Journal of Leadership Education: Volume 15 Issue 2 , Open Access

Surfacing Authentic Leadership: Inspiration from After Life

Jon Billsberry, Andrea North-Samardzic

This paper advocates an innovative approach to help leadership students analyze, capture, and remember the nature of their authentic leadership. This developmental activity was…

The Challenge of Leading Work Teams: Creating a Case Study to Enhance Learning

Mike Schraeder, Diane Bandow

The competitive success of organizations is heavily dependent on the quality of leadership within those organizations. Among the growing list of skills required for effective…

Schools Need Leaders - Not Managers: It's Time for a Paradigm Shift

Les Stein

In the world of public school education everything depends on good leadership. Sadly, many of our schools administrators can't differentiate the difference between leading and…

Toward a Greater Understanding: Utilizing Book Discussions to Effectively Engage Students in the Exploration of Women and Leadership Issues

Heather Inez Ricks Scott

This article examines the use of a book discussion as an instructional tool for developing leadership competency skills in female university students. A book discussion centered…

Principles of Peer Leadership: An Undergraduate Course for Students in Positions to Serve Fellow Students

Curtis R. Friedel, Kelsey Church Kirland, Matthew W. Grimes

Principles of Peer Leadership is an undergraduate course developed through the collaboration of leadership educators with colleagues from residence life and fraternity/sorority…

Leadership Training in an Industry Context: Preparing Student Leaders for a Chaotic News Media

Keith Herndon, Vicki Krueger

This application brief explains the creation and execution of a leadership training program within the context of journalism education. The news media has experienced profound…

Latter-day Saint Women and Leadership: The Influence of Their Religious Worldview

Susan R. Madsen

The article examines theories, assumptions, concepts, experiences, and practices from the Latter-day Saints’ (LDS, or the Mormons) religious worldview to expand existing…

High-Trust Leadership and Blended Learning in the Age of Disruptive Innovation: Strategic Thinking for Colleges and Schools of Education

Denise D. Holland, Randy T. Piper

We introduce diverse definitions of leadership and its evolutionary history and then we integrate this idea network: strategic thinking, high-trust leadership, blended learning…

Who Teaches Leadership? A Comparative Analysis of Faculty and Student Affairs Leadership Educators and Implications for Leadership Learning

Daniel M. Jenkins, Julie E. Owen

This study combines multiple national datasets on leadership educator demographics, education, positions, and experiences, in order to answer the question: Who teaches leadership…

Emergent Spaces of Civic Leadership Education and Development: Understanding the Liberal Arts and Humanities from a Perspective of Civic and Public Work

Brandon W. Kliewer, Kristin N. Moretto, Jennifer W. Purcell

The value of the liberal arts and humanities has increasingly been called into question on multiple fronts. Attempts to bridge the practical and liberal arts through forms of…

Teaching Leadership Online: An Exploratory Study of Instructional and Assessment Strategy Use

Daniel M. Jenkins

This global, quantitative study explores the instructional and assessment strategy use of leadership educators who teach online, academic credit-bearing leadership studies courses…

A Retrospective Study of Academic Leadership Skill Development, Retention and Use: The Experience of the Food Systems Leadership Institute

Claudia S. P. Fernandez, Cheryl C. Noble, Elizabeth T. Jensen, Linda Martin, Marshall Stewart

The Food Systems Leadership Institute (FSLI) is a 2-year leadership development program consisting of 3 intensive in-person immersion retreats, and a robust and customizable…