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Conferences(continued)2nd Biennial Women & LeadershipConferenceAdvancing Women in Leadership: Waves of Possibilities7-10 June 2015 Pacific Grove, California, USAThis conference provided a critical forum forbringing together top scholars, leadershipeducators, and practitioners to discuss thelatest research and work linked to womenand leadership. The peaceful, rejuvenating,and historic setting of the Asilomarconference grounds provided participantswith distinctive opportunities for learning,discussion, networking, reflection, andrenewal. Based on the conferenceoutcomes, the program team updated theAsilomar Declaration and Call to Action onWomen and Leadership, a road map forexploring the latest theories and practicesinvolving women and the leadershipprocess.by the numbers2531285participants fromcountrieswould recommend% the conference after54%attendinghigher attendancethan the firstWomen & Leadershipconference in 2013Leadership Education AcademyLearn. Reflect. Experience.2-5 August 2015 Orlando, Florida, USA2015 marked the first year of ILA’s LeadershipEducation Academy (LEA), which brought togetherleadership educators and facilitators to explore,enhance, and deepen leadership knowledge andpedagogical practices. LEA is an inclusive program designed totake participants through facilitated experiential sessions onboth content and pedagogy. Academy facilitators — includingtop leadership educators and published authors from the field —modeled best practices and provided opportunities for participantsto engage in a practice-feedback-reflection loop. LEA also integratedexercises around leadership educator identity exploration.Leadership educators explored their own professional identities asa way to make meaning of how those identities shape what and howthey teach.by the numbers2.5days of deep learning67participants from6countries2015 ILA Annual Report9

HighlightsProgramPublicationsLeadership 2050:Critical Challenges, Key Contexts, and Emerging TrendsWhat kind of leaders will the world need over the next thirty-five years?How will our knowledge of leadership, leadership development,and leadership education change? Leadership 2050 examinesthe issues, drivers, and contexts that will most likely influenceleaders and followers over the next 35 years.The Building Leadership Bridges Book Series: This seriescaptures the best contemporary thinking about leadershipfrom a diverse range of scholars, practitioners, and educatorsworking around the globe. In keeping with the mission of theILA, the book series connects ways of researching, imagining,and experiencing leadership across cultures, over time, and around theworld. The series is published by Emerald Group Publishing, based in the UK.Women as Global LeadersGlobal leadership is a small but growing field of researchresponding to the increasingly complex, globalized world we leadin. Within this nascent field, the study and development of womenglobal leaders is even smaller. Volume two of ILA’s Women &Leadership book series takes a step toward filling the gap.Women and Leadership Around the WorldWomen’s leadership in four regions of the world — the MiddleEast, Europe, North America, and Asia Pacific — is examined.Problematizing and historicizing women’s limited access to power,the authors offer recommendation for change that would increasewomen’s access to positions of authority and increase theireffectiveness as leaders.The Women & Leadership: Research, Theory, and Practice Book Series:This cross-disciplinary series, published by Information Age Publishing,draws from current research findings, development practices, pedagogy,and lived experience to deliver provocative thinking that enhancesleadership knowledge and improves leadership development of womenaround the world.102015 ILA Annual Report

publications(continued)Member ConnectorILA’s member magazine featured an array of articles in 2015 including: Method Moments Community Digests Field Reports Member Spotlights Organizational News Behind the Page Leadership Author InterviewsIn 2015, the magazine also published in-depth, behind the page interviews with: Barbara Kellerman – Hard Times: Leadership in America Joseph E. Trimble and Jean Lau Chin – Diversity andLeadership Kimberly Yost – From Starship Captains to GalacticRebels: Leaders in Science Fiction Television Rita A. Gardiner – Gender, Authenticity andLeadership: Thinking with Arendt Michael Useem and Erwann Michel-Kerjan –Leadership Dispatches: Chile’s Extraordinary Comebackfrom Disaster Robert M. McManus and Gama Perruci – Understanding Leadership:An Arts and Humanities Perspective Anne-Marie Quigg – The Handbook of Dealing with Workplace BullyingBecoming a Better Leader: Applying Key StrategiesA cornerstone of the International Leadership Association’smission is to generate and disseminate interdisciplinary leadershipresearch and develop new knowledge and practices. Ourpartnership with Routledge to develop and disseminate thisfree ebook allowed us to do just that. In addition to highlightingthe work of ILA members who are current Routledge authors,Becoming a Better Leader: Applying Key Strategies incorporatedoriginal content from ILA members working on the importantleadership questions of today such as forgiveness, ethics,sustainability, and gender equality. The book delivers practical,succinct strategies for developing efficient, effective leadership skills.Leadership JournalsTo advance the development of the field of leadership studies as a discipline, the ILAcontinued to support the following journals and make them available to all associationmembers. Journal of Leadership Studies Leadership and the Humanities The Leadership Quarterly2015 ILA Annual Report11

