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ALADDINS CAVE AT ILA 2021 GLOBAL CONFERENCE!

Great session at ILA Global conference 2021 in Geneva 20 -23 Oct 2021 with over 400+ workshops, over 1000 participants both face2face and virtual from all over the world, with great presentations and great conversations! Followed by virtual conference (with recordings) for 25 -26 October 2021!

My highlights included

Anuradha Gupta, Deputy CEO, GAVI The Vaccine Alliance, defining leadership as three things “one, bringing people together so that they are more than the sum of the parts – addressing bigger challenges that they only do together; two, developing a compelling case for change that people can buy into and come to-gether for; and three, delivering on commitments, by over-delivering and under-promising, to ensure credibility”
John Ld Alderdice, former Alliance leader in Northern Ireland, who spoke of emotions being much more powerful than reasons in driving political change, and of how Gerry Adams and Dr Ian Paisley former mortal enemies when separately asked why they had agreed the Good Friday Agreement both replied “For the grand-children”.
Linda Lausell Bryant (with Philip Coltoff author of “Social Work: A Call to Action”) and colleagues Marc Ross Manashil, Asiya Vickers, and Erik Omid Yazadani-Biyuki of NYU Silver School of Social Work spoke about adaptive leadership in the sphere of social work and interventions, and the need to identify “What is I care enough about for which I am prepared to take on the risks of leadership”, examining the barriers and the stake-holders (their values and loyalties, allies and resisters, and losses that must be addressed) and the action learning framework of Plan/Do/Study/Act. Navigating change involves doing small experiments, choosing to learn or act, turning up or down the heat, testing our assumptions about what will happen, and personally adapting.
Peter Schlosser, Arizona State University, spoke of the decade maximum left to address climate change with greatly ramped up actions on three areas, i.e. renewables, carbon capture and waste conversion, and that the technical knowledge already there needs major global political will and leadership to make it happen;
Pavan Sukhdev, CEO GIST on metrics to capture fully and focus companies on their natural, financial and human capital impacts
Nicole Capriel Ferry, Dan Karreman and Minna Paunova of Copenhagen Business School considering leadership and large-scale systems change, and “systematic change”, with barriers to participation of women (Nicole raised why is we talk about gender and hold womens leadership conferences and not particarchy and mens leadership conferences) and the question of whether it is too late to address the larger issues especially climate change (hope v apocalypse);
with similar themes and questions raised by Johnathan Gousling in interview with Ronald E. Reggio (author of 365 days) , in anaysing our reactions to and perceptons of big challenges will make little/some/major/catostrophic differences to our societies and species, and the need for and challenges of Deep Adaption.
Jean-Anne Stewart and Lynn Thurlowayof Henley Business School, spoke of the development of their world-renowned leadership programmes, of open-ended action learning as being central and of the learning from Covid virtual action learning sets
Gillian Secrett and Victoria Hurth of Institute for Sustainability Leadership, in excellent workshop chaired by John Heiser ILA, whereby Victoria outlined a triangle of ultimate and intermediate ends and means as a way of focusing, while Gillian lead the discussion of Bill Sharpes (2020) Three Horizons and challenged the group to specify what particular leadership tasks were required for each stage. The importance of monetising the longer-term and using user, employee and other stakeholder feedback was emphasised in the feedback.
Liz Cavallaro of the US Naval War College spoke of the pedagogic approach to leadership development in what she described as the navy’s “leadership laboratory”, and the review udnertakenin the last year to deepen the commitment to diversity and mutual respect, and the “Golden Tread” of diversity and acceptance that brings togehr all modules, lectures case studies and extra curricuala experiential learning. Andrew Ledford US Naval Academy gave a memorable quote “We have to be wary of “leadershiptainment”. Had a great conversation with Justin Richard Stoddard US Air Force Academy on how to train leaders for very stressful combat situations, by repeatedly rehearsing ever-increasingly stressful scenarios, and by internalising “first twist the dial” and similar calming self-talk.
Karim Wasfi founder of Peace through Arts a performed some beautiful evocative violin music and then in a rich riveting mutli-layered discussion with Eliane Ubalijoro, of Future Earth spoke of living in Iraq and how to understand the suicide bombers and what drives them and how to encourage “the choice for life” in all of the societies we live in; and the importance of empowering unconscious leadership and releasing differnet aspects of ourselves through music and sound and others ways of transforming ourselves, with deep listening to others and ourselves as being core.

The virtual sessions continued the Conference from Sunday 24 Oct to Teusday 26 Oct , and contain a another rich choice of sessions with on leadership in education, peacekeeping, public organisations, women in sports and many more topics!!

Overall, a fascinating experience and immersion in the latest international thinking about leadership education and development!!

Check out dates for ILA 24th Annual Global Conference Washington D.C. USA Oct or Nov!

“Leadership and Regional Development”

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ILA’s Leadership Education Academy – take the opportunity!

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Leadership Educator Podcast features our Leadership CoP!!!

Season 5, Episode 4:
Using Leadership Education to Foster Sustainable Global Businesses in Ireland with Niall O’Donnellan
In this episode, Dan and Lauren speak with Niall O’Donnellan, who brings to the podcast his education and experience in leading teams and designing leadership education programs in Ireland. During the conversation, he explains his early career experiences working for the Irish government to create sustainable international businesses to his more recent work designing leadership programs for business development. Niall shares his use of universal design for learning and building partnerships with colleges and universities in the U.S., Spain and other countries. Download and listen to our latest episode of The Leadership Educator Podcast at www.theleadershipeducator.com or wherever you get your podcasts.
The Leadership Educator Podcast is produced in partnership with the Association of Leadership Educators and the International Leadership Association.

