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.
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.