Forging Queer Leaders
How the LGBTQIA+ Community Creates Impact from Adversity
Published on 21. May 2024
272 pages
978-1-83997-840-1 (ISBN)
Description
'Helps us all step into our power as queer leaders' - Ben Pechey
LGBTQ+ individuals disproportionately encounter bias, adversity, stigma, and marginalization throughout their lives. It's an enormous obstacle - but also prepares them for leadership in a fast-moving, volatile, uncertain, complex, and adaptive working world.
The book explores the unique and inspiring developmental experiences of LGBTQ+ leaders, the amazing capabilities they bring to teams, and what that means for everyone pursuing positive and inclusive organizational strategy. With stories from the armed forces, lawyers, entrepreneurs, authors, academics, thought-leaders, medical professionals -you name it - this shows how queer folk everywhere are harnessing their hard-won power and resilience to excel.
With a history of excellence in queer leadership, the contextual underpinning of adversity and resilience theory, and uplifting stories and soundbites from queer game-changers in every field - this is an essential resource for LGBTQ+ individuals, allies, advocates, business professionals and leaders of all kinds.
LGBTQ+ individuals disproportionately encounter bias, adversity, stigma, and marginalization throughout their lives. It's an enormous obstacle - but also prepares them for leadership in a fast-moving, volatile, uncertain, complex, and adaptive working world.
The book explores the unique and inspiring developmental experiences of LGBTQ+ leaders, the amazing capabilities they bring to teams, and what that means for everyone pursuing positive and inclusive organizational strategy. With stories from the armed forces, lawyers, entrepreneurs, authors, academics, thought-leaders, medical professionals -you name it - this shows how queer folk everywhere are harnessing their hard-won power and resilience to excel.
With a history of excellence in queer leadership, the contextual underpinning of adversity and resilience theory, and uplifting stories and soundbites from queer game-changers in every field - this is an essential resource for LGBTQ+ individuals, allies, advocates, business professionals and leaders of all kinds.
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Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
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n/a
File size
0,71 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-83997-840-1 (9781839978401)
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Forging Queer Leaders
How the LGBTQIA+ Community Creates Impact from Adversity
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Liz Cavallaro is an adult development scholar and professional executive coach, who specialises in helping leaders thrive through the development of enhanced cognitive capacity. Through her work she's observed the powerful impacts of adversity on the development of leaders with unique personal and professional journeys. Forging Queer Leaders has provided her the opportunity to combine her professional expertise in leader development with her personal dedication to advocacy and support of the LGBTQ+ community.
Liz's research has been presented to the International Leadership Association and published in the Oxford Handbook of Meaningful Work and The Journal of Adult Development. Liz is based in Newport, Rhode Island.
Colonel Bree Fram is an active duty astronautical engineer in the US Space Force, and currently one of the highest ranking out transgender officers in the United States military. She co-led the Department of the Air Force LGBTQ+ Initiatives Team and is a former president of SPARTA, an organization dedicated to the support and professional development of transgender service members.
Bree's writing has been featured in the Washington Post, Military Times, Inkstick, and LGBTQ Nation. She's a keynote speaker on leadership, diversity and inclusion, and LGBTQ+ topics, and along with Liz Cavallaro, co-hosts the Forged in Fire: LGBTQ+ Leadership podcast. Bree is the co-editor of the book With Honor and Integrity: Transgender Troops in Their Own Words, which came out in 2021. Bree is based in Reston, Virginia.
Liz's research has been presented to the International Leadership Association and published in the Oxford Handbook of Meaningful Work and The Journal of Adult Development. Liz is based in Newport, Rhode Island.
Colonel Bree Fram is an active duty astronautical engineer in the US Space Force, and currently one of the highest ranking out transgender officers in the United States military. She co-led the Department of the Air Force LGBTQ+ Initiatives Team and is a former president of SPARTA, an organization dedicated to the support and professional development of transgender service members.
Bree's writing has been featured in the Washington Post, Military Times, Inkstick, and LGBTQ Nation. She's a keynote speaker on leadership, diversity and inclusion, and LGBTQ+ topics, and along with Liz Cavallaro, co-hosts the Forged in Fire: LGBTQ+ Leadership podcast. Bree is the co-editor of the book With Honor and Integrity: Transgender Troops in Their Own Words, which came out in 2021. Bree is based in Reston, Virginia.
Content
- Intro
- Forging Queer Leaders
- Cover
- Of related interest
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Part I: The LGBTQ+ Leader
- 1. Introduction
- Why We Wrote This Book
- The Power of Story
- Why Deliberately Explore LGBTQ+ Leadership
- 2. We've Always Been Here
- LGBTQ+ Leadership Visibility
- Norms of the Classical Era
- Driven into the Shadows
- Moving Forward
- 3. LGBTQ+ Leadership Development
- Crucibles of Development
- How and Why LGBTQ+ Leadership Superpowers Develop
- Cognitive Processes
- 4. LGBTQ+ Crucibles
- How Individual Experiences Shape Development
- How Community Experiences Shape Development
- 5. Leadership Theory and Queer Application
- Transformational Leadership
- Authentic Leadership
- Part II: Developing Leadership Superpowers
- 6. A Sense of Self
- Searching the Soul-The First Step Is the Hardest
- The Importance of Honesty and Trust
- Is Being Openly LGBTQ+ a Vulnerability?
- The Downside of Inauthenticity
- The Confidence of Authentic Leadership
- 7. Shaped by the Environment
- Scanning the Environment
- Risk and Opportunity Management
- Perspective-Taking
- 8. Always Growing
- Growth Mindsets
- Motivation
- Resilience
- 9. All about Others
- From Self to Other
- 10. Everybody Transitions
- Facing the Fear
- Fortifying the Self
- Part III: Superpowers at Work: Practical Guidance for Leaders
- 11. Leveraging Diversity
- The Diversity Iceberg and Intersectionality
- Creating Cultures of Inclusion
- How LGBTQ+ Leaders Leverage Diversity
- 12. Opening Doors and Supporting Growth
- Prepare to Work
- Self-Awareness
- Acknowledging Bias
- Acknowledging Identity
- Communicating
- Mentoring and Empowering
- Examining Structures
- 13. LGBTQ+ Leadership in Practice
- Playing Pitfall
- Tempered for Toughness
- The Heroes We Need
- 14. Champions of the Long Game
- Maintaining Energy
- Building Community
- Everyone Has a Role
- Elevating Voices
- Broadening Our Understanding
- This Isn't the End
- Epilogue: Be the Goat
- Further Reading
- Endnotes
