International Leadership Association

2008 Conference Draft Session Descriptions

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Portraits of Women with Visions of Leadership: South Carolina Women Icons

Description: Columbia College (South Carolina) has embraced a leadership framework derived from the philosophy that leadership is not the position you hold, but the difference you make. This roundtable will showcase one student’s academic and artistic interpretation of this philosophical framework by showcasing her project designed to connect, inspire, and empower women and girls through featuring photographic and biographical sketches of twelve women who have displayed leadership perseverance in their South Carolina communities.

      Kristin Bowman, San Diego State University

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Learning to be a Good Leader: Authenticity and the Self in the New Economy

Description: We will discuss the results of ethnographic fieldwork with members of a leadership course that revealed a four-stage idealized model for becoming an authentic self and leader. Members' desires to identify their inner selves and ultimately create stable relationships with followers may be a reaction to the risks and individualization inherent in the New Economy.

      Sadie Moore, University of Southern California

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The Theory of Learned Change: A Critical Dimension of Leading Organizational Transformation

Description: This paper introduces the Theory of Learned Change. Successful organizational transformation often requires that leaders move mountains. Based on a comprehensive review of the literature and empirical research, the creators suggest that it may require moving one boulder at a time.

      L. Hyatt, University of La Verne
      MD Haque, West L.A. College

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Portraits of Women with Visions of Leadership: South Carolina Women Icons

Description: Columbia College has embraced a leadership framework derived from the philosophy that leadership is not the position you hold but the difference you make. This poster will showcase one student’s academic and artistic interpretation of this philosophical framework by showcasing her project designed to connect, inspire, and empower women and girls through featuring photographic and biographical sketches of twelve women who have displayed leadership perseverance in their South Carolina communities. The poster will share the genesis of this project as well as plans for external dissemination to educational institutions state-wide. It will offer reflections by the artist on lessons learned about the nature of identifying and celebrating various forms of women’s leadership.

      Kristin Bowman, Columbia College (South Carolina)

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Leadership for All Whenever Possible

Description: Leadership is foreboding to even the most capable. As a result, individuals with disabilities often preclude themselves from leadership roles. Leaders with disabilities were interviewed to ascertain principles for individuals with disabilities to find and thrive in leadership roles and expand the traditional views of leadership to be more inclusive.

      John Shoup, California Baptist University

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Building Global Leaders

Description: Based on the demand for globally minded leaders, we are conducting a longitudinal study to uncover the triggers of developing global mindset, which is a world view that enables understanding and appreciatation of varying viewpoints on global and cultural issues. We have found that participants report significant development after an international experience.

      Gregory Hall, Kravis Leadership Institute
      Rebecca Reichard, School of Leadership Studies, Kansas State University

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Standing-by Leadership: A Grounded Theory of Social Service Leaders

Description: Standing-by Leadership is the core variable that emerged from a grounded theory research on administrators of social services. The property of Standing-by Leadership includes degrees from warm standby to hot standby. Standing-by leaders utilizes the role of mobile hub to lead the organizations. To become a standing-by leader, leaders were given an opportunity to create some systems under resettable tryout. By experiencing resettable tryout, the leaders gain strong faith, a core quality of standing-by leadership.

      Kenichi Shimura, Seirei Christopher University

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The Leader Label: A Paradigm for the Future

Description: Drawing on dissertation work and on previous ILA Conference presentations, this poster seeks to help define a new paradigm for leadership based on a deconstruction of the past, a social constructionist rendering of the future, and a practical tool for action that is referred to as a “Leadership Action Paradigm.”

      Jeffrey Zacko-Smith, Seattle University; Buffalo State College (SUNY)

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Asymmetrical Conflict as the New Normal: Leadership Challenges to Adapt

Description: This presentation explores Asymmetrical Conflict from the perspective of Chaos/Complexity Theory and Glasl’s Nine Stages of Escalation for leaders. As asymmetrical conflicts become chaotic a leader can deescalate the conflict, but only if the leader can stay adaptive and innovative instead of reactive and limited.

      Gregory Brack, Georgia State University

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An Evaluation Approach to Demonstrating the Impact of Leadership Training in a Public Health Setting

Description: Leadership training possesses intangible benefits, but often tangible outcomes must be demonstrated in outcomes research. This project describes an evaluation approach to demonstrating training impact through logic models. Impact should be tied to specific program activities; key components include situational input, core activities, program output, short-term outcomes, and long-term outcomes.

      Suzanne Hawley, University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita

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Echoes of Leadership Icons: Resounding Profiles of the Future

Description: From motivators to visionaries, each profile of historical leaders reveals specific styles of achievements and successes. The stories of extraordinary men and woman portray informative and practical principles that crystallize them into essential models of influence, power, and success. This poster will seek to display the role of historical leaders as influential sages for the current leadership mores. It will compare the veracity of leaders as a process toward optimal leadership development to create a clear pathway for transformative change.

