The Followership Community fosters research and practice that goes beyond top-down, leader-focused approaches to embrace healthy, productive relationships where people work with and value each other regardless of formal position or title.

Advisory Board

Austin Agho
Ira Chaleff
Wendy Edmonds
Tim Hurson
Marc Hurwitz
Samantha Hurwitz
Mark Rennaker
Ron Riggio

Strategic Steering Committee

Victoria Brodie
Abby Haney
Marc Hurwitz
Samantha Hurwitz
Dan Jenkins
Fran Kick
Chris Möno
Lori Throupe

Communications Director

Sharna Fabiano

Our foundational beliefs

  • Discussions of leadership and followership are incomplete without considering both as important

  • An over-focus on leadership has impaired research, stunted practical interventions, and contributed to narcissistic leadership, disengagement, and a lack of accountability by those in positions of formal power

  • Leadership, considered as the only agentic role in a relationship, is rarely true, logically inconsistent, and dangerous.

Our vision is to create a research-backed understanding of leadership with followership that includes practical applications for how people join together in work, play, community building, and family.

Our mission is to change the practices of leadership and followership in order to create a better world.