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October 2010

In this Issue:

ConnectorMember

P a g e 2Board Corner: Leading with Salsa - Latino Leadership for the Multicultural Millennium

P a g e 4Join ILA’s New Ethics Forum Learning Community

P a g e 5Job Listings

P a g e 6ILASpace Highlights

P a g e 7Member Community Events at ILA Boston

P a g e 8Benefits Portfolio: Member Interest Groups

P a g e 1 0Leadership Perspectives Webinar: Being the “I” of the Storm

P a g e 1 1Spotlight on Leadership Center at Morehouse College: Ascribing to Global Leadership with a Social Conscience

P a g e 1 3Leadership Event Calendar

The ILA is first and foremost a member-led organization. At the center of the association are the Member Interest Groups (MIGs), of which there are five: Business Leadership, Leadership Development, Leadership Education, Public Leadership, and Leadership Scholarship. The pri-mary role of the MIGs is to be the voice of ILA members; representing member passions and interests, creating and implementing activities that benefit their constituencies, and serving as organizational delegates to continue the success and sustainability of the entire organization.

Each of the five MIGs is led by a Chair and a Chair-Elect, each having a one year term. After one year, the Chair-Elect succeeds into the role Chair. Thus, entering into the Chair-Elect posi-tion begins a two-year term in the MIG leadership of ILA. The Chair-Elect position is voted on by the membership of the ILA in annual elections. This year’s election will take place Novem-ber 19th – December 10th.

So are you ready to lead ILA? Read the following information and declare your candidacy for MIG Chair-Elect by November 12th.

Role Descriptions

ILA Member Interest Group Chair-Elect

Role Summary: The Member Interest Group (MIG) Chair-Elect works closely with the MIG Chair to provide leadership and execute all operations for the MIG. She/he is responsible for assisting with and implementing activities within the MIG as jointly agreed upon with the MIG Chair. The MIG chair-elect ensures the MIG’s success by contributing to MIG projects, seeking to expand benefits delivered to members, promoting engagement of members, and through commitment to his/her development as the future MIG chair.

Expected Commitment: Approximately 2-4 hours per week, which may vary due to activities required at a given time of year. The role of MIG Chair-Elect precedes a 1-year term as MIG Chair and a 1-year term as MIG Immediate Past-Chair. The MIG Chair-Elect is expected to attend the annual ILA Global Conference. Please note that there is no financial assistance for travel or registration to/for the conference.

ILA Member Interest Group Chair

Role Summary: The Member Interest Group (MIG) Chair is the primary leadership role within

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Leading with SalsaLatino Leadership for the Multicultural Millennium

Leadership in the multicultural age will be challenged to replace the old patterns of conformity and homogeneity with cultural inclusiveness. This will unleash the synergy, innovation, and creativity that occur when diverse people bring their talents and backgrounds together in an accessible and accepting manner. The transformation to our multicultural and global society will beckon leaders to create a new culture that weaves together a vibrant human tapestry radiating with the many colors of our humanity.

Within the framework of multicultural leadership, the growing demographics and influence of Latinos will begin to flavor the process and content of the leadership environment in the U.S. Beyond their cultural influence, by 2017, Latinos—who today are thirteen years younger than the Anglo population—will be the majority of people entering the U.S. workforce (Ramos and Fitz, 2005, p. 97). They are the fastest growing small business sector. Latino consumers represent a Trillion dollar market (“Hispanic Buying Power,” 2009). The U.S. economic engine in this century will be driven by Latinos.

What is important to note is that just as women left their imprint on the twentieth century and changed every institution in their wake, so too Latinos will be the dominant force shaping the 21st Century. Women today are poised to become the majority of the labor force and a quarter of all managers (“Employment of Women,” 2010).

BoardC O R N E R

Juana Bordas, ILA Board Member

Have you felt the rumblings of the demographic earthquake in the U.S.? By some estimates, the majority of babies born this year will be

a warm color of brown, chocolate, or latte. The U.S. Census Bureau predicts that in four short decades minorities will constitute over 50% (Cosgrove-Mather, 2004) of the population and in just ten years a majority of Americans under age 18 will come from communities of color (Roberts, S. 2010). So hold on to your sombero, the U.S. is quickly becoming a cultural mosaic. The emergence of a society that reflects the jewels of many traditions will be the defining characteristic of the twenty-first century. Within this Latinos will be the largest population constituting twenty-nine percent of Americans (Passel and Cohn, 2008).

The multicultural millennium is compelling new forms of leadership that incorporate the practices and values of many cultures in a respectful, productive, and engaging manner. It’s leadership that is inclusive, cultivates the best in our diverse workforce, and fashions a sense of community with people from many parts of the world. As the demographic

revolution progresses, multicultural practices and principles will be fundamental to effective leadership. In fact, one of the key functions of leadership will

be to create hospitable space for people from diverse backgrounds

to flourish and to leverage the assets differences bring.

