Leadership Formation: Interpreting Experience

Abstract

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSWe are grateful to our friend and colleague Christian Grahle, who contributed to the early development of our ideas. The authors would also like to acknowledge the constructive comments of the anonymous reviewers and the editor, William Foster. We would also like to dedicate this essay to the memory of Alex Danchev (August 26, 1955 -August 7, 2016, a brilliant interdisciplinary and interpretive scholar of art, history and politics, whose recent passing is a tragedy for many disciplines and intellectual discourse in general. LEADERSHIP FORMATION: INTERPRETING EXPERIENCE ABSTRACTIn this essay we look at leadership development differently, through the lens of philosophical hermeneutics. We show how three aspects of philosophical hermeneutics -focused on accumulating experience of interpretation, engaging in dialogue and interpreting experienceconnect with insights from the leadership development literature and lead to principles for a process of leadership formation. The process we describe explains how formation: extends historically through connection with traditions; involves processes of careful, situated dialogic engagement; and encompasses aesthetic engagement with experience in each event of interpretation. Building on these insights, we derive practical implications for educational policy and practice and develop theoretical implications for leadership development debates.

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