2024 Global Followership Conference
April 25-26, 2024
Hosted by the University of Strathclyde
Glasgow, Scotland
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Calling all leaders and innovators!
Are you working for sustainable, resilient, thriving organizations and communities?
Have you seen strong interpersonal skills support breakthrough innovation?
This conference exists to elevate and illuminate followership skills and its many, many benefits to people, their careers, organizations, and society.
We believe there has been an over-focus on leadership and that hasn’t served us. It isn’t resulting in meaningful engagement, equity, or real power for us all. It isn’t optimizing human potential.
We advocate a shift from leader-centric approaches to partner-centric ones – and a restoration of balance in academia and industry and beyond. This is essential 21st-century knowledge.
Come join us to learn cutting edge research and practical tips, tools and techniques you can use right away.
The future is collaborative. We need everyone to both lead and follow well.
"The design of this conference promises to take another leap forward in our thinking, dialogue, and influence in the world, which is in desperate need of healthier and more conscious ways of leading and following."
- IRA CHALEFF, Author, The Courageous Follower: Standing Up To and For Our Leaders
"...a wonderful experience—perhaps the best organized and most efficient conference that I have ever attended... What stands out, however, was the deep, focused learning on followership, and the good fellowship among the attendees."
- RON RIGGIO, Henry R. Kravis Professor of Leadership and Organizational Psychology, Claremont McKenna College
Special thanks to our media partners
Ideas for Leaders summarizes the thinking of the foremost researchers and experts on leadership and management practice from the world's top business schools and management research institutions.
Developing Leaders Quarterly connects thought and practice leaders on the issues that are critical for the future of leadership and organization.
Special Issue on Followership
We are pleased to share details of a NEW special issue within the Journal of Management Development, aligned with the 3rd Global Followership Conference (2024), reflecting the topicality of followership with academics, students and practitioners.
This issue will provide conceptual and empirical insights into the ways in which followership behaviours have impact, across a wide range of organisational contexts. It will encourage readers to consider the implications of followership development at individual, group and organisation levels, whilst also providing resources to embed this in practice. Through this, the issue will encourage readers to challenge their own and others thinking and to place emphasis on the importance of context for followership.
Voices of the community
Many of this year's presenters have been recent guests on the Lead & Follow podcast, hosted by Sharna Fabiano. Learn about the latest followership research and thinking and get inspired as you pack your bags for this year's Global Followership Conference!
Available anywhere you listen to podcasts.