Leadership
In today's organizations, we need more leaders at more levels to get things done, including more leadership from people who do not hold such positions.
Given that my research has taken a "post-heroic" view of leadership, focusing on all of us as leaders rather than a single leader at the top of an organization, a division, etc. I care because if more people were to see the leader within them, they would do more great things in the world. Why do some people come to think of themselves as leaders and others never do? Why are some people seen (and reinforced) as leaders within an organization, community, or group, and why others never are? How might holding a leader identity help you and how can you express your leadership in a way that will have other people seeing you as a leader too?
These are the questions that energize my research in this area.
rELEVANT puBLICATIONS
From Problems to Progress: A Dialogue on Prevailing Issues in Leadership Research
The Leadership Quarterly, 2019
Good Leaders Are Good Learners
Harvard Business Review, 2017
Interpersonal Perception and the Evolution of Leadership Structures in Groups
Organizational Science, 2015
Developing as a Leader: The Power of Mindful Engagement
Organizational Dynamics, 2012
Academy of Management Review, 2010
Power to the People: Where Has Personal Agency Gone in Leadership Development?
Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 2010
Assuming the Mantle: Unpacking the Process by Which Individuals Internalize a Leader Identity
In Exploring Positive Identities in Organizations, 2009