Prelims

1. Introduction

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Judith L. Glick-Smith, PhD, has been a Communication, Knowledge Management, and Leadership Consultant since 1983. Her PhD is in Transformative Studies with a concentration in Integral Studies from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She has a Master of Science in Conflict Management from Kennesaw State University. She is the author of Flow-Based Leadership: What the Best Firefighters Can Teach You about Leadership and Making Hard Decisions. Judith is the founder of MentorFactor Inc. (http://www.mentorfactorinc.com), the home of The Center for Flow-Based Leadership^®, which focuses on helping organizations facilitate flow-based work environments and to prepare for the unexpected. She is also the architect of the Strategic Planning for Your Life life-planning model. Judith has been studying flow-based decision making and leadership in the fire service since 2007. She lives in the Atlanta metro area with her two English Springer Spaniels and near her daughter and two granddaughters. You can reach her at judy@mentorfactorinc.com.

2. Great Leadership Informed by Design

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Atul Handa is a Seasoned Design Leader with 17 years of industry experience. His forte lies in experience design and content strategy. He is passionate about applying design best practices in an agile world. He helps his clients leverage Design Thinking to bridge business goals and user needs. He is an expert at translating complex business ideas into actionable design blueprints. Atul has successfully led many large-scale design and development efforts for both web and mobile products in a variety of domains for clients ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. He is a Subject Matter Expert for the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies in Canada, and has a Master of Science in Technology from Arizona State University, USA, and is the Principal UX Designer at Informatica and Co-founder of Conceptell Inc.

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Kanupriya Vashisht is a Senior Content Strategist, Editor, and Writer with more than 15 years of experience. She provides communications strategy leadership, which supports a user-centric approach, to a diverse array of Fortune 500, mid-sized and start-up clients. She oversees projects through entire lifecycles: from research, analysis, content strategy, and design to content creation and testing. She also regularly writes features and columns for leading magazines, newspapers, and websites. Kanupriya is a Subject Matter Expert for the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies, and has a Master’s in Journalism and Mass Communications from Arizona State University, USA and is a Director at Conceptell Inc.

3. Designing Leadership Like Jazz

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A pioneer in Leadership Studies, Dr Gloria J. Burgess is a Leadership Speaker, Consultant, Coach, and Educator at IEDC Bled School of Management in Slovenia, University of Washington, University of Southern California, and Trinity Clergy Project. She has worked with thousands of leaders on six continents, and excels in integrating the arts into her work with organizations. Her books include Flawless Leadership and Pass it On!, an inspiring story about her father’s life-changing relationship with Nobel Laureate William Faulkner: www.gloriaburgess.com.

4. Strengthening Our Own Leadership by Design

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Greg Morgan is an Australian Leadership Practitioner and Scholar who considers leadership as a type of practical wisdom for generating influence in relationships. He has worked with leaders in several sectors on cultivating understandings, structures, and practices, which bring out the best in people pursuing shared goals. His current focus is on “narrative intelligence”: insight in the ever-unfolding present about the stories we shape, inhabit, and believe to be true; and capacity to modify them to better support our goals and well-being.

Greg is an executive partner in the Australian consulting firm Allora Leadership and Coaching (https://www.allora.org.au/). He believes leadership is more about disposition than position, and that it is never too early – or too late – to learn and develop leadership. “Leadership” is a slippery concept, and the only “training” most leaders experience is what they encounter on the job. Greg supports leaders to visualize who they seek to be and to reach for what is highest in them.

Seeking to learn how to be effective as a school principal, Greg completed a PhD in Leadership before honing his skills further as head of school at the National Excellence in School Leadership Initiative. Greg then co-launched Allora with a focus on offering personalized leadership development to leaders at all stages of career progression. Greg has shaped a very accessible approach to leadership development from his professional experience and research, with clients valuing its authenticity and immediate application to their practice and continuing growth as leaders. Greg may be contacted at greg@allora.org.au

5. Redesigning the Hero Leader: Leveraging Emergent Leadership

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Dr Rob Elkington is the CEO and President of Global Leadership Initiatives (www.globalleader.ca). Rob holds a PhD from North West University, and an Advanced Certificate in Intercultural Management from Notre Dame University. Rob is also Adjunct Professor at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (https://www.uoit.ca) serving in both the Business and IT faculty and the Education faculty, and is a Senior Lecturer with the Stellenbosch University School of Public Leadership and Good Governance (http://www.sun.ac.za/english/faculty/economy/spl/centres-institutes/sggf).

