International Leadership Association

International Leadership Association
Formation 1999
Type Professional association
Headquarters College Park, MD
Membership
 2,000 in 70 countries
President
 Cynthia Cherrey
Website http://www.ila-net.org

The International Leadership Association (ILA) is the foremost member association for individuals with a professional interest in leadership and leadership studies. Members of this association include scholars, educators, and practitioners from business, community, and government sectors, among others. The ILA was originally established through a grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and is housed at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Focused on being the global network for all those who practice, study and teach leadership, the International Leadership Association is committed to "Transforming Leadership Knowledge and Practice World-Wide".[1]

Some notable members of the International Leadership Association include Barbara Kellerman, James MacGregor Burns, and Warren Bennis.

History

It’s difficult to trace all of the threads and conversations that led to the creation and development of the ILA. Like many ideas, it grew from both a series of informal conversations over many meals as well as more formal discussions in meetings and conferences. The passionate contributions of many people and institutions coalesced to cultivate the networks, connections, and intellectual curiosity required to establish the ILA.

The Association’s international roots can be traced back to 1995 and the Salzburg Seminar on Global Leadership, Concepts and Challenges held in Austria, co-chaired by Georgia Sorenson and James MacGregor Burns, and attended by scholars and leaders from fifty countries.[2]

Throughout the mid 1990s, participants of the Kellogg Leadership Studies Project (KLSP) often discussed the need for an umbrella organization to support the field of leadership studies. Supported by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation with Larraine Matusak’s leadership and based at the Academy of Leadership, the KLSP convened a premier group of 50 leadership scholars and practitioners to create and publish cross disciplinary leadership research.

At the conclusion of the KLSP project a conference was organized called the Leaders/Scholars Association, a meeting of the minds between those who study leadership and those who practice it. Coordinated by Barbara Kellerman and hosted at The University of Southern California by Cynthia Cherrey, the conference was deemed a success. It was decided to continue to meet as an Association of scholars, educators, leadership development professionals, and practitioners who share an interest in leadership and that the Association was to be diverse in thought, discipline, culture, sector, and geography. After many more conversations, the name “International Leadership Association” was chosen.

Around the same time, a group of leadership educators began to rotate conferences between the Jepson School of Leadership Studies and the Academy of Leadership; when the idea of the ILA became a reality, it was decided to join efforts at the first ILA conference in 1999.

Since then, the ILA has become the largest international and inter-disciplinary membership organization devoted solely to the study and development of leadership. Based for its first ten years at the University of Maryland’s James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, the ILA is one of the few organizations to actively embrace academics, practitioners, consultants, private industry, public leaders, not-for-profit organizations, and students.

Conference

The International Leadership Association's Global Conference, held each year in the fall, is the premier annual gathering of leadership scholars, educators, and practitioners in the world. Demonstrating the ILA's emphasis on inclusion, the Global Conference is hosted in North America in even-numbered years and outside North America in odd-numbered years.

The ILA's 12th annual Global Conference, themed Leadership 2.0: Time for Action, will be held October 27–30 in Boston, MA.[3] It has been recognized by the Washington Post as one of "seven must-consider" leadership events of 2010.[4]

Past conferences included:[5]

  1. 2012 - Denver, CO, USA
  2. 2011 - London, United Kingdom
  3. 2010 - Boston, MA, USA
  4. 2009 - Prague, Czech Republic
  5. 2008 - Los Angeles, CA, USA
  6. 2007 - Vancouver, BC, CANADA
  7. 2006 - Chicago, IL, USA
  8. 2005 - Amsterdam, the Netherlands
  9. 2004 - Washington, DC, USA
  10. 2003 - Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
  11. 2002 - Seattle, Washington, USA
  12. 2001 - Miami, Florida, USA
  13. 2000 - Toronto, Ontario Canada
  14. 1999 - Atlanta, Georgia USA
  15. 1998 - Los Angeles, California, USA

Awards

The International Leadership Association offers awards which recognize accomplished leaders or celebrate major contributors to the field of leadership studies. These include:

Distinguished Leadership Award

The International Leadership Association bestows this award annually at the ILA Global Conference on Leadership in recognition of an individual or group's leadership in their given field.[6] Past recipients include:[7]

  1. 2007 - James MacGregor Burns
  2. 2007 - Warren Bennis
  3. 2007 - New York City Fire Department
  4. 2009 - Václav Havel

Lifetime Achievement Award

The International Leadership Association inducts individuals into the Leadership Legacy Program by presenting them with Lifetime Achievement Awards. Honorees are selected because of their significant and diverse contributions to the field of leadership.[6] Past honorees include:[8]

  1. Bernard Bass
  2. Warren Bennis
  3. James MacGregor Burns
  4. Frances Hesselbein
  5. Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
  6. Joseph C. Rost
  7. Edwin P. Hollander
  8. Fred Fiedler
  9. Jean Lipman-Blumen
  10. Russell Mawby

References

  1. ↑ "About the ILA, "http://www.ila-net.org/about/index.htm", Accessed June 10, 2010
  2. ↑ "A Brief History of ILA," 2008, "http://www.ila-net.org/about/history.htm", Accessed June 10, 2010
  3. ↑ "ILA annual Global Conference, "http://www.ila-net.org/Conferences", Accessed June 10, 2010
  4. ↑ "Seven must-consider Leadership Events" 2010, "http://views.washingtonpost.com/leadership/leadership_playlist/2010/05/seven-leadership-events-2010.html#more", Accessed June 10, 2010
  5. ↑ "Past ILA Conferences," 2010, "http://www.ila-net.org/Conferences/Past/index.htm", Accessed June 10, 2010
  6. 1 2 http://www.ila-net.org/Awards/index.htm
  7. ↑ http://www.ila-net.org/Awards/DLA/index.htm
  8. ↑ http://www.ila-net.org/Awards/LLA/index.htm

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