HighlightsProgramAwardsLeadership Legacy ProgramILA’s Leadership Legacy Program honors individuals who have made a significant lifetimecontribution to the field of leadership through their published works and influential support ofleadership knowledge and practice. Each recipient is presented with ILA’s Lifetime AchievementAward and has their work celebrated at our annual global conference. After the conference theyare added to the ILA Virtual Hall of Fame where oral histories, conducted in partnership with theRandall L. Tobias Center for Leadership Excellence at Indiana University, are made available tothe public.ILA Lifetime Achievement Awards2015 Honoree: Larraine MatusakSpeaker, author, university president, and international leadership expertLarraine Matusak has had a profound impact on people’s lives around theworld. She founded the College of Alternative Programs at the Universityof Evansville and, as one of the original board members of the Council forAdult Experiential Learning, promoted innovative concepts and trainedthousands. Perhaps her biggest achievements were in the work she didat the W.K. Kellogg Foundation where she led international grant-makingefforts and helped fund a generation of leadership programs worldwide.As Matusak is fond of saying, “Create the future! Leadership is everyone’sresponsibility.”Georgia Sorenson andLarraine Matusak(L-R)2015 Honoree: Boas Shamir (posthumously)Boas Shamir contributed chapters to numerous books and publishedmore than 70 articles, most significant in the areas of leadership and theself, social distance and charisma, followership, narratives and life stories, and time. He servedmany years on the editorial boards of several journals including Leadership and the InternationalJournal of Organizational Behavior and was named “Best Reviewer” by The Leadership Quarterly. Agenerous man with his colleagues, Shamir had that rare gift of making the people around himbetter. Shamir was brilliant and critical, and challenged people to do more.2015 Honoree: Georgia SorensonThirty years ago Sorenson co-created with James MacGregor Burns a plan to create a newdiscipline, Leadership Studies. She established or supported refereed scientific leadershipjournals; co-founded a professional association (the ILA); co-edited the award-winning,Encyclopedia of Leadership (a disciplinary resource); and, among other achievements, chronicledthe benchmarks for a consolidation of leadership theory in The Quest for a General Theory ofLeadership. From her work as an analyst for the U.S. Commission of Civil Rights to the themesin her recent book, The Power of Invisible Leadership, Sorenson’s work has always been aimedtoward the larger question, leadership for what.122015 ILA Annual Report

awards(continued)Fredric M. Jablin Doctoral Dissertation Award2015 Recipient: Danielle L. Lupton, Assistant Professor of Political Science,Colgate University“Leaders, Perceptions, and Reputations for Resolve”In partnership with the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University ofRichmond, The Jablin award is given annually to a scholar from any discipline whoserecently completed doctoral dissertation demonstrates substantial insights andimplications for the study of leadership.Kenneth E. Clark student research Award2015 Recipient: Deirdre P. Dixon, Assistant Professor of Management andAssociate Director, TECO Energy Center for Leadership, The University of Tampa,Sykes College of Business“Staying Alive: The Experience of In Extremis Leadership”In partnership with the Center for Creative Leadership, the Clark awardrecognizes outstanding unpublished papers with a focus on some aspect ofleadership or leadership development written by undergraduate or graduatestudents.Student Case CompetitionThe annual case competition brings together teams of students toface-off in an event where they analyze and develop a specific set ofstrategic recommendations that address key issues in a realwork case involving contemporary leadership issues. Thisyear’s case, “Votes, Bribes, and Videotape” was about the2015 FIFA leadership scandal.2015 Undergraduate Division Winners: MonicaLyons, Matthew Clark, and Patrick Holcomb (GonzagaUniversity)(L-R)andPatti Brenner, Tracy Brown,Brian Peterson2015 Graduate Division Winners: Patti Brenner,Tracy Brown, and Brian Peterson (Alvernia University)Distinguished Leadership AwardMonicaLyons and PatrickHolcomb(L-R)ILA periodically presents this award to individuals whose contributions to the understandingof and/or practice of effective leadership are significant and have resulted in extraordinaryimpact that transcends national boundaries. Recipients bestowed the DistinguishedLeadership Award serve as inspiring examples to all who labor to make positive change inthe world.2015 ILA Annual Report13