Aladdin’s Cave at the LEA Sessions

Had a great experience at the August virtual Leadership Education Academy, part of the International Leadership Association! This outstanding programme with over 60 participants from all over the world (mostly USA) in how to design and develop leadership programmes is organised by Co-Chairs Dan Jenkins and Rian Satterwhite and runs every two years. Key elements are

pre-readings (which are well-written summaries of themes e.g. assessment) as well as references to useful articles
reflection and discussion on the main themes of what is leadership and the various theories, situational factors in designing courses, learning goals, content and assessment, and instructional strategies
affinity groups of about six people led by one of the facilitators and where each person gets a chance to get feedback on a leadership development project we are currently working on
opportunity for One-to-One coaching with leadership education leading experts
great opportunities both formal and informal to virtually network with experienced leadership educators from college, corporate, community and other worlds.
brilliant facilitation by leading experts in the field such as Dan Jenkins Rian Satterwhite Corey Seemiller Azedeh Davari Nathan Eva Nyasha M. GuramatunhuCooper, Marc Hurwitz Francesca Lo Kerry Priest

The programme was delivered over two weeks in six sessions, and has completion certification. LEA itself was an excellent example of delivering a online programme with great concept summaries, short discussions panels, and well-structured and paced!

My takeaways were

introduction to instructional strategies such as role-play/simulation and problem-led learning ( Kathy L. Guthrie, Daniel M. Jenkins(2018) “The Role of Leadership Educators: Transforming Learning”)
insight into assessment framework addressing the question of how do we know leadership programmes work (Seemiller, C. & Whitney, R. (2020). Creating a taxonomy of leadership competency development. Journal of Leadership Education, 19(1), 119-132)
an interesting integrated framework for course design (L.D. Fink (2003) Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses)Top of FormBottom of Form
some really helpful ideas and suggestions on how to develop our Leadership Community of Practice in Ireland
some great link-ups and connections that definitely will follow up on!!!

This was a great experience, and thanks to Dan, Rian, Corey and the rest of the team at ILA for organising such a professional, rich in content and well delivered programme.

If you want to find out what is the leading edge in leadership education and training in the world today, you have to go along to the International Leadership Association Conference (https://ilaglobalconference.org/) for insights into business leadership, sustainability, women and leadership, leadership and the public realm, and much more. This really is the global Aladdin’s Cave for leadership education and training!

Leadership education through technology

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REFLECTION ON THE LEADERSHIP OF CHANGE: LITERATURE SYNTHESIS

As the role of leadership in responding to changing complex challenges evolves, so do does the research literature reflecting on the nature and effectiveness of leadership in its various forms. The leadership of change is reflected upon using six main authors that I found especially insightful. They are

Hope Hailey and Balogun (2002) as the foundational framework,
By (2005) on emergent change,
Jacobs et al (2013) as a model for both environment and organisation
Maes and Hootegem Van (2019) on diverse organisational conversations,
Heracleous et al (2021) about underlying competence traps, and
Beer (2021) on collaborative change.

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INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP ASSOCIATION VIRTUAL CONFERENCE 5-7 NOV 2020 “LEADING AT THE EDGE” – HIGHLIGHTS

INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP ASSOCIATION VIRTUAL CONFERENCE 5-7 NOV 2020 “LEADING AT THE EDGE” – HIGHLIGHTS 400+presentations and workshops and virtual networking and exhibitions

Ron Heifetz (“The Practice of Adaptive Leadership” (2009)) in a riveting conversation with Ron Reggio. Theyspoke of research questions in leadership and spoke of the need for precision in terms (“too much poetry at the moment!”) and of need for addressing the work of leadership. This work should start with the challenges and context people are dealing with, and not starting with attributes and tools. They also spoke about the need for understanding loss as central to change and how to acknowledge that as part of social mobilisation, and how to rebuild trust as the foundation of leadership.

Barbara Kellerman, author of “Professionalising Leadership” (2016), talked about her latest book “Leaders who Lust” (2020) where she talks about mostly bad leaders and their singular zeal/passion that drives them such as power, success and legitimacy; her latest book “Enablers” about positive leadership behaviour is due out in 2021.

John Hinck, of Air University, Albamba, the US Airforce’s training college outlined its leadership programme, and how analysis of essays at course’s start and end show changes in thinking on leadership.

Susan Komives, leading thinker on college leadership, has carried out analysis of the range of disciples and how they impact on learning leadership capabilities also spoke.

Jorrit Volkers (of Deloittes University) and Gill R. Hichman ed of “Leading Organisations: Perspectives for a New Era” (3^rd edition 2015) had a fascinating conversation about their collaboration over the last decade, which led to a much more dynamic and multi-layered framework for Deloittes leadership programmes.

Scott Allen challenged the training of leaders by comparing such training with that of pilots and doctors, and suggesting that a much more systematic approach is needed. He uses five leadership models to underpin the building of such competences.

Next ILA Global Conference “Re-imaging Leadership Together” is on 20-23 October 2021 in Geneva, Switzerland