Leadership Enrichment and Development

This book shares the LEAD (Leadership Enrichment and Development) method, a framework for supporting and facilitating leadership identity development for women in higher education. Guided by feminist group processes and relational learning, the chapters in this volume illustrate the impacts of self- and peer mentorship on the authors. Part lived experience, part reflection on scholarship on women’s leadership development, this book has implications for those in leadership development settings across professional sectors and career trajectories, offering strategies, implications, and insights for those developing or seeking to learn about peer mentoring programming for women faculty. Women faculty, leadership development coaches, faculty development leaders, directors of centers for teaching excellence, program leaders focused on girls’ and women’s leader development, and students and scholars interested in women’s leadership development in higher education will find this volume of interest. While LEAD’s context is higher education, the volume offers valuable application to other professional settings where women work, lead, and thrive.

Gail Simpson Cahill is a Department Chair and an Associate Professor of Special Education at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA, USA. Dr. Cahill teaches courses in seminar and special education. Dr. Cahill has taught various grades in PreK-12 schools and held several administrative positions in school systems.

Diana C. Direiter is the Dean of Faculty and an Associate Professor of Psychology at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA, USA, and a Licensed Clinical Psychologist. She is a founding member and co-facilitator of Leadership Enrichment And Development (LEAD).

Amy Rutstein-Riley is the Dean of the Graduate School of Leadership and Change and Director of the PhD Program of Leadership and Change at Antioch University, USA. Dr. Rutstein-Riley is the founder of The Girlhood Project and a founding member and co-facilitator of Leadership Enrichment And Development (LEAD).

Stephanie A. Spadorcia is the Vice-Provost of Education and an Associate Professor of Special Education and Literacy at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA, USA. Dr. Spadorcia is a founding member and co-facilitator of Leadership Enrichment And Development (LEAD). Her teaching and research focus on literacy instruction for children with disabilities.