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Wednesday, May 28
 

9:00am PDT

Opening Plenary
Wednesday May 28, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am PDT
McKenna Auditorium
Wednesday May 28, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am PDT
McKenna Auditorium

10:15am PDT

Not All Who Follow Are Lost: Experiencing the Value of Worldviews for Followership
Wednesday May 28, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am PDT
RS 102
This interactive session invites participants to engage and experience how worldviews shape our followership. Building on Implicit Followership Theory and the concept of worldview as a set of assumptions influencing our actions (Koltko-Rivera, 2004; Valk et al., 2011), we'll examine how these beliefs impact how we follow. Acknowledging the both secular and religious manifestations of worldview, participants will be invited to engage in respectful dialogue towards increased understanding of diverse perspectives on followership. This session aims to highlight the value of worldview dialogue for followership learning and development (Valk et al., 2011).
Presenters
avatar for LaceyGrey Hunter
avatar for Lori Throupe
Wednesday May 28, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am PDT
RS 102
  Guided Discussion

10:15am PDT

The Ethical Backbone: The Role of Moral Courage in Ethical Followership
Wednesday May 28, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am PDT
RN 103
This interactive session will dive deeper into the topic of ethical followership and explore follower moral courage when making ethical decisions. Participants will wrestle with thought-provoking questions about ethical behavior, influence, and courage. Using role play and collaboration, we will examine real-life scenarios from an ethical followership perspective. Participants will leave with insights on enacting moral courage in their own practice of ethical followership. This workshop is ideal for those looking to develop stronger ethical decision-making skills within the context of followership and those who want to explore this growing area of ethical followership.
Presenters
TA
Wednesday May 28, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am PDT
RN 103
  Guided Discussion

10:15am PDT

Activating Self-Fulfilling Prophecies for Follower Development
Wednesday May 28, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am PDT
KRV 102
The leadership literature has long emphasized the transformative potential of self-fulfilling prophecies. However, much of this research is leader-centric, overlooking the critical role of followers' self-conceptions. In this presentation, I will share findings from a series of studies exploring how leaders' implicit followership theories (LIFTs) and self-directed interventions can enhance follower outcomes. Specifically, I will discuss two key pathways: (1) how leaders' positive conceptions of followers foster enactive attainment through constructive leadership behaviors, and (2) how a novel, gamified mobile intervention using attribute conditioning empowers followers to enhance their self-schemas and self-efficacy. This research not only deepens our theoretical understanding of followership development but also introduces scalable, evidence-based strategies to improve organizational effectiveness. By highlighting both leader-driven and self-directed processes, I aim to inspire a shift toward greater recognition and cultivation of followership as a fundamental component of organizational success.
Presenters
TS
Wednesday May 28, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am PDT
KRV 102
  Presentation

10:15am PDT

Qualitative Methods in Followership Research: Experience from Current Projects
Wednesday May 28, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am PDT
RN 105
In existing research, followership has been explored predominantly with quantitative methods. While quantitative research is valuable, it cannot provide in-depth exploration and understanding of the phenomenon. Despite a call by Uhl-Bien and colleagues for more balance in methodological and philosophical perspectives as early as 2014, there is still a dearth of qualitative research that provides insights into the basic understanding of followership. In the last years, a growing number of PhD students researching followership have applied qualitative methods. However, more such research is needed to achieve methodological balance. This symposium aims to present examples of current, high-quality qualitative research and provide insights to the methodological choices made and obstacles encountered in the process.
Presenters
avatar for Maike Kugler

Maike Kugler

Professor of Human Resource Management, European University for Innovation and Perspective
RS
LH
Wednesday May 28, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am PDT
RN 105
  Presentation

