Utilizing the methodology of bricolage, the author of this chapter weaves the wisdom threads within Chapters 1 through 7 to assist readers with the creation of their own leadership tapestry. Engaging the process of weaving threads into cloth enables readers to make meaning from the material they...

A sense of integrity is expressed when one weaves stories told to self, about self, into meaning-making events that facilitate transformative learning experiences. The expression of said learnings reveals who we are as elders. Significantly, embodied leadership helps one “move through life...

Leader development is adult development. However, the intersection of leadership development and adult development is only an emerging field of scholarly inquiry. It focuses on understanding how these theories converge and affirming the importance of life-span developmental theories to...

Women’s voices and wisdom have been either silenced or suppressed by the Christian faith, which is built on patriarchy. It is only within the last century that women have been given the rights of ordination, and only within certain Protestant denominations. In some churches, women are not even...

Most Americans receive their ideas of different populations through media images. Native American women are invisible in US culture and consciousness; the loss of presence and women’s wisdom has created economic, health, and non-tribal leadership issues for Indigenous women. In this chapter,...

Over the ages, Black women have led the fight for emancipation and equal rights in US society. Yet the narratives of Black women’s leadership and the origins of how they have shared their wisdom rarely gain the attention of White history’s scholars. And perhaps that is one part of the...

Elder Women’s Wisdom: A Reclaimed Paradigm of Leadership concludes with a Call to Action and expectation that current cultural paradigms of aging and wisdom will be disrupted and reimagined by individuals, as well as society, as an outcome of applying the concepts espoused in this volume. The...

Applying the construct of intersectionality to leadership theory provides a pathway to integrate marginalized and privileged identities into one’s leadership practice. The ability to bring one’s complete self to the practice of leadership and acquire a sense of belonging will serve as the...