6. Activating Fe+Male Leadership Synergy in Your Organization

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Madeleine van der Steege, MA (Soc. Sc.), is an Award-Winning Female Entrepreneur and the Managing Editor of two Global Leadership Initiatives (GLI) publications. Her key interests are entrepreneurship, leadership, and diversity eloquence. In practice, she acts as a Business Catalyst for international companies setting up in the Netherlands, and is a Master Coach, Researcher, and Writer. Madeleine is an Adjunct Professor in Leadership and Business Studies and the Psychology Department at Webster University, Leiden, a management board member of TheBridge2Hope project for survivors of human trafficking (for sexual exploitation) in the Netherlands, and a core member of Global Leadership Initiatives (GLI).

Madeleine (“Mads”) comes from a family of entrepreneurs in South Africa, where she was a Pioneer in the field of Mediation. She lives with her husband and three children in a picturesque village in the beautiful flower bulb region of the Netherlands. You can reach her at mads@synquity.com and www.synquity.com.

7. Design Thinking – How to Thrive in a VUCA World

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Fred Krawchuk is a former US Army Special Forces Colonel, Olmsted Scholar, and George Marshall Fellow at the US Department of State. A graduate of West Point, Harvard, and IESE Business School, he has 30 years of experience in over 30 countries launching innovative enterprises and building collaborative networks that generate alternatives to violence. A long-time mindfulness Practitioner, Fred serves as an Advisor to the Coming Home Project, and on the Board of Directors of Peace through Commerce.

Fred Krawchuk is the Founder and CEO of the Pathfinder Consulting Group, Senior Lecturer at IESE Business School, Executive Coach, and Writer. He empowers leaders and organizations to successfully manage change and transitions, and innovate in dynamic environments. He is an accomplished leader known for strategic planning and leading high-risk operations around the globe, including peacekeeping in the Balkans, jungle operations in Latin America and Southeast Asia, and counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan. Blending his peak performance, negotiations, and design thinking expertise, he writes about and guides senior executives on how to build consensus among stakeholders from all walks of life, align action, and generate pragmatic solutions to complex challenges. Fred works with a variety of public sector and corporate clients around the world, enabling them to become more agile and adaptive in volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous situations, whether in business, government, or conflict zones.

8. Designing an Organization that Builds Resilient Leaders

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Jennifer Moss Breen’s passion is working with emerging leaders and helping them to thrive in complexity. Topics that Jennifer feels are most essential for today’s leaders include the power of followership, healthy teams, strength through humility, building resilience through adversity, and reflection as a tool for leadership growth. Jennifer earned her PhD from the University of Nebraska and currently serves as an Associate Professor and Program Director for Creighton University’s Interdisciplinary Leadership EdD. Prior to joining Creighton University, Jennifer developed and directed Bellevue University’s PhD in Human Capital Program.

Jennifer has been studying, teaching, consulting, and writing about leadership for nearly 20 years.

9. Flow-based Leadership Through Emergent Design

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Judith L. Glick-Smith, PhD, has been a knowledge management and leadership consultant since 1983. She is the author of Flow-based Leadership: What the Best Firefighters Can Teach You about Leadership and Making Hard Decisions. Judith is the founder of MentorFactor, Inc., the home of The Center for Flow-Based Leadership^®, which focuses on helping organizations facilitate flow-based work environments and to prepare for the unexpected. Judith has been studying flow-based leadership in the fire service since 2007. You can reach her at judy@mentorfactorinc.com.

10. Designing Leadership for Innovation

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Bettina von Stamm is an Original and Visionary Thinker as well as a Prolific Writer in the fields of Sustainability and Innovation. Building on her MBA and PhD from London Business School, she supports senior managers and innovation leaders in creating sustainably innovative organizations. She volunteers as Director of Awards Program for Katerva, a non-profit whose mission is to identify, evaluate, accelerate sustainable disruptive innovation, and contributes to executive programs at prestigious universities and corporates around the world.

