Advancing Relational Leadership Research and Practice

Presented by NYU Wagner Center for Leadership in Action

Description:
The complex webs of relationships and interconnectivity in today’s work environment open up new worlds of possibility for organizational performance and leadership. At the same time, making decisions and taking action are more challenging and outcomes are less predictable.

For organizations to capitalize on these relationships and networks to achieve their missions requires challenging outdated leadership models that focus solely on individual leaders and assume top-down, linear causality, often ignoring context. Advancing theories of leadership that are more relevant to practice requires understanding how people connect and the implications of relational dynamics for leadership research and development. This, in turn, requires a dialogue among scholars and practitioners about the very meaning of relational leadership.

The new book, “Advancing Relational Leadership Research: A Conversation across Perspectives,” edited by Mary Uhl-Bien and Sonia M. Ospina, documents the beginning of such a conversation among renowned leadership scholars. Incorporating a wide range of disciplines and perspectives, the authors address the theoretical, research and practical questions of attempting to develop a relational view of leadership.

You are invited to a lively conversation hosted by NYU Wagner’s Research Center for Leadership in Action with the book’s co-editors about the questions, obstacles and the key next steps to advance work on relational leadership. The ultimate goal is to integrate multiple perspectives in developing actionable knowledge on relational leadership that can help address the challenges in today’s work environment.

Lyle Yorks, Associate Professor of Adult and Continuing Education and AEGIS Program Director, Teachers College, Columbia University will moderate a discussion with co-editors Mary Uhl-Bien, PhD, Howard Hawks Chair in Business Ethics and Leadership Management, University of Nebraska; and Sonia M. Ospina, PhD, Faculty Director, Research Center for Leadership in Action.

A light lunch will be served, and copies of the book will be available for purchase. Questions? Please email us at wagner.leadership@nyu.edu. Thank you.

RSVPs are required. Please RSVP online at: http://wagner.nyu.edu/events

Event Dates: 02/25/13 to 02/25/13

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