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They have transformed leadership into a more people and relationship oriented process; one that is more circular and reciprocal nature; and focuses on collaboration. There are thousands of books written on how women lead and hundreds of references on African American leadership. Now in the first quarter of what could well be called the Latino century, there is the need to explore and validate the leadership practices that held Latinos together through the trials and tribulations of being conquered, colonized, and deemed a minority. Today, their resiliency, remarkable contributions, and cultural vibrancy are a testament to the wisdom and perseverance of their leaders.

Latinos are Diversity

If multicultural leadership is the sin qua non of the new century—we need look no further for a model for this transformation. Latinos are a fusion people—the integration of the indigenous people of the Western hemisphere with the European, predominately Spanish people. Latinos are cultural hybrids. Diversity is the many colors gathered around the Latino family dinner table—black, white, yellow, brown, and mocha. Latinos are also connected by culture, customs, history, and kinship to twenty-six countries. Latino cultural roots can be found in Europe throughout Spain and through kinship with Portugal, Italy, and even Romania. In Asia, people of the Philippines mirror their mixed Spanish and Asian heritage. Even on the African continent, Spanish remains the official language of Equatorial Guinea, which was

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formally the African colony, Spanish Guinea. Latinos are not only the integrating cultural force of the Western hemisphere—the bridge linking North, South, and Central America—but because Spanish is spoken in twenty-three countries they are the global connection as well (Erichsen, n.d.).

Latinos are diversity—cultural adaptives who can maneuver across the icy waters of racial separateness, ethnic divisiveness, and national boundaries. They can show people how to thrive from differences and are strategically poised to be the prototype for creating our multicultural society—one that celebrates the unique gifts of every culture and reflects the core of our common humanity.

Leadership Latino Style

My forthcoming book, Leading with Salsa, will validate and explore U.S. Latino leadership and provide a framework to participate in, work with, and lead this dynamic community. Latino leadership is rooted in a collective worldview, experiences, and values. It is reflected in the stories and lives of Latino leaders. The humanistic core of the Latino culture drives a collective and people-centered view of leadership that is very distinctive from an individualistic or hierarchical one. It is based on faith, celebration, and an expansive and open sense of family. Since the purpose of Latino leadership is to uplift and improve the community, it has a socially responsible and activist focus. Latino leaders in the U.S. have been dedicated to changing the social and economic conditions that perpetuate inequality. Key to this has been the ability to build consensus, encourage united action, and to foster a deep

sense of unity. Forging a collective identity from the sprawling diversity of the Latino community has been the on-going work of Latino leaders. The principles and practices utilized by Latino leaders can integrate our kaleidoscope society and forge a shared identity, vision, and purpose for our mosaic world.

The demographic revolution that is looming means that the Euro-American influence of the past five centuries will be transformed into a diverse multicultural form. Jorge Ramos, award winning author and news anchorman for Univision notes that the Latinization of America is the fundamental influence which will change the monocultural nature and the ethnocentric tendency of the U.S. replacing this with a multiethnic, multiracial, and multicultural nation (Ramos and Fitz, 2005, p. XIX). Ramos is observing that the melting pot is being converted into a spicy paella and that Latinos are the vital ingredient that will add color and flavor to an emerging rainbow nation.

Latinos will invigorate U.S. leadership bringing people, community, service, faith, generosity, and family to the very heart center of Americans. Because of their rich diversity and international connections, Latino leadership offers a prototype for the multicultural millennium and a pathway for building our global community.

Juana Bordas is a board member of the International Leadership Association. She is the author of Salsa, Soul, and Spirit: Leadership for a Multicultural Age and founding President/CEO of the National Hispana Leadership Institute. Juana was named the 2009 Unique Woman of Colorado by the Denver Post and the Colorado Women’s Foundation.

References

Cosgrove-Mather, B.. (March 17, 2004). America’s face is changing. In CBS News. Retrieved October 20, 2010, from www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/17/national/main607022.shtml.

Employment of women on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted. (October 8, 2010). In United States Department of Labor: Bureau of Labor Statistics. Retrieved October 20, 2010, from www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t21.htm.

Erichsen, G.. (n.d.). Countries where Spanish is spoken. In About.com. Retrieved October 20, 2010, from spanish.about.com/cs/culture/a/countries_index.htm.

Hispanic buying power to reach $1.3 trillion in 2013. (February 26, 2009). In Hispanic Digital Media. Retrieved October 20, 2010, from hispanicdigital.blogspot.com/2009/02/hispanic-buying-power-to-reach-13-bill.html.

