Transformative Leadership Conversation: Toward a Conceptualization and Theory of Action for Educational Leaders
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Curt M. Adams; Olajumoke Adigun; Ashlyn M. Fiegener; Jentre J. Olsen
- Source
- Journal of Transformative Education. :154134462211084
- Subject
- Education
- Language
- ISSN
- 1552-7840
1541-3446
In this conceptual paper, we advance Transformative Leadership Conversation as a form of dialogue that relies on shared meaning-making to activate the motivational energy within people to transform social structures that impede aspirational realities. Transformative Leadership Conversation leverages the most commonly available resource for leaders—conversation—to approach transformation as a process that begins within individuals and moves outward to the relational context where actions and interactions define social structures. There are two interdependent parts to the paper: a conceptual definition and a theory of action. The conceptual definition describes TLC and situates its components in the social and psychological processes that drive transformation. The theory of action advances a simple framework for how leaders might engage TLC across different contexts and situations.