The Influence of the Leader Persona on Organizational Identity

Harvard University, she received her training as a social worker at the University of Wisconsin and worked in the field as a clinician. She continues to bring that particular perspective to bear on her interests in human interaction and other phenomenological aspects of schooling, organizational change, leadership development and adult identity development. Executive Summary The following discussion focuses on the leader persona and organizational identity. It offers a theoretical perspective based on conceptualizations ofleadership and the leader persona taken from a study of college and university presidents and provosts. This was a study of women’s leader personas (Curry, 2000). In it, I suggest that there is a place for insights into self along with cognitive development associated with what Yekovich (1993) refers to as "domain related knowledge " (pp. 146-166). This is significant not only for leaders but also for consideration of the construction of organizational identity. at PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIV on March 4, 2016jlo.sagepub.comDownloaded from 34 Organizations are generally thought of as social structures and often referred to a