The Embodiment of Leadership

?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

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.

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 Mendez 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