Leadership Essays Book Project

The Center for Collaborative Leadership at UMass Boston received money from an anonymous donor and a grant for $25,000 from State Street Corporation to work on a project to solicit and publish the voices of emerging leaders about their thoughts on leadership and the challenges leaders face. The idea for the book originated from the Center’s senior scholar, Sue Reamer in collaboration with our founding director, Sherry Penney and director, Patricia Neilson. UMass Boston Professors Peter Kiang and Maureen Scully, and Marjorie Arons-Barron from Barron Associates Worldwide have been instrumental in the books development.

Authors are from the Center’s Emerging Leaders Program (ELP) and represent the major business, non-profit and governmental organizations in the Greater Boston region. They are: Sandra Bailly, Ron Bell, David Dance, Lisa DeAngelis, Hugh Drummond, Paul Francisco, Armindo Goncalves, David Halbert, Chi Huang, Andrea Hurwitz, Anne Marie Boursiquot King, Georgianna Melendez, Nate Pusey, Michael Rawan, Pauliina Swartz, Mary Tolikas, Amanda Trojan, Deanna Yameen, Christie Getto Young and one who wishes to remain anonymous.

Sherry Penney and Patricia Neilson are currently working with Palgrave to construct a book based on the submitted essays called “Next Generation Leadership: Insights from Emerging Leaders”. Excerpts from the essays will be used to construct themes on leadership strategies. Information collected from ELP focus groups, surveys, and evaluations will be incorporated as well. Expected publication is summer 2010.

Read Excerpts from Voices of the Future: Emerging Leaders

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