Passel, J. and Cohn, D.. (February 11, 2008). U.S. population projections: 2005-2050. In Social and Demographic Trends Pew Research Center. Retrieved October 20, 2010, from pewsocialtrends.org/pubs/703/population-projections-united-states.

Ramos, J. and Fitz, E. (2005) The Latino wave: how Hispanics are transforming politics in America (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.)

Roberts, S.. (March 11, 2010). Births to minorities are approaching majority in U.S.. In New York Times. Retrieved October 20, 2010, from www.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/us/12census.html.

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Community Corner

Join ILA’s New Ethics Forum Learning Community

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When describing a transformational leader, one of the conceptual anchors always includes ethics. There have been many discussions and presentations around

ethics since the ILA began. What has not yet been created is a place, a home if you will, for this very impor-tant work. There are many ways to approach ethical leadership: research, practice, frameworks and theories, development, education, or cultural and organizational context. The list could go on and on. It is a topic that moves beyond the focus of any single Interest Group. Thus, our new learn-ing community Ethics Forum has been launched to anchor ethics within our diverse organization!

Our intention is to create a living space for leadership ethics, an ongo-ing practical forum for discussion available for all ILA members. It is a place to bring ethical dilemmas and hopefully move into a community of practice, maybe even suggest a code of ethics. The forum will be a place to share and broaden perspectives. It will offer a place for reflective think-ing and a process for self-evaluation, allowing each of us to explore our beliefs and attitudes, and their impact on our leadership. We hope to provide a home to optimize learning with a diversity of experiences and

perspectives.

We know leadership is about attention. What we pay atten-tion to is what directs our be-

havior and our thinking. Hope-fully this Learning Community

will anchor our attention—help us be a bit less fragmented and help us

keep an eye on our ethical leadership. Imagine if we can each move one step higher in our practice. What if we could influence the organizations we touch to move one step stronger?

The Ethics Forum is a continuation of a discussion started by the Leader-ship Development MIG in an effort to collaborate across ILA communi-ties. This Learning Community has been developed by Jan Byars, Tom Sechrest, and Ted Thomas. We are all a part of the Leadership Develop-ment MIG and were on the original Ethics Forum Panel in Prague 2009. The Leadership Development MIG will continue to play a supporting role until the Ethics Forum has its own leadership fully in place. This will help in further developing a community structure, and give us some time to decided how we will elect future Chairs.

We have been working on creating the Ethics Forum learning community since the idea first emerged in Febru-ary of 2009. It has taken so much longer than we had hoped. Now, we have the infrastructure to allow us to place more attention on content and engagement. Yeah! Let’s get rolling! We already have an active discussion on ILASpace at www.ilaspace.org/group/ethicsdiscussionforum. So you can sign up and get started right now!

We had a great discussion at ILA’s 11th Annual Global Conference in Prague in November 2009. We had a packed room with people actively and energetically sharing. The inter-est was high to continue the conver-sation. Some of the topics discussed in Prague included: the relativism of

ethics, and the impact of culture, con-text, peer pressure, or age. How do we factor in so many issues? How to teach ethics? How to develop ethi-cal leaders? How to support others in making ethical decisions? Why is unethical behavior tolerated? What part of ethical choices is conscious or unconscious? Can we codify ethics? Can unethical leaders be salvaged? How can we change an ethical cul-ture of an organization?

We will have another live discussion of the Ethics Forum already scheduled in Boston on Thursday, October 28th at 2:45pm. We anticipate it will be another intense, interactive conversation around diverse topics, and how to walk forward as a com-munity within ILA.

We all know, order emerges in a self-organizing group by way of the interactions and relationships in the group. So participation is the key to learning from each other and making our ideas multiply and regenerate across the span of global membership in ILA. This will be a grand experiment in and of itself! Whether or not we gain value from this process depends on our willing-ness to participate! So if you would like to play a leadership role in the ILA, here is a simple way to step forward and participate!

Have I peaked your interest yet? What does the future look like? Facilitated Skype discussions? Webi-nars? Work groups to shape Ethi-cal Leadership within ILA? These questions will be answered by you! Are you ready to join? See page 5 for more information on how to partici-pate.

Jan Byars, Chair, Leadership Development MIG

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To Participate in the Ethics Forum Learning

Community

Log on to ILA-Space www.ilaspace.org/group/

ethicsdiscussionforum. Come to the EF-LC session on Thursday, October 28th at 2:45 in Boston. Join the

conversation! Our discussions are open to everyone. If you

know of colleagues who would be interested in, and benefit from joining in our conversations, invite them!

