A Leader's Journey in Diverse Cultural Contexts:

This autoethnographic dissertation explores the evolving tapestry of leader identity development through the lenses of intersecting social identities and constructive development and faith development, leader identity, practical wisdom, and adaptive agility theoretical frameworks. The study traces the author9s personal and professional journey across different geographical, cultural, and organizational contexts. Using narrative inquiry, vignettes, and metaphors, the research illuminates how pivotal life experiences served as catalysts for enhancing mental complexity and practical wisdom. The insights from the analytic style of autoethnography are distilled into a developmental framework, The 3A model of adaptive agility comprised of awareness, alignment, and activation to develop the capacity to navigate complexity with adaptive agility, anchored on universal virtues that foster personal and collective flourishing. The study affirms the value of leadership autoethnographies as a transformative process for giving voice and legitimacy to lived experiences from marginalized populations. The study contributes to leadership development studies on leader identity development from a multidimensional perspective including cognitive, affective, spiritual, cultural ways of knowing, to reflect the diversity of backgrounds and experiences that can be further optimized to maximize potential.