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+1.301.405.5218
ila@ila-net.org
3119-F Susquehanna Hall
Univ. of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
United States
About Our Home
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The passionate contributions of many
people and institutions coalesced to cultivate the
networks, connections, and intellectual curiosity
required to establish the International Leadership
Association in 1999. Like many ideas, it grew from
both a series of informal conversations over many meals
as well as more formal discussions in meetings and
conferences. While it may be impossible to trace all
of the conversations that led to the establishment of
the ILA, several events that were foundational to its
creation are described below.
The Association’s international roots can
be traced back to 1995 and the Salzburg Seminar on Global
Leadership, Concepts and Challenges held in Austria, co-chaired
by Georgia Sorenson and James MacGregor Burns, and attended
by scholars and leaders from fifty countries.
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Larraine Matusak
and Roger Sublett of W.K. Kellogg at the
ILA 2000 conference in Toronto, Canada
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Throughout the mid 1990’s, participants
of the Kellogg Leadership Studies Project (KLSP) often discussed
the need for an umbrella organization to support the field
of leadership studies. Supported by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation
with Larraine Matusak’s leadership and based at the Academy
of Leadership, the KLSP convened a premier group of 50 leadership
scholars and practitioners to create and publish cross disciplinary
leadership research.
At the conclusion of the KLSP project a
conference was organized called the Leaders/Scholars Association,
a meeting of the minds between those who study leadership
and those who practice it. Coordinated by Barbara Kellerman
and hosted at USC by Cynthia Cherrey the conference was
deemed a success. It was decided to continue to meet as
an Association of scholars, educators, leadership development
professionals, and practitioners who share an interest in
leadership and that the Association was to be diverse in
thought, discipline, culture, sector, and geography. After
many more conversations, the name “International Leadership
Association” was chosen.
Around the same time, a group of leadership
educators began to rotate conferences between the Jepson
School of Leadership Studies and the Academy of Leadership;
when the idea of the ILA became a reality, it was decided
to join efforts at the first ILA conference in 1999.
Since then, the ILA has become the largest
international and inter-disciplinary membership organization
devoted solely to the study and development of leadership.
Based for its first ten years at the University of Maryland’s James MacGregor Burns
Academy of Leadership, the ILA is one of the few organizations
to actively embrace academics, practitioners, consultants,
private industry, public leaders, not-for-profit organizations,
and students.
Following are links to the unfolding of
the ILA story starting with our mission and the milestones
for the association's first ten years.
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