10:15am PDT

Student Takeaways from an Introductory Followership Certificate
Wednesday May 28, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am PDT
RN 104
The University of Delaware launched the first co-curricular Followership Certificate to help students develop the skills to excel as proactive, effective followers. This session will detail the certificate’s development, successes, and challenges, highlighting missed objectives and opportunities for improvement. Through reflective exercises, discussions, and activities, students shifted their view of followership from passive to active. Lessons and insights will benefit educators, practitioners, and coaches interested in enhancing followership education.
Presenters
avatar for Kelsey Dunne

Kelsey Dunne

Program Coordinator, University of Delaware
Wednesday May 28, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am PDT
RN 104
  Presentation

10:15am PDT

Research Talks - Group 1
Wednesday May 28, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am PDT
RN 15
  1. Exploring Women's Followership Perceptions in the Workplace: A Comparative Pilot Study of Generation Z and Older Generations Between Different Eastern and Western Culture - A. Hocagil, Q. Nabi, & H. Ozyurek
    This qualitative pilot study focuses on understanding and comparing women’s perceptions of followership between different generations and cultural contexts. It aims to provide insights into how generational differences and cultural backgrounds influence women’s understanding, behaviors, and enactment of followership in workplace environments. The study centers on two distinct generational cohorts, Generation Z (ages 20-25) and older generations (26-65) and examines their perspectives within the cultural frameworks of the Western and Eastern contexts. 
  2. Advancing Intergenerational Learning and Proactive Followership Through Multigenerational ERGs - K. Perham-Lippman & A. T. Cenkci
    Workplace generational stereotypes can impact collaboration, communication, and knowledge-sharing. This study explores how multigenerational Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) facilitate intergenerational learning, support knowledge transfer, and foster proactive followership. Using qualitative interviews with ERG members from two global companies in manufacturing and aerospace defense, the research examines how ERGs function as peer-driven spaces where employees take initiative in mentoring, knowledge-sharing, and ERG-driven initiatives. Findings may provide insight into the challenges and benefits of ERG participation, informing organizations on how ERGs contribute to generational diversity, strengthen mentoring programs, and encourage proactive followership in employee-led groups.
  3. Effective Follower Behaviors in a GLOBE(al) Context: A Middle Management Perspective - J. Strong
    Prominent researchers in followership have established the lack of research on followers and their visibility in organizational leadership research, but also missing from research is the point of view of the middle manager. This exploratory study sought to understand the perspective of effective follower behavior from the viewpoint of middle managers of an international organization. Inductive analysis yielded seven emergent themes. In this international organization, middle managers identified that effective followers engage in task and relational behaviors. While elements of these themes can be seen cross-organizationally, the physical location of the follower/leader changes the perception of effective follower behaviors.
Presenters
avatar for Abdurrahim Hocagil
avatar for Karen Perham-Lippman

Karen Perham-Lippman

Sr. Manager Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; Ph.D. Candidate, Otis Worldwide Corporation Eastern University
Karen Perham-Lippman, MS, CDP, CAGS, serves as a Senior Manager of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Otis Worldwide Corporation. An award-winning DE&I leader, community leader, author, and public speaker, Karen has nearly fifteen years’ experience in global DEI, ESG, and CSR strategies... Read More →
avatar for Jennifer Strong

Jennifer Strong

Endowed Professor, Texas A&M University
Wednesday May 28, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am PDT
RN 15
  Research Talks

11:30am PDT

How to publish your followership work
Wednesday May 28, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm PDT
RN 15
This session will focus on getting your followership work published. In addition to discussion of possible publication outlets, we will provide insights on the submission and review processes. The presenters have served as journal and book series editors and have published their work on leadership and followership in numerous outlets, including both scholarly journals and books, and more popular venues. In this interactive session, we will also hear from the audience about their past experiences and help them to chart a way forward. If you need direction on getting your followership work ready and out to the public, please join us.
Presenters
KL
RR
AS
Wednesday May 28, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm PDT
RN 15
  Presentation

