In this episode, Dan and Lauren discuss what they have learned about generative leadership from this season's guests. Dan highlights discovering more about how ChatGPT can build leadership learning practices and how collaboration is essential to good research practices. Lauren expands on how Bert DeCoutre's comments about digitizing leadership sparked new ideas and experiences in her teaching practice. Both confirm the continuation of the generative leadership learning theme into the new year and preview future topics.

Mentions in this episode include:

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International Leadership Association (ILA) 2024 Global Conference Call for Proposals

Management & Organizational Behavior Teaching Society 2024 Annual Conference Call for Proposals

Books by Barbara Kellerman:

• Leaders Who Lust

Podcast Episodes:

• Ethical Uses of ChatGPT in Leadership Classes and Programs

In this episode, co-hosts Dan and Lauren discuss toxic followership with Dr. Wendy Edmonds. Wendy, a past ILA Followership Member Community Chair and current assistant professor at Bowie State, describes her experience collecting data and writing her dissertation on the Jonestown Massacre and how it led to a book on the topic. She provides strategies for addressing and preventing toxicity in the workplace.

In this episode, co-hosts Dan and Lauren discuss generative leadership education with Bert De Coutere from the Center for Creative Leadership. They explore how the CCL has adapted its leadership training methods post-pandemic and in the AI era. Bert shares his curiosity about digitizing leadership training and development and provides insights on maintaining a generative approach in leadership development amidst evolving challenges.

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Using Mediated Dialogue for Meaningful Conversations with the CCL's Chuck Palus and Steadman Harrison

In this episode, Dan and Lauren sit down with Dr. Liz Darger, Senior Associate Athletic and Senior Woman Administrator at BYU Athletics and a member of the Leadership Team of the NCAA Common Ground initiative. They dive into the groundbreaking work Common Ground is doing to bridge gaps between LGBTQ+ and faith-based communities in college sports and higher education. Liz shares her own experiences leading and participating, and how it's shaped the student-athletes, coaches, and administrators that have participated.

In this episode, Dan and Lauren are joined by Dr. Sonia Ospina, one of the 2023 ILA Lifetime Achievement Award Winners. The recently retired Ospina served as Professor of Public Management and Policy at New York University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and former Faculty Director of the Research Center for Leadership in Action (RCLA). She is a sociologist by training and an expert in participatory and qualitative research methods. Her interests in the participatory, inclusive, and collaborative dynamics of democratic governance have produced research on social change leadership, engaged scholarship, social innovation, public accountability, and public sector reform, both in the United States and in Latin America.

In this episode, Dan and Lauren listen as Dr. Bruce Avolio shares his experience as one of this year's ILA Lifetime Achievement Award Winners. Avolio is the Mark Pigott Chair in Business Strategic Leadership within the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington. In the Foster School, he also serves as the Executive Director for the Center for Leadership & Strategic Thinking. He is recognized as being among the top 70 most highly cited researchers in the United States in Economics and Business and among the top 3,000 across all sciences around the globe (Thompson Reuters).

Resources mentioned in this episode include:

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"Lasso on Leadership"

Bruce Avolio's list of top 100 positives amidst the Pandemic with the goal of bringing one smile to the receiver and me

In this episode, Dan and Lauren recap their attendance at the ILA 25th Global Leadership Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, from October 12-15, 2023. Both discuss meeting new people, attending sessions on research, AI and generativity, and future conversations for the podcast.

Resources mentioned in this episode include:

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ILA Great Ideas from the Annual Teach and Share Forum

Leaders Assemble! Leadership and Mentorship in the Marvel Comic Universe with Drs. Gordon Schmidt and Sy Islam

In this episode, Dan and Lauren hear from Dr. Joey Crawford, Senior Lecturer in Management at the University of Tasmania and Editor of the Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice. Joey explains the findings from his recent co-authored piece titled, “Leadership Is Needed for Ethical CHATGPT: Character, Assessment, and Learning Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) Learning Using Artificial Intelligence (AI).”

Resources mentioned in this episode include:

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What Leadership Educators Can Learn From Teaching Statistics with David Franklin 

"It is not magic, it's pedagogy." from Lee Shulman's article "Pedagogies" (Shulman, 2005, p. 25)

In this episode, Dan and Lauren speak with Dr. Libby Bischoff, a Professor of History, the recently adorned University Historian, and the Executive Director of the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education at the University of Southern Maine. Dr. Bischoff focuses on innovative teaching approaches following the pandemic era. Additionally, she shares how she incorporated integrating generative writing, AI, and imaging tools into her courses, and that reflection is increasing in value in classrooms. 

In this episode, Dan and Lauren talk with Dr. Ralph Gigliotti, Assistant Vice President for Organizational Leadership in the Office of the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at Rutgers University. Ralph, a leading researcher in crisis leadership in higher education, updates us on where we are now and how we can use leadership theories and frameworks for making decisions for your classes and programs.  

Resources mentioned in this episode include:

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ILA Interface Newsletter PAUSE for Pedagogy Column: Crisis Leadership Education and Exploration 

What Academic Leaders Can Do to Navigate Crisis with Dr. Ralph Gigliotti (Sept. 8, 2020, podcast episode)

NDSL #170: Using Inventories and Assessments to Enhance Leadership Development with Drs. Marcy Levy Shankman and Ralph A. Gigliotti (Dec. 15, 2021 podcast episode)

Ralph's book: Crisis Leadership in Higher Education

Ralph's book: Competencies for Effective Leadership: A Framework for Assessment, Education, and Research

Priya Parker's The Art of Gathering