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Collective Leadership Network… NYU Wagner’s Collective Leadership Network (Co-Lead Net) is an international network … as a force for positive change. Professors Sonia M. Ospina and Erica Gabrielle Foldy convened the network in its … development programs; Develop and disseminate robust ideas about collective leadership that draw scholarly attention to …
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Professor Ospina Presents Innovative Leadership Approach at International Workshop… On June 21, Professor Sonia Ospina presented a co-authored paper at an international leadership workshop held in Barcelona. The workshop brought … her co-authored white paper titled What do we know about the study of goal directed networks? Striving for … Professor Ospina Presents Innovative Leadership Approach at International Workshop …
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Leadership in Action at Wagner… Leadership in Action at Wagner is a virtual space that … groups, and more. Explore our website to learn more about Leadership in Action at Wagner. CONTACT Sonia M. Ospina , Faculty Co-Director and Professor of Public … Leadership in Action at Wagner …
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Scholars Gather to Explore Methodological Challenges of Collective Leadership Research… The Third Annual Collective Leadership Network Research Workshop took place at NYU Wagner … of collective leadership. NYU Wagner Professor Sonia Ospina, along with Professor Foldy, led participants through … represents an important way to develop better ideas about leadership that can be used by practitioners. …
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Scholars Gather to Explore the Methodological Challenges of Collective Leadership Research… The Third Annual Collective Leadership Network Research Workshop took place at NYU Wagner … of collective leadership. NYU Wagner Professor Sonia Ospina, along with Professor Foldy, led participants through … represents an important way to develop better ideas about leadership that can be used by practitioners. …
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Leadership, Diversity and Race… Foldy, E. G. & Ospina, S. 2015. “ Leadership styles, ethnicity and race. ” … and Nationalism. Blackwell. Ospina, S., El Hadidy, W. Leadership, Diversity and Inclusion: Insights from … T. R. 2014. The Color Bind: Talking (and not Talking) about Race at Work. Russell Sage Foundation. Foldy, E. G. …
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Collective Leadership… Learn about the Collective Leadership Network (Co-Lead Net) . Ospina, S. & E.G Foldy. Enacting Collective Leadership in a … While “leadership” often connotes an image of a single heroic … going beyond leader and follower. This idea of collective leadership challenges the traditional notions in which …
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Bridging the Individual and Collective Dimensions of Leadership… Co-Lead Net organizes their second Collective Leadership Research Workshop at NYU Wagner On April 23, NYU Wagner professors Sonia Ospina and Erica Foldy launched the second Collective … NYU community, who had a multi-generational conversation about how individuals develop their own leadership capacity …
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Co-Lead Lab… The first Collective Leadership Laboratory (Co-Lead Lab), a semester-long leadership laboratory, launched in Fall 2017. It offered … in Action at Wagner; Engage in an ongoing learning process about new leadership perspectives and practice the associated … along with a board of NYU/Wagner faculty, alumni, and leadership experts and seven Wagner student advisors, …
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Beyond a leader-centered approach: Practicing leadership capabilities for collaboration… across NYU Wagner deepened their capacity for impactful leadership through the Fall 2017 Collaborative Leadership … not just because of the expertise of Professor Sonia Ospina and the various guest speakers at the workshop, but … of the opportunity to learn from my classmates and think about ways to employ the lessons learned in my area of …
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Supporting Networks and Communities of Practice… learning together as they pursue their individual work. At Leadership in Action at Wagner, we treat communities of practice as sources of leadership knowledge in which groups of peers can acquire skills and change their leadership practices through building social relationships. …
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Thinking Sociologically About Leadership… Ospina, S. … Thinking Sociologically About Leadership …
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Collective Leadership and Context in Public Administration: Bridging Public Leadership Research and Leadership Studies… This article challenges the view that public leadership research should maintain a separate perspective in the study of public leadership. It discusses the benefits of further embedding … competitive advantage to contribute to theorizing about leadership, given the importance of context for …
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Toward inclusive leadership scholarship: Inviting the excluded to theorize collective leadership… Growing interest in collective leadership challenges the heroic models of the leadership canon. In a post-leadership world, collective … critical thinking, if it is to offer insights about the human condition. As new voices shift from the … Sonia Ospina … Toward inclusive leadership scholarship: Inviting the excluded to theorize …
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Curricular Resources… Commission. The Electronic Hallway and Research Center for Leadership in Action . By Jennifer Dodge and Jonathan … H.O.M.E. The Electronic Hallway and Research Center for Leadership in Action . By Melinda Fine. How young women … Dodge, David Gomez, and Jonathan Walters. Building Black Leadership on HIV/AIDS Issues: Unleashing the Power of …
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A critical Review of Race and Ethnicity in the Leadership Literature: Surfacing Context, Power and the Collective Dimensions of Leadership.… Leadership studies focusing on race–ethnicity provide … to illuminate the human condition as it pertains to leadership. Yet insights about the leadership experience of people of color from … Ospina, S. and E. G. Foldy … A critical Review of Race and Ethnicity in the Leadership Literature: Surfacing Context, Power and the …
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Seun Owolabi… Can you tell us about your employer and job responsibilities? I work in … was important work. I wanted to get the skill set and the leadership experience to further contribute to nonprofits. … was crucial. Exposure to amazing professors like Sonia Ospina shifted my perspective. Her course on Leadership and …
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Sensegiving and the Role of Cognitive Shifts In the Work of Leadership… in that work -- is critical to the work of organizational leadership. We propose the cognitive shift, a change in how … Organizations try to spur these shifts in two categories: about their issue and about their primary constituency, the … leaders' behaviors and characteristics to the work of leadership, as opposed to the agents through which it is …
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Co-Producing Knowledge: Practitioners and Scholars Working Together to Understand Leadership.… Service at New York University are partners in a new leadership awards program called Leadership for a Changing World (LCW). The goal of this … with the program's awardees to generate new knowledge about the ways in which communities trying to make social …
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Advancing Relational Leadership Research: A Dialogue Among Perspectives… and followers live in a relational world-a world in which leadership occurs in complex webs of relationships and … changing contexts. Despite this, our theories of leadership are grounded in assumptions of individuality and … for all leadership scholars and practitioners curious about the nature of research on leadership, both those with …
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It's About Time: Catching Method Up to Meaning-The Usefulness of Narrative Inquiry in Public Administration Research… the implications for judging its quality. We use our story about community-based leadership research to develop and illustrate this argument. … Ospina, S. & Dodge, J. … It's About Time: Catching Method Up to Meaning-The Usefulness of …
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The leadership task of prompting cognitive shifts: Shaping perceptions of issues and constituencies to achieve public service goals.… Organizational leaders might want to talk explicitly about the shifts they are trying to create, and whether these … Prompting cognitive shifts is at the heart of public leadership. … Foldy, E.G., Goldman, L. & Ospina, S. … The leadership task of prompting cognitive shifts: Shaping …
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Qualitative Research… by the stories of leaders, but not much has been written about the forces that shape them. This set brings together "what truly matters about leadership" to map an emerging discipline that draws from … psychology. It seeks to answer questions such as what is leadership? What is a great leader? What is a great follower? …
Faculty Profile
Jacob Victory… in the United States. In 2009, he completed a year-long leadership fellowship at the CORO Leadership Center, focusing on New York City’s public school …