As noted earlier, we decided to use the existing framework of ILASpace for the Learning Community, so if you haven’t already, be sure to sign up at

www.ilaspace.org/. Please note that ILASpace runs on a separate platform from the main ILA site.

You’ll need to register and select a password to participate.

ListingsTo view all announcements or to submit your own ad go to: www.ila-net.org/LeadershipJobs/index.asp

the MIG. He/she is responsible for providing leadership to the MIG’s members, vol-unteer teams, and Chair-Elect and Past-Chair roles. The MIG Chair ensures success of the MIG’s activities and provides continued benefits to its members through build-ing and nurturing the MIG’s infrastructure and initiating and executing projects that consistently follow and build upon the MIG’s strategic plan. The MIG Chair serves as the primary liaison with the ILA staff, Board, and other constituencies within the ILA as well as strategic partners outside the ILA.

Expected Commitment: Approximately 3-6 hours per week, which may vary due to activities required at a given time of year. The role of MIG Chair follows a 1-year term as MIG Chair-Elect and precedes a 1-year term as MIG Immediate Past-Chair. The MIG Chair is expected to attend the annual ILA Global Conference. Please note that there is no financial assistance for travel to, or registration for, the conference.

Interested? Email Josh Tarr at [email protected] for the full role descriptions of the MIG Chair and Chair-Elect.

Declaring Your Candidacy

Each candidate is responsible for submitting the following:

• A statement outlining their interest in the Chair-elect position and detailing their qualifications, ideas and experience. This statement should include: • The name of the MIG for which they wish to run for election • How candidate will enhance the MIG as Chair-Elect/Chair • How these efforts fit the ILA mission, goals, and Strategic Plan • Candidates may also choose to submit a digital photograph. This is strongly encouraged!

Please submit all materials via email to [email protected] with a subject line of: MIG Candidacy for [Candidate Name], [MIG Name] by 11:59 PM EST November 12th, 2010.

Managing Director, Corps and Alumni Leadership DevelopmentTeach For AmericaFlexible Location

Closing Date: Until Filledwww.ila-net.org/LeadershipJobs/View_Job.asp?DBID=1288

Associate DirectorAcademy for Leader Development and Civic Engagement, Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA

Closing Date: Until Filledwww.ila-net.org/LeadershipJobs/View_Job.asp?DBID=1287

Director of Institutional Research & AssessmentUniversity of Southern MainePortland, ME, USA

Closing Date: Until Filledwww.ila-net.org/LeadershipJobs/View_Job.asp?DBID=1286

Doctorate of Executive Leader-ship Program Full-Time FacultyMountain State UniversityBeckley, WV, USA

Closing Date: Until Filledwww.ila-net.org/LeadershipJobs/View_Job.asp?DBID=1285

Executive Director Scarlett Leadership InstituteBelmont UniversityNashville, TN, USA

Closing Date: Until Filledwww.ila-net.org/LeadershipJobs/View_Job.asp?DBID=1284

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• Technology in Leadership Education & Practice: Sounds exciting? Join this new ILASpace group which is open to all “members interested in exploring the use of technology (including virtual environments, serious games, and online resources) in the field of leadership education and practice.” [Created by Kirstin Phelps]

• The kind of culture we want: do you think the recent suicide of Rutgers University’s Tyler Clementi may be read into as a leadership case study? Do you think it speaks to the values system of the millennial generation? [Posted by Tom Sechrest in the Ethics Discussion Forum]

• 36 Hours in Boston: attending the 12th annual conference in Boston? Check out the New York Times’ list of cool things to do in the area. [Posted by Josh T.]

• Have a cogent article, study, or tidbit to share? Do so at the Leadership Library, a new group created by Josh T. to be a “collection of leadership articles, books, and other documents to share and discuss.”

• The Leadership Challenge: Honoring and Learning from the Sacrifices of Others: Read this blog post and offer your own opinion on what it means to honor and learn from another’s sacrifice. [Posted by Jim Taggart]

• Are you attending the ILA’s 2010 Global Conference in Boson, MA? If so, join the ILASpace group for conference registrants and plan to meet with colleagues by writing to them on ILASpace.

• Are you affiliated with a MIG? If so, have you joined the ILASpace group for it? ILASpace has groups for each MIG. MIG members may connect and collaborate with each other in these groups. Check them out and join today.

• Welcome our new ILASpace community members Svetlana, Kim Bohay, Becky Clary, Gary Owens, and Laura Mack!

Have a leadership question or dilemma? Have an interesting resource to share or need help finding one? Use ILASpace, the online network exclusively for members of the ILA!

