Week 4 of my journey through Critical Perspectives in Leadership The biggest takeaway I had from this module was realizing that leadership is not as objective as we often assume it is. Before this course, I tended to think of leadership theories as practical tools…
Reflections from Critical Perspectives in Leadership, Module 3 The question of whether leaders are born or made turned out to be the starting point of Module 3, not the destination. The real work was questioning the assumptions underneath leadership theories themselves. Professor Kevin drove one…
What a name-swap experiment, some magazine covers, and a work experience taught me about the likability trap This is week two of my series documenting what I’m learning in my organizational leadership graduate program, and how it keeps colliding with my actual life as a…
Critical Perspectives in Leadership This course isn’t like most leadership courses. Instead of handing you models and frameworks to apply, it asks you to step back and interrogate where our ideas about leadership even come from: the philosophies, the assumptions, and the power structures underneath…
Week 1 of my leadership master’s degree, and the research finding that called me out personally. Let me open with three questions. Sit with them before you answer. I just finished the first week of my master’s in organizational leadership; this course is called Women…