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Member Communities

Women and Leadership

Community Leaders

Rita A. Gardiner
Rita Gardiner
President
 
Associate Professor Critical Policy, Equity, and Leadership Studies; Western University
Dionne Rosser-Mims
Dionne Rosser-Mims
President-Elect
 
Vice Chancellor, Troy University - Phenix City Troy University
Liza Howe-Walsh
Liza Howe-Walsh
Past-President
 
Reader in International Human Resource Management, University of Portsmouth

Contact Community Leaders: women&leadership@ilaglobalnetwork.org

Executive Leadership Team and Volunteers

ILA Global Conference Committee 2023

Pat Clary (Co-Chair)
Adrienne Castellon (Co-Chair)

Membership and Awards Committee, Chair & or Co-Chairs (CC)

Mary Angela Baker
Pat Clary (CC)
Rita Gardiner
Liza Howe-Walsh (CC)
Vicki Wuolle

Research and Practice Committee, Chair and or Co-Chairs (CC)

Chanda Elbert
Carole Elliott
Wendy Fox Kirk
Marlene Janzen Le Ber (CC)
Jennifer Okoliko
Randal Thompson

Relationships, Outreach & Media, Chair and or Co-Chairs (CC)

Sally Deck
Carol Clyde Gallagher (CC)
Jen Jones
Dionne Michele Rosser Mims (CC)
Janée M. Morris (V)

Task force – Young Women and Leadership

Fiona Cummings
Hayley Baker (Chair)
Giftie Umo (V)
Syeda Tuba Javaid
Merike Kolga

The Women and Leadership Member Community advances women in leadership by bringing together researchers, coaches, educators, practitioners and students interested in generating resources, disseminating research, and fostering the development of women leaders.

We are global community of leadership researchers, developers, master artists, and practitioners passionate about aesthetics, arts, culture, creativity, design, equity, imagination, and innovation in leadership. We are committed to cutting edge research, practice, and leadership development methods to bring about the best leaders for the future.

Priorities and Projects

  • Organizing the ILA Women and Leadership conferences 
    – Consider donating to the Meet the Moment for Women and Leadership Fund.  Donate and learn more here. 
  • Recognizing and celebrating excellence in scholarship and practice though the annual W&L awards
  • Enhancing the status of women and leadership worldwide by providing a forum for networking, exchanging ideas, and mentoring
  • Fostering international collaborations and building global partnerships to nurture conversations about women and leadership
  • Aligning our collective interests as change-makers to generate solutions for increasing equality in power and decision-making
  • Collaborating with all stakeholders committed to addressing barriers and helping girls and young women become leaders
  • Expanding leadership education and development opportunities while acknowledging, respecting, and addressing the roles-within-roles of all women
  • Facilitating a paradigm shift that advances women in leadership by modeling connectedness, inclusivity, and authenticity
  • Contributing to the body of leadership scholarship and leadership development by advancing rigorous research, identifying best practices, and partnering with publishers
  • Recruiting members of our Committees

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Sample Women and Leadership Resources

Conferences

Webinars

Blogs

Jacinda Ardern

Jacinda Ardern and the Challenges of Leadership

What can former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s leadership of New Zealand reveal about the complex mix of authenticity, transparency, and masking that all leaders must grapple with? ILA Fellow Suze Wilson explores this question and more.

Photo of Working Mom Saying Goodbye to Daughter

Barbara Kellerman on Women & Leadership

ILA Lifetime Achievement Award Winner, Dr. Barbara Kellerman, shares some of her latest thinking on women and leadership by reflecting on Ursula von der Leyen’s leadership of the European Commission and on the neuroscience of pregnancy.

graphic with women's hands on top of each other

Leadership Concerns Us in the Plural

In honor of International Women’s Day, Dr. Rita A. Gardiner reflects on suffrage movements around the world, the need for camaraderie and abiding friendships to help propel social movements forward, and how social movements demonstrate that leadership concerns us in the plural, not I in the singular.

Publications