The Leaderful Contribution to Intercultural Collaboration : An Overview

Professor Joe Raelin, the Donald Gordon Visiting Professor of Leadership at the University of Cape Town, provided the keynote address at SIETAR Japan’s 36th Annual Conference, “Leadership and Collaboration in Intercultural Contexts.” In this review article, Prof. Raelin provides an overview of his talk, presented on November 28, 2021. At the outset he prefaced his talk by explaining how a special kind of leadership, known as leaderful practice, could make an important contribution to intercultural collaboration. The article then divided into four sections: an introduction to leaderful practice, an overview of the foundational field from which leaderful practice springs—known as leadership-as-practice, the applied version of each of these two fields to be called leaderful development, and a sub-application of leaderful development particularly appropriate for intercultural collaboration, that being reflective practice