Governance2015Board ofDirectorsMembersScott AllenMax KlauAldo BoitanoRens van LoonILA Board Development Committee ChairAssistant Professor of Management, John Carroll UniversityUSAExecutive Director, Executive DevelopmentChileJanis Bragan BaldaILA Treasurer & ILA Finance Committee ChairAssociate Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, Center forSustainability & Global Change, Unity CollegeUSAMichael Brandenburg (Ex-Officio)ILA 2015 Global Conference ChairDirector, Coaching Services, Executive Education; Director,International Business Development, IESE Business School,University of NavarraSpainIra ChaleffPresident, Executive Coaching & Consulting AssociatesUSACynthia Cherrey (Ex-Officio)ILA President & CEOUSAMartin FitzgeraldAssociate Professor, Leadership & Management Facultyof Business and Law, University of NewcastleAustraliaCheryl Getz (Ex-Officio)ILA 2014 Global Conference ChairAssociate Professor, Departmentof Leadership Studies, University of San DiegoUSAMansour JavidanILA Vice Chair; ILA Global Expansion Taskforce ChairGarvin Distinguished Professor and Director, Najafi GlobalMindset Institute, Thunderbird School of Global ManagementUSA142015 ILA Annual ReportILA Fundraising Committee ChairDirector of Leadership Development, City Year, Inc.USADirector, Human Capital – Organisation, Change & Leadership,Deloitte Consulting; Professor of Dialogical Leadership, TilburgUniversityNetherlandsSusan Elaine MurphyILA Membership Committee ChairProfessor and Chair of leadership Development, OrganisationalStudies, University of Edinburgh Business SchoolUKJanet Rechtman (Ex-Officio)ILA 2016 Global Conference ChairSenior Fellow, J.W. Fanning Institute for LeadershipDevelopment, University of GeorgiaUSAAndrew SimonExecutive Director, Yellow Edge Pty. Ltd.AustraliaRoger SublettILA SecretaryPresident, Union Institute and UniversityUSAKatherine Tyler ScottILA Board ChairManaging Partner, Ki ThoughtBridgeUSAÉliane UbalijoroProfessor of Practice, Institute for the Study of InternationalDevelopment, McGill University; Member, PresidentialAdvisory Council for Rwandan President Paul KagameCanadaEllen Van VelsorSenior Fellow (Retired), Center for Creative Leadership; AdjunctProfessor, University of North Carolina, GreensboroUSA

100% of ILABoard membersfinanciallycontributed tothe associationin 2015Emeriti BoardMembersJean Lipman-BlumenProfessor, The Peter F. Drucker & Masatoshi ItoGraduate School of Management, ClaremontGraduate UniversityUSALarraine R. MatusakFormer Program Officer in Education and Leadership,W.K. Kellogg FoundationUSAGeorgia SorensonChurchill Møller Leadership Scholar, Møller Centre,Churchill College, University of CambridgeUKILA’s 2015 Executive Committee (L-R) Mansour Javidan,Cynthia Cherrey, Katherine Tyler Scott, Janis BraganBalda, and Roger SublettBOARD COMMITTEESStaffBoard DevelopmentCommitteeFundraising CommitteeCynthia CherreyScott Allen (Chair)Aldo BoitanoIra ChaleffMartin FitzgeraldShelly Wilsey (Staff)Finance CommitteeJanis Balda (Chair)Carol MadisonAndrew SimonEllen Van VelsorShelly Wilsey (Staff)Max Klau (Chair)Éliane UbalijoroBridget Chisholm (Staff)President & CEOShelly WilseyChief Operating OfficerBridget ChisholmDirector of ConferencesDebra DeRuyverCommunications DirectorMembership CommitteeSusan Murphy (Chair)Joanne BarnesCheryl GetzRens van LoonAnita MarshMembership ManagerJulie PolzerConference AssociateJean PortiankoI.T. & Office ManagerMindy McNuttSimon VroonhofAnita Marsh (Staff)2015 ILA Annual Report15

Financials2015The ILA ended the 2015 fiscal year on a solid financial note, reaching an all-time high forrevenues by exceeding 1m for the first time. While the revenues exceeded the budget by18%, ILA’s total expenses were 1% over budget, delivering a positive net of over 157,000.These result well-position the ILA to focus on strategic growth initiatives.The Board established a reserve policy in 2015 to provide a resource for unexpecteddownturns and create a source for internal investments in the association. This policyrequires the ILA to maintain a reserve of at least four months of operating expenses.To date, reserves are well within those guidelines.Three Year Financial SummaryFY 15Operating RevenueFY 14FY 13 1,039,207 752,210 778,882Operating Expenses881,700750,768790,036Net / Turnover157,5071,442(11,154)Fiscal Year bership1%Gifts &Donations3%Other162015 ILA Annual Report11%Administration2%Fundraising

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