The Association of Leadership Educators is committed to 'Guiding the Leaders of Tomorrow.' Building on last year’s theme of Leadership in the Middle of Everywhere, we recognize the pandemic and the immediate time after have shown us that traditional methods and pedagogies for leadership and leadership education had to be rethought and implemented in ways they never had been before. Since 2020, we have leveraged relationships with those outside of our immediate circle to help us with the work we do. We are still learning to adjust to this “new world,” and as has been common the last couple of years, this sometimes still requires stepping outside our comfort zone to best accomplish our goals.

Please join us as we share with one another how we have learned to “lead outside the lines” in our classrooms and in our communities, and how we have passed this knowledge on to our students. This work extends beyond our pedagogically informed classrooms and into the places our students' lives touch, both professionally and personally. Our pedagogy requires that we extend our teaching beyond the formal classroom and into the places where our students may be inspired to lead – and to serve – creatively, outside the lines.

There are many ways to share your work at the 2023 ALE Annual Conference Nashville, TN as research or practice/application manuscripts, workshops, panels, roundtable discussions, and posters! Submissions from all walks of leadership education are encouraged.