11:30am PDT

The Power of Followers: Driving Societal Change through Collective Action and Influence
Wednesday May 28, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm PDT
RN 104
Robert Kelley’s groundbreaking research demonstrated that followers produce 80% of the outcomes in organizations, underscoring their critical, yet often overlooked, role. This presentation expands Kelley’s work into a broader societal context, exploring how followers—not just leaders—serve as the primary drivers of positive societal change. It will examine the contributions of followers to social movements that have advanced justice, equality, democracy, and peacebuilding, emphasizing their collective power in shaping a better world. Drawing on recent research, as well as insights from Ira Chaleff’s How to Break a Tyrant, this session will highlight how courageous, engaged, and proactive followership is vital in addressing systemic challenges and building sustainable change.
Presenters
AB
Wednesday May 28, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm PDT
RN 104
  Presentation

11:30am PDT

Creating Engaging & Effective Followership Teams
Wednesday May 28, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm PDT
RN 102
Creating teams that can dynamically plan and implement organizational programs is a key performance strategy to achieve organizational goals. Using Followership principles, developing teams can thrive in environments that typically slow in progression as complex implementation issues takeover timelines. Team creation processes seek specific attributes of team members to match the right people to right teams for optimal project workflow. Diverse team development has four essential characteristics that team members can flex-in and -out of as the teamwork evolves to implementation. This workshop will provide opportunities to practice creating teams that demonstrate followership acumen through intentional team-creation and teamwork.
Presenters
PM
Wednesday May 28, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm PDT
RN 102
  Workshop

11:30am PDT

Engagement: A leadership-followership systems approach
Wednesday May 28, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm PDT
RN 105
Employee engagement is a hot topic for organizations because it significantly impacts just about every outcome from customer satisfaction to profitability to turnover. However, the way we think about it and try and improve it in organizations is driven by top-down, leadership thinking. Frankly, it doesn't work (well). In this highly interactive session you will learn how to apply a followership-leadership lens to engagement that changes everything. You take away practical ideas that can be implemented immediately and, for researchers, it opens up an entirely new way to research it.
Presenters
avatar for Samantha Kerr Hurwitz

Samantha Kerr Hurwitz

Chief Encouragement Officer, FliP University
Ask me about my origin story - how did I "find" followership and why it mattered (still matters!!!) to me so much. ORAsk me about why we felt it was important to start the Global Followership Conference.ORAsk me about why we believe that EVERYONE should learn BOTH leadership and followership... Read More →
avatar for Marc Hurwitz

Marc Hurwitz

Chief Insight Officer, Flip U
Wednesday May 28, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm PDT
RN 105
  Workshop

11:30am PDT

Organizational Leadership and Followership: Partnering to Achieve Success
Wednesday May 28, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm PDT
RN 103
In this facilitated discussions, participants will explore what leaders and followers need from each other to partner to develop and enact strategy, design and deliver on culture, create and recreate structure and processes, and empower and enact high performance.
Presenters
JM
Wednesday May 28, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm PDT
RN 103
  Workshop

11:30am PDT

Overcoming Organizational Silence: How Leaders and Followers Co-Create Courageous Conversations and Psychological Safety
Wednesday May 28, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm PDT
RS 102
Teams thrive when individuals are engaged in meaningful conversations about both innovative ideas and concerns. Research and experience indicate, though, that people often have strong incentives to keep their heads down and not speak up, resulting in the phenomenon of organizational silence. This interactive session explores the premise that courageous conversations only become possible when we deeply understand the many legitimate incentives people have to remain silent, and the ways that leaders and followers together co-create a culture of psychological safety and empowerment to overcome silence so that teams and organizations can thrive.
Presenters
MB
Wednesday May 28, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm PDT
RS 102
  Workshop

12:30pm PDT

Community Lunch
Wednesday May 28, 2025 12:30pm - 1:45pm PDT
Collins Dining Hall
Wednesday May 28, 2025 12:30pm - 1:45pm PDT
Collins Dining Hall

