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The International Leadership Association (ILA) is the foremost member association for individuals with a professional interest in leadership and leadership studies. Members of this association include scholars, educators, and practitioners from business, community, and government sectors, among others. The ILA was originally established through a grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and is housed at the University of Maryland, College Park. Focused on being the global network for all those who practice, study and teach leadership, the International Leadership Association is committed to "Transforming Leadership Knowledge and Practice World-Wide".〔"About the ILA, "http://www.ila-net.org/about/index.htm", Accessed June 10, 2010〕 Some notable members of the International Leadership Association include Barbara Kellerman, James MacGregor Burns, and Warren Bennis. ==History== It’s difficult to trace all of the threads and conversations that led to the creation and development of the ILA. Like many ideas, it grew from both a series of informal conversations over many meals as well as more formal discussions in meetings and conferences. The passionate contributions of many people and institutions coalesced to cultivate the networks, connections, and intellectual curiosity required to establish the ILA. The Association’s international roots can be traced back to 1995 and the Salzburg Seminar on Global Leadership, Concepts and Challenges held in Austria, co-chaired by Georgia Sorenson and James MacGregor Burns, and attended by scholars and leaders from fifty countries.〔"A Brief History of ILA," 2008, "http://www.ila-net.org/about/history.htm", Accessed June 10, 2010〕 Throughout the mid 1990s, participants of the Kellogg Leadership Studies Project (KLSP) often discussed the need for an umbrella organization to support the field of leadership studies. Supported by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation with Larraine Matusak’s leadership and based at the Academy of Leadership, the KLSP convened a premier group of 50 leadership scholars and practitioners to create and publish cross disciplinary leadership research. At the conclusion of the KLSP project a conference was organized called the Leaders/Scholars Association, a meeting of the minds between those who study leadership and those who practice it. Coordinated by Barbara Kellerman and hosted at The University of Southern California by Cynthia Cherrey, the conference was deemed a success. It was decided to continue to meet as an Association of scholars, educators, leadership development professionals, and practitioners who share an interest in leadership and that the Association was to be diverse in thought, discipline, culture, sector, and geography. After many more conversations, the name “International Leadership Association” was chosen. Around the same time, a group of leadership educators began to rotate conferences between the Jepson School of Leadership Studies and the Academy of Leadership; when the idea of the ILA became a reality, it was decided to join efforts at the first ILA conference in 1999. Since then, the ILA has become the largest international and inter-disciplinary membership organization devoted solely to the study and development of leadership. Based for its first ten years at the University of Maryland’s James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, the ILA is one of the few organizations to actively embrace academics, practitioners, consultants, private industry, public leaders, not-for-profit organizations, and students. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「International Leadership Association」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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