The Leadership Educator Podcast

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....

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: ----more---- ILA Great Ideas from the Annual Teach and Shar...

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 Artifi...

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 int...

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 clas...

In the first episode of the ninth season, Dan  and  Lauren explain this season's theme: "Generative Learning for Leadership Education". With all of the changes happening in higher education and society, the pair will explore how leadership educators focus on cultivating generative thinking and behaviors in leaders. The hosts, alongside other leadership educators and scholars, will discuss topics s...

In this final installment before Season 9 kicks off, Dan  and  Lauren are joined by Dr. Julie E. Owen , an Associate Professor of Leadership Studies in the School of Integrative Studies at George Mason University. The conversation sheds light on Julie's leadership in the reevaluation of the Leadership Identity Development (LID) model, tracing back to her contributions as a member of the team overs...

In this episode, Dan  and  Lauren hear from Dr. Gail Latta , Professor and Inaugural Program Director of the Leadership Studies Doctoral Program in the College of Professional Sciences at Xavier University. She shares her experience working on the priority area of ethical leadership for the National Leadership Education Research Agenda. The authors in this Priority argue for increased scholarship...

In this episode, Dr. Douglas Lindsay , the Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Character and Leader Development and a professor and consultant, join Dan  and  Lauren to discuss the planning and writing of the interdisciplinary nature of leadership education. Diverse knowledge, methodologies, and growth strategies beyond specific fields enrich leadership. To address the challenge, Lindsay and priorit...

In this episode,  Dan  and  Lauren are joined by Dr. Thomas Yannuzzi and Dr. Deborah Smith . This chapter serves as a call to action for reimagining the field and bringing about meaningful advancements in leadership education. Both discuss how the writing group collaborated for this priority, and how it informs future research.  Yannuzzi is the lead author and Smith is part of the writing team for...

In this episode,  Dan  and  Lauren  hear from Dr. Graziella McCarron , Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies in the School of Integrative Studies at George Mason University, and Dr. Grant Jackson , Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology, Leadership, & Counseling at Texas Tech University. Graziella and Grant walk us through their group writing experience for Priority No. 6 of the NLERA....

In this episode,  Dan  and  Lauren  hear from Rian Satterwhite , Director for Service Learning and Leadership at UNLV, and Teaching Faculty at Claremont Lincoln University and Dr. Carolyn Cunningham , Chair and Professor of Communication and Leadership at Gonzaga University. Rian and Carolyn explain the writing team’s process and vision for proposing and crafting the priority that focuses on compl...

In this episode,  Dan  and  Lauren  are joined by Dr. Darren Pierre , Lecturer in the Office of Global Engineering Leadership in the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland and Dr. Kerry Priest , Professor in the Staley School of Leadership and Program Director for Leadership Communication at Kansas State University. The group identified research areas centered on develo...

In this episode, Dan  and  Lauren hear from Dr. Barry Boyd , Associate Professor of Agricultural Leadership Education and Communication at Texas A&M University, and Dr. Amy Forbes , Director of Strategic Custom Live Programs at Cornell University. They led the writing team for Priority #3 of the National Leadership Education Research Agenda: "Understanding the Leadership Learner" . During the conv...

In this episode, Dan  and  Lauren speak with Dr. V. Chunoo , outgoing Assistant Professor of Organizational and Community Leadership at the University of Illinois and Associate Editor of New Directions for Student Leadership .  During the conversation, Chunoo explains how the priority filled a gap in the literature calling for an increase in socially just and critically oriented perspectives in le...

In this episode, Dan  and  Lauren speak with Dr. Cameron Beatty , Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator in the Higher Education program and the Associate Director of the Leadership Learning Research Center at Florida State University.  During the conversation, Dr. Beatty shares how the group came together to support the call for leadership education to emphasize inclusion, identity, social j...

In this episode, Dan  and  Lauren revisit the National Leadership Education Research Agenda 2020-2025 with Drs. Kristan Cilente Skendall and Tony Andenoro . They provide an update on its progress midway through the projected target date of 2025. Kristan and Tony highlight the progress of the research teams ahead of individual episodes featuring authors from each of the nine priorities.

In this episode, Lauren previews the upcoming summer mini-series on the National Leadership Education Research Agenda 2020-2025 . Dan and Lauren spoke with research priority authors about their contributions to advancing the field. They asked how each priority started, what were some of the conversations among writing teams, and how they found a united scholarly voice. Episodes will be released we...

In this episode, Dan  and  Lauren close the season by highlighting themes from scholarship editors, peer reviewers, and authors. The guests that led publications focused on creating environments where researchers could contribute and support the publications' missions. Researchers commented on developing an aligned agenda and growing scholarship based on personal interests and institutional and le...

In this episode,  Dan  and  Lauren hear from ILA Leadership Scholarship Member Community Chair, Dr. Rich Whitney , and Past-Chair, Dr. Lori Kniffin . The global community leaders discuss the focus of the community and how members can contribute to the scholarship agenda within the association.   Some of the resources mentioned in this episode include: ----more---- NDSL #171 Special Issue: Advancin...

In this episode, Dan and Lauren hear from Drs. Jennifer Moss Breen and Michael Gleason following the Winter 2022 release of the New Directions for Student Leadership Issue #176 on Developing Leaders in Graduate and Professional Settings . The authors share how their personal and professional experiences informed the broader outline of the research and their learnings from the authors' chapters. Al...

In this episode, Dan and Lauren provide insight into the peer review process for conference proposals and academic journals.  Lauren explains her approach to reviewing conference submissions and Dan details the process of reviewing submissions for peer-reviewed journals.

In this episode,  Dan  and  Lauren sit down with Dr. Nathan Eva , Associate Professor, Fulbright Scholar, and co-Director of Engagement for the Department of Management at the Monash University Business School , in Melbourne, Australia.  Nathan shares strategies for researchers from post-doc to mid-career scholars, including identifying your researcher identity, crafting a meaningful research agen...

In this episode, Dan and Lauren discuss the creation and continuation of the New Directions for Student Leadership journal with Editor and Associate Editor, Drs. Kathy Guthrie and V. Chunoo . The group shares how the NDSL editorial team focuses on collaboration and creating a community of leadership educator scholars.

In this episode, Dan and Lauren speak with Drs. Lindsay Hastings and Hannah Sunderman . Lindsay and Hannah started working on research during Hannah's undergraduate career at the University of Nebraska, and have continued to explore leadership education through various partnerships. All discuss the process of creating a research agenda and choosing topics from research for presentation. Some resou...