Synopses & Reviews
Covering leadership in the arts and humanities, this volume integrates critical theory with authentic leadership development, exploring the notion that leadership is both a discursive practice and a performative identity. Each year the International Leadership Association publishes a book that captures the best contemporary thinking about leadership from a diverse range of scholars, practitioners, and educators working in the field of leadership studies. In keeping with the mission of the ILA, the International Leadership Series
Building Leadership Bridges connects ways of researching, imagining, and experiencing leadership across cultures, over time, and around the world.
Praise for The Embodiment of Leadership
"Read this book to experience an artistic and more robust sense of leadership; to rise to the challenge to gain alignment in mind, body, and spirit; and to heed the call to heal the shadows we as leaders sometimes cast over our collective humanity. Read this book to become more whole." Shann Ray Ferch, professor of leadership studies, Gonzaga University
"For once leadership expertsconsider the mind-body problem from the perspective of the latterthe body. Those with an interest inhow the body is brought to bear on the exercise ofleadership would do wellto exploreThe Embodiment of Leadership." Barbara Kellerman, James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Public Leadership, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
"The Embodiment of Leadership goes beyond the banal by using our body experiences as the point of departure in deciphering the leadership conundrum. Anyone interested in the study of leadership would do well to pay attention to this book." Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries, Distinguished Clinical Professor of Leadership and Organiza-tional Change, The Raoul de Vitry d'Avaucourt Chaired Professor of Leadership Development, INSEAD
"Leadership is a social construction. The Embodiment of Leadership presents a multifaceted approach to understanding how we, as a society, define, create, and contend with leaders and leadership. Serious scholars and students of leadership need to read this." Ronald E. Riggio, Kravis Leadership Institute, Claremont McKenna College
Review
“From examining the way in which Michelle Obama takes up her role as First Lady to what we can learn about leading through attending to dance, this volume offers a much needed and exciting perspective on leadership as an embodied practice. Its challenge to traditional ideas about what it takes to be a leader literally made my spine tingle!”—Donna Ladkin, professor of leadership and ethics, Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield University, UK
Synopsis
Contemporary calls for leaders who are authentic due to heightened self-awareness cannot be answered unless that includes the ways in which leadership involves both mind and body awareness. Contemporary calls for more inclusive leadership cannot be answered without an awareness of the ways in which our understanding of leadership has been constituted by a dominant performative discourse that is white and male (even when not enacted by white males), heterosexual, and fully able.
This volume seeks to explore the notion that leadership is both a discursive practice and a performative identity that is situated in a body that not only thinks, but moves, acts, has emotions and desires, ages, experiences, hurts, and senses. This idea moves leadership beyond the intellectual functions such as visioning, strategizing, and persuading, and the actions that emanate from the intellectual realm, and situates leadership firmly in a corporality that is raced, gendered, cultured, sexual, instinctual, and emotional. It suggests that leadership itself is an embodied text that can be “read” to discover personal and cultural meaning. Indeed, anthropologist Victor Turner suggested that it is through performance situated in the body that we not only reveal meaning, but reveal ourselves to ourselves and others.
Synopsis
Covering leadership in the arts and humanities, this volume explores the notion that leadership is both a discursive practice and a performative identity that is situated in a body that not only thinks, but moves, acts, has emotions and desires, ages, experiences, hurts, and senses. This idea moves leadership beyond the intellectual functions such as visioning, strategizing, and persuading, and the actions that emanate from the intellectual realm, and situates leadership firmly in a corporality that is raced, gendered, cultured, sexual, instinctual, and emotional. It suggests that leadership itself is an embodied text that can be "read" to discover personal and cultural meaning.
Each year the International Leadership Association publishes a book that captures the best contemporary thinking about leadership from a diverse range of scholars, practitioners, and educators working in the field of leadership studies. In keeping with the mission of the ILA, the International Leadership Series Building Leadership Bridges connects ways of researching, imagining, and experiencing leadership across cultures, over time, and around the world.
Table of Contents
Contributors vii
Introduction xiii
Lois Ruskai Melina
Part One: Leadership Thresholds 1
Gloria J. Burgess
1. The Anatomy of Leadership 5
Stephanie Guastella Lindsay
2. Dramatic Leadership: Dorothy Heathcote’s Autopoietic, or Embodied, Leadership Model 23
Kate Katafiasz
3. Leadership in the Time of Liminality: A Framework for Leadership in an Era of Deep Transformation 43
David Holzmer
4. Seeking Alignment in the World Body: The Art of Embodiment 65
Skye Burn
Part Two: Leaders Are Their Bodies 85
Lena Lid Falkman
5. (De/Re)Constructing Leading Bodies: Developing Critical Attitudes and Somaesthetic Practices 89
Maylon Hanold
6. Dollmaking as an Expression of Women’s Leadership 109
Kimberly Yost
7. Leadership Embodiment and Resistance: The Complex Journey of Latin American Pentecostal Women Pastors 129
Nora Méndez and Fernando Mora
8. Michelle Obama’s Embodied Authentic Leadership: Leading by Lifestyle 149
Elizabeth D. Wilhoit
Part Three: Leadership By and Through the Body 171
Antonio Marturano
9. Shall I Lead Now? Learner Experiences of Leader–Follower Relationships Through Engagement with the Dance 175
Julie Burge, Ray Batchelor, and Lionel Cox
10. Embodied Learning Experience in Leadership Development 193
Perttu Salovaara and Arja Ropo
11. Professionals Are Their Bodies: The Language of the Body as Sounding Board in Leadership and Professional Communication 217
Helle Winther
12. From the Ground Up: Revisioning Sources and Methods of Leadership Development 239
Kathryn Goldman Schuyler
Name Index 259
Subject Index 263