23rd International Studying Leadership Conference

Tuesday 2 December 2025, 08.30 to 10.30

Tuesday 2 December 2025, 10.30 to 12.00

• Green Sheds 1 – Leadership Development and Collective Care

  Chair: Katie Elizabeth Green

  • Sonia Bassey,  Marco Distinto, and Fidele Mutwarasibo
    Leadership development as collective care: insights from the Minoritised Ethnic Leadership (MEL) programme
  • Perttu Salovaara & Jori Mäkkeli
    Collective environmental leadership: Investigating intersection of self-managed organizations and environmental action
  • Barbara Wang and Mathew Gitsham
    Integrating Eastern Philosophies into Sustainable Leadership: A Yin–Yang Approach to Ecological and Social Transformation

• Green Sheds 2 – AI, Algorithms and Technology

  Chair: Nick Butler

  • Nick Butler and Emilie Hesselbo
    Engage, Motivate, Automate: Algorithmic Leadership in Practice
  • Johanna Vuori and Janne Kauttonen
    Humans versus Machines: Employee Perceptions of Algorithmic Management in Knowledge Work (if not earlier)
  • Antonio Jiménez-Luque
    Generative AI Powered by Large Language Models for Leadership Development: Between Epistemic Responsibility and the Future of Innovation (if you want a dev + AI crossover)
  • Mohammad Ali Siyadat
    Leadership in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: How AI-Assisted Decision-Making and Communication Shape the Identity of Leadership

• Hall of Champions 1 – Workshops - Feminist and Regenerative

  Chair: Daria Ofman

  • Janet Scotcher
    How can leaders balance profit with purpose while avoiding accusations of greenwashing? (60 minute session)

• Hall of Champions 2 – Conceptual / Alternatives and Cursive

  Chair: Ghada Gaballah

  • Archwin (Byte) Intharasombat
    The Recognition of Tradition as a Mediator in the Doing of Leadership: Insights from Bangkok’s Local Government
  • Hans Erik Næss and Mari Svendsen
    Mattering at the Margins: A Leadership Framework for Social Sustainability
  • Evgeniya Pyatovskaya
    The ration of compassion: Nonprofit sustainable leadership and resilience in times of crisis
  • Logan E. Gibs and Weston, L. Wright
    It’s Like They Know We Can’t Quit (if not earlier)

• Hall of Champions 3 – Workshops

  Chair: Keith Grint

  • Debbie Bayntun-Lees
    Living in the Tensions: Feminist Leadership for Sustainable Futures. (Workshop)

• Tom Kidd – Power, Gender and Diplomacy

  Chair: Asli Sedef Divrik

  • Richard Bolden, Charlotte von Bülow, Charlene Collison
    Bridging the Theory and Practice of Leadership for Systems Change through Quality Dialogue 
  • Kelly Rogers
    The Shadowed Origins of Dark Leadership: Exploring Early Socialisation, Career Journeys, and Organisational Consequences
  • Carina Paine Schofield, Aidan McKearney, Nadine Page, Rea Prouska, Belisa Marochi
    Voices from the pipeline: legitimacy, respect, and mentoring in women’s corporate leadership journeys.
  • Anne Roelsgaard Obling, Søren  Sjøgren
    The happy collaborator: Multi-Domain Operations and executive military leadership as commanding beyond control

Tuesday 2 December 2025, 12.00 to 12.45

Tuesday 2 December 2025, 12.45 to 14.15

• Green Sheds 1 – Leadership Development and Learning

  Chair: Katie Elizabeth Green

  • Richard Perez and Kosheek Sewchuraan
    Becoming Together: Reimagining Leadership Development as a Collective and Temporal Process
  • Ben S. Kuipers, Malcom Higgs, B.N. (Bahar) Heins
    Formal and shared leadership for sustainable change. A survey and field experiment study in changing public organizations

• Green Sheds 2 – Conceptual and Theory

  Chair: Johan Jonsson

  • Rasmus Johnsen and Frank Meier
    Three versions of Socrates: the Limits of Knowing in Management Education (if not earlier)
  • Richard Spithoff, Wilma van der Scheer
    Enacting leadership in interstitial spaces: How a reflective space helps healthcare managers reshape relations in older person care

• Hall of Champions 1 – Workshops – Planetary

  Chair: Brigid Carroll

  • Paula Lernelius
    Catalysing leadership capacity using the Planetary Boundaries

• Hall of Champions 2 – Workshops

  Chair: Steve Kempster

  • Katy Granville-Chapman
    Developing Character-Driven Leadership for Ecological and Social Sustainability (Workshop)

• Hall of Champions 3 – Workshops

  Chair: Craig Marsh

  • Gretchen Alther
    Situated Planetarity—Reimagining Global Leadership through Place-Based and Indigenous Perspectives (Symposium)

• Tom Kidd – Workshops

  Chair: Sarah Robinson

  • Randhir Auluck and William Hunter
    Philosophical Inquiry Method: unzipping the leadership values bag (Workshop)

Tuesday 2 December 2025, 14.15 to 14.30