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

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

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.

“From examining the way in which Michelle Obama takes up her role as First Lady to what we can learn about leading through attending to dance, this volume offers a much needed and exciting perspective on leadership as an embodied practice. Its challenge to traditional ideas about what it takes to be a leader literally made my spine tingle!”—Donna Ladkin, professor of leadership and ethics, Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield University, UK