Toward an Intersectional Leadership Identity Development Approach

This paper introduces an intersectional leadership identity development framework to support both the leadership development of aspiring school leaders and the study of educational leadership. By combining aspects and insights from critical sensemaking, role identity, and intersectionality, this framework aims to expand the understanding of the flexible sensemaking of aspiring educational leaders, provide educational leadership preparation programs with necessary insights to better support the increasingly diverse cadre of aspiring leaders, and open new avenues of empirical research and practical application in the study of role identity and its influence on the preparation of successful school leaders.