      Teresa Martinelli-Lee, American Recovery Center

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The University of Maryland Leadership Development Program

Description: This poster presentation will detail all the elements of the University of Maryland’s comprehensive leadership development portfolio within the Adele H. Stamp Student Union Center for Campus Life. This includes leadership courses, peer leadership networks, multicultural leadership conferences, and much more.

      Daniel Ostick, University of Maryland

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Building C.O.R.E.: Translating Psychological Capital into Programs

Description: Confidence. Optimism. Resilience. Engagement. Four foundational elements of psychological capital and a critical learning disposition provide foundation for leadership capacity. This session describes a leadership abroad experience translating PsyCap into program curriculum and pedagogy. Participants examine theoretical underpinnings and activities designed to develop capacities, and the poster will suggest applications to other programs.

      Anthony Middlebrooks, University of Delaware
      Paige Alderson, University of Delaware
      Alexandra Schnabel, University of Delaware
      Maxwell Kursh, University of Delaware

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The Defining Moments of the Leader Identity Process

Description: This poster will present a theoretical leader identity model as supported by research of how business leaders describe their leadership experience. It will bring identity literature together with the leadership literature to explain a non-linear process. The shape of the model is also discussed as a function of chaos theory.

      Rich Whitney, DePaul University

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Women Leaders and Gender-specific Emotional Intelligence

Description: The purpose of this quantitative study devoted to researching women executives was to take Goleman’s EQ leadership theory (1998, 2004) and Bar-On’s (1999) gender-related emotional intelligence research to another level by focusing on the possible relationships between women in positions of leadership and gender-specific emotional intelligence leadership strengths and weaknesses.

      Phyllis Duncan, Our Lady of the Lake University
      Mark Green, Our Lady of the Lady University
      Malcolm Ree, Our Lady of the Lake University

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Looking to the Academy: Why University Presidents are Better Leaders than CEO's

Description: After surveying the unique structural contrasts that distinguish corporate and academic governance, this paper analyzes popular leadership benchmarks by exploring their development in both corporate and academic contexts. The findings indicate that the university president's office provides superior incentives and structural imperatives that guide university presidents towards leadership excellence.

      Justin Hansford,

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Communication Barriers and their Ethical Implications among Black Women Presidents of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)

Description: This qualitative study employs a phenomenological perspective and explores communication barriers and their ethical implications among Black women presidents of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Using in-depth semi-structured interviews and thematic analysis, communication barriers within verbal/nonverbal domains are identified and linked to ethical decision-making and emergent ethical leadership theory.

      Renee Nicole Escoffery-Torres, Organizational Leadership PhD Program, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore

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Santa Clara University Leadership Education: A Jesuit Leadership Perspective

Description: This poster presentation will detail the components of the Santa Clara University leadership education portfolio with particular emphasis on the Leavey School of Business. These components include leadership courses, leadership development programs, a leadership lecture series, global leadership experiences, peer mentoring, advising programs, and more.

      Jo-Anne Shibles, Santa Clara University
      Brenda Versteeg, Santa Clara University
      Tonja Brown, Santa Clara University

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Servant Leadership: An Oxymoron for Turkish Business Contexts?

Description: This quantitative research, as a pioneer study investigating the concept of servant leadership in the Turkish business context, will firstly provide valuable information that has theoretical implications in the conceptualization of servant leadership within the cultural context of Turkey. Secondly it will clarify the distinction between servant and paternalistic leadership as it is perceived and practiced in Turkish cultural setting. This research examined the relationship between servant leadership and paternalistic leadership perceptions of 305 middle management full time employees from 26 small, medium and large scale business organizations in Istanbul.

      Zeynep Hale Oner-Keifer, rganizational Leadership and Supervision, Purdue University

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Women in Leadership:

Description: The presenter identifies the issues and concerns faced by women in leadership roles and goes on to explore why these issues matter, and what women can do to change them.

      Ethel White, Regent University

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Promoting Information Literacy in Leadership Studies: Challenges and Solutions

Description: This session addresses challenges in helping students learn to find, evaluate, understand and produce information in a higher education leadership studies context. Instructional strategies used to promote leadership information literacy are shared, including the use of technology. Results from a student survey following an information literacy webinar series are shared.

      Jim Wolford-Ulrich, Duquesne University

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Co-producing knowledge with Social Change Leaders: Outcomes of a five-year research project

Description: Since 2001, the Leadership for a Changing World Research & Documentation team of the Research Center for Leadership in Action at NYU Wagner has been studying the work that people in under-resourced social change organizations do to bring about positive change in communities. Throughout this multi-year, national research project, the team partnered with social change leaders to address: “In what ways do communities doing social change engage in the work of leadership?"