Visionary at the boundary of academia and industry, Dr Bettina von Stamm has been evolving the field of innovation since 1992, from 2004 onwards through her own organization, the Innovation Leadership Forum. Her constant desire to understand is coupled with a passion to enable others to use innovation for creating a purposeful and sustainable future. The three cornerstones of her thinking are: (1) a focus on people, (2) deep understanding of specific context, and (3) a system-based approach. Tools that she has developed include a framework that helps understand where innovative organizations differ from their less innovative counterparts, the Innovation Wave^®, a facilitated tool for the assessment of innovation capability which builds on that framework, and a methodology to support collaboration across diverse mindsets.

She loves spreading her thoughts through presentations and interviews, blogs and articles, book chapters and reports as well as her own monographs: The Innovation Wave (Wiley, 2002), Managing Innovation Design & Creativity (Wiley, 2008), and The Future of Innovation (with Anna Trifilova; Gower, 2009). She operates globally, in both the academic world (Cambridge University, UK; CEDIM, Mexico; Copenhagen Business School, Denmark; DEUSTO Business School, Spain; Kedge Business School, France; London Business School, UK; and Technische Universität München, Germany) and the corporate world (AMP, Banco Santander, DSM, Imerys, Katerva, Lloyds Register, Mars Mattel, SAP).

11. Culturally Intelligent Leadership by Design

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Elizabeth (Liddy) A. Tuleja, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame, where she teaches intercultural communication and global leadership, and a Fulbright Scholar in China (2017–2018). She holds a Master’s degree in Intercultural Communication and a Doctorate in Education from the University of Pennsylvania, graduating with distinction. Prior to Notre Dame, she taught at the Wharton School and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her area of expertise is in cross-cultural management and global leadership with a focus on China. In addition to teaching, she consults with clients such as Boeing, US Marines, US Army, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, AXA, Marriott, Verizon, China Development Bank, and HSBC. She is the author of Intercultural Communication for Global Leadership: How Leaders Communicate for Success (Routledge, 2017) and Intercultural Communication for Business (GlobeComm Publishers, 2015).

She is also an Associate Partner with the Hofstede Insights group, which is an international organization dedicated to enabling global effectiveness. For over a decade, Dr. Tuleja has spent her summers teaching in Shanghai and Beijing, and now she lives in Chengdu where she has set up her global consulting practice. She enthusiastically embraces all things Chinese while studying the language in order to communicate with people she meets in day-to-day interactions and while traveling throughout the country.

She has also developed a popular online executive certificate course in Advanced Intercultural Management through the University of Notre Dame/University Alliance as well as another leadership course in collaboration with Notre Dame/Paragon Education. You can follow her blog at http://globalbizleader.com, on LinkedIn, and also:

Link to book: goo.gl/9GjKpD

Link to course: goo.gl/fM0XoN

Link to article: goo.gl/b9QF3X

You can reach her at elizabeth.tuleja@hofstede-insights.com

12. Leadership, Built-In

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Perttu Salovaara works as a Researcher and Organization Consultant in Finland, specializing in leadership, change management, and organizational and workspace design. He has also produced three academic documentary films. Currently he runs a research program on the impact of craft breweries on community building, is writing a book on plural forms of leadership, and studies how a space renovation project evolves as a co-creational process.

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Bettina von Stamm is an Original and Visionary Thinker as well as a Prolific Writer in the fields of Sustainability and Innovation. Building on her MBA and PhD from London Business School, she supports senior managers and innovation leaders in creating sustainably innovative organizations. She volunteers as Director of Awards Program for Katerva, a non-profit whose mission is to identify, evaluate, and accelerate sustainable disruptive innovation, and contributes to executive programs at prestigious universities and corporates around the world.

13. Bringing it all Together

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Jennifer Moss Breen’s passion is working with emerging leaders and helping to thrive in complexity. Topics that Jennifer feels are most essential for today’s leaders include the power of followership, healthy teams, strength through humility, building resilience through adversity, and reflection as a tool for leadership growth. Jennifer earned her PhD from the University of Nebraska, and currently serves as an Associate Professor and Program Director for Creighton University’s Interdisciplinary Leadership EdD.

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Madeleine van der Steege is an Award-Winning Female Entrepreneur and the Managing Editor of two GLI publications. Her key interests are entrepreneurship, leadership, and diversity eloquence. In practice, she acts as a Business Catalyst for international companies setting up in the Netherlands, and is a Master Coach, Researcher, and Writer. Madeleine is an Adjunct Professor at Webster University, Leiden, a Management Board Member of TheBridge2Hope project for survivors of human trafficking (for sexual exploitation) in the Netherlands, and a core member of Global Leadership Initiatives (GLI).