ILASpace Groups | Forums | Events | Blogs | Community

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Fill Your Conference Calendar: Member Community Events at ILA BostonWednesday, October 27

18:00 – 19:00 Member Interest Groups, Learning Communities, Affinity Groups Welcome Tables: come learn about many of ILA’s member communities directly following the Conference Opening 18:30 – 19:30 Leadership Education MIG / Student Leadership Affinity Group 4th Annual Student Case Competition Poster Showcase 18:30 – 19:30 All Member Communities Conference Colleagues Kick-Off Meeting: a conference-wide colleague matching program

Thursday, October 28

12:15 – 13:15 Leadership Education Program Directors, Deans, Chairs Affinity Group Annual Directors, Deans, and Chairs Luncheon

12:15 – 13:15 Leadership Scholarship MIG Leadership Scholars Luncheon featuring an academic talk by Dr. Joseph Nye, Leadership in Power

16:15 – 17:30 Leadership Education MIG Leadership Educators Exchange Expo: A forum for learning and sharing best practices from leadership education programs

17:00 – 18:30 All Member Communities - Member Community Business Meetings: A discussion of the current activities throughout each of ILA’s member communities, future direction, and how you can become involved in leading the ILA *MIG meetings will occur from 17:00 – 18:00; meetings of the Guidelines for Leadership Education Programs Learning Community and Followership learning community will occur from 17:30 – 18:00

18:15 – 20:15 Business Leadership MIG Business Leadership Reception: Attend this public reception hosted by the Business Leadership MIG to meet and network with fellow business leadership professionals

18:30 Leadership Development & Public Leadership MIGs Walk-Around/Dine Around: Join fellow leadership development and public leadership professionals for a conversation with Boston community leaders at the City Year headquarters. Participants will dine together afterwards

Friday, October 29

16:15 – 17:30 Leadership Scholarship MIGEmerging Scholars Research Consortium: An opportunity for junior leadership scholars to share their current research proposals and receive feedback on research ideas from senior leadership scholars

18:30 – 19:30

Leadership Education MIG / Student Leadership Affinity Group 4th Annual Student Case Competition Final Presentations

Saturday, October 30

12:15 – 13:15

Leadership Education MIGLeadership Educators Exchange Expo: A forum for learning and sharing best practices from leadership education programs

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Member Interest Groups

The International Leadership Association’s membership is organized into five member-interest groups (MIGs). Members may affiliate with up to three MIGs, designating one as their primary affiliation and two others as their secondary affiliations. MIGs provide opportunities for networking and exploration of com-mon interests. MIGs have at least one business session per year, at the annual ILA Global Conference. Members may also initiate activities throughout the year, via ILASpace or the Member Directory. To affiliate with one or more MIGs:

Navigate to 1. www.ila-net.orgLog-in, using your ILA credentials2. Navigate to 3. Members Only > My ProfileSelect 4. EditSelect your primary, second, and third member interest groups using the drop-down boxes at the bottom of the 5. page. Click save at bottom of page, and make sure you get the “Profile has been saved successfully” confirmation mes-6. sage at the top of the profile.

To learn more about each MIG, you may visit ILA’s community pages or read on.

ILA Benefits Portfolio

With so many benefits available to ILA members, it is hard to keep track of them all! In this regular installment, we review member benefits in detail.

This month, we look at Member Interest Groups, an essential part of the ILA experience.

Business Leadership

The Business MIG allows individuals involved in leadership initiatives, research, and practice related to the business sector to share ideas, challenges, trends, questions, and/or experiences in this forum. Interest areas include, but are not limited to: international/global issues; talent development; ethics/social responsibility; spirituality; corporate culture/diversity; organizational effectiveness; strategy; virtual/team dynamics; corpo-rate governance; entrepreneurship; industry-specific insights; transformational change; and/or, other emerg-ing inter-disciplinary perspectives on business leadership.

Chair: Joanne Barnes, Assistant Professor, Department of Graduate Studies in Leadership, College of Graduate Studies, Indiana Wesleyan University, IN, USA. Learn more about Joanne. Contact: [email protected].

Chair-elect: Jim ‘Gus’ Gustafson, Director of Executive Education, Center for Values-Driven Leadership, Benedictine University College of Business. Learn more about Gus. Contact: [email protected].

Get Involved:

Become involved with the Business Leadership MIG team by becoming a member of the Mem-ber Engagement or Conference Creative teams!

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MIGs Online

For More Information follow the links from: www.ila-net.org/Communities

Connect, Converse, and Collaborate at: www.ILASpace.org

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Leadership Education

The Leadership Education MIG facilitates the sharing of leadership ideas, methods of teaching and learning, programs, and curricula. The Lead-ership Education MIG is comprised of members for whom the teaching of leadership is integral or of interest, and who are committed to the development of leadership capacity at educational institutions and organi-zations.