      AiLun Ku, Research Center for Leadership in Action

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Building Individual and Collective Efficacy for Environmental Activism

Description: Legacy Leadership Institute for the Environment significantly strengthened leadership self-efficacy and field placement self-efficacy for participants. However, even without leadership self-efficacy, Legacy Leaders demonstrated high collective self-efficacy. Thus the environmental organizations they serve have expanded capacity and gain motivated and skilled new volunteers through the Legacy Leader-run Legacy Leadership Institute.

      Tracey Manning, University of Maryland

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Strategic Leadership Investments for Reaching Your Mission: New Pilot Provides an Integrated Approach

Description: A new pilot program from the Research Center for Leadership in Action helps nonprofits integrate leadership development tools into a system that supports their organizational mission and ensures long-term sustainability.

      Bethany Godsoe, Research Center for Leadership in Action

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Grassroots Leadership: No Pun Intended

Description: Agricultural communities generally take a grassroots approach to leadership. When planning an agricultural leadership program, a needs assessment at the grassroots level should be the first step. This study used focus groups to identify leadership interests and needs of agricultural groups throughout Virginia. The findings have important implications for programming.

      Eric Kaufman, Virginia Tech
      Richard J. Rateau,

    Virginia Tech

      Keyana C. Ellis, Virginia Tech

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Attribution of Organizational Success and Failure to Leaders during Crisis: The Bright Side and the Dark Side of Charismatic Leadership

Description: This study examined the moderational effects of positive and negative charismatic leadership, organizational crisis, and organizational outcomes on attributional bias. Our results indicated that positive charismatic leaders received more credit than negative charismatic leaders when the outcome is successful. When the organization failed the negative charismatic leader received more blame.

      Nurcan Ensari, Alliant International University

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Operationalizing Servant-Leadership in a Dynamic Organization

Description: This session will focus on a telecommunication company’s ongoing journey towards creating a generative teaching and learning culture of Servant-Leadership. Learn how the principles and practices of Servant-Leadership are integral to the organization’s chosen business model and foundational to how U.S. Cellular develops leaders at all levels.

      Jim 'Gus' Gustafson, U.S. Cellular

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Infusing Technology into Leadership Curriculum

Description: The mission of Florida State University’s Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement is to enhance the education of students for responsible citizenship and effective leadership. Technology has proven to be a valuable tool for facilitating this education. This display will highlight how technology has been successfully infused into leadership curriculum.

      Kathy Guthrie, Florida State University
      Laura Osteen, Florida State University
      Steve Mills,

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Re-Conceptualizing Leadership for an Era of Complexity and Uncertainty

Description: Dr. Blandin's doctoral dissertation research focused on the nature of leadership in a complex adaptive system. Insights from complexity theory were used to understand leadership in this evolving context. Empirical findings and conclusions about leadership philosophy, actions and properties will be shared and implications for theory and practice examined.

      Nanette Blandin, The Nexus Institute

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Building Our Leadership Mission in Stone

Description: From 1500+ minors to becoming a School of Leadership Studies, K-State is building our leadership mission. Now we're building it in stone. In process and construction – our new home is built on our mission statement. Students involved – with donors, design, and decision-making – present this building of mission.

      Lori Wadell, Kansas State University

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Spiritual Leadership and St. Francis: Integrating Ancient Insights with Contemporary Practice for Greater Productivity

Description: Spirituality in the workplace is integrated with an historical/practical view of the life of St. Francis of Assisi in order to provide specific examples of how leaders lead an organization that ascribes to Fry’s spiritual leadership theory and model.

      Jan Spencer, School of Global Leadership and Entrepreneurship, Regent University

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Total Health Management: Emerging Leadership Models from the Developing World

Description: This poster introduces Total Health Management as both a mental model [Senge] and an organizational capacity concept. An emerging "leaderless leadership" theory, possibly embedded in a framework described by THM, was observed during a field study in Bolivia that was funded by the Kravis Leadership Institute.

      Joanna Balda, Eastern University

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Definition of Character in Leadership: A Integrative Inquiry

Description: A search of the Academic One File for academic articles about character returned over 24,000 articles. Next, we searched for defining character. We began our query with a search for the definition of character that could identify the commonalities and congruencies within the field of leadership.

      Sandra Bryant, Regent University School of Undergraduate Studies

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Women Leaders in China: The Impact of Culture

Description: This poster session will provide data on how culture impacts American, Chinese-American and Chinese women expatriates working in leadership positions in China in the automotive industry.

      Joanne Barnes, Indiana Wesleyan University