Journal of Leadership Education: Volume 15 Issue 3 , Open Access

Cultivating Intellectual Safety in a Women and Leadership Course

S. Lynn Shollen

This application brief provides pedagogical strategies for teaching and learning about women and leadership as a potentially sensitive subject, with emphasis on creating an…

Leadership Development Among a Cohort of Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Students in the Health Professions

Nicole S. McKinney, Roberta Waite

Leadership content and pedagogical strategies are fundamental to health professionals’ education. All health professionals must be able to lead effectively and thrive in today’s…

TED Talks and Leadership Education: Ideas Worth Sharing

Deana M. Raffo

TED Talks are short videos of experts talking about a variety of topics. This paper outlines six TED Talks that connect with the leadership literature and topics commonly taught…

Preparing Students for Leadership through Experiential Learning

Maria C. Bauermeister, Jon Greer, Angelina V. Kalinovich, Jennifer A. Marrone, Megan M. Pahl, Lauren B. Rochholz, Barry R. Wilson

This Application Brief highlights Seattle University’s Red Winged Leadership (RWL) exercise, an innovative curriculum for graduate business leadership education. RWL requires…

Electronic Portfolios as Capstone Experiences in a Graduate Program in Organizational Leadership

Brent J. Goertzen, Jeni McRay, Kaley Klaus

Assessment of student learning in graduate education often takes the form of a summative measure by way of written comprehensive exams. However, written examinations, while…

What’s Up with This Leadership Thing? Voices of African American Male College Undergraduates

Tammie Preston-Cunningham, Barry L. Boyd, Chanda D. Elbert, Kim E. Dooley, Kelli Peck-Parrott

This study investigates the perceptions of leadership of African American undergraduate males who attend a predominately-White institution in the Southwest after participation in…

Experiences and outcomes of a women’s leadershipdevelopment program: A phenomenological investigation

Krystal L. Brue, Shawn A. Brue

Women’s leadership training programs provide organizations opportunities to value women leaders as organizational resources. This qualitative research utilized phenomenological…

Leadership Tenets of Military Veterans Working as School Administrators

Elliot Bolles, Kami Patrizio

This study investigates the leadership tenets informing veterans’ work as school leaders. Drawing on 15 interviews and surveys with military veterans working as educational…

Using the Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education to Enhance Mindfulness, Body Awareness, and Empathetic Leadership Perceptions Among College Students

Mary Margaret Fonow, Judith A. Cook, Richard S. Goldsand, Jane K. Burke-Miller

We explored the potential of the Feldenkrais Method of somatic education as a tool for enhancing mindfulness, body awareness, and perceptions of transformational leadership…

College Men’s Perceptions of Their Leadership Practice: Unpacking Power and Influence

Daniel Tillapaugh, Paige Haber-Curran

This qualitative exploratory study focuses on the leadership experiences of college men who held leadership roles in campus organizations. The researchers examined the students’…

Leadership Mindsets of First-Year Undergraduate Students: An Assessment of a Leadership-Themed Living Learning Community

Allison L. Dunn, Summer F. Odom, Lori L. Moore, Craig Rotter

First-year college students in a leadership-themed living-learning community (N= 60) at Texas A&M University were surveyed to examine if participation in the learning community…

Performing Leadership: Use of Performative Inquiry in Teaching Organizational Theories

Michelle Nilson, Lynn Fels, Bryan Gopaul

This research explores the various ways in which performative inquiry was implemented in a graduate organizational theories course within an educational leadership cohort at a…

Leadership Competencies of Tennessee Extension Agents: Implications for Professional Development

John L. Hall, Thomas W. Broyles

The study’s purpose was to determine Extension agents’ (n= 111) perceived level of importance, knowledge, and training needs for leadership skills. Mean Weighted Discrepancy…