Jun 30, 2020   SOURCE: PR NewsWire

Global Leaders From Business, Nonprofits, and Education Join the International Leadership Association Board of Directors

SILVER SPRING, Md., June 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The world has a deep and pressing need for leadership. It is what inspires and enables humanity to face the challenges in a complex, diverse, and ever-changing world.

The International Leadership Association (ILA) was created in 1999 to bring together professionals with a keen interest in the study, practice, and teaching of leadership. Today, ILA is the largest worldwide community committed to leadership scholarship, development, and practice. We accomplish our mission through the synergy that occurs by bringing together our members and partners; collectively having a multiplier impact on leadership and change.

ILA's Board of Directors embody our values (Inclusion, Integrity, Interconnection, Interdisciplinary, International, and Impact) and includes leaders from around the world in business, nonprofits, academia, healthcare, and more. We are pleased to welcome the following individuals who will be joining ILA's board beginning July 1, 2020.

    --  Tasha Coppett is the Assistant Director of Off-Campus and Graduate
        Housing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She came to MIT from
        Brown University, where she directly supervised 44 residential peer
        leaders, including Minority Peer Leaders and Women Peer Leaders. Coppett
        has worked in higher education institutions in the United Kingdom and
        the United States, and she has created and facilitated leadership
        programs for youth leaders in the U.S., U.K., Haiti, and India.
    --  Mikinari Higano is an economist who, as a professor at Rikkyo
        University, established the very first leadership development program
        for undergraduate students in Japan. Higano moved to Waseda University
        in 2016 and set up his third leadership program from scratch. A
        consultant to other universities on the introduction of leadership
        education curricula, Higano envisions a future where all universities
        and high schools in Japan offer a leadership program to their students.
    --  Kathryn E. Johnson served as the CEO of Health Forum for twenty-five
        years and retired in 2002. She is the Co-Founder of the Center for
        Global Service and an active consultant on global health issues. A
        former W.K. Kellogg Foundation Fellow, Johnson has served on numerous
        boards and advisory boards including Food Commons, OmniMed, We Care
        Solar, MedShare, and UN Women of Northern California. She is a Global
        Advisor for HOW WOMEN LEAD.
    --  Raj Narang is AVP, Director of Inclusion and Diversity Strategies for
        Fifth Third Bank headquartered in Cincinnati, OH and has led several
        high impact initiatives for the Bank in Inclusion and Diversity and in
        environmental and social responsibility. Narang is concurrently
        finishing her doctorate in Leadership Studies. She has over three
        decades of work experience in two continents spanning several different
        industries. She works with several non-profits on economic inclusion of
        minorities in the region.
    --  Gillian Secrett leads the Leadership Programmes Portfolio at the
        University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. She
        supports global corporations to integrate sustainability into the way
        organizational leaders are developed and works to build leadership
        capability to innovate and drive value for shareholders and stakeholders
        that meets society's needs and is influential in shaping the future we
        want. Working at the individual, team, and organizational level, Secrett
        believes in collaboration and partnership to maximize impact.

Mike Hardy, ILA's Board Chair, shared: "I am both delighted and excited, in equal measures, that this year's Board recruitment has surpassed all aspirations: new ideas and energies from three continents, from education, business, and the health sector, all with exceptional tracks in practical and effective leadership. It will be a privilege and honor to serve with them."

For more than twenty years the ILA has convened extraordinary talent across sectors, cultures, disciplines, and generations. Learn more at www.ila-net.org and join us November 2020 for our live online virtual conference, Leading at the Edge!

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