Our Purpose

For too long, leadership has dominated the conversation – limiting research and leaving enormous human and team potential untapped. This leadership-only focus has come at a cost: disengagement, disempowerment, inequity, burnout, and accountability gaps. Followership is the missing half of the story. We are here to rebalance the conversation.

Our Vision

A world where followership is as prized, practiced, and understood as leadership.  

Our Mission

The Global Followership Network is the global hub for people who believe that followership is as essential as leadership. With a pracademic, inclusive, and globally informed approach, we foster a community that challenges leader-centric thinking and promotes healthier, more collaborative, and more effective workplaces and societies.

Our values

  • Partner-centric Practices: Healthy systems depend on strong partnerships, not heroic individuals. Followership is at least as important as leadership.

  • Reciprocity: Thriving partnerships are built on mutual contribution, support, and accountability.

  • Fluidity of roles: Leadership and followership are dynamic processes we all practice. Influence and accountability are shared.

  • Pracademia: We honour rigorous research and real-world application: insights emerge when the two inform one another.

  • Expertise AND exploration: We value mastery and deep knowledge while nurturing curiosity to advance the field.

  • Community: A warm, uplifting global community is what we need to support each other and amplify our voices.  

  • Global perspective: Followership and leadership are shaped by place, power, and lived experience: we welcome diverse cultures, contexts, and voices.

  • Accessibility: Learning and participation should be open, inclusive and barrier-free wherever possible.

Our Strategy

  • Connect the community by creating safe, vibrant spaces for both the followership-curious and seasoned experts, online and in-person.

  • Celebrate the people and contributions advancing followership worldwide.

  • Share knowledge through resources that spark insight and evolve thinking.

  • Advance research that moves beyond leader-centric assumptions.

  • Strengthen practice by offering tools and supports that improve followership and leadership.

  • Advocate for the value of followership in public discourse, competency models, education, and organizational life.

  • Create experiences that build skills, deepen reflection, and expand the global conversation.

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