, University of the West of England. His teaching and research explore the interface between individual and collective approaches to leadership and leadership development. He has published widely on topics including distributed, shared and systems leadership; leadership paradoxes and complexity; cross-cultural leadership; and leadership and change in healthcare and higher education. He is Associate Editor of the journal Leadership, Fellow of the International Leadership Association, Visiting Professor at the University of Pretoria and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. His latest book Exploring Leadership: Individual, organizational and societal perspectives, 2nd edition was published by Oxford University Press in March 2023.
