The Association for Politics and the Life Sciences Calls For Followership Presentations

The Association for Politics and the Life Sciences is interested in putting together a research panel on followership at its 29th annual meeting (October 13-15, 2011) in Cincinnati. The APLS is a diverse,  group of interdisciplinary scholars and is VERY collegial. About 100 participants are expected to attend. The APLS is always on the lookout for young scholars and invites doctoral students to participate and present. Mark van Vugt will deliver the keynote. For further information contact Ron White: email: aplswebmaster@gmail.com

The Leading/Following Forum: Exploring New Ideas in the Relationships between Leaders and Followers from a Christian Worldview: September 30 – October 1, 2011
 Atlanta, Georgia: Luther Rice Seminary

The Leading/Following Forum offers scholars, students, and practitioners an opportunity to introduce and discuss new ideas in the fields of leading and following from a Christian worldview. The small forum structure provides an encouraging environment to the novice presenter or the seasoned scholar. Interaction, communication, and expanding the knowledge base regarding the biblical processes of leading and following, which are the goals.

Luther Rice Seminary & University is the host site for this year's forum.The Leading/Following Forum seeks proposal submissions that represent the best contemporary thinking about the relationships between leaders and followers from a Christian worldview. All proposals will be blind peer-reviewed. For more information (.pdf)

RETHINKING FOLLOWERSHIP CONFERENCE

 The predecessor to the ILA Followership Community of Learning was the first national conference on followership sponsored by the Kravis Leadership Institute at McKenna College and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Leadership at Claremont Graduate University.

Video taped conference proceedings are available from  Kravis Leadership Institute at a cost of $40. To order, please email  kravis.institute@cmc.edu.

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20th annual conference hosted by the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership

Ira Chaleff recently participated in the 20th annual conference hosted by the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership. He was invited to speak because of the symbiotic nature of Servant Leadership and Courageous Followership. He shares his very positive experiences of the conference here.

Webinar on September 9, 2009, 9:00 - 10:00 AM EDT

Stefan Sveningsson: "Varieties of Consumption of Leadership – Followership in Practice"

More information:  ILA@ila-net.org or 1.301.405.521 

Stefan Sveningsson, Associate Professor of Business Administration at the School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Sweden,. tries to investigate how people position themselves as followers in terms of consumption of leadership. This means looking into the varieties of consumption and consumers, some are more active consumers looking for any possibility to consume while other are more restrained and cautious about their consumption. Based on some preliminary findings in a research project investigating followers’ interpretations of the interaction between the follower and the leader the aim is to analyze the significance of this for the leadership processes. By drawing on the idea of consumption the ambition is to show how presumed followers partly create, shape and form as well as undermine, resist and neglect leadership processes

Ira Chaleff  has been named National leader of the Month for January/February 2009 by  LeaderNetwork.org. In addition to the insights he shares in a printed interview on this website, one can hear a fuller conversation between its director, Brian McCormick, and Ira Chaleff in a podcast. Although Chaleff is being honored as a leader, much of his interview deals with followership issues. There is an additional, more recent interview with Ira on the Doug Noll Show (2/12/09). For a fuller description of the interview segments and more detailed instructions for accessing them, check out the Audio-Visual folder in our sidebar. One part of Doug Noll  interview has Ira reminiscing about  the world events that gave rise his concept of courageous followership.

The Audio-Visual folder also has archived windows media file of a Webinar presentation by Barbara Kellerman on "Followership" given Feb 27, 2008 for the International Leadership Association.

Cape Cod Institute: Cape Cod Seminar with Ira Chaleff

"Transforming Hierarchical Relationships into Productive Partnerships"

August 24-28, 2009

 I conducted a seminar  on "Transforming Hierarchical Relationships into Productive Partnerships," August 24-28, at the Cape Cod Institute in Eastham, Cape Cod. Classes were held each morning, leaving the rest of the day and evening for vacationing. CEU's were awarded by many accrediting organizations.

Most of the workshops I conduct on Courageous Followership are done for a specific client, but this summer's program  was open to the public.

For more information about this program, check out  http://www.cape.org. Look for the last entry. You will also find an outline of the curriculum and a course description in the sidebar folder titled "Events, Appearances: Future."

-- Ira Chaleff

Followers Invade 2008 SAE Congress in Detroit Michigan

During the Society of Automotive Engineers World Congress in Detroit, April 1-19, the concepts of Courageous Followers were introduced to 35,000 automotive experts. Gene Dixon a long-time researcher in the leadership process, provided a presentation outlining practioners concepts related to nurturing courageous followers in an organziation. This presentation was focused on generating understanding of the follower role in large complex organizations and small entrepreneurial initiatives. Dixon has been working with courageous followers for nearly ten years and is a contributor to the Art of Followership (Jossey-Bass).