Followership

Dear ILA Followership Community Members,

• Next Watercooler: November 12, 2025 at 12pm EST

• Meeting Link: https://excelsior.zoom.us/j/95811314143?from=addon 

• Meeting ID: 958 1131 4143

• Passcode: 765774

The next ILA Followership Community Watercooler is November 12. Don't miss this meeting with a very special conversation with Jim Maroosis as we discuss the philosophy of followership.

James Maroosis is the author of Management is the liberal arts: A Toolkit for Today's Leaders, Followership: A Partnership in Reciprocal Following, and Leadership is the Practice of the Liberal Arts.  He is a recipient of The Innovations of American Government Award, co-presented by The Ford Foundation and the JFK School of Government at Harvard University.  He taught Leadership seminars at Fordham's Graduate School of Business,  has  PHD in Philosophy from The University of Toronto, and is a former student of Anton Pegis and Marshall McLuhan

 

To better appreciate the scope and direction of his thinking please see his attached essay on followership and a selection from his book on the managerial tradition of the liberal arts

 

Should you desire to review the entire book, please follow this link to request a desk copy:

Desk Copy Request Form: Liberal Arts of Management

 

Additional pre-readings to support this conversation:

A Toolkit for Today's Leaders by Jim Maroosis >>

Leadership: A Partnership in Reciprocal Following by Jim Maroosis >>

Please be sure to join us!

• Followership Community homebase: https://sites.google.com/view/ilafollowershipstream/home 

Warm regards,
Leah Sciabarrasi, PhD
2025 ILA Followership Community Chair

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Leah Sciabarrasi, PhD
Chair, ILA Followership Community
lsciabarrasi@excelsior.edu
Associate Dean of Business
Excelsior University
Buffalo, NY - Go Bills!
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