Chair: Sara Thompson, Acting Director of the Illinois Leader-ship® Center, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA. Learn more about Sara. Contact: [email protected].

Chair-elect: Brent Goertzen, Chair and Associate Professor of Leadership Studies – Fort Hays State University. Learn more about Brent. Contact: [email protected].

Get Involved:Become involved with the Leadership Education MIG by becoming a member of one of these great teams - Member Engagement, Conference Creative, Education Resources, and International Education.

Leadership Development

The MIG for Leadership Development is a forum for discussion and dialogue about best practices, new ideas, and the integration and application of leadership theory and practice focused on leadership development in the

public and private sectors. Members include leadership development consultants, trainers, program directors, coaches, practicing leaders, and other professionals who are reflective practitioners committed to improving lead-ership and leadership development.

Chair: Jan Byars, President, Innovative Leadership Solu-tions, Ohio, USA. Learn more about Jan. Contact: [email protected].

Chair-elect: Laura Santana, Enterprise Associate, Center for Creative Leadership, North Carolina, USA. Learn more about Laura. Contact: [email protected].

Get Involved:Join the Leadership Development MIG team by becom-ing a member of the Member Engagement or Conference Creative teams!

Public Leadership

The MIG for Public Leadership provides a forum for those who study or help lead non-profit, social, civic, political, and governmen-tal institutions. These institutions are typi-cally characterized by their primary emphasis

on serving the greater good rather than economic gain. The dialogue sponsored by the Public Leadership MIG confronts the challenges posed in the public arena and examines potential leadership strategies and solutions.

Chair: Janet Rechtman, Senior Public Service Associate at the Fanning Institute at the University of Georgia. Learn more about Janet. Contact: [email protected].

Chair-elect: Will Salyards, President at Restory.org. Learn more about Will. Contact: [email protected]. Get Involved:Become involved with the Public Leadership MIG team by becoming a member of the Member Engagement or Conference Creative teams!

Or, to get caught up, listen to the recording of our July 30, 2010 Public Leadership MIG Engagement call.

Leadership Scholarship

The MIG for Scholarship provides a forum for scholars and practitioners from all disciplines and fields to interact and mutually further our understanding of leadership, and to disseminate the results of leadership scholarship.

Chair: Crystal Hoyt, Assistant Professor at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond. Learn more about Crystal. Contact: [email protected].

Chair-elect: David Greenhalgh, Director of the PhD. program in Organizational Lead-ership at Eastern University. Learn more about David. Contact: [email protected].

Get Involved:Become involved with the Leadership Scholarship MIG team by becoming a member of the Scholar Engagement or Conference Programming teams!

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ILA’s Leadership Perspectives Webinar Series

Leading Through Change: Being the “I” of the StormA Leadership Perspectives Webinar with Sheila Ramsey & Barbara Schaetti

Date: Thursday November 11, 2010Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM ESTCost: Free for ILA members; $24.95 for non-membersRegistration Link: www.ila-net.org/webinars/leadingthroughchange/

Meteorologists describe the eye of a tropical storm as a place of light winds and clear skies, surrounded by a ring of tow-ering thunderstorms. Employees look to their leaders to be such an eye of calm in the midst of a wildly changing world. They need leaders who have a powerful relationship with change as an ongoing experience, who can call forth and guide a clear vision, inspire, and ensure that services and products stay relevant or even exceed expectations.’’

Leaders, meanwhile, know that they need to provide employees with a stable environment as well as with one that keeps their organizations on the leading edge. At some point they realize, or are told, that it begins with themselves: i.e., that it begins with leading from the inside-out. The question then arises: “How do we do this?” The typical answer: engage in values clarification, personality and behavioral assessment, emotional intelligence development, and feedback processes. After the assessments are completed, another round of questions is often asked: “How do I sustain what I’ve learned? How will I remember on Monday morning what the results told me?”

The methodology of Personal Leadership: Making a World of Difference offers a series of practices that help leaders make that translation into Monday morning application. It helps leaders stay mindful and creative when they are con-fronted by the new, the different, the unfamiliar: when they are leading through change. Using the practices of Personal Leadership, leaders deepen their capacity to welcome change as a partner. It is the lived commitment to a constancy of practice that creates the “I” of the storm.

Join this Leadership Perspectives webinar and develop an understanding of Personal Leadership as one very distinct method for filling the gaps in the field of leadership development, and, as such, for helping leaders lead from the inside-out in the midst of change and the unfamiliar.

