Dimensions of Leadership and Institutional Success: Exploring Connections and Partnerships
This edited series explores leadership preparation and development across diverse contexts, including K–12 schools, higher education, business, health professions, and other professional disciplines. The overarching aim is to deepen scholarly understanding and highlight practical strategies for fostering leadership that advances institutional success. Drawing from multiple academic and professional lenses, the series addresses how leaders are prepared, how they cultivate others, and how leadership shapes the vitality and growth of organizations.
Key objectives for the series include:
Showcasing approaches to leadership development.
Examining collaborations, partnerships, and relationship-building as critical tools for enhancing leadership capacity and resilience.
Providing cross-disciplinary perspectives to inform leadership education and practice.
The scope encompasses scholarly analyses and offers readers insight into leaders’ influence by giving readers insight into leadership’s influence on institutional vitality, innovation and stakeholder success. Sub-themes include innovative leadership models, positive psychology perspectives of leadership, partnership models and applications, leadership from multiple professions such as pharmacy, engineering, business, and industry. The series includes international perspectives.
The series targets academics, practitioners, and program designers who prepare or develop leaders, as well as those interested in understanding leadership’s role in organizational sustainability. By bridging theory and practice, it seeks to fill gaps in the literature on how leadership preparation impacts institutional outcomes, and divergent perspectives of leaders.
Ultimately, the series aims to inspire action by demonstrating how intentional leadership development not only shapes individuals but also strengthens institutions and advances their missions within an increasingly complex world.
