Leadership Education at a Crossroads: Adapting the ILA General Principles for a Changing World

ILA General Principles for Leadership Programs were originally conceived to advocate approaches to leadership cultivation that would increase visibility, encourage greater cooperation, and be applicable across diverse organizations and cultural contexts. Subsequent to their release as a concept paper, the General Principles have been disseminated and tested in a variety of ways and are now promoted as a model for coherent and comprehensive leadership program design and implementation. While the General Principles achieved some success, this concluding article proposes that economic, social, and political changes must be considered when using the General Principles and that it is essential that leadership educators commit to greater consensus and coherence in their shared work.