Deepening leadership identity development

Abstract

After decrying the lack of attention paid to identity, equity, and power in leadership education, this article delineates key concepts such as identity, identity development, and leader/leadership identity development. It explores areas of concordance and distinction across leader and leadership identity development models and suggests increasing convergence across these bodies of scholarship and adding criticality for deeper leadership identity development.This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.

Leadership Role Occupancy and Leader Self-Views Across 20 Years: Implications for Leader Development

“…Schools, sports leagues, scouting organizations, churches, and many other civic organizations emphasize building young people's leadership skills in conjunction with character, values, and self-confidence. Moreover, helping college students see themselves as leaders has also become an essential component of higher education, both in business curricula and co-curricular programming (Clapp-Smith et al, 2019;Owen, 2023;Priest & Middleton, 2016). Leader self-views, or the self-relevant mental structures people use to recognize, evaluate, and act on leadership opportunities, are crucial building blocks for developing leadership skills (Day & Dragoni, 2015).…”