1:45pm PDT

Followership for High Performance (1 of 2)
Wednesday May 28, 2025 1:45pm - 3:15pm PDT
RN 104
What do you really think about followers? Who are more important to an organization: leaders or followers? Are you a leader or a follower? Key topics explored in this session include follower as role, reimagining leadership as a system, unspoken follower perspectives, and the key characteristics of effective followers. Learn how a focus on followership and follower development may be more important to high levels of organizational performance than leadership development. Recipients of the 2023 Followership Trailblazer award and co-authors of the landmark textbook, The Essentials of Followership, already in its 2nd edition, Mark and Mike have designed this deep dive session especially for those new to followership and for those seeking effective models of presenting it to others.
Presenters
MR
ML
Wednesday May 28, 2025 1:45pm - 3:15pm PDT
RN 104
  Deep Dive

1:45pm PDT

Integrating Followership & Leadership with Polarity Thinking (1 of 2)
Wednesday May 28, 2025 1:45pm - 3:15pm PDT
RN 105
Lindsay is an engaging facilitator and Polarity Thinking™ Master Trainer who brings a depth of knowledge and a global perspective that supports seeing the known in a new way. Liz is a consulting psychologist, graduate of Polarity Thinking™ Mastery Program and Past Chair of the Creative Education Foundation Board. Together, they will unpack the key concepts of Polarity Thinking and change how you think about leadership and followership forever. This approach avoids the narrow view of the world caused by false-choice, either-or thinking, and instead gives individuals, teams, and organizations the mindset and toolset for utilization of multiple viewpoints, including those of both leadership and followership.
Presenters
avatar for Lindsay Burr

Lindsay Burr

CEO, Yarbrough Group
An engaging facilitator and Polarity ThinkingTM Master Trainer, Lindsay brings a depth of knowledge and a global perspective that supports seeing the known in a new way. Lindsay will unpack the key concepts of Polarity Thinking and change how you think about leadership and followership... Read More →
LM
Wednesday May 28, 2025 1:45pm - 3:15pm PDT
RN 105
  Deep Dive

1:45pm PDT

Research Talks - Group 2
Wednesday May 28, 2025 1:45pm - 3:15pm PDT
RN 15
  1. The Power of Voice: Exploring Social Identity and Follower Constructive Voice Behavior - G. Malone & D. Alegbeleye
    This session explores follower constructive voice behavior, the act of speaking up to challenge the status quo and advocate for change, through the lens of social identity. This presentation examines the literature to identify gaps and calls for inclusive leadership practices that incorporate diverse lived experiences into organizational learning. By understanding how social identity influences follower constructive voice behavior, organizations can foster resilient, proactive followership and leverage diverse perspectives to drive meaningful, systemic change.
  2. From What You Need to Who You Are: Psychological Needs and Follower Role Identity - L. Haney
    What do people seek out when they take on the role of leader or follower? Is it a desire to influence or connect with others? To find success or master their environment? This research presentation aims to explore the complex relationship between five psychological needs and role selection within group activities. The data reveals patterns that answer why people choose their roles in the first place, how exercising that choice satisfies or frustrates needs, and how that process ultimately leads to role-identity formation. In addition, we will consider the implications of using individual psychology within followership development contexts.
  3. Developing a Followership Identity: A Grounded Theory - D. Jenkins & M. Gray
    This grounded theory study investigates how individuals develop their followership identity within organizational contexts. Through interviews with 16 undergraduate students identified as exemplary team members, the research reveals a six-stage developmental progression from pre-team awareness to adaptive followership. Analysis identifies three fundamental themes shaping this development: formative influences, evolving team dynamics, and sustained engagement factors. The findings demonstrate how followership identity evolves from hierarchical understanding to sophisticated systemic awareness through recursive development cycles. This research extends existing frameworks by illuminating specific developmental stages while offering practical implications for organizational development programs.
Presenters
avatar for Greg Malone

Greg Malone

Student, University of Southern Maine
avatar for Dami Alegbeleye
avatar for Abby Haney

Abby Haney

Undergraduate Student, Christopher Newport University
Psychology and Leadership Double-Major
avatar for Dan Jenkins