Sheila Ramsey, Ph.D., founding partner of Personal Leadership Seminars, LLC, and principal consultant of the Crestone Institute, is known internationally for her work in the field of intercultural relations, international leadership develop-ment and the facilitation of individual and group creativity and innovation. Sheila is a skilled facilitator and consultant with 30 years of experience. Her forum for this work has been in the corporate sector, education, and in the not-for-prof-it arena since 1975. Dr. Ramsey has a Ph.D. in communication as well as a background in theater and anthropology. Her training and consulting is focused on enabling clients to utilize their creativity and unique abilities to develop workplace effectiveness and global partnerships.

Barbara F. Schaetti, Ph.D., founding partner of Personal Leadership Seminars, LLC, and principal consultant of Transition Dynamics, has a particular passion for helping people cultivate their core intercultural capacity. She specializes in multicultural team development, the creation of inclusive communities, expatriate and leadership coaching, and the development of a personal practice to leverage intercultural competence. Barbara grew up in

ten countries on five continents, and moved internationally twelve times by the age of twenty-two. She has dual-nationality (American and Swiss), and speaks and reads French in addition to English.

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ILA Members are doing amazing leadership work around the world, from starting new degree programs to nurturing young people who make a difference, from running innovative workshops and seminars to fostering organizational

change.

Spotlight on ILA Members

Ascribing to Global Leadership with a Social Conscience through Education, Research and Training Programs

Spotlight on The Leadership Center at Morehouse College:

by Melvinia Turner King, Interim Executive Director, Leadership Center at Morehouse College

In setting the bar high to reflect the ideal of the Beloved Community embraced by former Morehouse College President Benjamin E. Mays, Howard Thur-man, Martin Luther King Jr. and other distinguished Morehouse alumni, the Leadership Center at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, is training a new generation of leaders. These emerging leaders, prepared to address pressing contemporary ethical and social concerns, especially those affecting African Ameri-can life and culture, are supported by Morehouse President Robert M. Frank-lin’s vision “to develop Renaissance Men —leaders with a social conscience—who will champion the causes of equality, jus-tice and peace in their communities and around the globe.”

The mission of the Leadership Center at Morehouse College is to develop ethical leaders serving public, private, and social sec-tors in local, national, and international com-munities. The vision of the Leadership Center at Morehouse College is to be a preeminent academic center for the study and practice of leadership that fosters and sustains an inclusive, global civil society where justice is tempered by integrity, compassion, and courage. As a primary tool in attaining these goals, The Ethical Leadership Mod-el™ developed by the Leadership Center’s founding executive director,

Walter Earl Fluker, is used throughout the three core areas of the Center –Education, Ethical Leadership Training Program, and Research. Fluker’s ethical leadership model embodies cultiva-tion of character, civility and commu-nity, which are the primary values in the Morehouse leadership tradition.

Education

The leadership studies program is the heart of the Leadership Center’s comprehensive approach to develop-ing leaders. It is an interdisciplinary exploration of leadership history and theory consisting of both a leadership studies minor and general education

courses. The program emphasizes the need for 21st century leader-ship to develop ethical, integrated solutions to complex issues. Dis-tinctive in its capacity to provide leadership through education, research and training, students are challenged to study ethical leader-ship through the lens of an interdisciplinary,

global perspective. This is coupled with developmental experiences that feature conversations with nation-ally and internationally recognized leaders in public life, as well as key players in the corporate, scientific, philanthropic and humanitarian communities. The Center promotes excellencies in global and local com-

petencies in the study and practice of leadership by providing an integrated and cohesive experience for students to critically reflect upon self. They explore civility as a moral agent in learning beyond their own disciplines through formal and theoretical con-structs of intellectual leadership.

As a premier annual event, the Cen-ter hosts the Coca-Cola Leadership Lecture Series. This special program provides an opportunity for the na-tion’s most renowned public leaders and leadership experts to share their experiences and insights on contem-porary leadership issues and the chal-lenges likely to confront tomorrow’s leaders. It is designed to expose students, faculty, staff, administrators and the general public to lectures by world-class leaders and leadership experts. Since 1997, the lecture series has brought to campus distinguished lecturers Warren Buffet, James MacGregor Burns, Georgia L. Soren-son, Ambassador James Joseph, Sara

Morehouse students Evan Waddy-Farr, Ryan Bates and Adam McFarland in Berlin during

Presidential Roundtable

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Morehouse student Van Newkirk (r) in Johannesburg with Oprah South Africa Leadership Project

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Lawrence-Lightfoot, Douglas Daft, Tavis Smiley, Michael

Eric Dyson, Derrick Bell, Shirley Jackson, David Gergen, Eric K.

Shinseki and Helene Gayle.

