The Embodiment of Leadership: A Volume in the International Leadership Series, Building Leadership Bridges

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 latter—the body. Those with an interest inhow the body is brought to bear on the exercise ofleadership would do wellto 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

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