The Embodiment of Leadership - (Building Leadership Bridges) by Lois Ruskai Melina & Gloria J Burgess & Lena Lid-Falkman & Antonio Marturano

From the Back Cover

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 experts consider the mind-body problem from the perspective of the latter--the body. Those with an interest in how the body is brought to bear on the exercise of leadership would do well to explore The 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

About the Author

Lois Ruskai Melina is the lead editor and full-time faculty and chair of the Ethical and Creative Leadership concentration in the PhD program in Interdisciplinary Studies at Union Institute & University, Cincinnati, Ohio. Her research uses performance theory and narrative inquiry to explore both leadership and social movements. She holds a PhD in leadership studies from Gonzaga University.

Gloria J. Burgess is professor of leadership at Seattle University and the University of Washington. Her research includes arts and leadership, spirituality and leadership, and intercultural praxis and leadership. Her scholarship includes numerous invited keynotes, journal articles, commissioned poems, and three volumes of poetry. She is the author?of Dare to Wear Your Soul on the Outside (Jossey-Bass, 2008), ?which focuses on legacy-centered leadership.

Lena Lid Falkman is a scholar at Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden. She has a Marie Curie Fellowship from the European Commission to spend 2013 at ESADE, Barcelona, Spain. Lid Falkman's interests are value-based leadership, global leadership, rhetoric, and communication.

Antonio Marturano is adjunct professor of business ethics at the Sacred Heart Catholic University of Rome, Italy. He researches and teaches on applied ethics and philosophical foundations of leadership.?Marturano has published in several international journals (such as Leadership and Philosophy of Management) and in edited collections. He has coedited with Jonathan Gosling the book Leadership: The Key Themes (2008).?Marturano is the editor in chief of the journal Leadership and the Humanities.