Based on Ira Chaleff’s new book, To Stop a Tyrant, this webinar will create the case for leadership and followership researchers and educators to give greater focus to leading and following in the political sector, which influences so much of our lives. Political tyrants have been the scourge of human history on every continent. They continue to oppress people in many countries today and threaten to do so in more countries. The webinar is supported by the ILA’s Followership member community.
This webinar will deconstruct the relationship of political followers and leaders and demonstrate how followers, regardless of their distance or proximity to the leader, can help interrupt the progression of political leader to dictator or tyrant. The webinar will not take partisan political positions, but rather will examine the dynamics available to political followers for choosing and creating better political leaders. Ira Chaleff will bring his twenty five years of engagement with followership, the Washington, D.C., political community, and the struggles of emerging global democracies, to share insights into how you can make a difference.
By attending this webinar, participants will
- Have a new understanding of their power in relationship to potential political tyrants
- Overcome a sense of helplessness or of being unsure what to do
- Have better language for discussing these dynamics with friends, family and students
- Be better equipped to integrate these concepts into leadership and followership classes and research
“In To Stop a Tyrant, Ira Chaleff tackles a critical question: How do political followers empower or dismantle toxic leaders. This insightful exploration dives deep into the psychology of political supporters and draws from global examples to reveal the dynamics of political followership and the responsibility of courageous followers to recognize and challenge toxic leaders. As U.S. Representative and ILA Distinguished Leadership Awardee John Lewis eloquently stated, ‘Sometimes you have to get in the way and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.’ This book is a clarion call to do what you can to bring forth the best in public service.” – ILA President and CEO Cynthia Cherrey
Ira Chaleff is an internationally recognized thinker on the subject of effective and ethical followership and its capacity for producing better leadership. He is the author of The Courageous Follower and of Intelligent Disobedience, and is a former two term ILA board member.
Yulia Tolstikov-Mast, Ph.D. is a global leadership and followership scholar and consultant. She is passionate about the internalization and decolonization of leadership and followership education, global followership and citizenship behavior, and leader-follower role-switching. Her publications appear in Advances in Global Leadership; Culture 2.0; The Study and Practice of Global Leadership; Handbook of Global Leadership and Followership; Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, among others. Her most significant contribution is the Handbook of International and Cross-Cultural Leadership Research Processes – a guide to leadership and followership thinking grounded in authentic local epistemologies. Yulia was the Co-Investigator in Russia for the GLOBE 2020 Project. Presently, she is leading a multi-stage study on Russian followership. Yulia is a Fulbright Specialist and mentor to international researchers in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. She is a Teaching Faculty at the Ph.D. Program in Leadership and Change at Antioch University.
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