Dan Jenkins

Professor, Leadership & Organizational Studies, University of Southern Maine
MG
Wednesday May 28, 2025 1:45pm - 3:15pm PDT
RN 15
  Research Talks

1:45pm PDT

Gaming the System—Engaging Leader-Follower Dynamics Through Interactive Game-Based Interventions
Wednesday May 28, 2025 1:45pm - 3:15pm PDT
RN 103
This unique dialogic facilitated session consists of a Game Café conducted in the combined styles of World Café and Campfire. The purpose of this session is three-fold. First, we will use a custom-designed game, approached through a 3-round world-café style schema. Second, we will engage in discussions and explore participants’ (students, academics, practitioners, experts, thought leaders) experiences regarding the game they participated in to explore their thoughts and understanding of the dynamics of followership and leadership as real-time responses to conflict. communication, and other group dynamics. We will then relate the game outcomes to the audience’s experiences in their own workplaces. This fun activity will bring both laughs and learning to the audience and help them recognize and aid them in further developing their own leader-follower reaction and interaction approaches in organizations, growing followership learning and methods.
Presenters
AS
Wednesday May 28, 2025 1:45pm - 3:15pm PDT
RN 103
  Workshop

1:45pm PDT

Helping Trios: Followership Lab 2.0
Wednesday May 28, 2025 1:45pm - 3:15pm PDT
RN 102
Helping relationships involves asking for, as well as giving help. A natural reluctance to admit a need for help tends to hinder the two way flow necessary to a good helping relationship. This hands on exercise illustrates this principle essential for followers in any setting.
Presenters
avatar for MaryJo Burchard

MaryJo Burchard

Consultant, Researcher, Concord Solutions, LLC
I focus a lot of my work on helping followers find their most constructive voice in times of crisis or intensive change. I look for ways to set parameters and shared language that make both leaders and followers feel safe and supported when they all need support most. I do a lot of... Read More →
OF
EK
SD
Wednesday May 28, 2025 1:45pm - 3:15pm PDT
RN 102
  Workshop

1:45pm PDT

Looking@Leadership + Looking@Followership
Wednesday May 28, 2025 1:45pm - 3:15pm PDT
RS 102
Using images with an active learning approach, this interactive experiential session will enable you to explore and discover what represents leadership + followership to you, your organization, and how it impacts what you do when leading + following. Everyone’s perception of both leadership + followership influences their thoughts, feelings, and behavior which also impact a variety of unique perspectives, contexts, and situations. This workshop session will bring to life different learning activities that visually and interactively increase the value and perception of both followers and followership as well as leaders and leadership—working together.
Presenters
FK
Wednesday May 28, 2025 1:45pm - 3:15pm PDT
RS 102
  Workshop

3:30pm PDT

Followership for High Performance (2 of 2)
Wednesday May 28, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm PDT
RN 104
What do you really think about followers? Who are more important to an organization: leaders or followers? Are you a leader or a follower? Key topics explored in this session include follower as role, reimagining leadership as a system, unspoken follower perspectives, and the key characteristics of effective followers. Learn how a focus on followership and follower development may be more important to high levels of organizational performance than leadership development. Recipients of the 2023 Followership Trailblazer award and co-authors of the landmark textbook, The Essentials of Followership, already in its 2nd edition, Mark and Mike have designed this deep dive session especially for those new to followership and for those seeking effective models of presenting it to others.
Presenters
MR
ML
Wednesday May 28, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm PDT
RN 104
  Deep Dive

3:30pm PDT

Integrating Followership & Leadership with Polarity Thinking (2 of 2)
Wednesday May 28, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm PDT
RN 105
Lindsay is an engaging facilitator and Polarity Thinking™ Master Trainer who brings a depth of knowledge and a global perspective that supports seeing the known in a new way. Liz is a consulting psychologist, graduate of Polarity Thinking™ Mastery Program and Past Chair of the Creative Education Foundation Board. Together, they will unpack the key concepts of Polarity Thinking and change how you think about leadership and followership forever. This approach avoids the narrow view of the world caused by false-choice, either-or thinking, and instead gives individuals, teams, and organizations the mindset and toolset for utilization of multiple viewpoints, including those of both leadership and followership.
Presenters
avatar for Lindsay Burr

