Navigating Leadership Evidence-Based Strategies for Leadership Development

1. Navigating Leadership: From Science to Practice
Susanne Braun, Tiffany Keller Hansbrough, Gregory A. Ruark, Rosalie J. Hall, Robert G. Lord, and Olga Epitropaki

2. Lead Today, Follow Tomorrow? How to Manage the Ebb and Flow of Leader and Follower Identities
Karolina W. Nieberle, Bryan P. Acton, Yue (Angelique) Fu, Robert G. Lord and Susanne Braun

3. Becoming a Leader? Reflect on Your Goals
Markku Jokisaari and Elisa Adriasola

4. Behind the Mask: How to Tackle Challenges of Leadership Impostorism
Timothy Holmes, Nora Berghoff and Ronit Kark

5. Unlocking Your Leadership Adaptability Through Career Diversification
Lanyue Fan, Yanjun Guan, Robert G. Lord and Rosalie J. Hall

6. Feeling Torn as a Leader? Reconcile Your Identities to Make Your Work More Meaningful
Paola Gatti, Yuyan Zheng and Olga Epitropaki

7. Memory, Language and Feedback: Keys to Successful Leadership Development
Tiffany Keller Hansbrough, Fabrice Delice and Roseanne J. Foti

8. The Effects of What You Remember and What You Know on Leadership Processes: How Memory Works, How We Access What We Know, and the Role of Identity Levels
Robert G. Lord, Rosalie J. Hall, Paola Gatti, Xiaotong (Janey) Zheng and Richard H. Morgan

9. Solving the Leadership Shortage: Helping Your Employees Thrive Bolsters Leadership Success
Stefanie K. Johnson, Susan Elaine Murphy, Ryan Brown and Kirsten Westmoreland

10. From the Battlefield to Boardroom: How to Measure Leader Performance
Meghan I. Huntoon and Alexander P. Wind

11. From My Cold, Dead Hands: The Challenge of Leaving Leadership
Laura Guillén, Sarah Wittman, Jacob Johnson and Alexandra Scott

12. Conclusion
Susanne Braun, Tiffany Keller Hansbrough, Gregory A. Ruark, Rosalie J. Hall, Robert G. Lord, and Olga Epitropaki

Biography

Susanne Braun is Professor in Leadership and Associate Dean (Postgraduate Research Students) at Durham University Business School, Durham University, United Kingdom.

Tiffany Keller Hansbrough is Associate Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior and Co-Director of the Bass Center for Leadership Studies, School of Management, Binghamton University, United States.

Gregory A. Ruark is Program Manager for Social Sciences at the Army Research Office, DEVCOM ARL, United States.

Robert G. Lord is Professor (Emeritus) in Leadership at Durham University Business School, Durham University, United Kingdom. He was a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Akron, United States, for 38 years.

Rosalie J. Hall is Professor (Emeritus) of Management at Durham University Business School, Durham University, United Kingdom.

Olga Epitropaki is Professor in Management, Deputy Executive Dean (Research), at Durham University Business School, Durham University, United Kingdom.

"Am I leader? To whom am I a leader? Should I even want to be a leader? Should others want me to be a leader? What self-aspects best exemplify my leadership? This book encourages its readers to start pulling the threads that unravel their implicit leader identity while simultaneously reweaving the tapestry towards a more explicit leader identity. Don’t expect to simply sit back with a good cup of tea ready to be info-trained, this book challenges you to question and revise your preconceptions - so put on your workout headband instead and get ready to flex your leadership muscles."

Hannes Leroy, Professor in Leadership Development and Academic Director of the Erasmus Center for Leadership, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

"This edited volume is a unique collaboration between scholars from many parts of the world, and across the spectrum from seasoned, recognized leadership experts to newer scholars with fresh perspectives. It dispels the myth that leadership is not a science, sharing evidence-based but also clearly practical findings that will benefit the leaders of today and tomorrow."

Jenny M. Hoobler, Professor, NOVA School of Business and Economics, Portugal, and Associate Editor, Journal of Applied Psychology.

"Navigating Leadership represents the fruits of a multiyear international collaboration among a group of renown leadership scholars. The chapters translate what is known from the science of leadership into tangible recommendations and practical tools to help enhance and accelerate a leader’s development. Leadership matters and the chapter authors explain in accessible and evidence-based ways why it matters and how to use their insights to help oneself or others become a more effective leader."

David V. Day, Professor, Claremont McKenna College, USA. 

"This guide to developing one's identity, skills, and purpose as a leader brings together world-class scholarship, evidence-based teaching, and reality-driven examples. Navigating Leadership is a useful guide for those who teach leadership and those continuing to learn it."

Dolly Chugh, Professor, NYU Stern School of Business, USA, and Author of The Person You Mean To Be and A More Just Future. 

"Navigating Leadership provides a refreshing take on how contemporary leaders can develop in their role while acknowledging doubts and hurdles. The book includes many exercises for leaders, taking them from the reflexive stance they may take in their early career to the difficulties of exiting leadership roles. In this, identity-related challenges are addressed carefully, including through original interests into ‘impostorism’, alternating between follower and leader identity, and possible conflicts between role and professional identity. The shared sense of purpose and practice orientation in the group of editors and authors can be felt throughout."

Florence Villesèche, Associate Professor, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.