Session Type: Workshop Accepted by MIG(s): Development Time Allotted: 90 Description: Through an intersection of fields and disciplines in music, the arts, poetry, and anthropology, presenters will use the Medici Effect as a guiding conceptual framework to give attendees opportunities to experience a kaleidoscope of perspectives to enhance understandings about leadership. This session will use conversation, reflective inquiry, journaling, and experiential learning that promote critical and creative thinking to assist participants to understand the application of the Medici Effect in their day-to-day lives as leaders. Abstract: During this session, presenters will build upon the intersection of fields, disciplines, and cultures to develop extraordinary new ideas about the phenomenon of leadership. During this experience, participants will generate intersectional ideas that leap in new directions. Unlike directional ideas, intersectional ideas are messy and require risk-taking. They support the mantra ready, fire, aim. Intersectional ideas are surprising and fascinating, and can open up new understandings about old concepts. The creators of intersectional ideas become leaders in their quest to understand the elusiveness of leadership. These ideas increase the chances for unusual metaphors to emerge (Johansson, 2006). Like the Renaissance experience when great thinkers and artists came together to create a culture in which ideas and creativity flourished as they built upon the intersection of fields, disciplines, and cultures that are usually not connected, throughout this modern day experience, new understandings about leaders and leadership will begin to emerge. It is time to break away from the cause and effect relationships of the Newtonian era and move toward the power of quantum physics where webs of interrelated ideas emerge. It is time to think about the New Science of Leadership (Wheatley, 2006) within the context of the Medici Effect (Johansson, 2006).
The complex challenges of the 21st century are breaking down the paradigm of the logical and independent leader. A new view is emerging that we are born in and for community, that leadership is not the purview of an elite few, and that leadership is infinite and universally available. Leadership comes with the territory of being human. If this is true, then it is everyone's responsibility to co-create the world we want to live in. We cannot wait for an official 'leader' to transform the world. Leadership is the job of Everyman, Everywoman, and Everychild. Leadership becomes the collective experiences of leaders and followers in unifying roles (Chirichello, 2010).
This emerging concept about leadership demands more than technical brilliance, rational competence, and masterful efficiency--it requires heart, courage, and wisdom, qualities that can be inspired and informed by poetry. Poetry by its nature can shake us up. It can touch our hearts and help us focus on what we deeply care about. And it can reconnect us with our values, principles, and beliefs, pulling us into an internal dialogue about whether we are living them or not. Poetry, therefore, is a reminder to live right and act courageously. Through the intersection of poetry and leadership, participants will understand the ethical responsibilities of authentic leaders.
Through the intersection of music and leadership, participants will examine how different genres allow leaders to understand their self-portrait as leader. Through reflective inquiry, we will explore the role of leader as conductor, as a member of the Orpheus Chamber, and as a musician in small jazz ensemble.
A tale is told that Michelangelo spent about six months with a tossed out hunk of marble trying to discern how best to carve within its flaws and still tell a story when his carving was completed. His skills of observation, honed by an artist's intuition and talent, resulted in the work known in Italy as Il David. Thus, using anthropology and the Studio of Lorenzo de Medici, the intersection of space and place on observation will be explored. The metaphor of a sculptor's tool kit will be translated into important observational tools needed by leaders.
During this session, the presenters will use conversation, reflective inquiry, journaling, and experiential learning strategies that promote critical and creative thinking to assist participants to understand the application of the Medici Effect in their day-to-day lives as leaders. This session will give participants the impetus to create their own renaissance for thinking about and practicing the art and science of leadership. It is our hope that throughout this session participants will have several aha moments in their quest to understand leadership.
Michael Chirichello, Northern Kentucky University
Bio: Michael Chirichello was a professor, chair, and program director at William Paterson University in New Jersey. He taught graduate courses that prepare teachers for supervisory and principal licensure. Currently, Michael is Visiting Professor at Northern Kentucky University and is developing and teaching in the university’s first doctoral program. Michael served as a district superintendent, principal, vice-principal and teacher in urban and suburban districts in the New York City and New Jersey public schools. His educational career spans 43 years. Michael is a national and international presenter on leadership, team building, organizational change, curriculum design, mentoring, and action research. He has presented on five continents and for school districts throughout the USA. He is the co-author of Learning to Lead: Ten Stories for Principals published by Rowman and Littlefield in 2007 and co-editor of Exemplary Leadership Development: A Handbook for NJ Educational Leadership Interns published by Pearson Custom Publishing (2007). He has also published articles and chapters in books on topics of leadership, the principalship, curriculum design, and professional development schools.
David Markwardt, David Markwardt Consulting
Bio: David Markwardt, MSOD, MFA is a published poet, consultant, facilitator, and leadership professional. He facilitates the Coalition and Community Leadership Institute, supported by the New Mexico Department of Health. He is the leadership skills trainer for Leadership Santa Fe and for the New Mexico Municipal League’s Governance Program. David frequently presents workshops and leadership seminars at conferences. He presented “The Power of Poetry to Facilitate Change” at the 2008 National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation’s Conference in Austin, Texas. He presented “Finding Your Voice” at the 2009 Head to Toe Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at Pepperdine University’s 2009 MSOD Alumni Conference in Laguna, California, and at the New Mexico ASTD Conference in October 2009. He will present “Everyone Wants to Be Heard: The Discipline of Listening” on March 13 to 75 mayors and city councilors at the 2010 Congress of Cities Conference in Washington, D.C.
JoAnn Danelo Barbour, Texas Woman's University
Bio: JoAnn Danelo Barbour is a Professor of Leadership and Administration at Texas Woman’s University. An educator for over 35 years, she earned a Ph.D. in Administration and Policy Analysis and an A.M. in Anthropology from Stanford University. JoAnn’s research interests are in a multidisciplinary approach to studying leadership and developing leaders, creativity and cultural aspects of leadership, understanding one’s world view through values and language use, and pedagogical practices of leadership. Recent past Chief Editor of Academic Exchange Quarterly journal, as well as its Feature Editor for the Leadership issue, JoAnn is also past-chair of the Leadership Education MIG of ILA. The author of several journal articles and book chapters on leadership or teaching leadership, she has recently co-edited two volumes of ILA’s Building Leadership Bridges.
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