Lindsay Burr

CEO, Yarbrough Group
An engaging facilitator and Polarity ThinkingTM Master Trainer, Lindsay brings a depth of knowledge and a global perspective that supports seeing the known in a new way. Lindsay will unpack the key concepts of Polarity Thinking and change how you think about leadership and followership... Read More →
LM
Wednesday May 28, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm PDT
RN 105
  Deep Dive

3:30pm PDT

How do we bring what we know about followership into the political arena?
Wednesday May 28, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm PDT
RN 103
Many of us recognize that the most dangerous expression of bad leadership and bad followership is in the political realm. Liberal democracies around the world are increasingly losing support as voters gravitate to more authoritarian styles and models of leadership. Our community has learned a tremendous amount about followership. How can we apply this to raising consciousness of the power of followers to create political leadership that uses power beneficially and checks the power of leaders who abuse their power?
Presenters
IC
Wednesday May 28, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm PDT
RN 103
  Guided Discussion

3:30pm PDT

Research Talks - Group 3
Wednesday May 28, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm PDT
RN 15
  1. Correlating Critical Thinking Behaviors to Kelley’s Independent/Critical Thinking Dimension: Becoming the Followership QUEEN - J. Strong
    Followership scholars must seek empirical connections and develop behaviorally anchored followership competencies such as critical thinking. Although critical thinking has been identified as one of the essential skills needed for success, many employers find that skill lacking, emphasizing the importance of developing this behavior. This study examined the relationship between Kelley’s independent/critical thinking dimension and the five behaviorally anchored constructs of the QUEEN Critical Thinking Model. The findings of this study show statistically significant positive correlations between Kelly's dimension of independent/critical thinking and all five constructs of the QUEEN Critical Thinking Model. Thus, moving Kelly's dimensions from descriptive to developmental.
  2. The State of Followership in Leadership Education - D. Alegbeleye & O. Ofumwengbe
    In this study, we analyzed the curricula of 85 leadership education programs in the United States to explore the extent to which leadership educators and trainers incorporate followership into their programs and how it is represented and described in their curricula. Findings revealed a scarcity of followership courses in leadership education curricula. Even when followership is taught, it is often presented as a topic rather than a standalone course. These findings provide valuable insights into the current state of followership in leadership education.
  3. Who’s Adapting to Whom or What?  The Role of Followership in Adaptative Leadership - K. B. Lowe & R. Riggio
    Interest in the construct of adaptive leadership has grown markedly amongst scholars and practitioners. While the offering of adaptive leadership training by practitioners appears to have run far ahead of scholarly theorizing around what adaptive leadership entails and how we should measure its key variables, there is broad agreement about various elements of adaptive leaders(hip). Largely missing from these narratives are the role of followers in the need for, or the enabling of, adaptive leadership. The central question we seek to interrogate in this session is: How should we model followers(hip) in the study of adaptive leadership? (97 words).
  4. How does followership measure up? A new measure of followership behaviour expectations - R. Sims
    Despite growing interest in followership in the management literature there is not yet an agreed, well validated, measure of followership behaviours. This presentation summarises my development and testing of a new measure of expectations held about followership behaviours.
Presenters
avatar for Jennifer Strong

Jennifer Strong

Endowed Professor, Texas A&M University
OO
avatar for Dami Alegbeleye
KL
RR
RS
Wednesday May 28, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm PDT
RN 15
  Research Talks

