Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI: A Guide to Creating Your Future as Leader, Follower, and AI Ally (Paperback or Softback)

Traditional leadership models must be updated in a world increasingly influenced by technology. INNOVATIVE LEADERSHIP & FOLLOWERSHIP IN THE AGE OF AI: A Guide to Creating Your Future as Leader, Follower, and AI Ally is an authoritative guide that propels you into the future of leadership and followership, offering a new vision that melds human intention and action with machine intelligence.

As the latest installment in the successful Innovative Leadership series, this book builds upon the foundational Innovative Leadership development principles, taking them into the near future realm where artificial intelligence and human collaboration are, when done well, inseparable. This book is about how to lead, follow, and balance both in a technologically integrated world. This book will give you unique access to a previously unexplored world. Making you future-ready now.

What's Inside:

• Practical Tools: Benefit from actionable tools, frameworks, and reflection questions that you can apply immediately to your leadership journey.
• Technological Synergy: Explore how leaders can work hand-in-hand with intelligent systems to make more informed and ethical decisions.
• The New Followership: Understand how becoming a better follower makes you a better leader. Learn to inspire, manage, and effectively communicate in this new dynamic.
• Ethical Implications: Tackle the complex ethical landscape of leading in an AI-driven world, from data privacy to algorithmic bias.
• Leadership Skillsets for the Future: Discover how leaders can be, relate, and lead to thrive in this brave new world.
• Prepare to redefine your understanding of leadership and followership in the digital age. INNOVATIVE LEADERSHIP & FOLLOWERSHIP IN THE AGE OF AI: A Guide to Creating Your Future as Leader, Follower, and AI Ally gives you the tools and insights you need to shape tomorrow, transforming the leader-follower relationship in unprecedented ways. This book is not just about surviving the technological revolution; it's about thriving in it.

Maureen Metcalf is a highly respected executive advisor and the visionary founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Innovative Leadership Institute. Committed to creating a better world through exceptional leadership, Maureen guides her clients in elevating the quality of their leadership talent pool.Recognized as a Fellow of the esteemed International Leadership Association, Maureen is also an accomplished author. Her international award-winning book series on Innovative Leadership, including the acclaimed Innovative Leadership for Health Care, received the prestigious International Book Award.Beyond her writing achievements, Maureen extends her influence through her captivating international podcast, Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating our Future, ranked in the top 1% of podcasts globally. As the host, she leads engaging discussions on cutting-edge leadership practices, garnering a wide and appreciative audience.Maureen's expertise is highly sought after in leadership, as evidenced by her regular contributions as a writer and expert contributor to Forbes.com. Her esteemed Forbes Coaches Council membership further solidifies her role as a trusted authority in the field.With a passion for education, Maureen has shared her knowledge to students across various universities as an esteemed educator. She serves as the Vice President of James Madison University's School of Strategic Leadership Studies Advisory Committee and Franklin University's Mason Leadership Center, demonstrating her commitment to advancing the study and practice of strategic leadership, where she earned an honorary Doctorate.

Erin S. Barry is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at the Uniformed Services University (USU). She is a health professions education researcher who develops and delivers curriculum and education assessments and conducts research and scholarshiprelated to leadership, followership, and healthcare teams. She has a secondary appointment as an Assistant Professor in the USU Department of Military and Emergency Medicine as well as the Center for Health Professions Education. She contributes to leadership education, development, assessment, scholarship, and online learning. Additionally, she is a Leadership Coach with certification from the Kansas Leadership Center and the Innovative Leadership Institute.Ms. Barry earned a B.E. (2006) in Biomedical Engineering with a minor in Mathematics from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. She earned an M.S. (2008) in Biomedical Engineering from University of Texas at Arlington with a focus on Tissue Engineering and Drug Delivery. She has worked at USU since 2010, where her research has focused on traumatic brain injury (TBI), posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and leadership. She has co-authored more than 50 papers and chapters, as well as the book . She is a co-founder of the International Leadership Association's Healthcare Leadership Community. In addition, she helps to mentor faculty, staff, and students with regard to research activities. She is currently working on her Ph.D. in Health Professions Education, focusing on leadership and followership within healthcare teams.

Dan Mushalko is Vice President for Media & Research with the Innovative Leadership Institute, where he produces and edits, a top leadership podcast (and ranked in the top 0.5% of podcasts worldwide). He is also a leadership course facilitator for Institute clients and coleadsa leadership course with ILI founder/CEO Maureen Metcalf for James Madison University. He has earned several leadership certifications from ILI. He is also certified as a VUCA Max Warrior coach. Dan's career has been a continual weaving of writing, science, media, and leadership. He was the assistant editor of his university humor magazine, an in-house copywriter for an East Coast ad agency while studying applied physics, a scriptwriter for a national science-based radio adventure series, wrote and hosted an award-winning radio science show, taught creative writing, performed as a supplemental science teacher and presenter for school districts, and has spoken and guest-lectured on writing, science, and science fiction at conventions, seminars, university classes, and national meetings for science associations. He has also held management/leadership positions in organizations of all sizes.His awards for science writing include best feature reporting from New Jersey's Society of Professional Journalists and the prestigious Westinghouse Science Journalism Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.