Reconceptualizing Generativity for a New Generation

Abstract

Recently, the world has experienced multiple pandemics. During these multiple pandemics, including COVID-19 and a racial reckoning in the United States, leadership has primarily looked like crisis management. As the world continues to evolve, with some looking to return to life as it looked pre-pandemic and others defining new ways of being, leadership is also changing. As we collectively vision what comes next for generative leadership, it is essential to analyze the shift from crisis management and mere survival to more long-term visioning and generative leadership practices. With this in mind, the following questions are asked: How do leaders reconceptualize generativity? How are leadership processes grounded in cultures of care, support, and critical hope? How are crisis management and post-crisis leadership balanced in a world full of multiple complexities? The symposium seeks to explore these questions and more, looking to live in the complexity of reconceptualizing generativity for a new generation.