The International Leadership Program

The International Leadership Pro-gram fosters international awareness and bridge building between stu-dents, faculty and community leaders in the United States and their coun-terparts in other global settings. Two premier projects include the Oprah South Africa Leadership Project and the African Presidential Archives and Research Center (APARC). The Oprah South Africa Leadership Proj-ect provides cross-cultural immersion and international exposure through travel and study for students from Morehouse and partnering institu-tions in South Africa. It is one of the nation’s premiere endowed programs for undergraduate service in South Africa. Training is designed to pre-pare students and faculty as global leaders through a comprehensive aca-demic and participatory experience grounded in the philosophy of ethical leadership. African Presiden-tial Archives and Research Center, a collaborative initiative with Boston University, provides oppor-tunities for students to interact directly with world lead-ers and gain an inside view of the African political arena. As part of the roundtable experience, students meet and interact with former African presidents and other dignitaries. In addition, a delegation of students and staff travel to places such as Johan-nesburg, London, Berlin and recently

Tanzania to participate in the African Presiden-tial Roundtable. The Roundtable features closed-door discus-sions with major private sector leaders, heads of major multi-lateral organizations, and key international political leaders and policy makers, as well as a videoconference scheduled annually in October.

Ethical Leadership Training Programs

The Leadership Center develops campus-based local, state, national, and international training and con-sultation programs for undergradu-ate and pre-college students, alumni, leadership educators and practitio-ners, public leaders, college faculty and administration. The training programs consist of lectures, custom-ized workshops, international ethical leadership certificate programs, along with structured certificate programs targeted to mid-level and senior-level leaders in business, public service,

higher education, science and religious institutions.

Using poignant rituals, hands-on workshops, community develop-ment projects and intensive experiential

strategies, the training ad-dresses how spiritual and environmental elements

shape human consciousness and actions. Participants grasp the impor-tance of being alert, working through fear and seeking help—even from those they lead. They learn to look deep within and discover the gifts of freedom, imagination and creativity.

Participants are introduced to leadership strate-gies through the development of character, civility and community. Opportunities for leadership develop-ment begin in high school through the Center’s flagship Coca-Cola Pre-College Leadership Program, and re-cently added LEAD

Global Ethical Leadership Program. Students are immersed in programs and activities designed to create and foster an awareness of self in rela-tion to others, organized around the theme Creating the Beloved Community: An Orientation to Ethical Leadership. Participants in this in-depth training focus on character, civility and com-munity.

Research

In addition to education and ethi-cal leadership training programs, Morehouse College is one of the few undergraduate institutions to conduct research in leadership. The Leader-ship Center research involves faculty, students and scholars-in-residence in data collection, analysis and publica-tion of papers on interdisciplinary issues. The Scholars-in-Residence program brings global scholars and public intellectuals to the campus, providing them the opportunity for concentrated work on research projects that serve as a resource for instruction, development, publication and training. During AY 2009-10, there were five scholars affili-ated with the Center, with Andrew Young, former U.S. Ambassador serv-ing as Distinguished Scholar-in-Res-idence and Jochen Fried, Director of Salzburg Institute serving as Global Scholar-in-Residence.

Morehouse students Tshepo Mo-shoaliba, Kyle Bridgeforth and

Chauncey Smith with President Karl Offmann of Mauritus (seated) and

Fellows in APARC during 2010 Presi-dential Roundtable in Tanzania

Morehouse faculty engaging with students during an ethical leadership training session

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2010 2010Oct 23British Columbia Student Leadership Conference Kelowna, BC, CANADA

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Southern Management Association 2010 Meeting St. Pete Beach, FL, USA

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2010Oct 27 - 30ILA 12th Annual Global ConferenceBoston, MA, USA

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Oct 25 - 272010 Fuqua/Coach K Leadership Conference Fuqua School of Business, Durham, NC, USA

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Dec 7Workshop: Rethinking Leadership, presented by Prof Donna Ladkin, Cranfield School of ManagementLondon, UKwww.ila-net.orgNavigate to Events —> Calendar

Dec 5 - 7NASPA Leadership Educators Institute: Developed for New and Mid-Level Student Affairs EducatorsTampa, Florida, USA

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Dec 5 - 7Leadership Educators Institute University of South Florida,Tampa, FL, USA

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Nov 22 - 24Leadership and Management Studies in Sub-Sahara Africa Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA

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Associate Deans and Innovative Programs ConferenceSr. Pete Beach, FL, USA

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CFP: Organisational Learning Knowledge and Capabilities Conference (OLKC 2011)

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Oct 27 - 30

Dec 8 - 10Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) Conference Adelaide, AUSTRALIA

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Dec 10 -11Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) Doctoral Workshop Adelaide, AUSTRALIA

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CFP: National Collegiate Leadership Conference

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Dec 13 -142010 ISLC Conference. Leadership: Missions, Myths and Mysteries Lund, SWEDEN

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