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The 2024 ILA Global Conference Call for Proposals Is Now Open!
We invite you to submit a proposal for this year’s Global Conference, “Architects of Change: Leaders, Followers, and Communities,” which will take place 7-10 November in Chicago, located on lands that are the traditional homelands of the Anishinaabe, or the Council of the Three Fires: the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations. Submit your proposal before the deadline of 31 March, 11:59 PM EDT.
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Upcoming Events
7th Women in Leadership Conference
Brescia University College
London, Ontario, CA
Upcoming Webinars
A Cartography of Resistance: Leadership, Management & Command
Based on his new book, ILA Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Professor Keith Grint provides a brief array of examples of resistance across time and space to consider the importance of going beyond leadership to explain the success or failure of the cases.
Latest Leadership Learnings
Teaching Sustainability in Leadership Education
Past and present Leaders of ILA’s Sustainability Leadership Member Community discuss the latest issue of New Directions for Student Leadership and the push for research and action utilizing the UN SDGs as a framework.
Innovation Leadership: Emerging Findings on Effective Practice
How can leaders create greater impact for innovation in a rapidly changing world while also creating new and sustainable sources of value for their organizations and ecosystems? Sheffield, Jensen, and Kaudela-Baum discuss insights and findings from their new book, Innovation Leadership in Practice.
Why We Should Now Call Trump a Fascist, and How Trumpism Can Be Stopped
As a global citizen and someone who researches the dark side of leadership, ILA Fellow Professor Dennis Tourish discusses the rise of Trumpism and the similarities between it and other fascist movements. If Trumpism is a fascist movement, how can leaders work to shore up democracy and stop it?
ILA President Gives Talk at Christopher Newport University
ILA President & CEO Cynthia Cherrey journeyed to Christopher Newport University in February of 2024 to speak before 1,000+ students and faculty on the importance of leadership.
ILA’s book series offer the best contemporary thinking about leadership from a diverse range of scholars, educators, and practitioners working around the globe. In keeping with the mission of the ILA, the book series build connections between how people research, enact, and experience leadership to advance leadership knowledge and practice for a just and thriving future.