How Women Apply Authentic Leadership in Their Collaborative Style to Build Productive Social Enterprises

• In Event: Leadership Scholarship: Gender Matters

Short Description

How do you define collaborative leadership? What does collaborative leadership look like in practice? Our research considered these questions and prompted us to explore the collaborative leadership styles of women social entrepreneurs across countries and cultures. The research objective is to understand the application of collaborative and authentic leadership styles applied by women to ensure that their social enterprises are productive. Join us in unravelling how a mixed methods approach was used to explore these questions. Phase one of the research included the development of a questionnaire to measure social entrepreneurs, collaborative leadership and authentic leadership, its distribution and analysis. Phase two of the study included one-on-one interviews to understand how lived experiences facilitated women to become social entrepreneurs and how did they apply collaborative and authentic leadership. The study’s results and the assessment tool that has been prepared for evaluating will be discussed. The implications enhances the literature on the leadership styles of women social entrepreneurs across the globe and gives social entrepreneurs a practical guide on how to apply collaborative and authentic leadership style to make their enterprises productive. Contribution is the collation of experiences from across the globe that is shared through the study and the assessment tool that has been prepared for evaluating the presence of sustainability leadership and collaborative leadership.

Key Takeaway 1: Participants will benefit from understanding of how collaborative leadership styles benefited women who founded and administer social enterprises and how these findings may be applied to other settings.

Key Takeaway 2: Participants will receive practical knowledge on how social entrepreneurs apply authentic leadership alongwith collaborative leadership for fostering a productivity within their enterprise.

Key Takeaway 3: The presentation will dwell on how mixed methodology was applied to gather deep insights on the practical application and implication of the theories on social entrepreneurs, collaborative leadership and its association with authentic leadership.

Streams and Specialties: Leadership Scholarship - Mixed Method Articles

Participants

• Banya Barua, Esse Management Consultants Pty Ltd Strategy and Operations Founder
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• Cynthia Mako Robinson, Antioch University Midwest Leadership and Change Ph.D. Student
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• Angelica Maria Larios Arias, Alacontec Consulting Consulting Director
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