3:30pm PDT

It Takes Two to Tango: Learning to Lead and Follow
Wednesday May 28, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm PDT
RS 102
This workshop will teach participants about (1) leadership and followership qualities, (2) observing others in leadership and followership roles, and, (3) self-awareness. This is an interactive but user-friendly workshop teaching the elements of leadership and followership through tango dance. Several warm-up activities are included at the onset of the program, with the remainder of the 90- minute session engaging in tango.
Presenters
SD
Wednesday May 28, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm PDT
RS 102
  Workshop

3:30pm PDT

Revolutionizing Municipal Services Through Followership: A Case Study from Kampala Capital City Authority
Wednesday May 28, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm PDT
RN 102
Followership is the backbone of transformation in municipal services. This session uncovers how frontline workers at Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) turned waste management from a crisis into a model of efficiency through proactive followership. Learn how sanitation teams took ownership of city cleanliness, introduced accountability systems, and influenced policy shifts without formal leadership roles. Through case studies, interactive discussions, and practical takeaways, attendees will gain strategies to foster engaged followership in their organizations. Whether in government, business, or community initiatives, this session proves that empowered followers drive sustainable change
Presenters
JS
Wednesday May 28, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm PDT
RN 102
  Workshop

5:00pm PDT

Farmers Market & Poster Gallery
Wednesday May 28, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
McKenna Courtyard
Instead of fresh food, we're in the market for fresh ideas. The Wednesday afternoon Followership Farmers Market is a place to learn about a fantastic new followership book, course, or development tool. The market brings together authors, podcasters, inventors, trainers, creators, debaters and peddlers of other provocative followership goods, as well as a gallery of followership posters sharing the latest research and scholarly explorations in a tasty, snack-size format. It is a place where serendipitous followership community is created and where surprising followership discoveries are made!

POSTERS
  1. Honeycomb Leadership and Mentoring™ Model: A Research-Based Shared Leadership Approach for Effective Followership and Leadership Development - Mary Ann Pearson
    The Honeycomb Leadership and Mentoring™ is a research-based model for 'effective' followership and leadership development. The model acknowledges the fluidity of following and leading within management-employee relationships (Uhl-Bien et al., 2014). Within HLM, effective leadership emerges within a social-relational process that increases human and social capital in every role (Day, 2024). A recent qualitative research project on shared leadership supported concepts embraced by the HLM™ model.
  2. Developing a Followership Identity: A Grounded Theory - Madeleine Gray
    This grounded theory study investigates how individuals develop their followership identity within organizational contexts. Through interviews with 16 undergraduate students identified as exemplary team members, the research reveals a six-stage developmental progression from pre-team awareness to adaptive followership. Analysis identifies three fundamental themes shaping this development: formative influences, evolving team dynamics, and sustained engagement factors. The findings demonstrate how followership identity evolves from hierarchical understanding to sophisticated systemic awareness through recursive development cycles. This research extends existing frameworks by illuminating specific developmental stages while offering practical implications for organizational development programs.
  3. Calling on Kindness: The Unspoken Virtue That Builds Connectedness and Strengthens a Culture of Care - Carrie Tate-Meyer
    A Visual poster represents a culture of kindness that fosters flourishing and empowers followers when leaders show empathy, trust, and communication as the foundation. Within this construct, leaders empower their followers by building relationships, setting expectations, building connections, showing care, showing interest in the individual, and through accountability.
  4. Would You Follow You? Four Followership Factors: A Revised Kelley Followership Questionnaire - Sherrie Lynn
    Leadership is a process, not a title. Everyone is both a follower and a leader, yet few acknowledge the importance of the follower role.
  5. The Followership Paradox: A case study of followers leading the charge - Parker Watson
    Study proposal for case study of North Carolina teacher's strike to examine followership
Presenters
SL
MA
MG
CT
PW
Wednesday May 28, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
McKenna Courtyard

6:00pm PDT

Community Dinner
Wednesday May 28, 2025 6:00pm - 7:30pm PDT
McKenna Courtyard
Wednesday May 28, 2025 6:00pm - 7:30pm PDT
McKenna Courtyard
 
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